Word Meanings - PHANTASMAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to, of the nature of, or resembling, a phantasm; spectral; illusive.

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• PHANTASM
  1. An image formed by the mind, and supposed to be real or material; a shadowy or airy appearance; sometimes, an optical illusion; a phantom; a dream. They be but phantasms or apparitions. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. A mental image or representation of
• ILLUSIVENESS
  The quality of being illusive; deceptiveness; false show.
• SPECTRAL
  Of or pertaining to the spectrum; made by the spectrum; as, spectral colors; spectral analysis. Spectral lemur. See Tarsius. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to a specter; ghosty. He that feels timid at the spectral form of evil is not the man
• ILLUSIVELY
  In a illusive manner; falsely.
• PHANTASMAGORY
  See PHANTASMAGORIA
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• SPECTRALLY
  In the form or manner of a specter.
• PHANTASMAGORIC
  Of or pertaining to phantasmagoria; phantasmagorial. Hawthorne.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• NATURED
  Having a nature, temper, or disposition; disposed; -- used in composition; as, good-natured, ill-natured, etc.
• PHANTASMAL
  Pertaining to, of the nature of, or resembling, a phantasm; spectral; illusive.
• PHANTASMATICAL
  Phantasmal. Dr. H. More.
• PHANTASMA
  A phantasm.
• NATURELESS
  Not in accordance with nature; unnatural. Milton.
• RESEMBLE
  sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
• PHANTASMAGORIAL
  Of, relating to, or resembling phantasmagoria; phantasmagoric.
• RESEMBLABLE
  Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
• PHANTASMATOGRAPHY
  A description of celestial phenomena, as rainbows, etc.
• NATURE
  1. The existing system of things; the world of matter, or of matter and mind; the creation; the universe. But looks through nature up to nature's God. Pope. Nature has caprices which art can not imitate. Macaulay. 2. The personified sum and order
• UNNATURE
  To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them . Sir P. Sidney.
• DEMINATURED
  Having half the nature of another. Shak.
• TIME SIGNATURE
  A sign at the beginning of a composition or movement, placed after the key signature, to indicate its time or meter. Also called rhythmical signature. It is in the form of a fraction, of which the denominator indicates the kind of note taken as
• ORNATURE
  Decoration; ornamentation. Holinshed.
• CONSIGNATURE
  Joint signature. Colgrave.
• TRANSNATURE
  To transfer or transform the nature of. We are transelemented, or transnatured. Jewel.
• DENATURE
  To deprive of its natural qualities; change the nature of.
• SIGNATURE
  An outward mark by which internal characteristics were supposed to be indicated. Some plants bear a very evident signature of their nature and use. Dr. H. More. (more info) 1. A sign, stamp, or mark impressed, as by a seal. The brain, being well
• DISNATURED
  Deprived or destitute of natural feelings; unnatural. Shak.