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Pronunciation: /fanˈtastɪk/

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Definition of fantastic

adjective

1imaginative or fanciful; remote from reality:fantastic hybrid creatures
(of an object) seeming more appropriate to the imagination than to reality; strange or exotic:a fantastic, maze-like building

2 informal extraordinarily good or attractive:she’s got a fantastic body
of an extraordinary size or degree:she had spent a fantastic amount of cash

Derivatives

fantastical: fantastic (sense 1).
fantasticality: fantastic (sense 1).
fantastically

Origin:

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

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fantastic

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fantasticality

fantastically

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