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adjective

Fantastic adj.

Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical.

Having the nature of a phantom; unreal.

Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic mistress.

Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; oddly shaped; grotesque. "There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high."

Synonyms: Fanciful; imaginative; ideal; visionary; capricious; chimerical; whimsical; queer. See Fanciful.

noun

Fantastic n. A person given to fantastic dress, manners, etc.; an eccentric person; a fop. "Our fantastics, who, having a fine watch, take all ocasions to draw it out to be seen."

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Etymology of 'Fantastic'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fantastic" Quotes from Famous Books

... days was the village of Vaux-sur-Somme, which we took over from the French, who were our next-door neighbors at the village of Frise in the summer of '15. After the foul conditions of the salient it seemed unreal and fantastic, with a touch of romance not found in other places. Strange as it seemed, the village garrisoned by our men was in advance of our trench lines, with nothing dividing them from the enemy but a little undergrowth—and the queerest part of it all ...

— Now It Can Be Told • Philip Gibbs

... beasts. Watching for him she could see through the uncurtained French windows the starry brilliance of the night, and the moon now in its middle quarter. And down below, the houses and shanties along the opposite side of the street, the fantastic tufts of the pawpaws, the long white road stretching away into the ...

— Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land • Rosa Praed

... "Look here, don't suppose you're out of a job this evening by any chance, and would come and cheer up a lone bachelor, eh? No? You are? Well, that's luck for once! I say, where shall we go? One of the places where they dance, I suppose? Yes, I twirl the light fantastic once in a while myself. Got to keep up with the times! Hold on, taxi! Here—I'll drive you home first, and wait while you jump into your toggery. Lots of time." As he steered her toward the carriage she noticed ...

— The Glimpses of the Moon • Edith Wharton

... remains. 'If moral approbation involve no perception of beneficial tendency, how do we make out the coincidence of the two?' It might seem that the foundation of morals is thus made to rest on a coincidence that is mysterious and fantastic. According to the author, the conclusive answer is this. Although Conscience rarely contemplates anything so distant as the welfare of all sentient beings, yet in detail it obviously points to the production of happiness. ...

— Moral Science; A Compendium of Ethics • Alexander Bain

... crept back into the minds of each one present that the prince had just made her an offer of marriage. The situation had, therefore, become three times as fantastic ...

— The Idiot • (AKA Feodor Dostoevsky) Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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