Fantastic
[fæn'tæstɪk]
Definition
(adj.) extraordinarily good or great ; 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' .
(adj.) extravagantly fanciful in design, construction, appearance; 'Gaudi's fantastic architecture' .
(adj.) existing in fancy only; 'fantastic figures with bulbous heads the circumference of a bushel'- Nathaniel Hawthorne .
(adj.) fanciful and unrealistic; foolish; 'a fantastic idea of his own importance' .
Typist: Winfred--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical.
(a.) Having the nature of a phantom; unreal.
(a.) Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic mistress.
(a.) Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; oddly shaped; grotesque.
(n.) A person given to fantastic dress, manners, etc.; an eccentric person; a fop.
Typed by Blanche
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Imaginary, fanciful, ideal, chimerical, visionary, not real.[2]. Whimsical, capricious, odd, queer, BIZARRE, strange, wild.
Typed by Clarissa
Examples
- We do know, however, that he arrived at a gen eralization--fantastic to most minds--that all things are water. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The words had a fantastic sound in his own ears. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- But this is how one historian, soaked with the fantastic political ideas of our times, is pleased to write of this evil expedition. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We can say nothing of the splendour and beauty of the former, nor of the fantastic invention and wit of the latter. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Far down the lake were fantastic pale strings of colour, like beads of wan fire, green and red and yellow. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But let me see thee use the dress and costume of thy English ancestry--no short cloaks, no gay bonnets, no fantastic plumage in my decent household. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- But grief renders one childish, despair fantastic. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- We turned, and, sure enough, there they were--three fantastic pirates armed with guns. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It is eighty feet high and is fronted like some fantastic pagan temple. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They had but little clothing, but such as they had was fanciful in character and fantastic in its arrangement. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I think, Watson, he remarked at last, that of all our cases we have had none more fantastic than this. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- But the wager of battle is complete, even according to the fantastic fashions of Norman chivalry--Is it not, Father Aymer? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- He fixed his eagle eye on a fantastic vision of nations rightly struggling to be free. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was always pleasantly droll to see Pa and Bella together; but on this present evening her husband thought her more than usually fantastic with him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Fantastic failures of journeys occupied me until the day dawned and the birds were singing. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Those were the days when no one built a new edifice for station purposes; that would have been deemed a fantastic extravagance. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was full of odd, fantastic expression, of double meanings, of evasions, of suggestive vagueness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes, he said. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Yet dressed in this fantastic garb, these people laughed at my costume. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Without taking notice of this fantastic way of talking, my lady wished the gentlemen good-night. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The fantastic nature of her passion, which lowered her as an intellect, raised her as a soul. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Not grotesquely fantastic are the forms of cliff and foliage, not violently vivid the colouring of flower and bird. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- His greatest service to science was a fantastic book, _The New Atlantis_. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A thought struck me--one of those queer fantastic thoughts that will sometimes strike solitary people. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Mark me--I say this--perhaps mine own sentiments of honour are not less fantastic, Rebecca, than thine are; but we know alike how to die for them. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- There was a serious pleading in Lydgate's tone, as if he felt that she would be injuring him by any fantastic delays. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The satiric comedy of The Honey Bees, was a fantastic piece based upon an incident which had lately occurred in Melnos. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Yet it did seem (though not to him, for he saw nothing of it) as if fantastic hope could take as strong a hold as Fact. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
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