Fantastic

Definition: Fantastic

Fantastic

Adjective

1. Ludicrously odd; "Hamlet's assumed antic disposition"; "fantastic Halloween costumes"; "a grotesque reflection in the mirror".

2. Extraordinarily good; 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".

3. Extravagantly fanciful and unrealistic; foolish; "a fantastic idea of his own importance".

4. Existing in fancy only; "fantastic figures with bulbous heads the circumference of a bushel"- Nathaniel Hawthorne.

5. Exceedingly or unbelievably great; "the bomb did fantastic damage"; "Samson is supposed to have had fantastic strength"; "phenomenal feats of memory".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "fantastic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Multilingual Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Fantastic

Absurdity

Foolish; sophistical; unmeaning; without rhyme or reason; fantastic.

Amusement

Adverb: "on the light fantastic toe", at play, in sport.

Caprice

Verb: be capricious; Adjective: have a maggot in the brain; take it into one's head, strain at a gnat and swallow a camel; blow hot and cold; play fast and loose, play fantastic tricks; tourner casaque.

Adjective: capricious; erratic, eccentric, fitful, hysterical; full of whims; Noun: maggoty; inconsistent, fanciful, fantastic, whimsical, crotchety, kinky, particular, humorsome, freakish, skittish, wanton, wayward; contrary; captious; arbitrary; unconformable; penny wise and pound foolish; fickle; (irresolute); frivolous, sleeveless, giddy, volatile.

Imagination

Fabulous, legendary; mythical, mythic, mythological; chimerical; imaginary, visionary; notional; fancy, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical; whimsical; fairy, fairy-like; gestic.

Leap

Verb: leap; jump up, jump over the moon; hop, spring, bound, vault, ramp, cut capers, trip, skip, dance, caper; buck, buck jump; curvet, caracole; foot it, bob, bounce, flounce, start; frisk; (amusement); jump about; (agitation); trip it on the light fantastic toe, trip the light fantastic, dance oneself off one's legs, dance off one's shoes.

Adverb: on the light fantastic toe.

Ridiculousness

Adjective: ridiculous, ludicrous; comical; droll, funny, laughable, pour rire, grotesque, farcical, odd; whimsical, whimsical as a dancing bear; fanciful, fantastic, queer, rum, quizzical, quaint, bizarre; screaming; eccentric; (unconformable); strange, outlandish, out of the way, baroque, weird; awkward; (ugly).

Unconformity

Unusual, unaccustomed, uncustomary, unwonted, uncommon; rare, curious, odd, extraordinary, out of the ordinary; strange, monstrous; wonderful; unexpected, unaccountable; outre, out of the way, remarkable, noteworthy; queer, quaint, nondescript, none such, sui generis; unfashionable; fantastic, grotesque, bizarre; outlandish, exotic, tombe des nues, preternatural; denaturalized.

Crosswords: Fantastic

Romanian (arabesque, fabled, fabulous, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, fantasticalness, freakish, romantic, tall, tremendous, whimsical).

It's fantastic! (How the Grinch Stole Christmas; writing credit: Jeffrey Price)

Because if any human being were going to perpetrate such a fantastic hoax, it would've been me (Superman; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster)

Vanessa has a fantastic body, I bet she shags like a minx (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery; writing credit: Mike Myers)

That's fantastic! Thank you (Can't Stop the Music; writing credit: Allan Carr; Bronte Woodard)

Jerry, it's fantastic. I love the people over there, th-they're treating me so great (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

Life in plastic, it's fantastic! (Barbie Girl; performing artist: Aqua)

I'm Mr. Boombastic say me fantastic touch me in my back she says I'm Mr (Mr. Boombastic; performing artist: Shaggy)

She call me Mr. Boombastic say me fantastic, touch me in me back she say (Mr. Boombastic; performing artist: Shaggy)

What you want is some boombastic romantic fantastic lover (Mr. Boombastic; performing artist: Shaggy)

IT MIGHT JUST BE FANTASTIC (DON'T GET ME WRONG; performing artist: The Pretenders)

Fantastic Four (1997)

Arthur Is Fantastic (1972)

The Fantastic Plastic Machine (1969)

Young People's Concerts: Fantastic Variations (Don Quixote) (1968)

Fantastic Voyage (1968)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Fantastic Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Monsieur Thermidor: A Fantastic Fishy Tale (reference)

• The Gas Grill Gourmet: Great Grilled Food for Everyday Meals & Fantastic Feasts (reference)

• The Light Fantastic (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Fantastic Stories Of The Imagination (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Fantastic Planet (reference)

• The Cameraman's Revenge & Other Fantastic Tales (reference)

• Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea / Fantastic Voyage (reference)

• Fantastic Voyage (reference)

• The Fantastic World of M.C. Escher (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Shostakovich: Three Fantastic Dances; 24 Preludes; Piano Sonata No. 2 (reference)

• The Fantastic Leopold Stokowski: Transcriptions For Orchestra (reference)

• Captain Fantastic & the Brown Dirt Cowboy [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference)

• Fantastic Planet (reference)

• Utterly Fantastic (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Fantastic Four (reference)

• Pro Pinball Fantastic Journey (reference)

• 500 Fantastic Fonts (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Like clouds, ice bergs can assume fantastic shapes. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Frost's fantastic foliage. Credit: Library of Congress.

Winds off the Pacific Ocean make fantastic whorls in the sand dunes along the Oregon coast. Holland grass is being planted to stop the drifting. Credit: Library of Congress.

Chas. H. Yale's fantastic spectacle, The evil eye, or The many, merry mishaps of Nid and the weird, wonderful wanderings of Nod. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mark E. Swan's latest farcical success, the effervescent ecstasy, Whose baby are you? a splendid cast present this fantastic farce. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

In proportion as the modern class struggle develops and takes definite shape, this fantastic standing apart from the contest, these fantastic attacks on it, lose all practical value and all theoretical justification. (reference)

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On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A.

The words are uncouth, and marked by an indescribably fantastic beastliness

The sunlight breaking suddenly on his sight turned the sky and clouds into a fantastic world of sombre masses with lakelike spaces of dark rosy light

It is very natural in its methods withal, far more so than many fantastic enterprises and sentimental experiments, and hence its singular success

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Health

Folklore is filled with fantastic descriptions of symptoms and abnormal behavior blamed on pinworm infection. (references)

Economic History

Bahrain

New projects are also in the planning stages, including a government housing initiative with a fantastic price tag of USD 5 billion. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "fantastic": ad on the light fantastic toe ♦ fantastic idea ♦ fantastic story ♦ play fantastic tricks ♦ trip it on the light fantastic toe ♦ trip the light fantastic. Additional references.

Beginning with "fantastic": Fantastic-alness, fantastic-bathetic, fantastic-depressive, fantastic-looking.

Ending with "fantastic": light-fantastic.

Albanian

fantastik (bizarre, chimerical, fanciful, fantastical), imagjinar (fabulous, fancied, fanciful, fantastical, fictional, fictitious, fictive, imaginary, imaginative, unreal, visional, visionary), i shkëlqyer (admirable, bright, brilliant, capital, choice, copybook, corking, crack, cracking, Dandy, divine, excellent, fabulous, famous, fantastical, fine, first rate, flamboyant, gaudy, glazy, glorious, glossy, gorgeous, great, heavenly, immense, marvellous, marvelous, perfect, pink, plum, powerful, prize, pukka, rare, ripping, royal, smashing, splendid, splendiferous, whizzbang, wicked), i çuditshëm (bizarre, cranky, curious, dark, eccentric, electric, erratic, extraordinary, fanciful, fantastical, frabjous, freak, freakish, funny, grotesque, kinky, odd, oddish, off beat, outlandish, peculiar, pixilated, puzzling, quaint, queer, quizzical, rummy, strange, surprising, uncanny, unco, unnatural, unusual, viewy, way out, weird, whimsical). (various references)

Arabic 

‏وهمي (airy, airy fairy, astral, chimerical, delusive, delusory, dummy, fallacious, fanciful, made up, mirage, mythical, notional, paper, phantom, putative, quixotic, romantic, subjective, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, visionary), ‏غير ممكن, ‏عظيم (bestead, bulky, eminent, gigantic, grand, great, magnificent, majestic, major, mighty, mogul, sensational, sizable, sublime, terrific), ‏خيالي (aerial, chimerical, conceptual, fancied, fanciful, fancy, fantast, fictional, fictitious, fictive, figment, ideal, ideational, imaginary, imaginative, impracticable, mythical, notional, quixotic, romantic, unreal, utopian, visionary), ‏أحمق (ass, barmy, berk, bonkers, brutish, childish, chuckle-head, chump, cuckoo, daft, empty, empty headed, fat, fathead, fatuous, foolish, footless, goofy, goon, haywire, idiotic, impolitic, imprudent, indiscreet, inept, injudicious, insensate, jerk, lemon, mad, meaningless, nit, nitwit, nonsensical, numskull, ornery, oyster, perverse, pointless, prat, screwball, senseless, sod, stupid, unwise, vacant, wacky, weak, weak-minded, whacky, witless, wood-headed, zany). (various references)

Bulgarian 

странен (bizarre, comic, comical, fantastical, freakish, funny, grotesque, novel, odd, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, remarkable, rum, rummy, screwy, singular, strange, uncanny, unco, unheard of, weird, whimsical), удивителен (amazing, astonishing, astounding, dizzy, exclamatory, extraordinary, fantastical, marvellous, marvelous, prodigious, remarkable, striking, stupendous, surprising, wonderful), чудноват (bizarre, fanciful, fantastical, freakish), чуден (fantastical, freak, freaky, funny, incredible, marvellous, marvelous, miraculous, peculiar, strange), фантастичен (arabesque, fantastical, grotesque, visionary, wildcat), капризен (capricious, erratic, faddish, fanciful, fantastical, fastidious, fickle, fractious, freakish, freaky, fretful, ill, inconstant, maggoty, particular, petulant, skittish, tricksy, vagarious, vagrant, wayward, whimsical), гротесков (fantastical, grotesque), баснословен (fabulous, fantastical). (various references)

Chinese 

意想不到 (unexpected), 奇妙 (wonderful), 妄 (absurd). (various references)

Czech

fantastický (dishy, fabulous, fantastical, gorgeous, great, incredible, like a dream, magic, out of this world, smashing, sublime, terrific, unbelievable). (various references)

Dutch

grillig (capricious, fitful, grotesque, of fantasy), fantastisch (great, of fantasy). (various references)

Esperanto

fantazia (of fantasy). (various references)

Finnish

fantastinen, satumainen (fabulous), mielikuvituksellinen (fanciful, imaginary), haaveellinen (dreamy, fanciful). (various references)

French

fantastique, endiablé. (various references)

Frisian

fantastysk (of fantasy). (various references)

German

phantastisch (awesomeUS, bizarre, chimeric, cracking, fanciful, fantastically, glorious, incredible, luscious, phenomenal, stupendous, terrific, unreal, visionarily, visionary), fantastische. (various references)

Greek 

φανταστικόσ (fancied, fancy, fantastical, fictitious, imaginary, notional, unreal, vaporous, visionary), απίθανος (fabulous, great, improbable, unlikely). (various references)

Hebrew 

פנטסטי (incredible). (various references)

Hungarian

fantasztikus (arabesque, fantastical, kooky, screwy, stupendous, surreal, thumping). (various references)

Indonesian

fantastis, menakjubkan (exciting, incredible, stagger). (various references)

Italian

fantastico (chimeric, crazy, eerie, fabled, fabulous, fancied, fanciful, fantastical, imaginary, imaginative, incredible, marvellous, marvelous, wonderful). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

珍妙 (odd, queer), 奇抜 (eccentric, novel, original, strange, striking). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すてき (beautiful, capital, cool, dreamy, great, lovely, superb), ファンタスティック , きばつ (eccentric, novel, original, strange, striking), いぎょう (exploits, great enterprise, grotesque, medical practice, work left at death), ちんみょう (odd, queer). (various references)

Korean 

환상 (Fantasies, Fantasy). (various references)

Manx

ard-yindyssagh (amazing, outstanding, phenomenal, splendid). (various references)

Norwegian

fantastisk. (various references)

Pig Latin

antasticfay.(various references)

Portuguese

fantástico (chimerical, fanciful, fantastical, of fantasy, smashing, stupendous, unreal, whimsical). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

fantástico. (various references)

Romanian

fantezist (capricious, fanciful, fancy, fantastical, invented, lunar, notionist, phantasmal, strange, whimsical), fantastic (arabesque, fabled, fabulous, fanciful, fantastical, fantasticalness, freakish, romantic, tall, tremendous, whimsical), himeric (absurd, chimeric, chimerical, fantastical, vaporous, wildcat), excentric (bizarre, crackpot, cranky, crazy, crotchety, eccentric, extravagant, fancy, fantastical, lunatic, maggot, nut, odd, oddity, original, queer, tappet), capricios (arbitrary, capricious, cranky, crotchety, difficult, fanciful, fancy, fantastical, fickle, fitful, fractious, freakish, frolic, Froward, humoursome, peevish, perverse, vagarious, wanton, wayward, whimsical, whimsy), abracadabrant (abstruse, bizarre, fantastical). (various references)

Russian 

фантастический (arabesque, fanciful, fantastical, futuristic, mythical). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

fantastičan (fantastical, wild), bajan (fantastical). (various references)

Spanish

hueco (airy-fairy, alcove, cave, cavity, chimerical, concave, conceited, empty, frivolous, gap, hole, hollow, of fantasy, pocket, recess, vain, void, well), fantástico (eerie, fanciful, fancy, fantastical, lurid, neat, unrealistic, whimsical, wild), estupendo (admirable, amazing, Dandy, divine, fabulous, fantastical, first rate, grand, great, heavenly, hotstuff, jenny ass, marvellous, marvelous, neat, rare, rattling, ripping, socko, stunning, stupendous, super, super-duper, surprising, swell, terrific, wonderful, yippee). (various references)

Swedish

fantastiskt (almighty, incredibly, splendid, wildly), fantastiska, fantastisk (almighty, awe inspiring, awesome, big deal, breathtaking, cracking, divine, fab, fabulous, fanciful, fancy, fantastical, far out, incredible, jolly, lovely, magnificent, perfect, raving, smashing, stunning, super, tall, terrific, tremendous, whimsical, wild-eyed, wizard, wonderful), fantasi- (fanciful, fancy, fantastical, imaginative), sagolik (fabulous), orimlig (absurd, exorbitant, extortionate, extravagant, fantastical, incongruous, irrational, ludicrous, preposterous, senseless, unconscionable, unreasonable), nyckfull (capricious, faddish, fanciful, fancy, fantastical, fickle, flighty, freakish, skittish, uncertain, unpredictable, wayward, whimsical), befängd (absurd, fantastical, foolish, ridiculous), absurd (absurd, fantastical, incongruous). (various references)

Turkish

fantastik (fanciful, fantastical, raving), saçma (absurd, applesauce, balls, baloney, blind, boloney, bunk, bunkum, chimerical, claptrap, cockeyed, dissemination, eradiation, fantastical, farcical, fatuous, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, fiddlesticks, foolish, for the birds, froth, frothy, fudge, go on, hog-wash, hooey, impertinent, inane, incongruous, inept, irrational, jabber wocky, kibosh, laugh, malarkey, nonsense, nonsensical, outlandish, paltry, pointless, poppycock, raving, rhubarb, rot, scattering, senseless, shot, shucks, skittles, small shot, smearcase, sorry, spinach, stuff, tommyrot, tosh, trash, trifling, tripe, trivial, trumpery, unreasonable, wacky, waffle, whacky), olağanüstü (above the ordinary, breathtaking, classical, dreamy, exceeding, exceptional, extra, extraordinary, extreme, fantastical, glorious, huge, incredible, marvellous, marvelous, miraculous, necromantic, out of this world, paramount, phenomenal, portentous, preternatural, prodigious, rare, raving, remarkable, shining, smashing, special, spectacular, splendid, sublime, supernatural, supernormal, terrific, unearthly), kaçık (a button short, balmy, barmy, Batty, certifiable, crack-brained, cracked, cuckoo, daft, disordered, Dotty, fantastical, fey, ladder, loco, not all there, nut, nutcase, nutty, off one's onion, out of one's mind, pixilated, queer, queer in the head, run, scatty, screwy, wacky, whacky), inanılmaz (beyond belief, fabulous, fantastical, implausible, inconceivable, incredible, steep, stiff, unbelievable, unheard of, unreliable), hayali (aerial, airy, cardboard box, chimerical, delusive, Faerie, faery, fanciful, fantastical, fictional, fictitious, fictive, illusive, illusory, imaginary, imaginative, insubstantial, phantasmal, spectral, unreal, visionary), harika (beautiful, bully, cool, corking, divine, fabulous, fantastical, far out, gorgeous, groovy, immense, in the groove, jolly good, keen, marvel, marvellous, marvelous, miracle, no mean, old, phenomenal, phenomenon, prodigious, prodigy, ripping, scrumptious, splendid, swell, whizz, wicked, wizard, wonder, wonderful, wondrous, yummy, yum-yum), garip (awkward, bizarre, codger, comical, cranky, crotchety, curious, droll, eccentric, exotic, fanciful, fancy, fantastical, far out, freak, freakish, funny, funny peculiar, grotesque, kinky, odd, out of the way, outlandish, poor, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwball, screwy, strange, weirdo, whimsical), gülünç (amusing, burlesque, camp, comic, derisive, derisory, droll, fantastical, foolish, funny, gilbertian, grotesque, humorous, jesting, laughable, ludicrous, ridiculous), şahane (brave, corking, fabulous, fantastical, far out, keen, magnificent, princely, wizard, wonderful), acayip (antic, bizarre, bughouse, comical, comically, crotchety, curious, droll, exotic, fanciful, fantastical, flaky, freak, freakish, grotesque, incongruous, kinky, kooky, novel, odd, out of the way, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, quirky, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwball, singular, some, splendiferous, strange, uncanny, unco, unusual, weird), çok büyük (a whale of, fab, fantastical, howling, hyper-, sovereign, spanking, stratospheric, thumping, tremendous, vast, very big, voluminous, whopping). (various references)

Turkmen 

fantastika (r) (imaginary). (various references)

Ukrainian

фантастичний (airy, arabesque, chimerical, crackpot, fanciful, fantastical, moonshiny, mythic, mythical, romantic), ексцентричний (bizarre, cranky, eccentric, eccentrical, fantastical, odd, oddball, oddish, offbeat, outre, queer, wacky, whacky, whimsical), екстравагантний (fancy, fantastical, outre, superlunary). (various references)

Vietnamese 

quái dị, người lập dị (eccentric, original), không tưởng (reverie, utopian), kỳ quái (bizarre, eerie, eery, miscreated, monstrous). (various references)

phantastikos. (various references)

phantasticus. (various references)

bizarre. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "fantastic": fantastical, fantasticalities, fantasticality, fantastically, fantasticalness, fantasticalnesses, fantasticate, fantasticated, fantasticates, fantasticating, fantastication, fantastications, fantastico, fantasticoes, fantastics. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Fantastic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fanatastic, faniastic, fantasic, fantasitic, fantasstik, fantastick, fantasticks, Fantastico, Fantuzzi, fastastic, fundasti, katabtic, Pantastic. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: fanatics.

-2 letters: antifat, astatic, attains, caftans, fanatic, fantast, satanic.

-3 letters: actins, antics, attain, attics, caftan, casita, facias, faints, fascia, intact, nastic, sancta, static, tafias, taints, tanist, tincts, titans.

-4 letters: actin, antas, antic, antis, attic, cains, canst, cants, facia, facts, faint, fiats, naifs, saint, satin, scant, scatt, stain, stint, tacit, tacts, tafia, tains, taint, tinct.

+1 letter: fantastico, fantastics.

+2 letters: antifascist, fantastical.

+3 letters: affectations, antifascists, fantasticate, fantasticoes, fractionates, satisfaction.

+4 letters: anfractuosity, antiaircrafts, facilitations, fantastically, fantasticated, fantasticates, fractionators, ratifications, satisfactions.

+5 letters: abortifacients, acetifications, beatifications, factorizations, fantasticality, fantasticating, fantastication, fractionations, gratifications, sanctification, stratification, unsatisfactory.