| 单词 | phantasmagorical |
| 释义 | phantasmagorical (once / 179081 pages) adj Anything phantasmagorical feels or looks like a crazy dream. If you see a psychedelic music video that looks like it was shot through a kaleidoscope, you can call it phantasmagorical. A phantasmagorical film is surreal and strange, rather than straightforward and literal (think the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine"), and phantasmagorical paintings are equally full of odd, impressionistic images, colors, and designs. If you have a phantasmagorical nightmare, it might be hard to describe to another person, it's so weird and fantastic. The adjective phantasmagorical comes from phantasmagoria, the name given to a "magic lantern" show in 1802, from the Greek phantasma, "apparitition." WORD FAMILYphantasmagoria: phantasmagorias, phantasmagorical+/phantasmagoric: phantasmagoria, phantasmagorically USAGE EXAMPLESThis phantasmagorical riff of reclamation, directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz, is the first offering in a Signature Theater season devoted to Ms. Parks. New York Times(Nov 09, 2016) Like her phantasmagorical characters prancing across the whitewashed masonry walls, everyone here looks like they are having fun. Seattle Times(Sep 29, 2016) “It was actually pretty fantastic, progressive, cutting-edge avant-garde, kind of phantasmagorical,” recalled Douglas Wager about the latter play. Washington Post(Jul 29, 2016) adj characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions Syn phantasmagoric, surreal, surrealistic unrealistic not realistic |
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