Meaning of FANTASTIC
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | antic, extraordinary, fantastical, grotesque, howling(a), marvellous, marvelous, phenomenal, rattling(a), strange, terrific, tremendous, unreal, unrealistic, unusual, wonderful, wondrous |
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\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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