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Fantastic
Definitions
- 1 Wonderful; marvelous; excellent; extraordinarily good or great (used especially as an intensifier).
""I had a simply fantastic vacation, and I can't wait to tell you all about it!""
- 2 Existing in or constructed from fantasy; of or relating to fantasy; fanciful.
"He told fantastic stories of dragons and goblins."
- 3 Not believable; implausible; seemingly only possible in fantasy. archaic
"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."
- 4 Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; grotesque. archaic
"There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, / That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high."
- 1 ludicrously odd wordnet
- 2 extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers wordnet
- 3 extravagantly fanciful in design, construction, appearance wordnet
- 4 existing in fancy only wordnet
- 5 fanciful and unrealistic; foolish wordnet
- 1 A fanciful or whimsical person. archaic
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.
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.
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