[syn: fantastic, fantastical]
5. extravagantly fanciful in design, construction, appearance;
- Example: "Gaudi's fantastic architecture"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Fantastic \Fan*tas"tic\, n.
A person given to fantastic dress, manners, etc.; an
eccentric person; a fop. --Milton.
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Our fantastics, who, having a fine watch, take all
ocasions to draw it out to be seen. --Fuller.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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2. Having the nature of a phantom; unreal. --Shak.
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3. Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of
absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a
fantastic mistress.
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4. Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or
eccentricity; irregular; oddly shaped; grotesque.
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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.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
fantastic
adj 1: ludicrously odd; "Hamlet's assumed antic disposition";
"fantastic Halloween costumes"; "a grotesque reflection
in the mirror" [syn: antic, fantastic, fantastical,
grotesque]
2: 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]
3: fanciful and unrealistic; foolish; "a fantastic idea of his
own importance" [syn: fantastic, wild]
4: existing in fancy only; "fantastic figures with bulbous heads
the circumference of a bushel"- Nathaniel Hawthorne [syn:
fantastic, fantastical]
5: extravagantly fanciful in design, construction, appearance;
"Gaudi's fantastic architecture"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
194 Moby Thesaurus words for "fantastic":
Barmecidal, Barmecide, Gothic, absurd, adroit, airy, alien, antic,
appalling, apparent, apparitional, arbitrary, astonishing,
autistic, balmy, 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,
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