fantastic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der.
Proto-Hellenic *pʰáňňō
Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō)
Ancient Greek φαντάζω (phantázō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
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Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Hellenic *-tós
Ancient Greek -τος (-tos)
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Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
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Ancient Greek -τικός (-tikós)
Ancient Greek φανταστικός (phantastikós)bor.
Late Latin phantasticusbor.
Middle French fantastiquebor.
English fantastic
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.
Base: fantasy
Affixes: -tic
Inflected forms:
form: more fantastic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fantastic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: fantastick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: phantastic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: phantastick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: phantastique
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Wonderful; marvelous; excellent; extraordinarily good or great (used especially as an intensifier).
pos: adj
examples: "I had a simply fantastic vacation, and I can't wait to tell you all about it!"
gloss: Existing in or constructed from fantasy; of or relating to fantasy; fanciful.
pos: adj
examples: He told fantastic stories of dragons and goblins.
His fantastic post-college plans had all collapsed within a year of graduation.
She had a fantastic view of her own importance that none of her colleagues shared.
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.
gloss: Given to fanciful ideas, impulsive; irrational.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: She was a frightened fool, and she was fantastic, and I suppose that, at that time, she really cared for that imbecile.
gloss: Not believable; implausible; seemingly only possible in fantasy.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: 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.
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?"
gloss: Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; grotesque.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, / That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high.
[…]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.
Synonyms: absurd
crazy
foolish
nonsensical
unreal
preposterous
insane
fanciful
bizarre
wild
Antonyms: reasonable
realistic
Related words: fantasy
fantasise
fantasize
surreal
ludicrous
queer
peculiar
queerish
eccentric
kinky
unbelievable
laughable
funny
incredible
inconceivable
weird
way-out
odd
unthinkable
implausible
nightmarish
outré
ridiculous
extravagant
unimaginable
bizarro
grotesque
far-out
outlandish
Kafkaesque
dreamlike
quaint
quirky
curious
out-of-the-way
kooky
kookie
screwy
strange
wacky
whacky
Alice in Wonderland
off-the-wall slang
Derived words: 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
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