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phantomatic

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phantomatic (comparative more phantomatic, superlative most phantomatic)

  1. Phantasmal.
    • 1818, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Course of Lectures:
      The love of Adam and Eve in Paradise is of the highest merit — not phantomatic, and yet removed from every thing degrading.
    • 2024 November 3, Patrick Greenfield, Phoebe Weston, quoting Oscar Soria, “Cop16 ends in disarry and indecision despite biodiversity breakthroughs”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
      “We saw insufficient leadership from the wealthier countries, the European Union and France in particular, Canada, Switzerland, Japan, the UK, but also China. The executive secretary of the UN convention on biodiversity was also quite phantomatic,” said Oscar Soria, director of thinktank the Common Initiative.