phantasmal

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From phantasm or phantasma (“phantasm”) + -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives).

Once more he seemed to hear phantasmal footsteps, and started to find another figure already near him. — The wisdom of Father Brown, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
On every hand to the far horizon stretched that strange, phantasmal ocean, and a hazy sun looked over the shifting billows. — Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922, L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
And, at another tap of the drum, there begins a performance impossible to picture in words, something unimaginable, phantasmal,--a dance, an astonishment. — Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools: Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists, Unknown

apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, spectral, spiritual

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