phantasmal

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   resembling a phantom; ghostly or spectral

   A phantasmal figure seemed to drift across the moonlit hall.

2. 2
   adj

   having no physical reality; imaginary or illusory

   The distant towers dissolved into a phantasmal shimmer at dawn.

From phantasm or phantasma + -al. Phantasm comes through Latin from Ancient Greek phantasma ("appearance, image, apparition"), from phantazein ("to make visible").

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