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Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: fanˈtastically /fænˈtæstɪkəlɪ/ adv - in a fantastic manner
- informal (intensifier): it's fantastically cheap
fan•tas•tic /fænˈtæstɪk/USA pronunciation adj. - thought of and created by an unrestrained imagination;
grotesque:fantastic rock formations. - not based on reality;
imaginary;
irrational:fantastic fears. - extremely great:a fantastic salary.
- Informal Termsextraordinarily good:a fantastic musical.
fan•tas•ti•cal•ly, adv. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024fan•tas•tic (fan tas′tik),USA pronunciation adj. - conceived or appearing as if conceived by an unrestrained imagination;
odd and remarkable;
bizarre;
grotesque:fantastic rock formations; fantastic designs. - fanciful or capricious, as persons or their ideas or actions:We never know what that fantastic creature will say next.
- imaginary or groundless in not being based on reality;
foolish or irrational:fantastic fears. - extravagantly fanciful;
marvelous. - incredibly great or extreme;
exorbitant:to spend fantastic sums of money. - highly unrealistic or impractical;
outlandish:a fantastic scheme to make a million dollars betting on horse races. - Informal Termsextraordinarily good:a fantastic musical.
Also, fan•tas′ti•cal. - Greek phantastikós able to present or show (to the mind), equivalent. to *phantad-, base of phantázein to make visible (akin to phānós light, bright, phaínein to make appear) + -tikos -tic
- Medieval Latin fantasticus, variant of Late Latin phantasticus
- Middle English fantastik pertaining to the imaginative faculty 1350–1400
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged Fantastic, bizarre, grotesque share a sense of deviation from what is normal or expected. Fantastic suggests a wild lack of restraint, a fancifulness so extreme as to lose touch with reality:a fantastic scheme for a series of space cities.In informal use, fantastic often means simply "exceptionally good'':a fantastic meal.Bizarre means markedly unusual or extraordinarily strange, sometimes whimsically so:bizarre costumes for Mardi Gras; bizarre behavior.Grotesque implies shocking distortion or incongruity, sometimes ludicrous, more often pitiful or tragic:a grotesque mixture of human and animal features; grotesque contrast between the forced smile and sad eyes: a gnarled tree suggesting the figure of a grotesque human being.
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