Hypertext Webster Gateway: "fantastic"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fantastic \Fan*tas"tic\, a. [F. fantastique, fr. Gr. ???????????
able to represent, fr. ????????? to make visible. See
{Fancy}.]
1. Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not
real; chimerical.
2. Having the nature of a phantom; unreal. --Shak.
3. Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of
absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a
fantastic mistress.
4. 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. --T. Gray.
Syn: Fanciful; imaginative; ideal; visionary; capricious;
chimerical; whimsical; queer. See {Fanciful}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fantastic \Fan*tas"tic\, n.
A person given to fantastic dress, manners, etc.; an
eccentric person; a fop. --Milton.
Our fantastics, who, having a fine watch, take all
ocasions to drow it out to be seen. --Fuller.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
fantastic
adj 1: ludicrously odd; "Hamlet's assumed antic disposition";
"fantastic Halloween costumes"; "a grotesque
reflection in the mirror" [syn: {antic}, {fantastical},
{grotesque}]
2: extraordinarily good; used especially as intensifiers; "a
fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was fantastic!";
"a howling success"; "a marvelous collection of rare
books"; "had a rattling conversation about politics"; "a
tremendous achievement" [syn: {howling(a)}, {marvelous}, {marvellous},
{rattling(a)}, {terrific}, {tremendous}, {wonderful}, {wondrous}]
3: extravagantly fanciful and unrealistic; foolish; "a
fantastic idea of his own importance"
4: existing in fancy only; "fantastic figures with bulbous
heads the circumference of a bushel"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
[syn: {fantastical}]
5: exceedingly or unbelievably great; "the bomb did fantastic
damage"; "Samson is supposed to have had fantastic
strength"; "phenomenal feats of memory" [syn: {phenomenal}]
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