About The Word Fantastic
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Fantastic
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What's The Definition Of Fantastic?
[adj] ludicrously odd; "Hamlet's assumed antic disposition"; "fantastic Halloween costumes"; "a grotesque reflection in the mirror"
[adj] extraordinarily good; used especially as intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous collection of rare books"; "had a rattling conversation about politics"; "a tremendous achievement" [adj] exceedingly or unbelievably great; "the bomb did fantastic damage"; "Samson is supposed to have had fantastic strength"; "phenomenal feats of memory" [adj] existing in fancy only; "fantastic figures with bulbous heads the circumference of a bushel"- Nathaniel Hawthorne [adj] extravagantly fanciful and unrealistic; foolish; "a fantastic idea of his own importance" Synonyms | Synonyms for Fantastic: antic | extraordinary | fantastical | grotesque | howling(a) | marvellous | marvelous | phenomenal | rattling(a) | strange | terrific | tremendous | unreal | unrealistic | unusual | wonderful | wondrous Related Terms | Find terms related to Fantastic: absurd | adroit | airy | alien | antic | appalling | apparent | apparitional | arbitrary | astonishing | autistic | balmy | Barmecidal | Barmecide | baroque | beguiling | bewildering | beyond belief | bizarre | brain-born | capricious | chimeric | chimerical | clever | cockamamie | concocted | conspicuous | cooked-up | cracking | cranky | crazy | crotchety | deceptive | delusional | delusionary | delusive | delusory | dereistic | dream-built | dreamlike | dreamy | eccentric | egregious | enigmatic | erratic | erroneous | exceptional | exotic | extraordinary | extravagant | fabricated | fabulous | fallacious | false | fancied | fanciful | fancy-born | fancy-built | fancy-woven | fantasied | fantasque | fascinating | fictional | fictitious | fictive | figmental | flaky | florid | foolish | forged | formidable | freakish | Gothic | great | grotesque | harebrained | hatched | high-flown | humorsome | illusional | illusionary | illusive | illusory | imaginary | imagined | implausible | impossible | incomprehensible | inconceivable | incredible | ingenious | insane | invented | irrational | kinky | laughable | legendary | loony | ludicrous | made-up | maggoty | manufactured | marked | marvelous | massive | miraculous | misleading | monstrous | monumental | moody | mortal | motiveless | mythical | nonsensical | notable | noteworthy | noticeable | notional | odd | of mark | ostensible | outlandish | outrageous | outre | outstanding | overwhelming | passing strange | peculiar | petulant | phantasmagoric | phantasmal | phantom | phenomenal | poppycockish | preposterous | prodigious | put-up | puzzling | quaint | queer | quirky | rare | remarkable | ridiculous | rococo | seeming | self-deceptive | self-deluding | sensational | signal | silly | singular | specious | spectacular | spectral | splendid | strange | striking | stupendous | superior | supposititious | temperamental | terrific | towering | tremendous | trumped-up | unaccountable | unactual | unbelievable | uncommon | unearthly | unexpected | unfounded | unheard-of | unimaginable | unique | unlikely | unprecedented | unreal | unrealistic | unreasonable | unrestrained | unsubstantial | vagarious | vagrant | visionary | wacky | wanton | wayward | weird | whimsical | wild | wonderful | wondrous See Also | Fantastic In Webster's Dictionary \Fan*tas"tic\, a. [F. fantastique, fr. Gr. ???????????
able to represent, fr. ????????? 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.
There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That
wreathes its old fantastic roots so high. --T. Gray.
Syn: Fanciful; imaginative; ideal; visionary; capricious;
chimerical; whimsical; queer. See {Fanciful}.
\Fan*tas"tic\, n. 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 drow it out to be seen. --Fuller. |
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