Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

phantasmagorical

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.37 in modern English

Syllables: phan-tas-magor-i-cal
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

5

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Synonym of phantasmagoric.

Example Sentences

"Accordingly, Hawthorne selects the Brook Farm episode (or a reflection of it) as affording his drama "a theatre, a little removed from the highway of ordinary travel, where the creatures of his brain may play their phantasmagorical antics, without exposing them to too close a comparison with the actual events of real lives.""
""In my youth," he went on after a pause, "I found myself, quite fortuitously, involved in a series of the most phantasmagorical amorous intrigues.[…]""

Etymology

From phantasmagoria + -ical.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: phantasmagoria

Inflected Forms

more phantasmagorical (comparative) most phantasmagorical (superlative)

Derived Forms

phantasmagorically

Synonyms

phantasmagoric surreal surrealistic

Questions

What does phantasmagorical mean?: Synonym of phantasmagoric.
Where does phantasmagorical come from?: From phantasmagoria + -ical.

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