Fantastic Definition

făn-tăstĭk
adjective
Existing in the imagination; imaginary; unreal.
Fantastic terrors.
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Having a strange or weird appearance; grotesque; odd.
Fantastic designs.
Webster's New World
Unrealistic; irrational.
American Heritage
Strange and unusual; extravagant; capricious; eccentric.
A fantastic plan.
Webster's New World
Seemingly impossible; incredible.
Fantastic progress in science.
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noun
A person who is fantastic in behavior, dress, etc.; eccentric.
Webster's New World

Origin of Fantastic

  • 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 fantasy

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle French fantastique

    From Wiktionary

Fantastic Sentence Examples

  • The buildings were usually battlemented in fantastic form.

  • The architecture was fantastic, but not near as exciting as the ride on a ferry.

  • The women's heads are shaved entirely and the men's into fantastic patterns.

  • The Franciscans began to urge fantastic' objections, and, when Savonarola insisted that his champion should bear the host, they cried out against the sacrilege of exposing the Redeemer's body to the flames.

  • Fantastic photographs contain the unexpected.

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