| 单词 | fantastic |
| 释义 | fantastic (once / 442 pages) 1adj 2adj The adjective fantastic has two meanings — extraordinarily brilliant or ludicrously far-fetched. So when your boss calls your suggestion of work-at-home-in-your-bathrobe-Fridays for the whole office fantastic, be sure you know which one he means. We get fantastic from the Latin phantasticus, meaning “imaginary.” Sometimes it’s still used that way: If you call a unicorn a fantastic beast, you’re not paying it a compliment; you’re saying it exists only in fairy tales. Most often, though, fantastic means strikingly out-of-the-ordinary. It can be complimentary ("You got an A? Fantastic!") or disparaging ("He was always foolishly unrealistic, but trying to reach the moon using a balloon tied to his bicycle was his most fantastic idea yet."). WORD FAMILYfantastic: fantasticly+/fantasist: fantasists/fantasize: fantasized, fantasizes, fantasizing/fantastical: fantastically/fantasy: fantasied, fantasies, fantasise, fantasist, fantasize, fantastic, fantastical, fantasying USAGE EXAMPLESBut there are also many stories of fantastic economic failure. Salon(Jan 02, 2017) His his all-round display against Watford was fantastic, not to mention his two goals. BBC(Jan 01, 2017) I haven't seen it again but it was a fantastic strike for him. BBC(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1adj extravagantly fanciful in design, construction, appearance Gaudi's fantastic architecture Syn fancy not plain; decorative or ornamented 2adj existing in fancy only " fantastic figures with bulbous heads the circumference of a bushel"- Nathaniel Hawthorne Syn fantastical unreal lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria 3adj fanciful and unrealistic; foolish a fantastic idea of his own importance Syn wild unrealistic not realistic 4adj ludicrously odd 2fantastic Halloween costumes Syn antic, fantastical, grotesque strange, unusual being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird adj extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers a fantastic trip to the Orient the film was fantastic! Syn grand, howling, marvellous, marvelous, rattling, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous extraordinary beyond what is ordinary or usual; highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable |
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