MEANING
Resembling a ghostly apparition or something perceived without solid reality.
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- phantasmal figure
- phantasmal presence
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A phantasmal figure hovered beyond the frosted glass.
The landscape took on a phantasmal quality in the failing light.
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Comparative: more phantasmal; superlative: most phantasmal, when meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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