phantasmagorically
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From phantasmagoric + -ally or phantasmagorical + -ly.[1]
Adverb
[edit]phantasmagorically (comparative more phantasmagorically, superlative most phantasmagorically)
- In a manner, or to an extent, typical of phantasmagoria; thus, fantastically or bizarrely
- 2009 January 14, Jeffrey Goldberg, “Why Israel Can’t Make Peace With Hamas”, in New York Times:
- What a phantasmagorically strange conflict the Arab-Israeli war had become!
References
[edit]- ^ “phantasmagorically, adv.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.