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fantastic
[ fan-tas-tik ]
/ fĂŠnËtĂŠs tÉȘk /
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adjective
extraordinarily good; excellent: a fantastic restaurant.
Also fan·tas·ti·cal [fan-tas-ti-kuhl] /fĂŠnËtĂŠs tÉȘ kÉl/ .
- 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 parkâs rim trail.Artists rendered fantastic designs in the margin of the manuscript.
- 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: You canât let these fantastic fears of yours control your life.
- extravagantly fanciful; marvelous: The scenery and lighting they created for the dream sequences are truly fantastic!
- incredibly great or extreme; exorbitant: The rich are spending fantastic sums of money, even in this economy.
- highly unrealistic or impractical: They hatched a fantastic scheme to make a million dollars betting on horse races.
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Origin of fantastic
First recorded in 1350â1400; Middle English fantastik âpertaining to the imaginative faculty,â from Medieval Latin fantasticus, variant of Late Latin phantasticus, from Greek phantastikĂłs âable to present the appearence (of something),â derivative of phantĂĄzein âto make present to the eye or mindâ (akin to phÄnĂłs âlight, bright,â phaĂnein âto bring to light, cause to appearâ) + -tikos -tic
synonym study for fantastic
2. See bizarre.
OTHER WORDS FROM fantastic
Words nearby fantastic
fantasist, fantasize, fantasm, fantasmagoria, fantast, fantastic, fantastically, fantasticate, fantastico, fantasy, fantasyland
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British Dictionary definitions for fantastic
fantastic
/ (fĂŠnËtĂŠstÉȘk) /
adjective Also: fantastical
noun
archaic a person who dresses or behaves eccentrically
Derived forms of fantastic
fantasticality or fantasticalness, nounWord Origin for fantastic
C14 fantastik imaginary, via Late Latin from Greek phantastikos capable of imagining, from phantazein to make visible
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