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fan⋅tas⋅tic
[fan-tas-tik] 
–adjective
| 1. | conceived or appearing as if conceived by an unrestrained imagination; odd and remarkable; bizarre; grotesque: fantastic rock formations; fantastic designs. |
| 2. | fanciful or capricious, as persons or their ideas or actions: We never know what that fantastic creature will say next. |
| 3. | imaginary or groundless in not being based on reality; foolish or irrational: fantastic fears. |
| 4. | extravagantly fanciful; marvelous. |
| 5. | incredibly great or extreme; exorbitant: to spend fantastic sums of money. |
| 6. | highly unrealistic or impractical; outlandish: a fantastic scheme to make a million dollars betting on horse races. |
| 7. | Informal. extraordinarily good: a fantastic musical. |
Also, fan⋅tas⋅ti⋅cal.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME fantastik pertaining to the imaginative faculty < ML fantasticus, var. of LL phantasticus < Gk phantastikós able to present or show (to the mind), equiv. to *phantad-, base of phantázein to make visible (akin to phānós light, bright, phaínein to make appear) + -tikos -tic
1350–1400; ME fantastik pertaining to the imaginative faculty < ML fantasticus, var. of LL phantasticus < Gk phantastikós able to present or show (to the mind), equiv. to *phantad-, base of phantázein to make visible (akin to phānós light, bright, phaínein to make appear) + -tikos -tic
Related forms:
fan⋅tas⋅ti⋅cal⋅ly, adverb
fan⋅tas⋅ti⋅cal⋅ness, fan⋅tas⋅ti⋅cal⋅i⋅ty, noun
Synonyms:
1. Fantastic, bizarre, grotesque share a sense of deviation from what is normal or expected. Fantastic suggests a wild lack of restraint, a fancifulness so extreme as to lose touch with reality: a fantastic scheme for a series of space cities. In informal use, fantastic often means simply “exceptionally good”: a fantastic meal. Bizarre means markedly unusual or extraordinarily strange, sometimes whimsically so: bizarre costumes for Mardi Gras; bizarre behavior. Grotesque implies shocking distortion or incongruity, sometimes ludicrous, more often pitiful or tragic: a grotesque mixture of human and animal features; grotesque contrast between the forced smile and sad eyes: a gnarled tree suggesting the figure of a grotesque human being.
1. Fantastic, bizarre, grotesque share a sense of deviation from what is normal or expected. Fantastic suggests a wild lack of restraint, a fancifulness so extreme as to lose touch with reality: a fantastic scheme for a series of space cities. In informal use, fantastic often means simply “exceptionally good”: a fantastic meal. Bizarre means markedly unusual or extraordinarily strange, sometimes whimsically so: bizarre costumes for Mardi Gras; bizarre behavior. Grotesque implies shocking distortion or incongruity, sometimes ludicrous, more often pitiful or tragic: a grotesque mixture of human and animal features; grotesque contrast between the forced smile and sad eyes: a gnarled tree suggesting the figure of a grotesque human being.
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| fan·tas·tic (fān-tās'tĭk) adj.
[Middle English fantastik, imagined, from Old French fantastique, from Late Latin phantasticus, imaginary, from Greek phantastikos, able to create mental images, from phantazesthai, to appear; see fantasy.] fan·tas'ti·cal'i·ty (-tĭ-kāl'ĭ-tē) n., fan·tas'ti·cal·ly adv. Synonyms: These adjectives apply to what is very strange or strikingly unusual. Fantastic describes what seems to have slight relation to the real world because of its strangeness or extravagance: fantastic imaginary beasts such as the unicorn. |
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Fantastic
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.Fantastic
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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Language Translation for : Fantastic
Spanish:
fantástico,
German:
Phantasie-…,
Japanese:
空想的な
fantastic
c.1387, "existing only in imagination," from O.Fr. fantastique, from L.L. phantasticus "imaginary," from Gk. phantastikos "able to imagine," from phantazein "make visible" (middle voice phantazesthai "picture to oneself"), see fantasy. Trivial sense of "wonderful, marvelous" first recorded 1938.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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