adj.

1. Quaint or strange in form, conception, or appearance.
2. 1. Unrestrainedly fanciful; extravagant: fantastic hopes.
   2. Bizarre, as in form or appearance; strange: fantastic attire; fantastic behavior.
   3. Based on or existing only in fantasy; unreal: fantastic ideas about her own superiority.
3. Wonderful or superb; remarkable: a fantastic trip to Europe.

n.

An eccentric person.

[Middle English fantastik, imagined, from Old French fantastique, from Late Latin phantasticus, imaginary, from Greek phantastikos, able to create mental images, from phantazesthai, to appear. See fantasy.]

fantasticality fan·tas'ti·cal'i·ty (-tĭ-kăl'ĭ-tē) n.
fantastically fan·tas'ti·cal·ly adv.

SYNONYMS  fantastic, bizarre, grotesque, fanciful, exotic. These adjectives apply to what is very strange or strikingly unusual. Fantastic describes what seems to have slight relation to the real world because of its strangeness or extravagance: fantastic imaginary beasts such as the unicorn. Bizarre stresses oddness that is heightened by striking contrasts and incongruities and that shocks or fascinates: a bizarre art nouveau façade. Grotesque refers principally to deformity and distortion that approach the point of caricature or even absurdity: statues of grotesque creatures. Fanciful applies to what is strongly influenced by imagination, caprice, or whimsy: a fanciful pattern. Something exotic is unusual and intriguing: painted landscapes in exotic colors.

adjective

1. Appealing to fancy: fanciful, fancy, fantastical, imaginative, whimsical. See plain/fancy.
2. Existing only in the imagination: chimeric, chimerical, conceptual, fanciful, fantastical, imaginary, notional, unreal, visionary. See real/imaginary.
3. Following no predictable pattern: capricious, changeable, erratic, fantastical, fickle, freakish, inconsistent, inconstant, mercurial, temperamental, ticklish, uncertain, unpredictable, unstable, unsteady, variable, volatile, whimsical. See change/persist, continue/stop/pause.
4. So remarkable as to elicit disbelief: amazing, astonishing, astounding, fabulous, fantastical, incredible, marvelous, miraculous, phenomenal, prodigious, stupendous, unbelievable, wonderful, wondrous. See good/bad.
5. Conceived or done with no reference to reality or common sense: antic, bizarre, fantastical, far-fetched, grotesque. See true/false, usual/unusual.
6. Consisting or suggestive of fiction: fanciful, fantastical, fictional, fictitious, fictive, invented, made-up. See real/imaginary.
7. Particularly excellent: divine, fabulous, fantastical, glorious, marvelous, sensational, splendid, superb, terrific, wonderful. Informal dandy, dreamy, great, ripping, super, swell, tremendous. Slang cool, groovy, hot, keen¹, neat, nifty. Idioms: out of this world. See good/bad.

adj

Definition: enormous
Antonyms: little, small, tiny

adj

Definition: strange, different; imaginary
Antonyms: common, commonplace, conventional, customary, familiar, ordinary, plain, usual

adj

Definition: wonderful, excellent
Antonyms: bad, poor, unpleasant

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fantastic, the, a mode of fiction in which the possible and the impossible are confounded so as to leave the reader (and often the narrator and/or central character) with no consistent explanation for the story's strange events. Tzvetan Todorov, in his Introduction à la littérature fantastique (1970; translated as The Fantastic, 1973), argues that fantastic narratives involve an unresolved hesitation between the supernatural explanation available in marvellous tales and the natural or psychological explanation offered by tales of the uncanny. The literature of the fantastic flourished in 19th‐century ghost stories and related fiction: Henry James's mysterious tale The Turn of the Screw (1898)isa classic example.

IN BRIEF: Hardly believable. Also: wonderful or superb; remarkable.

The dinner was so fantastic they helped themselves to seconds.

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - fantastisk, excentrisk, grotesk
n. - fantast, særling

Nederlands (Dutch)
fantastisch, enorm, denkbeeldig, excentriekeling

Français (French)
adj. - fantasque, bizarre, original, formidable
n. - personne excentrique (arch)

Deutsch (German)
adj. - phantastisch, großartig, eingebildet
n. - phantasievolle Person

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - φανταστικός, αλλόκοτος, απίθανος, έξοχος

Italiano (Italian)
fantastico, immaginario

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - fantástico

Русский (Russian)
фантастический, странный, чрезмерный, потрясающий, замечательный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - fabuloso, imaginario, fantástico
n. - fabuloso, imaginario, fantástico

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - fantastisk, sällsam, inbillad

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
奇妙的, 空想的, 稀奇的, 古怪的人

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 奇妙的, 空想的, 稀奇的
n. - 古怪的人

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 별난, 이상한, 공상적인
n. - 공상 , 환상

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - すばらしい, 途方もない, 空想的な, ばかげた, 風変わりな

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) خيالي , وهمي‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮דמיוני, פנטסטי, בעל סגנון מגוחך או מוזר, לא-מציאותי‬
n. - ‮אדם משונה‬

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