| 单词 | fantastic |
| 释义 | fan·tas·tic I. also fan·tas·ti·cal 1. obsolete 2. usually fantastic a. < this fantastic assumption of neutralism is not unknown among some ritualistic liberals — Sidney Hook > broadly < a fantastic idea of his own importance > b. < fantastic new space and nuclear weapons — Jack Raymond > : exhibiting strange, grotesque, inappropriate, or startlingly novel characteristics < fantastic as the situation was — a landlubber second in command — Jack London > often < a fantastic costume for street wear > c. < the bomb did fantastic damage > < a fantastic industrial complex of steel, coal, machine tools, and other heavy industries — M.S.Handler > broadly < spent fantastic sums on his library > < the housing shortage reached fantastic proportions — Gerda Luft > 3. a. sometimes fantastical < one need not have a very fantastic imagination to see spirits there — Thomas Gray > < a strange fantastic mind > < a man fantastical in dress > b. < fantastic acts of kindness > < the fantastic irregularity of the dunes > Synonyms: < explosions, fantastic, far off, bright green or violet or golden — C.P.Aiken > < fantastic figures, with bulbous heads, the circumference of a bushel, grinned enormously in his face — Nathaniel Hawthorne > < helped their panic as best he could by sending Congo natives over to the Tanganyika side to spread the most fantastic rumors he could dream up — Joseph Millard > bizarre applies to the sensationally, colorfully queer or strange, often through violent contrasts and incongruities < temple sculpture became bizarre — rearing monsters, fiery horses, great pillared halls teeming with sculptures — Atlantic > < the restaurants of bizarre design — one like a hat, another like a rabbit, a third like an old shoe, another a fish — American Guide Series: California > < it was bizarre in the extreme. It was as if a judge, wearing the black cap, had suddenly put out his tongue at the condemned — J.C.Powys > grotesque applies to the incongruously distorted, to ridiculous ugliness or incompatibility < there was a grotesque look in his face, as if it had been pulled out of shape by some sudden twist — Ellen Glasgow > < the crescendo and diminuendo of the planes, the agitated noise of patrol vessels and the vicious challenge of the guns were all grotesque against the still serenity of the moonlight — Eleanor Dark > < grotesque serpents eight fathoms long that churned the seas, huge reptiles that beat the air with wings of nightmare breadth — P.E.More > antic, now less common than others in this set, may suggest ludicrous clownish exuberance of action < the Friday-night Mad Arts Balls, Mad Hatters Balls, Pagan Routs, and similar antic gatherings — Lillian Ross > < in the course of Kaye's antic fun with this plot, he makes an entrance with his head on a platter, gorges himself in fast motion at a feast, keeps a roomful of conspirators hidden from one another, tugs frantically at a sword that refuses to come out of its scabbard — Time > Synonym: see in addition imaginary. II. 1. archaic 2. obsolete |
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