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fantastic

Syllabification: (fan·tas·tic)
Pronunciation: /fanˈtastik/

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Definition of fantastic

adjective

  • 1imaginative or fanciful; remote from reality:novels are capable of mixing fantastic and realistic elements
  • of extraordinary size or degree:the prices were fantastic, far higher than elsewhere
  • (of a shape or design) bizarre or exotic; seeming more appropriate to a fairy tale than to reality or practical use:visions of a fantastic, mazelike building
  • 2 informal extraordinarily good or attractive:your support has been fantastic

Derivatives

fantastical

adjective
(fantastic (sense 1)).

fantasticality

Pronunciation: /ˌfanˌtastəˈkalitē/

noun
(fantastic (sense 1)).

fantastically

Pronunciation: /-(ə)lē/

adverb

Origin:

late Middle English (in the sense 'existing only in the imagination, unreal'): from Old French fantastique, via medieval Latin from Greek phantastikos, from phantazein 'make visible', phantazesthai 'have visions, imagine', from phantos 'visible'. From the 16th to the 19th centuries the Latinized spelling phantastic was also used

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