fantastic
- conceived or appearing as if conceived by an unrestrained imagination; odd and remarkable; bizarre; grotesque: fantastic rock formations; fantastic designs.
- fanciful or capricious, as persons or their ideas or actions: We never know what that fantastic creature will say next.
- imaginary or groundless in not being based on reality; foolish or irrational: fantastic fears.
- extravagantly fanciful; marvelous.
- incredibly great or extreme; exorbitant: to spend fantastic sums of money.
- highly unrealistic or impractical; outlandish: a fantastic scheme to make a million dollars betting on horse races.
- Informal. extraordinarily good: a fantastic musical.
Origin of fantastic
Synonyms for fantastic
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insane, imaginative, unbelievable, singular, incredible, ludicrous, grotesque, crazy, unreal, preposterous, outlandish, ridiculous, fanciful, absurd, implausible, weird, odd, exotic, tremendous, hugeExamples from the Web for fantastic
Contemporary Examples of fantastic
"Clive has had a fantastic and distinguished career so we listen to what he has to say," he said.
I had, for a long time, been curious about the place where all this fantastic stuff was made.
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It is completely nonsensical, and every second is fantastic.
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November 19, 2014
The story was a very subversive fairy tale by Roald Dahl, and a fantastic part.
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November 10, 2014
Ruben Studdard I thought was fantastic, the best crossover singer since Luther Vandross for me.
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Historical Examples of fantastic
Here it is the fantastic and the bizarre that hold the imagination captive.
The Roof of FranceMatilda Betham-Edwards
From it, a thousand wild, illogical, and fantastic conclusions are drawn.
The Story of the Malakand Field ForceSir Winston S. Churchill
He was beginning to be disagreeably impressed by her fantastic behaviour.
The Secret AgentJoseph Conrad
It had a physiognomy and character of its own—this fantastic foreigner!
Night and Morning, CompleteEdward Bulwer-Lytton
To-day this appears to the majority of educated men a fantastic conception.
Albert DurerT. Sturge Moore
fantastic
- strange, weird, or fanciful in appearance, conception, etc
- created in the mind; illusory
- extravagantly fanciful; unrealisticfantastic plans
- incredible or preposterous; absurda fantastic verdict
- informal very large or extreme; greata fantastic fortune; he suffered fantastic pain
- informal very good; excellent
- of, given to, or characterized by fantasy
- not constant; capricious; fitfulgiven to fantastic moods
- archaic a person who dresses or behaves eccentrically
Word Origin for fantastic
Word Origin and History for fantastic
late 14c., "existing only in imagination," from Middle French fantastique (14c.), from Medieval Latin fantasticus, from Late Latin phantasticus "imaginary," from Greek phantastikos "able to imagine," from phantazein "make visible" (middle voice phantazesthai "picture to oneself"); see phantasm. Trivial sense of "wonderful, marvelous" recorded by 1938.