fantastic
Plural: fantastics
Adjective Satellite
- ludicrously odd
- "fantastic Halloween costumes"
- extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers
- "a fantastic trip to the Orient"
- "the film was fantastic!"
- fanciful and unrealistic; foolish
- "a fantastic idea of his own importance"
- existing in fancy only; - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- "fantastic figures with bulbous heads the circumference of a bushel"
- extravagantly fanciful in design, construction, appearance
- "Gaudi's fantastic architecture"
Adj
- Wonderful; marvelous; excellent; extraordinarily good or great (used especially as an intensifier).
- Existing in or constructed from fantasy; of or relating to fantasy; fanciful.
- Not believable; implausible; seemingly only possible in fantasy.
- Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; grotesque.
Noun
- A fanciful or whimsical person.
Examples
- "I had a simply fantastic vacation, and I can't wait to tell you all about it!"
- He told fantastic stories of dragons and goblins.
- His fantastic post-college plans had all collapsed within a year of graduation.
- She had a fantastic view of her own importance that none of her colleagues shared.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French fantastique, borrowed from Late Latin phantasticus, borrowed from Ancient Greek φᾰντᾰστῐκός (phăntăstĭkós, “imaginary, fantastic; fictional”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to shine”). Equivalent to fantasy + -tic. Doublet of fantastique.
Synonyms
antic, fantastical, grand, grotesque, howling, marvellous, marvelous, rattling, terrific, tremendous, wild, wonderful, wondrous, absurd, ace, admirable, awe-inspiring, awesome, bang on, bang-up, based, beneship, bitching, bizarre, bomb, brilliant, bully, cher, choice, chronic, chur, cock on, cool, copacetic, crackerjack, crazy, cushty, dank, def, dope, excellent, exceptional, fab, fabulous, fanciful, fantabulosa, fantastic, finger-lickin' good, fireball, first-rate, fly, foolish, frabjous, gnarly, great, grouse, insane, kicking, killer, lash, lautitious, lit, nang, nonsensical, out of sight, outstanding, peng, phat, phenomenal, preposterous, pukka, quality, rad, radical, rum, sick, slap-up, slick, spiffing, splendid, sterling, super, superb, superior, sweet, swell, tight, top, top-drawer, top-hole, top-notch, top-of-the-range, top-shelf, topping, tubular, unreal, unrealistic, wicked, wicked pissah, worldie
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 14
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