phantasmal

English

phantasmal (comparative more phantasmal, superlative most phantasmal)

Of or pertaining to ghosts or phantoms.
Eerie or frightening.
- 1910 October 1, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, “The Queer Feet”, in The Innocence of Father Brown, London; New York, N.Y.: Cassell and Company, published 1911, →OCLC:
  Mr. Audley, the chairman, was an amiable, elderly man who still wore Gladstone collars; he was a kind of symbol of all that phantasmal and yet fixed society.
Of or produced from fantasy.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
  Phantasmal mirth, folded away: muskperfumed.

of or pertaining to ghosts or phantoms

eerie or frightening

expresses qualities of or produced from fantasy

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