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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
fantastic \fantas"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.
1913 webster
2. having the nature of a phantom; unreal. --shak.
1913 webster
3. indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of
absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a
fantastic mistress.
1913 webster
4. resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or
eccentricity; irregular; oddly shaped; grotesque.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
see also:
fancy fanciful
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
fantastic \fantas"tic\, n.
a person given to fantastic dress, manners, etc.; an
eccentric person; a fop. --milton.
1913 webster
our fantastics, who, having a fine watch, take all
ocasions to draw it out to be seen. --fuller.
1913 webster
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
fantastic
adj 1: ludicrously odd; "hamlet's assumed antic disposition";
"fantastic halloween costumes"; "a grotesque
reflection in the mirror" syn: antic, fantastical,
grotesque
2: 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" syn: howlinga, marvelous, marvellous,
rattlinga, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous
3: extravagantly fanciful and unrealistic; foolish; "a
fantastic idea of his own importance"
4: existing in fancy only; "fantastic figures with bulbous
heads the circumference of a bushel"- nathaniel hawthorne
syn: fantastical
5: exceedingly or unbelievably great; "the bomb did fantastic
damage"; "samson is supposed to have had fantastic
strength"; "phenomenal feats of memory" syn: phenomenal
see also:
antic fantastical grotesque howlinga marvelous marvellous
rattlinga terrific tremendous wonderful wondrous
phenomenal
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
194 moby thesaurus words for "fantastic":
barmecidal, barmecide, gothic, absurd, adroit, airy, alien, antic,
appalling, apparent, apparitional, arbitrary, astonishing,
autistic, balmy, 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,
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
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