fantastic

[ fan-tas-tik ]

/ fænˈtæs tɪk /

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adjective

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.

Nearby words

fantasist, fantasize, fantasm, fantasmagoria, fantast, fantastic, fantastically, fantasticate, fantastico, fantasy, fantasyland

Also fan·tas·ti·cal.

Origin of fantastic

1350–1400; Middle English fantastik pertaining to the imaginative faculty < Medieval Latin fantasticus, variant of Late Latin phantasticus < Greek phantastikós able to present or show (to the mind), equivalent to *phantad-, base of phantázein to make visible (akin to phānós light, bright, phaínein to make appear) + -tikos -tic

SYNONYMS FOR fantastic

1 Fantastic, bizarre, grotesque, weird share a sense of deviation from what is normal or expected. Fantastic suggests a wild lack of restraint, a fancifulness so extreme as to lose touch with reality: a fantastic scheme for a series of space cities. In informal use, fantastic often means simply “exceptionally good”: a fantastic meal. Bizarre means markedly unusual or extraordinarily strange, sometimes whimsically so: bizarre costumes for Mardi Gras; bizarre behavior. Grotesque implies shocking distortion or incongruity, sometimes ludicrous, more often pitiful or tragic: a grotesque mixture of human and animal features; grotesque contrast between the forced smile and sad eyes: a gnarled tree suggesting the figure of a grotesque human being. Weird refers to that which is mysterious and apparently outside natural law, hence supernatural or uncanny: the weird adventures of a group lost in the jungle; a weird and ghostly apparition. Informally, weird means “very strange”: weird and wacky costumes; weird sense of humor.

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Related forms

fan·tas·ti·cal·ly, adverbfan·tas·ti·cal·ness, fan·tas·ti·cal·i·ty, nounsu·per·fan·tas·tic, adjectivesu·per·fan·tas·ti·cal·ly, adverb

un·fan·tas·tic, adjectiveun·fan·tas·ti·cal·ly, adverb

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She would lighten solitary confinement by fantastically decorating the chairs and tables.
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The rooms had been fantastically decorated with red berries and snowballs, pine, and cedar.
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The public life, the national festivities all turned on this fantastically horrible act.
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Look, Truelove, how brave and red are those holly berries, and how green and fantastically twisted the leaves!
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The odd thing was that she was not appealing: she was abjectly, divinely conceited, absurdly, fantastically happy.
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British Dictionary definitions for fantastically (1 of 2)

fantastically

/ (fænˈtæstɪkəlɪ) /

adverb

in a fantastic manner

informal (intensifier)it's fantastically cheap

British Dictionary definitions for fantastically (2 of 2)

fantastic

/ (fænˈtæstɪk) /

adjective Also: fantastical

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

noun

archaic a person who dresses or behaves eccentrically

Derived Formsfantasticality or fantasticalness, noun

Word Origin for fantastic

C14 fantastik imaginary, via Late Latin from Greek phantastikos capable of imagining, from phantazein to make visible

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fantastic

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British Dictionary definitions for fantastically (1 of 2)

fantastically

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British Dictionary definitions for fantastically (2 of 2)

fantastic

adjective Also: fantastical

noun

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