phantomwise
English
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editAdverb
editphantomwise (comparative more phantomwise, superlative most phantomwise)
- In the manner of a phantom; ghostlily.
- 1871, Lewis Carroll, “A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky”, in Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There:
- Still she haunts me, phantomwise, / Alice moving under skies / Never seen by waking eyes.