Fantastical

Definition: Fantastical

Fantastical

Adjective

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

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

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

Date "fantastical" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonyms: Fantastical

Imagination

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

Crosswords: Fantastical

Because it's more fantastical. (Space Ghost Coast to Coast; writing credit: Ben Karlin)

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Books

• Fantastical Tarot (reference)

• Fantastical Visions (reference)

• Fantastical World of Croatian Naive Art (reference)

• Half a Look of Cain: A Fantastical Narrative (reference)

• Making Fairies & Fantastical Creatures (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Grand fantastical parade, New-York, Dec 2d. 1833. Credit: Library of Congress.

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The destruction of a year's product or two (for it seldom reaches four or five) is the utmost spoil that usually can be done: for as to money, and such riches and treasure taken away, these are none of nature's goods, they have but a fantastical imaginary value: nature has put no such upon them: they are of no more account by her standard, than the wampompeke of the Americans to an European prince, or the silver money of Europe would have been formerly to an American. (Second Treatise of Government)

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Ending with "fantastical": high-fantastical.

Albanian

fantastik (bizarre, chimerical, fanciful, fantastic), imagjinar (fabulous, fancied, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, fictitious, fictive, imaginary, imaginative, unreal, visional, visionary), i shkëlqyer (admirable, bright, brilliant, capital, choice, copybook, corking, crack, cracking, Dandy, divine, excellent, fabulous, famous, fantastic, 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, fantastic, 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)

Bulgarian 

странен (bizarre, comic, comical, fantastic, 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, fantastic, marvellous, marvelous, prodigious, remarkable, striking, stupendous, surprising, wonderful), чудноват (bizarre, fanciful, fantastic, freakish), чуден (fantastic, freak, freaky, funny, incredible, marvellous, marvelous, miraculous, peculiar, strange), фантастичен (arabesque, fantastic, grotesque, visionary, wildcat), капризен (capricious, erratic, faddish, fanciful, fantastic, fastidious, fickle, fractious, freakish, freaky, fretful, ill, inconstant, maggoty, particular, petulant, skittish, tricksy, vagarious, vagrant, wayward, whimsical), гротесков (fantastic, grotesque), баснословен (fabulous, fantastic). (various references)

Czech

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

German

wunderlich (bizarre, cranky, fantastic, grotesque, odd, peculiar, quaint, strange, whimsical, whimsically, wondrous). (various references)

Greek 

φανταστικόσ (fancied, fancy, fantastic, fictitious, imaginary, notional, unreal, vaporous, visionary). (various references)

Hungarian

fantasztikus (arabesque, fantastic, kooky, screwy, stupendous, surreal, thumping), különös (antic, arabesque, bizarre, bonkers, extraordinary, fanciful, fantastic, freaky, funny, outlandish, particular, peculiar, quaint, queer, rummy, singular, strange, uncommon). (various references)

Italian

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

Pig Latin

antasticalfay.(various references)

Portuguese

fantástico (chimerical, fanciful, fantastic, of fantasy, smashing, stupendous, unreal, whimsical), sensacional (fantastic, lurid, sensational, startling, terrific, thrilling). (various references)

Romanian

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

Russian 

фантастический (arabesque, fanciful, fantastic, futuristic, mythical), причудливый (bizarre, capricious, crotchety, fanciful, fantastic, freaky, quaint, quirky, whimsical). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

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

Spanish

fantástico (eerie, fanciful, fancy, fantastic, lurid, neat, unrealistic, whimsical, wild), fabuloso (fabled, fabulous, fantastic, super, untold, wonderful), mítico (fantastic, mythical), irreal (fantastic, unreal), estupendo (admirable, amazing, Dandy, divine, fabulous, fantastic, 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), bárbaro (barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, cruel, fantastic, gouache, grand, great, heathen, ripping, smashing, super). (various references)

Swedish

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

Turkish

fantastik (fanciful, fantastic, raving), saçma (absurd, applesauce, balls, baloney, blind, boloney, bunk, bunkum, chimerical, claptrap, cockeyed, dissemination, eradiation, fantastic, 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, fantastic, 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, fantastic, 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, fantastic, implausible, inconceivable, incredible, steep, stiff, unbelievable, unheard of, unreliable), hayali (aerial, airy, cardboard box, chimerical, delusive, Faerie, faery, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, fictitious, fictive, illusive, illusory, imaginary, imaginative, insubstantial, phantasmal, spectral, unreal, visionary), harika (beautiful, bully, cool, corking, divine, fabulous, fantastic, 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, fantastic, 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, fantastic, foolish, funny, gilbertian, grotesque, humorous, jesting, laughable, ludicrous, ridiculous), şahane (brave, corking, fabulous, fantastic, far out, keen, magnificent, princely, wizard, wonderful), acayip (antic, bizarre, bughouse, comical, comically, crotchety, curious, droll, exotic, fanciful, fantastic, 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, fantastic, howling, hyper-, sovereign, spanking, stratospheric, thumping, tremendous, vast, very big, voluminous, whopping). (various references)

Ukrainian

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "fantastical": fantasticalities, fantasticality, fantastically, fantasticalness, fantasticalnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Fantastical" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fantasmical, Fantastico, fantasticus. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: fanatical, fantastic.

-3 letters: cantalas, cantatas, cattails, fanatics, fantails, fantasia, fatalist, santalic, statical, tailfans, tantalic.

-4 letters: actinal, antifat, astatic, attains, caftans, canasta, cantala, cantata, catlins, cattail, facials, fanatic, fantail, fantast, fascial, lattins, saltant, satanic, tailfan, tincals.

-5 letters: actins, alants, antics, aslant, attain, attics, caftan, califs, canals, casita, catlin, clifts, facial, facias, faints, fascia, finals, fiscal.

+2 letters: fantastically.

+3 letters: fantasticality.

+4 letters: fantasticalness.

+5 letters: fantasticalities.