fantasticaladj.n.

/fænˈtæstɪkəl/

Etymology: < fantastic adj. and n. + -al suffix¹.

A. adj.

†1.

a. = fantastic adj. 1. Obs.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [adjective]

fantastic1483

fantasticalc1485

spectrical1609

sprightlya1616

spectrene1652

spectrous1652

shadowy1681

visionary1697

ghostly1753

faerie1767

spectry1796

spectral1816

spectrish1822

apparitional1824

phantasiastic1830

spooky1854

astral1877

α.

c1485 Digby Myst. (1882) iv. 1545 My wordes wer not fantasticall..I told youe no lesinge.

c1530 Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 43 Than me thynkithe y see youre likenes: Hit is nat so, it is fantasticalle.

a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) ii. xiiii. sig. H.iii^v, Wyth this fantastical feare of hers, I woulde be loth to haue her in my house.

a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 61 Our Pains are real Things, and all Our Pleasures but fantastical.

β. ?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye ii. sig. f6^v, A place that..more properlye confuteth this phantastical purgatorye, then doth this same texte.1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iii. 100 When anything great is represented to us, it appears phantastical.1728 T. Sheridan in tr. Persius Satyrs (1739) vi. 99 (note) , Tertullian..runs the phantastical Genealogy thus.

†b. Of opinions: Irrational, baseless. (Passing into sense A. 6) Obs.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [adjective] > of fanciful nature

feigned1526

fantasticala1546

conceited1588

capricious1594

fanatical1598

vaporous1605

chimerical1638

chimeric1655

lymphatical1678

chimerian1682

wild goose1770

visionary1777

whimmy1785

whimming1787

Laputan1866

viewy1866

Alice1872

Alice-in-Wonderland1874

fantasied1882

Alician1898

blue-sky1920

pie in the sky1930

rocambolesque1935

α.

a1546 Joye in Gardiner Declar. Art. Joye (1546) 53 He..conceyueth a certayne fantasticall opinion therof [of fayth].

1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks II. iv. 52 Which only false Religion or fantastical Opinion..is able to effect.

β. 1555 R. Eden in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde Pref. sig. bij, Mysshapened with phantastical opinions.1599 J. Hayward 1st Pt. Henrie IIII 91 He said that the lawes of the realme were in his head..by reason of which phantasticall opinion, he destroyed noblemen.

†2.

a. = fantastic adj. 2. Chiefly in fantastical body in reference to the heresy of the Docetæ. Obs.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > the Son or Christ > [noun] > body of > immaterial

fantastical body?1531

α.

?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye ii. sig. f7^v, Phantastical apparicions.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1851/1 Ye make of it [sc. the Sacrament] a thyng so fantasticall, that ye imagine a body without fleshe.

1727 M. Earbery tr. T. Burnet Of State of Dead I. vii. 220 That the Body of Christ upon Earth was a fantastical one, as the Gnosticks held.

β. 1555 N. Ridley Wks. 200 Marcion..said that Christ had but a phantastical body.1641 R. Carpenter Experience ii. 185 Hee did not take a phantasticall body in the Incarnation.

†b. Of colours: = emphatical adj. 6. Obs.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > [adjective] > seeming or apparent > of colours

emphatical1646

evanid1663

fantastical1665

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > deceptive fancy or illusion > [adjective] > of colours: merely apparent

evanid1626

emphatical1646

fantastical1665

1665 R. Hooke Micrographia xxxvi. 168 These colours are onely fantastical ones.

1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Phantastical Colours, such as are exhibited by the Rainbow, Triangular Glass Prism, the Surface of very thin Muscovy Glass, &c.

†3.

a. = fantastic adj. 3. Obs.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > [adjective]

imaginativea1398

fantastic1483

imaginarya1500

fantastical1526

imaginal1638

imaginant1840

imaginational1856

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. PP, His lyghtes be euer, outher fantasticall or els corporall.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. viii. 15 Euen so is the phantasticall part of man..a representer of the best..images..to the soule.

1647 H. More Philos. Poems ii. ii. ii. xxxv, The Orb Phantastick must exert All life phantasticall.

†b. Pertaining to the passion of love. See fancy n. 8b. Obs. rare^—1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [adjective]

sensual?a1425

Venerian1448

venereal?a1475

venerial1531

venereous1542

venerious1542

venerous1562

Venerean1575

veneral1591

warm1593

fantastical1594

sexual1839

thermal1866

satyrish1876

Wife of Bath1926

the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [adjective] > relating to the passion of love

fantastical1594

1594 Willobie his Auisa xliiii. f. 40^v, Sodenly infected with the contagion of a fantasticall fit.

4. = fantastic adj. 4.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [adjective] > only in imagination or unreal

imaginary?1510

imaginative1517

rational1530

fantastical1531

fantasied1561

airy1565

fancied1568

legendary1570

dreamed1597

fabled1606

ideal1611

fictive1612

affectual1614

insubstantiala1616

imaginatorya1618

supposititious1620

fictitious1621

utopian1624

utopic1624

notional1629

affective1633

fictiousa1644

notionary1646

figmental1655

suppositious1655

fict1677

visionary1725

metaphysical1728

unrealized1767

fancy1801

nice-spun1801

subjective1815

aerial1829

transcendental1835

cardboardy1863

mythical1870

cardboard1879

fictionary1882

figmentary1887

alternative1939

alternate1944

fantasized1964

ideate1966

fanciful-

fantastic-

the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [adjective] > capricious or whimsical

startfulmood?a1300

wildc1350

volage?a1366

gerfulc1374

geryc1386

wild-headeda1400

skittishc1412

gerish1430

shittle1440

shittle-witted1448

runningc1449

volageous1487

glaikit1488

fantasious1490

giggish1523

tickle or light of the sear?1530

fantastical1531

wayward1531

wantona1538

peevish1539

light-headed1549

humoral1573

unstaid1579

shittle-headed1580

toy-headed1581

fangled1587

humorous1589

choiceful1591

toyish1598

tricksy1598

skip-brain1603

capricious1605

humoursome1607

planetary1607

vertiginous1609

whimsieda1625

ingiddied1628

whimsy1637

toysome1638

cocklec1640

mercurial1647

garish1650

maggoty1650

kicksey-winseya1652

freakish1653

humourish1653

planetic1653

whimsical1653

shittle-braineda1655

freaking1663

maggoty-headed1667

maggot-pated1681

hoity-toity1690

maggotish1693

maggot-headeda1695

whimsy-headed1699

fantasque1701

crotchetly1702

quixotic1718

volatile1719

holloweda1734

conundrumical1743

flighty1768

fly-away1775

dizzy1780

whimmy1785

shy1787

whimming1787

quirky1789

notional1791

tricksome1815

vagarish1819

freakful1820

faddy1824

moodish1827

mawky1837

erratic1841

rockety1843

quirkish1848

maggoty-pated1850

crotchetya1854

freaksome1854

faddish1855

vagrom1882

fantasied1883

vagarisome1883

on-and-offish1888

tricksical1889

freaky1891

hobby-horsical1893

quirksome1896

temperamental1907

up and down1960

untogether1969

fanciful-

fantastic-

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > slightly mad > eccentric or cranky

fantastical1531

odd1577

eccentric1685

fanaticized1827

cranky1850

bee-bonneted1856

cornery1887

screwy1887

kinky1889

crankish1892

ratty1895

batchy1898

batsc1901

batty1903

potty1920

offbeat1922

off-centre1930

wacky1935

screwball1936

up the creek1941

oddball1945

wackadoo1958

kooky1959

wiggy1963

flaky1964

nutball1968

woo-woo1971

wacko1977

off-kilter1985

wackadoodle1993

fantastic-

the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [adjective] > capricious or whimsical > marked or characterized by capriciousness

fantastical1531

feathery1601

fantasticala1618

arbitrary1646

fancy1646

whimmed1654

fantastic1658

volatile1661

vagarious1827

α.

1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. i. sig. Aiv, They be nat in commune (as fantasticall foles wolde haue all thyngs).

1589 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) vi. xxxi. 140 Loue..Fantasticall in women.

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vii. xx. 835 The herne is..very fantasticall, as not giuen to staie in any place, but such as pleaseth him very well.

1702 Eng. Theophrastus 311 The gratifying of a fantastical Appetite.

1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet Elements Art of Dyeing II. ii. vi. 307 The fantastical changes of the fashion.

1862 M. Oliphant Last of Mortimers I. v. 27 A pretty fantastical young girl.

β. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 314^v, Many iudged hym phantasticall.1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. iii. ii. 395 An affected phantasticall carriage.1693 T. P. Blount Nat. Hist. 129 The..vain and phantastical abuse of this Stinking Weed.1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 30. ⁋2 The Oxonians are phantastical now they are Lovers.

†5. = fantastic adj. 5. Obs.

ΚΠ

a1618 W. Raleigh Life & Death Mahomet (1637) 24 The care and use of his fantasticall Law.

6. = fantastic adj. 6.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [adjective]

impertinenta1425

royeta1522

absurd1531

preposterous1533

ridiculous1533

deaf?1541

monstrous?1549

fabulous1561

fanatical1598

fantastical1600

laughable1600

fantasticc1616

nonsense1621

arsy-versy1628

absonous1642

nonsensical1645

ridicule?1669

fancical1671

grotesque1747

rich1836

saugrenu1876

laughsome1884

cockeyed1894

hilarious1925

Rube Goldberg1928

whimsy-whamsy1931

Rube Goldbergian1933

cockamamie1941

fantasticated1960

fanciful-

α.

1600 Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. i. 68 The first suite is hot and hasty like a Scotch ijgge (and ful as fantasticall).

1789 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music III. 111 Canons..in triangular, and other fantastical forms.

1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. viii. 177 A portrait which, however fantastical, may still bear some remarkable resemblances.

β. a1613 T. Overbury Wife (1638) 166 Our new phantasticall building.1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 151. ⁋5 An Occasion wherein Vice makes so phantastical a Figure.

†B. n.

One who has fanciful ideas or notions.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [noun] > fanciful person

dreamera1425

fantast1588

fantastical1589

fantastic1598

maggot-monger1607

Sabine1610

maggot-patea1640

wham1691

whim1712

visionarya1719

imaginariana1729

ideologue1815

ideologist1818

fancier1828

idealist1829

abstractionist1844

phantasist1864

dreamsmith1873

luftmensch1902

cuckoo-lander1916

fantasist1923

pie-in-the-skyer1973

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > slight madness > crankiness or eccentricity > person

fantastical1589

fantastic1598

earwig brain1599

extravagant1627

fanatic1644

energumen1660

original1675

toy-pate1702

gig1777

quiz1780

quoz?1780

rum touch1800

crotcheteer1815

pistol1828

eccentric1832

case1833

originalist1835

cure1856

crotchet-monger1874

curiosity1874

crank1881

crackpot1883

faddist1883

schwärmer1884

hard case1892

finger1899

mad hatter1905

nut1908

numéro1924

screwball1933

wack1938

fruitcake1942

odd bod1942

oddball1943

ghoster1953

raver1959

kook1960

flake1968

woo-woo1972

zonky1972

wacko1977

headbanger1981

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. viii. 14 Who so is studious in th' Arte..they call him in disdayne a phantasticall.

1616 J. Deacon Tobacco Tortured 57 Alas poore Tobacco..thou that hast bene hitherto accompted..the Fantasticals foretresse.

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单词	fantastical
释义	fantasticaladj.n. /fænˈtæstɪkəl/ Etymology: < fantastic adj. and n. + -al suffix¹. A. adj. †1. a. = fantastic adj. 1. Obs. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [adjective] fantastic1483 fantasticalc1485 spectrical1609 sprightlya1616 spectrene1652 spectrous1652 shadowy1681 visionary1697 ghostly1753 faerie1767 spectry1796 spectral1816 spectrish1822 apparitional1824 phantasiastic1830 spooky1854 astral1877 α. c1485 Digby Myst. (1882) iv. 1545 My wordes wer not fantasticall..I told youe no lesinge. c1530 Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 43 Than me thynkithe y see youre likenes: Hit is nat so, it is fantasticalle. a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) ii. xiiii. sig. H.iii^v, Wyth this fantastical feare of hers, I woulde be loth to haue her in my house. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 61 Our Pains are real Things, and all Our Pleasures but fantastical. β. ?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye ii. sig. f6^v, A place that..more properlye confuteth this phantastical purgatorye, then doth this same texte.1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iii. 100 When anything great is represented to us, it appears phantastical.1728 T. Sheridan in tr. Persius Satyrs (1739) vi. 99 (note) , Tertullian..runs the phantastical Genealogy thus. †b. Of opinions: Irrational, baseless. (Passing into sense A. 6) Obs. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [adjective] > of fanciful nature feigned1526 fantasticala1546 conceited1588 capricious1594 fanatical1598 vaporous1605 chimerical1638 chimeric1655 lymphatical1678 chimerian1682 wild goose1770 visionary1777 whimmy1785 whimming1787 Laputan1866 viewy1866 Alice1872 Alice-in-Wonderland1874 fantasied1882 Alician1898 blue-sky1920 pie in the sky1930 rocambolesque1935 α. a1546 Joye in Gardiner Declar. Art. Joye (1546) 53 He..conceyueth a certayne fantasticall opinion therof [of fayth]. 1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks II. iv. 52 Which only false Religion or fantastical Opinion..is able to effect. β. 1555 R. Eden in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde Pref. sig. bij, Mysshapened with phantastical opinions.1599 J. Hayward 1st Pt. Henrie IIII 91 He said that the lawes of the realme were in his head..by reason of which phantasticall opinion, he destroyed noblemen. †2. a. = fantastic adj. 2. Chiefly in fantastical body in reference to the heresy of the Docetæ. Obs. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > the Son or Christ > [noun] > body of > immaterial fantastical body?1531 α. ?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye ii. sig. f7^v, Phantastical apparicions. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1851/1 Ye make of it [sc. the Sacrament] a thyng so fantasticall, that ye imagine a body without fleshe. 1727 M. Earbery tr. T. Burnet Of State of Dead I. vii. 220 That the Body of Christ upon Earth was a fantastical one, as the Gnosticks held. β. 1555 N. Ridley Wks. 200 Marcion..said that Christ had but a phantastical body.1641 R. Carpenter Experience ii. 185 Hee did not take a phantasticall body in the Incarnation. †b. Of colours: = emphatical adj. 6. Obs. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > [adjective] > seeming or apparent > of colours emphatical1646 evanid1663 fantastical1665 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > deceptive fancy or illusion > [adjective] > of colours: merely apparent evanid1626 emphatical1646 fantastical1665 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia xxxvi. 168 These colours are onely fantastical ones. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Phantastical Colours, such as are exhibited by the Rainbow, Triangular Glass Prism, the Surface of very thin Muscovy Glass, &c. †3. a. = fantastic adj. 3. Obs. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > [adjective] imaginativea1398 fantastic1483 imaginarya1500 fantastical1526 imaginal1638 imaginant1840 imaginational1856 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. PP, His lyghtes be euer, outher fantasticall or els corporall. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. viii. 15 Euen so is the phantasticall part of man..a representer of the best..images..to the soule. 1647 H. More Philos. Poems ii. ii. ii. xxxv, The Orb Phantastick must exert All life phantasticall. †b. Pertaining to the passion of love. See fancy n. 8b. Obs. rare^—1. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [adjective] sensual?a1425 Venerian1448 venereal?a1475 venerial1531 venereous1542 venerious1542 venerous1562 Venerean1575 veneral1591 warm1593 fantastical1594 sexual1839 thermal1866 satyrish1876 Wife of Bath1926 the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [adjective] > relating to the passion of love fantastical1594 1594 Willobie his Auisa xliiii. f. 40^v, Sodenly infected with the contagion of a fantasticall fit. 4. = fantastic adj. 4. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [adjective] > only in imagination or unreal imaginary?1510 imaginative1517 rational1530 fantastical1531 fantasied1561 airy1565 fancied1568 legendary1570 dreamed1597 fabled1606 ideal1611 fictive1612 affectual1614 insubstantiala1616 imaginatorya1618 supposititious1620 fictitious1621 utopian1624 utopic1624 notional1629 affective1633 fictiousa1644 notionary1646 figmental1655 suppositious1655 fict1677 visionary1725 metaphysical1728 unrealized1767 fancy1801 nice-spun1801 subjective1815 aerial1829 transcendental1835 cardboardy1863 mythical1870 cardboard1879 fictionary1882 figmentary1887 alternative1939 alternate1944 fantasized1964 ideate1966 fanciful- fantastic- the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [adjective] > capricious or whimsical startfulmood?a1300 wildc1350 volage?a1366 gerfulc1374 geryc1386 wild-headeda1400 skittishc1412 gerish1430 shittle1440 shittle-witted1448 runningc1449 volageous1487 glaikit1488 fantasious1490 giggish1523 tickle or light of the sear?1530 fantastical1531 wayward1531 wantona1538 peevish1539 light-headed1549 humoral1573 unstaid1579 shittle-headed1580 toy-headed1581 fangled1587 humorous1589 choiceful1591 toyish1598 tricksy1598 skip-brain1603 capricious1605 humoursome1607 planetary1607 vertiginous1609 whimsieda1625 ingiddied1628 whimsy1637 toysome1638 cocklec1640 mercurial1647 garish1650 maggoty1650 kicksey-winseya1652 freakish1653 humourish1653 planetic1653 whimsical1653 shittle-braineda1655 freaking1663 maggoty-headed1667 maggot-pated1681 hoity-toity1690 maggotish1693 maggot-headeda1695 whimsy-headed1699 fantasque1701 crotchetly1702 quixotic1718 volatile1719 holloweda1734 conundrumical1743 flighty1768 fly-away1775 dizzy1780 whimmy1785 shy1787 whimming1787 quirky1789 notional1791 tricksome1815 vagarish1819 freakful1820 faddy1824 moodish1827 mawky1837 erratic1841 rockety1843 quirkish1848 maggoty-pated1850 crotchetya1854 freaksome1854 faddish1855 vagrom1882 fantasied1883 vagarisome1883 on-and-offish1888 tricksical1889 freaky1891 hobby-horsical1893 quirksome1896 temperamental1907 up and down1960 untogether1969 fanciful- fantastic- the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > slightly mad > eccentric or cranky fantastical1531 odd1577 eccentric1685 fanaticized1827 cranky1850 bee-bonneted1856 cornery1887 screwy1887 kinky1889 crankish1892 ratty1895 batchy1898 batsc1901 batty1903 potty1920 offbeat1922 off-centre1930 wacky1935 screwball1936 up the creek1941 oddball1945 wackadoo1958 kooky1959 wiggy1963 flaky1964 nutball1968 woo-woo1971 wacko1977 off-kilter1985 wackadoodle1993 fantastic- the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [adjective] > capricious or whimsical > marked or characterized by capriciousness fantastical1531 feathery1601 fantasticala1618 arbitrary1646 fancy1646 whimmed1654 fantastic1658 volatile1661 vagarious1827 α. 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. i. sig. Aiv, They be nat in commune (as fantasticall foles wolde haue all thyngs). 1589 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) vi. xxxi. 140 Loue..Fantasticall in women. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vii. xx. 835 The herne is..very fantasticall, as not giuen to staie in any place, but such as pleaseth him very well. 1702 Eng. Theophrastus 311 The gratifying of a fantastical Appetite. 1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet Elements Art of Dyeing II. ii. vi. 307 The fantastical changes of the fashion. 1862 M. Oliphant Last of Mortimers I. v. 27 A pretty fantastical young girl. β. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 314^v, Many iudged hym phantasticall.1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. iii. ii. 395 An affected phantasticall carriage.1693 T. P. Blount Nat. Hist. 129 The..vain and phantastical abuse of this Stinking Weed.1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 30. ⁋2 The Oxonians are phantastical now they are Lovers. †5. = fantastic adj. 5. Obs. ΚΠ a1618 W. Raleigh Life & Death Mahomet (1637) 24 The care and use of his fantasticall Law. 6. = fantastic adj. 6. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [adjective] impertinenta1425 royeta1522 absurd1531 preposterous1533 ridiculous1533 deaf?1541 monstrous?1549 fabulous1561 fanatical1598 fantastical1600 laughable1600 fantasticc1616 nonsense1621 arsy-versy1628 absonous1642 nonsensical1645 ridicule?1669 fancical1671 grotesque1747 rich1836 saugrenu1876 laughsome1884 cockeyed1894 hilarious1925 Rube Goldberg1928 whimsy-whamsy1931 Rube Goldbergian1933 cockamamie1941 fantasticated1960 fanciful- α. 1600 Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. i. 68 The first suite is hot and hasty like a Scotch ijgge (and ful as fantasticall). View more context for this quotation 1789 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music III. 111 Canons..in triangular, and other fantastical forms. 1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. viii. 177 A portrait which, however fantastical, may still bear some remarkable resemblances. β. a1613 T. Overbury Wife (1638) 166 Our new phantasticall building.1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 151. ⁋5 An Occasion wherein Vice makes so phantastical a Figure. †B. n. One who has fanciful ideas or notions. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [noun] > fanciful person dreamera1425 fantast1588 fantastical1589 fantastic1598 maggot-monger1607 Sabine1610 maggot-patea1640 wham1691 whim1712 visionarya1719 imaginariana1729 ideologue1815 ideologist1818 fancier1828 idealist1829 abstractionist1844 phantasist1864 dreamsmith1873 luftmensch1902 cuckoo-lander1916 fantasist1923 pie-in-the-skyer1973 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > slight madness > crankiness or eccentricity > person fantastical1589 fantastic1598 earwig brain1599 extravagant1627 fanatic1644 energumen1660 original1675 toy-pate1702 gig1777 quiz1780 quoz?1780 rum touch1800 crotcheteer1815 pistol1828 eccentric1832 case1833 originalist1835 cure1856 crotchet-monger1874 curiosity1874 crank1881 crackpot1883 faddist1883 schwärmer1884 hard case1892 finger1899 mad hatter1905 nut1908 numéro1924 screwball1933 wack1938 fruitcake1942 odd bod1942 oddball1943 ghoster1953 raver1959 kook1960 flake1968 woo-woo1972 zonky1972 wacko1977 headbanger1981 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. viii. 14 Who so is studious in th' Arte..they call him in disdayne a phantasticall. 1616 J. Deacon Tobacco Tortured 57 Alas poore Tobacco..thou that hast bene hitherto accompted..the Fantasticals foretresse. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2014). < adj.n.c1485
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