📚 Phantasmagoric, adjective. 🔉 /ˌfantazməˈɡɒrɪk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: This definition is derivative of «phantasmagoria». ❗️ Examples: 1. These scenes of retrieval of the past are presented as Jones's dreams or hallucinations, half-light phantasmagoric visions. 2. It's an unreal, phantasmagoric place, Ford's America: an unashamedly sublime, romantic, sinister spectacle. 3. Once Banks arrives in Shanghai, however, the story enters a more phantasmagoric world, and nightmarish and unreal events seem to occur. 4. Yet the realist vision shifts to the phantasmagoric, as spectator and spectacle undergo carnivalesque reversals and interpenetration, in their darkest and most violent manifestations. 5. It possessed a phantasmagoric nightmarish atmosphere, as you might have anticipated from a ballet inspired by Goya's gritty, bitter 18th century etchings Los Caprichos. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic