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fantastic adjective [ fanˈtastɪk ]

• extraordinarily good or attractive.
• "they did a fantastic job"
Similar: tremendous, remarkable, great, terrific, enormous, huge, striking, impressive, outstanding, phenomenal, monumental, overwhelming, marvellous, wonderful, sensational, magnificent, superb, superlative, excellent, very good, first-rate, first-class, dazzling, out of this world, breathtaking, fabulous, fab, mega, super, stellar, ace, magic, A1, cracking, cool, wicked, awesome, amazeballs, way-out, def, brilliant, brill, smashing, bosting, bonzer, spiffing, topping, tip-top, top-notch, capital,
Opposite: ordinary, poor,
• imaginative or fanciful; remote from reality.
• "fantastic hybrid creatures"
Similar: fanciful, extravagant, extraordinary, irrational, wild, mad, absurd, far-fetched, nonsensical, incredible, unbelievable, unthinkable, implausible, improbable, unlikely, doubtful, dubious, strange, peculiar, odd, queer, weird, eccentric, insane, whimsical, capricious, imaginary, visionary, romantic, unreal, illusory, make-believe, crazy, cock-eyed, oddball, off the wall, barmy, potty, daft, bizarre, outlandish, grotesque, freakish, surreal, exotic, quaint, imaginative, elaborate, ornate, intricate, rococo, baroque, phantasmagoric, Kafkaesque,
Opposite: rational, ordinary, unremarkable,
Origin: late Middle English (in the sense ‘unreal’): from Old French fantastique, via medieval Latin from Greek phantastikos, from phantazein ‘make visible’, phantazesthai ‘have visions, imagine’, from phantos ‘visible’ (related to phainein ‘to show’). From the 16th to the 19th centuries the Latinized spelling phantastic was also used.


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