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APPARITIONAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does apparitional mean? 

APPARITIONAL (adjective)
  The adjective APPARITIONAL has 1 sense:

1. resembling or characteristic of a phantomplay

  Familiarity information: APPARITIONAL used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


APPARITIONAL (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Resembling or characteristic of a phantom

Synonyms:

apparitional; ghostlike; ghostly; phantasmal; spectral; spiritual

Context example:

spiritual tappings at a seance

Similar:

supernatural (not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material)


 Context examples 


He summoned them before him in apparitional procession: Bernard Higginbotham arm in arm with Mr. Butler, Hermann von Schmidt cheek by jowl with Charley Hapgood, and one by one and in pairs he judged them and dismissed them—judged them by the standards of intellect and morality he had learned from the books.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)



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