phantasmagoric.

Marked by rapidly changing, strange, dreamlike images or appearances.

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Words that belong together

• phantasmagoric visions
• phantasmagoric spectacle

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Phantasmagoric faces appeared and dissolved in the smoke.

The tunnel became a phantasmagoric procession of doorways and moving lights.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Comparative more phantasmagoric; superlative most phantasmagoric. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.