fantastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fænˈtæstɪk/
note: Indic
ipa: /fəɳˈʈastɪk/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈfanʈasʈɪk/
rhymes: -æstɪk
Forms: form: more fantastic
form: most fantastic
form: fantastick
form: phantastick
form: phantastic
form: phantastique
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.
Senses: examples: text: "I had a simply fantastic vacation, and I can't wait to tell you all about it!"
synonyms: word: brilliant
word: fabulous
word: splendid
word: super
word: wonderful
word: ace
word: admirable
word: awe-inspiring
word: awesome
word: bang on
word: bang-up
word: based
word: beneship
word: bitching
word: bomb
word: brilliant
word: bully
word: cher
word: choice
word: chronic
word: chur
word: cock on
word: cool
word: copacetic
word: crackerjack
word: cushty
word: dank
word: def
word: dope
word: excellent
word: exceptional
word: fab
word: fabulous
word: fantabulosa
word: fantastic
word: finger-lickin' good
word: fire
word: fireball
word: first-rate
word: fly
word: frabjous
word: gnarly
word: goated
word: great
word: grouse
word: kicking
word: killer
word: lash
word: lautitious
word: lit
word: marvelous
word: nang
word: outstanding
word: out of sight
word: phat
word: peng
word: phenomenal
word: pukka
word: quality
word: rad
word: radical
word: rum
word: sick
word: slap-up
word: slick
word: spiffing
word: splendid
word: sterling
word: super
word: superb
word: superior
word: sweet
word: swell
word: terrific
word: tight
word: top
word: top-drawer
word: top-hole
word: top-notch
word: top-of-the-range
word: top-shelf
word: topping
word: tubular
word: wicked
word: wicked pissah
word: wonderful
word: worldie
glosses: Wonderful; marvelous; excellent; extraordinarily good or great (used especially as an intensifier).
examples: text: He told fantastic stories of dragons and goblins.
text: His fantastic post-college plans had all collapsed within a year of graduation.
text: She had a fantastic view of her own importance that none of her colleagues shared.
text: At the base of the whole process by which divinities and demons were created, and rites for their propitiation and placation established, lay Fear - fear stimulating the imagination to fantastic activity.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 13:
synonyms: fantastical
fabulous
glosses: Existing in or constructed from fantasy; of or relating to fantasy; fanciful.
examples: text: And indeed, when in the writings of Paracelſus I meet with ſuch Phantaſtick and Un-intelligible Diſcourſes as that Writer often puzzels and tyres his Reader with, father'd upon ſuch excellent Experiments, as though he ſeldom clearly teaches, I often find he knew ; me thinks the Chymiſts, in their ſearches after truth, are not unlike the Navigators of Solomons Tarſhiſh Fleet, who brought home from their long and tedious Voyages, not only Gold, and Silver, and Ivory, but Apes and Peacocks too ; For ſo the Writings of ſeveral (for I ſay not, all) of your Hermetick Philoſophers preſent us, together with divers Subſtantial and noble Experiments, Theories, which either like Peacocks feathers make a great ſhew, but are neither ſolid nor uſeful ; or elſe like Apes, if they have ſome appearance of being rational, are blemiſh'd with ſome abſurdity or other, that when they are Attentively conſider'd, makes them appear Ridiculous.
ref: 1661, Robert Boyle, “THE CONCLUSION”, in The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical, As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Diſcourſe relating to the ſame Subject, London: J. Caldwell, pages 429–430:
text: Since 1 part in 100,000 would imply that one could put a Shuttle up each day for 300 years expecting to lose only one, we could properly ask "What is the cause of management's fantastic faith in the machinery?"
ref: 1986 June 6, Richard Feynman, “Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle”, in Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, Report to the President:
synonyms: fantastical
unrealistic
wild
glosses: Not believable; implausible; seemingly only possible in fantasy.
examples: text: There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, / That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high.
ref: 1750 June 12 (date written; published 1751), T[homas] Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”, in Designs by Mr. R[ichard] Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley, […], published 1753, →OCLC:
text: […]This round of green, this orb of flame,
Fantastic beauty; such as lurks
⁠In some wild Poet, when he works
Without a conscience or an aim.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXIV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 53:
glosses: Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; grotesque.
Synonyms: word: absurd
word: crazy
word: foolish
word: nonsensical
word: unreal
word: preposterous
word: insane
word: fanciful
word: bizarre
word: wild
Derived terms: fabtastic
fanfreakingtastic
fantabulous
fantascience
fantasterrific
fantastical
fantastically
fantasticism
fantasticity
fantasticize
fantasticly
fantasticness
floptastic
funtastic
nonfantastic
plastic fantastic
snazztastic
spanktastic
sparktastic
sucktastic
superfantastic
supertastic
trip the light fantastic
ultrafantastic
unfantastic
Related terms: word: fantasy
word: fantasise
word: fantasize
word: surreal
word: ludicrous
word: queer
word: peculiar
word: queerish
word: eccentric
word: kinky
word: unbelievable
word: laughable
word: funny
word: incredible
word: inconceivable
word: weird
word: way-out
word: odd
word: unthinkable
word: implausible
word: nightmarish
word: outré
word: ridiculous
word: extravagant
word: unimaginable
word: bizarro
word: grotesque
word: far-out
word: outlandish
word: Kafkaesque
word: dreamlike
word: quaint
word: quirky
word: curious
word: out-of-the-way
word: kooky
word: kookie
word: screwy
word: strange
word: wacky
word: whacky
word: Alice in Wonderland
word: off-the-wall slang