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Webster 1913 Edition
Fantastic
Fan-tas′tic
,Adj.
[F.
fantastique
, fr. Gr. [GREEK][GREEK][GREEK][GREEK][GREEK][GREEK][GREEK][GREEK][GREEK][GREEK][GREEK] able to represent, fr. [GREEK][GREEK][GREEK][GREEK][GREEK][GREEK][GREEK][GREEK][GREEK] to make visible. See Fancy
.] 1.
Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical.
2.
Having the nature of a phantom; unreal.
Shak.
3.
Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious;
as,
fantastic
minds; a fantastic
mistress.4.
Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; oddly shaped; grotesque.
Syn. – Fanciful; imaginative; ideal; visionary; capricious; chimerical; whimsical; queer. See
Fanciful
. Fan-tas′tic
,Noun.
A person given to fantastic dress, manners, etc.; an eccentric person; a fop.
Milton.
Our
fantastics
, who, having a fine watch, take all ocasions to draw it out to be seen. Fuller.
Webster 1828 Edition
Fantastic
FANTAS'TIC
,Definition 2024
fantastic
fantastic
See also: fantàstic
English
Alternative forms
- fantastick (obsolete)
- phantastic
- phantastick (obsolete)
- phantastique (archaic)
Adjective
fantastic (comparative more fantastic, superlative most fantastic)
- Existing in or constructed from fantasy; of or relating to fantasy; fanciful.
- He told fantastic stories of dragons and goblins.
- His fantastic post-college plans had all collapsed within a year of graduation.
- She had a fantastic view of her own importance that none of her colleagues shared.
- Not believable; implausible; seemingly only possible in fantasy.
- The events were so fantastic that only the tabloids were willing to print them.
- She entered the lab and stood gaping for a good ten minutes at the fantastic machinery at work all around her.
- Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; grotesque.
- T. Gray
- There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, / That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high.
- T. Gray
- Wonderful; marvelous; excellent; extraordinarily good or great (used especially as an intensifier).
- "I had a simply fantastic vacation, and I can't wait to tell you all about it!"
Synonyms
- (based in fantasy rather than reality): fabulous, fantastical
- (extravagantly fanciful and unrealistic): foolish, hare-brained, unrealistic, wild
- (incredibly wonderful): brilliant, fabulous, splendid, super, wonderful
- See also Wikisaurus:excellent
Antonyms
- (incredibly wonderful): sucktastic
Translations
existing in or constructed from fantasy
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not believable, only possible in fantasy
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resembling fantasies in irregularity, grotesque
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wonderful, marvelous, excellent, extraordinarily good
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