Adjective
- 1. phantasmagoric, phantasmagorical, surreal, surrealistic, unrealistic (vs. realistic)
- usage: characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions; "a great concourse of phantasmagoric shadows"--J.C.Powys; "the incongruous imagery in surreal art and literature"
- 2. dreamlike, surreal, unreal (vs. real)
- usage: resembling a dream; "night invested the lake with a dreamlike quality"; "as irrational and surreal as a dream"
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