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Definition: Fantastically |
FantasticallyAdverb1. In a fabulous manner; "she was a fabulously gifted player". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fantastically" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonym: FantasticallySynonym: fabulously (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Fantastically |
| English words defined with "fantastically": Fantasticality, Fantasticly ♦ sargassum fish ♦ unreal. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fantastically": FANTASTICALLY DRESSED. (references) |
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Screenplays | The winters can be fantastically cruel. (The Shining; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick) | |
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| "Fantastically" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fantastically" is used about 63 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 63 | 42,364 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "fantastically": fantastically-named, fantastically-patterned. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "fantastically"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | чудесно (fine, that's great, tiptop, well done, wonderfully), фантастично. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 意想不到地 (unexpectedly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | phantastisch (awesomeUS, bizarre, chimeric, cracking, fanciful, fantastic, glorious, incredible, luscious, phenomenal, stupendous, terrific, unreal, visionarily, visionary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | απίθανα (improbably, unbelievably). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fantasztikusan (scone-hot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 환상 으로. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | antasticallyfay excentricidade (antic, caprice, concentricity error, eccentricity, Ecclesiastes, oddity, originally, peculiarity, singularity, whimsicality). (various references) fantastično. (various references) fantásticamente. (various references) fevkalade (exceptional, exceptionally, extraordinary, marvellous, marvelous, out of this world, par excellence, remarkable, supremely, that takes the cake, wondrous), garip biçimde (comically, curiously, strangely), çok (a great number of, a lot, a whale of, a whale of a lot, abounding, abundant, acres and acres, affluent, ample, awfully, badly, big, bloody, countless, damned, darned, dead, deadly, deeply, enormously, ever so, exuberant, fair, galore, good, greatly, heaps of, heartily, hearty, heavily, heavy, hell, hell of, helluva, highly, innumerable, jolly, largely, lavish, like hell, loads of, lot, lots of, many, molto, more, much, multi-, multitudinous, numerous, over, piping, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, plenty of, poly-, precious, pretty, prodigal, profuse, rank, rattling, revoltingly, sadly, so, some, sorely, spanking, strongly, such, thundering, tidy, too, umpteen, umpteenth, umptieth, vast, vastly, very, well, whaling, whopping). (various references) фантастично, нереально (nominally). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fantastically" (pronounced fanta"stiklē) |
| 7 | -a" s t i k l ē | drastically, enthusiastically, sarcastically. |
| 6 | -s t i k l ē | acoustically, artistically, characteristically, domestically, euphemistically, linguistically, logistically, realistically, stylistically, uncharacteristically, unrealistically. |
| 5 | -t i k l ē | aesthetically, alphabetically, analytically, apologetically, authentically, automatically, cosmetically, democratically, diplomatically, dogmatically, dramatically, ecstatically, emphatically, energetically, erratically, genetically, geopolitically, hypothetically, idiotically, optically, phonetically, poetically, synthetically, systematically, thematically, undiplomatically, vertically. |
| 4 | -i k l ē | academically, aerobically, aerodynamically, algebraically, angelically, astronomically, basically, biologically, categorically, chronologically, classically, demographically, ecologically, economically, ethnically, forensically, generically, geometrically, graphically, heroically, hysterically, ideologically, ironically, logically, lyrically, mechanically, metaphorically, microscopically, musically, numerically, organically, pathologically, physiologically, prolifically, psychologically, publically, publicly, radically, rhetorically, rhythmically, specifically, sporadically, stoically, strategically, symmetrically, systemically, terrifically, theologically, tragically, volcanically. |
| 3 | -k l ē | alchemically, anatomically, athletically, biweekly, blankly, briskly, brusquely, chemically, darkly, frankly, grotesquely, likely, medically, meekly, newsweekly, obliquely, paradoxically, practically, prickly, quickly, sickly, sleekly, slickly, sparkly, starkly, thickly, typically, uniquely, unlikely, weakly, weekly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-f-i-l-l-n-s-t-t-y" | |
-2 letters: fanatically, fantastical, satanically. | |
-3 letters: analytical, statically. | |
-4 letters: analytics, antically, fanatical, fantastic. | |
-5 letters: analytic, ancillas, calisaya, callants, cantalas, cantatas, catalyst, catfalls, cattails, facially, fanatics, fantails, fantasia, fatalist, fatality, fiscally, lanitals, nasality, natality, salacity, sanctify, sanctity, santalic, scantily, statical, tailfans, tantalic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 61 6E 74 61 73 74 69 63 61 6C 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .- -. - .- ... - .. -.-. .- .-.. .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100001 01101110 01110100 01100001 01110011 01110100 01101001 01100011 01100001 01101100 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F a n t a s t i c a l l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0061 006E 0074 0061 0073 0074 0069 0063 0061 006C 006C 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40678086678586756967787891 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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