fantastic
Americanadjective
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extraordinarily good; excellent.
a fantastic restaurant.
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Also fantastical
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conceived or appearing as if conceived by an unrestrained imagination; odd and remarkable; bizarre; grotesque.
The most fantastic rock formations are visible from the high plateau of the park’s rim trail.
Artists rendered fantastic designs in the margin of the manuscript.
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fanciful or capricious, as persons or their ideas or actions.
We never know what that fantastic creature will say next.
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imaginary or groundless in not being based on reality; foolish or irrational.
You can’t let these fantastic fears of yours control your life.
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extravagantly fanciful; marvelous.
The scenery and lighting they created for the dream sequences are truly fantastic!
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incredibly great or extreme; exorbitant.
The rich are spending fantastic sums of money, even in this economy.
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highly unrealistic or impractical.
They hatched a fantastic scheme to make a million dollars betting on horse races.
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adjective
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strange, weird, or fanciful in appearance, conception, etc
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created in the mind; illusory
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extravagantly fanciful; unrealistic
fantastic plans
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incredible or preposterous; absurd
a fantastic verdict
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informal very large or extreme; great
a fantastic fortune
he suffered fantastic pain
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informal very good; excellent
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of, given to, or characterized by fantasy
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not constant; capricious; fitful
given to fantastic moods
noun
Related Words
See bizarre.
Other Word Forms
- fantasticality noun
- fantastically adverb
- fantasticalness noun
- superfantastic adjective
- superfantastically adverb
- unfantastic adjective
- unfantastically adverb
Etymology
Origin of fantastic
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English fantastik “pertaining to the imaginative faculty,” from Medieval Latin fantasticus, variant of Late Latin phantasticus, from Greek phantastikós “able to present the appearence (of something),” derivative of phantázein “to make present to the eye or mind” (akin to phānós “light, bright,” phaínein “to bring to light, cause to appear”) + -tikos -tic
Example Sentences
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Fittingly, it’s packed with fantastic tunes by local artists like Too Short, who narrates these retro misadventures and lets a younger version of himself lose a rap battle to a pair of ferocious female teenagers.
From Los Angeles Times
It’s a movie for dreamers, realists and romantics alike, the kind of film that’s so fantastic and so painfully human that its brilliant existence is reason enough to believe in good things.
From Salon
Mr Hoyles planted his olive crop in 2024 after fact-finding trips to Italy, which saw him collaborate with other farmers who said it had been "fantastic".
From BBC
Bournemouth were not at the races at all in the first half but they were fantastic in the second half.
From BBC
For the majority of the game, they were absolutely fantastic.
From BBC
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