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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: a fantastic scheme to make a million dollars betting on horse races.
Informal . extraordinarily good; excellent: a fantastic musical.
SEE MORE SEE LESS 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
synonym study for fantastic 1 . See bizarre.
OTHER WORDS FROM fantastic fan·tas·ti·cal·ly, adverb fan·tas·ti·cal·ness, fan·tas·ti·cal·i·ty, noun su·per·fan·tas·tic, adjective su·per·fan·tas·ti·cal·ly, adverb
un·fan·tas·tic, adjective un·fan·tas·ti·cal·ly, adverb
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Example sentences from the Web for fantastic "Clive has had a fantastic and distinguished career so we listen to what he has to say," he said.
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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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Ruben Studdard I thought was fantastic , the best crossover singer since Luther Vandross for me.
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They also give rise to the formation of modern myths, that is, fantastic rumours, suspicions and prejudices.
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Fantastic as was her intention, they knew that, as far as they themselves were concerned, she spoke common-sense.
He forms all kinds of crude and fantastic theories about these invisible forces.
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The woods were beautiful, but I saw their beauty only in a vague, fantastic way.
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We came out into the most fantastic scenery of its kind I have ever seen.
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British Dictionary definitions for fantastic adjective Also: fantastical strange, weird, or fanciful in appearance, conception, etc
created in the mind; illusory
extravagantly fanciful; unrealistic fantastic plans
incredible or preposterous; absurd a fantastic verdict
informal very large or extreme; great a fantastic fortune ; he suffered fantastic pain
informal very good; excellent
of, given to, or characterized by fantasy
not constant; capricious; fitful given to fantastic moods
SEE MORE SEE LESS noun archaic a person who dresses or behaves eccentrically
Derived forms of fantastic fantasticality 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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