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fantastic

adjective

  1. a fantastic restaurant.
    1. conceived or appearing as if conceived by an unrestrained imagination; odd and remarkable; bizarre;
      grotesque:
      The most fantastic rock formations are visible from the high plateau of the park’s rim trail.
      Artists rendered fantastic designs in the margin of the manuscript.
    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:
      You can’t let these fantastic fears of yours control your life.
    4. extravagantly fanciful; marvelous:
      The scenery and lighting they created for the dream sequences are truly fantastic!
    5. incredibly great or extreme; exorbitant:
      The rich are spending fantastic sums of money, even in this economy.
    6. highly unrealistic or impractical:
      They hatched a fantastic scheme to make a million dollars betting on horse races.

/ fænˈtæstɪk /

adjective

  1. strange, weird, or fanciful in appearance, conception, etc
  2. created in the mind; illusory
  3. extravagantly fanciful; unrealistic
    fantastic plans
  4. incredible or preposterous; absurd
    a fantastic verdict
  5. informal.
    very large or extreme; great
    a fantastic fortune
    he suffered fantastic pain
  6. informal.
  7. of, given to, or characterized by fantasy
  8. not constant; capricious; fitful
    given to fantastic moods

noun

  1. archaic.
    a person who dresses or behaves eccentrically

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Word History and Origins

Origin of fantastic1

First recorded in

1350–1400; Middle English fantastik “pertaining to the imaginative faculty,” from Medieval Latin fantasticus, variant of Late Latin phantasticus, from Greek phantastikós “able to present the appearence (of something),” derivative of phantázein “to make present to the eye or mind” (akin to phānós “light, bright,” phaínein “to bring to light, cause to appear”) + -tikos -tic

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Word History and Origins

Origin of fantastic1

C14 fantastik imaginary, via Late Latin from Greek phantastikos capable of imagining, from phantazein to make visible

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Example Sentences

"It's a fantastic market to be a part of," she said.

"People are increasingly enjoying recreating in nature, which is fantastic," said lead author Ellie Bolas, a Ph.D. candidate in the UC Davis Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology.

I thought she was fantastic in avenging the defeat to Chantelle Cameron but how many more nights can Taylor keep going to the well?

We watched “His Three Daughters” the other night, fantastic.

In an interview on the prize website, she described “Orbital” as a space pastoral and said she wanted to write a realistic, rather than fantastic, version of humans in low Earth orbit.