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adjective

Fantastic adj.

Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical.

Having the nature of a phantom; unreal.

Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic mistress.

Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; oddly shaped; grotesque. "There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high."

Synonyms: Fanciful; imaginative; ideal; visionary; capricious; chimerical; whimsical; queer. See Fanciful.

noun

Fantastic n. A person given to fantastic dress, manners, etc.; an eccentric person; a fop. "Our fantastics, who, having a fine watch, take all ocasions to draw it out to be seen."

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Etymology of 'Fantastic'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... Liblichlein were the first to leave the giddy celebration. They moved through the heaven-bright moonlit streets, whispering. The poet in love cast fantastic shadows with ...

— The Prose of Alfred Lichtenstein • Alfred Lichtenstein

... foot of the Alps, three days' journey from Venice, lies the little town of Cadore on the Pieve, and here it was that Titian was born. On every side rise great masses of rugged mountains towering up to the sky, with jagged peaks and curious fantastic shapes. Clouds float around their summits, and the mist will often wrap them in gloom and give them a strange and awesome look. At the foot of the craggy pass the mountain-torrent of the Pieve roars and tumbles on its way. Far-reaching ...

— Knights of Art - Stories of the Italian Painters • Amy Steedman

... on the point of the promontory, where the land made its final slope, ending in a precipitous descent to the shore. Beneath lay rocks of all sizes and of fantastic forms, some fallen from the cape in tempests perhaps, some softly separated from it by the slow action of the winds and waves of centuries. A few of them formed, by their broken defence seawards, the unsafe natural harbour which ...

— Malcolm • George MacDonald

... prevails for music, the preference is given by the mass to a few ordinary airs, calculated to inspire that love of country which every reminiscence of the struggle for independence calls forth. The favourite air is the so-called national one of "Hail, Columbia," although this is but second to the fantastic drollery of "Yankee Doodle;" the latter is vociferously called for at all places of amusement, and excites in the audience, at such places of resort, almost frantic sensations. This is the more remarkable, as it was originally composed by an Englishman, ...

— An Englishman's Travels in America - His Observations Of Life And Manners In The Free And Slave States • John Benwell

... you must understand that the garden is speedily to be remodeled. Yonder you may observe the two whose requirements are to rid the place of all fantastic unremunerative notions; and who will develop the natural resources of this garden according to ...

— Jurgen - A Comedy of Justice • James Branch Cabell

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