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Illusory
Answer for the clue "Illusory ", 10 letters:
phantasmal
Word definitions for phantasmal in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. like or being a phantom; "a ghostly face at the window"; "a phantasmal presence in the room"; "spectral emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance" [syn: apparitional , ghostlike , ghostly , spectral , spiritual ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Phantasmal \Phan*tas"mal\, a. Pertaining to, of the nature of, or resembling, a phantasm; spectral; illusive.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to ghosts or phantoms. 2 eerie or frightening. 3 Expresses qualities of or produced from fantasy. alt. 1 Of or pertaining to ghosts or phantoms. 2 eerie or frightening. 3 Expresses qualities of or produced from fantasy.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1813, from phantasm + -al (1). Related: Phantasmally .
Usage examples of phantasmal.
But still, it was the kind of story Prew liked too, weird and unreasonable and senseless, almost occult, yet with a thread of hope still running always through it that maybe his theory that all 530 men were basically alike, all hunting the same phantasmal mirror, was true.
Thou canst no longer know or love the shapes Of this phantasmal scene, who have to thee Been purest ministers, who are, alas!
He felt that the three of them were locked inside some phantasmal shifting labryinth, that they were a trio picked out by fate.
These phantasmal Intelligences are divided into groups, of which one only, that of the Pities, approximates to "the Universal Sympathy of human nature--the spectator idealized"(1) of the Greek Chorus.
They take phantasmal forms, divide, convolve, Hard at each other point and gape, Horrible ghosts!