[syn: antic, fantastic, fantastical, grotesque]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Fantastical \Fan*tas"tic*al\, a.
Fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
fantastical
adj 1: existing in fancy only; "fantastic figures with bulbous
heads the circumference of a bushel"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
[syn: fantastic, fantastical]
2: ludicrously odd; "Hamlet's assumed antic disposition";
"fantastic Halloween costumes"; "a grotesque reflection in
the mirror" [syn: antic, fantastic, fantastical,
grotesque]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
159 Moby Thesaurus words for "fantastical":
Barmecidal, Barmecide, Gothic, absurd, airy, antic, appalling,
apparent, apparitional, arbitrary, astonishing, autistic, baroque,
beguiling, bewildering, beyond belief, bizarre, brain-born,
capricious, chimeric, cockamamie, concocted, conspicuous,
cooked-up, cranky, crazy, crotchety, deceptive, delusional,
delusionary, delusive, delusory, dereistic, dream-built, dreamlike,
dreamy, egregious, enigmatic, erroneous, exceptional,
extraordinary, extravagant, fabricated, fabulous, fallacious,
false, fancied, fanciful, fancy-born, fancy-built, fancy-woven,
fantasied, fantasque, fantastic, fascinating, fictional,
fictitious, figmental, flaky, florid, foolish, forged, formidable,
freakish, grotesque, harebrained, hatched, high-flown, humorsome,
illusional, illusionary, illusive, illusory, imaginary, impossible,
incomprehensible, inconceivable, incredible, invented, kinky,
laughable, legendary, ludicrous, made-up, maggoty, manufactured,
marked, marvelous, miraculous, misleading, monstrous, moody,
motiveless, mythical, nonsensical, notable, noteworthy, noticeable,
notional, of mark, ostensible, outlandish, outrageous, outre,
outstanding, passing strange, petulant, phantasmagoric, phantasmal,
phantom, phenomenal, poppycockish, preposterous, prodigious,
put-up, puzzling, quirky, rare, remarkable, ridiculous, rococo,
seeming, self-deceptive, self-deluding, sensational, signal,
specious, spectral, strange, striking, stupendous, superior,
supposititious, temperamental, trumped-up, unaccountable, unactual,
unbelievable, uncommon, unexpected, unfounded, unheard-of,
unimaginable, unique, unprecedented, unreal, unreasonable,
unrestrained, unsubstantial, vagarious, vagrant, visionary, wanton,
wayward, weird, whimsical, wild, wonderful, wondrous