'Fantastic' definitions:
Definition of 'fantastic'
From: WordNet
adjective
Ludicrously odd; "Hamlet's assumed antic disposition"; "fantastic Halloween costumes"; "a grotesque reflection in the mirror" [syn: antic, fantastic, fantastical, grotesque]
adjective
Extraordinarily good or great ; 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: fantastic, grand, howling(a), marvelous, marvellous, rattling(a), terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous]
adjective
Fanciful and unrealistic; foolish; "a fantastic idea of his own importance" [syn: fantastic, wild]
adjective
Existing in fancy only; "fantastic figures with bulbous heads the circumference of a bushel"- Nathaniel Hawthorne [syn: fantastic, fantastical]
adjective
Extravagantly fanciful in design, construction, appearance; "Gaudi's fantastic architecture"
Definition of 'Fantastic'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Having the nature of a phantom; unreal. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic mistress. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; oddly shaped; grotesque. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fantastic'
From: GCIDE
- Fantastic \Fan*tas"tic\, n. A person given to fantastic dress, manners, etc.; an eccentric person; a fop. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Our fantastics, who, having a fine watch, take all ocasions to draw it out to be seen. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fantastic'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absurd,
- adroit,
- airy,
- alien,
- antic,
- appalling,
- apparent,
- apparitional,
- arbitrary,
- astonishing,
- autistic,
- balmy,
- Barmecidal,
- Barmecide,
- baroque,
- beguiling,
- bewildering,
- beyond belief,
- bizarre,
- brain-born,
- capricious,
- chimeric,
- chimerical,
- clever,
- cockamamie,
- concocted,
- conspicuous,
- cooked-up,
- cracking,
- cranky,
- crazy,
- crotchety,
- deceptive,
- delusional,
- delusionary,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- dereistic,
- dream-built,
- dreamlike,
- dreamy,
- eccentric,
- egregious,
- enigmatic,
- erratic,
- erroneous,
- exceptional,
- exotic,
- extraordinary,
- extravagant,
- fabricated,
- fabulous,
- fallacious,
- false,
- fancied,
- fanciful,
- fancy-born,
- fancy-built,
- fancy-woven,
- fantasied,
- fantasque,
- fascinating,
- fictional,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- figmental,
- flaky,
- florid,
- foolish,
- forged,
- formidable,
- freakish,
- Gothic,
- great,
- grotesque,
- harebrained,
- hatched,
- high-flown,
- humorsome,
- illusional,
- illusionary,
- illusive,
- illusory,
- imaginary,
- imagined,
- implausible,
- impossible,
- incomprehensible,
- inconceivable,
- incredible,
- ingenious,
- insane,
- invented,
- irrational,
- kinky,
- laughable,
- legendary,
- loony,
- ludicrous,
- made-up,
- maggoty,
- manufactured,
- marked,
- marvelous,
- massive,
- miraculous,
- misleading,
- monstrous,
- monumental,
- moody,
- mortal,
- motiveless,
- mythical,
- nonsensical,
- notable,
- noteworthy,
- noticeable,
- notional,
- odd,
- of mark,
- ostensible,
- outlandish,
- outrageous,
- outre,
- outstanding,
- overwhelming,
- passing strange,
- peculiar,
- petulant,
- phantasmagoric,
- phantasmal,
- phantom,
- phenomenal,
- poppycockish,
- preposterous,
- prodigious,
- put-up,
- puzzling,
- quaint,
- queer,
- quirky,
- rare,
- remarkable,
- ridiculous,
- rococo,
- seeming,
- self-deceptive,
- self-deluding,
- sensational,
- signal,
- silly,
- singular,
- specious,
- spectacular,
- spectral,
- splendid,
- strange,
- striking,
- stupendous,
- superior,
- supposititious,
- temperamental,
- terrific,
- towering,
- tremendous,
- trumped-up,
- unaccountable,
- unactual,
- unbelievable,
- uncommon,
- unearthly,
- unexpected,
- unfounded,
- unheard-of,
- unimaginable,
- unique,
- unlikely,
- unprecedented,
- unreal,
- unrealistic,
- unreasonable,
- unrestrained,
- unsubstantial,
- vagarious,
- vagrant,
- visionary,
- wacky,
- wanton,
- wayward,
- weird,
- whimsical,
- wild,
- wonderful,
- wondrous