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单词 fantastically
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fantasticallyadv.

/fænˈtæstɪkəlɪ/
Forms: Also 1500s–1600s phantastically.
Etymology: formed as fantastical adj. + -ly suffix2.
1. Through the exercise of the fancy or imagination. Obs.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [adverb]
fantastically1526
ideally1598
imaginably1644
fancifully1809
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. OOvii, Somtyme as it were an angell of lyght: somtyme visibly, somtyme fantastically.
1693 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. III. 175 My Soul fantastically joins with it.
2. In a phantasmal or unreal manner. Obs.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [adverb] > merely apparent
fantastically1543
phantasmally1855
1543 T. Becon New Yeares Gyfte sig. D.vv, All this was not fantastically done, but truely and unfaynedly.
1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. i. vii. sig. D.viijv/1, Oure Lord suffered in very deede, & not phantastically to the appearaunce onelye.
3. Fabulously, fictitiously. Obs.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > [adverb]
fantastically1547
conceitedly1588
devicefullya1631
creatively1713
inventively1847
originatively1858
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > [adverb]
fantastically1547
forgedly1578
fabulously1593
fictitiously1646
commentitiously1652
fict1677
1547 J. Harrison Exhort. Scottes B viij a, As Welshe and Scottishe Poetes, haue phantastically fayned.
1587 R. Holinshed et al. Hist. Eng. (new ed.) v. xiiij. 91/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I Arthur, of whom the trifling tales of the Britains..fantasticallie doo..report woonders.
4. According to one's fancy; capriciously, arbitrarily.
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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [adverb] > capriciously
unstaidly1556
fantastically1567
humorously1593
skittishly1598
fantasticly1599
garishly1606
humoursomely1653
whimsily1654
quirkishly1673
peevishlya1680
whimsically1711
fancifully1741
capriciously1746
flightily1780
erratically1861
tricksily1866
vagariously1892
quirkily1926
1567 T. Palfreyman Baldwin's Treat. Morall Phylos. (new ed.) iii. iv. f. 97, He can not be a true seruer of god which serueth him..fantastically & in hipocrisie.
1661 A. Cowley Vision Cromwell 21 Though it may seem to some fantastically, yet was it wisely done.
1701 N. Grew Cosmol. Sacra ii. iv. §28 One cannot so much as phantastically choose, Even or Odd.
1829 I. Taylor Nat. Hist. Enthusiasm (1867) iv. 79 The righteous God deals with man~kind not fantastically.
1885 Law Times 79 78/1 Any fantastically coined word.
5. In a fanciful or odd manner; grotesquely, oddly, strangely.
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the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > [adverb] > grotesquely
anticly1585
fantastically1600
grotesquely1740
1600 Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iii. ii. 306 A forkt reddish, with a head fantastically carued vpon it. View more context for this quotation
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 129 Wooden hats, fantastically painted.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 747 Beads and feathers, fantastically arranged.
1813 Byron Giaour (ed. 4) 13 As springing high its [sc. a fountain] silver dew In whirls fantastically flew.
1857 C. M. Yonge Cameos xliv, in Monthly Packet Nov. 459 Their dress was..fantastically gay.

Draft additions 1993

b. To a fantastic degree; extremely, extravagantly. colloq.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly > amazingly or wonderfully
wonderlyc1000
wonderc1175
wonderfullya1300
marvellouslya1382
marvellousa1400
marvelly?a1400
wonderful14..
miraculouslya1425
wonderslyc1489
wondersc1528
wondrously1535
prodigiously1541
wondrous1557
stupendly1621
stupendiously1629
amazingly1650
stupendously1659
astonishingly1668
tremendously1684
prodigious1694
portentously1755
miraculous1766
awesomely1821
stunningly1823
fabulously1845
devastatingly1905
fantastically1923
dizzyingly1952
staggeringly1976
1923 Times Lit. Suppl. 12 Apr. 247/1 Dr. Scripture is, I think, fantastically wrong in supposing that prosody has hitherto put its problem on a ‘typographical basis’.
1931 D. Thomas Poems (1971) 14 The stream's fantastically hard.
1958 Listener 18 Dec. 1040/1 A picture of a girl maybe, fantastically beautiful.
1970 Y. Carter Mr. Campion's Falcon xxi. 155, I want to grovel fantastically. I'm afraid I really do need help.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2014).
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