fantastic

a. [ F. fantastique, fr. Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; able to represent, fr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; to make visible. See Fancy. ] 1. Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having the nature of a phantom; unreal. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic mistress. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; oddly shaped; grotesque. [ 1913 Webster ]

There at the foot of yonder nodding beech,
That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high. T. Gray.

Syn. -- Fanciful; imaginative; ideal; visionary; capricious; chimerical; whimsical; queer. See Fanciful. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person given to fantastic dress, manners, etc.; an eccentric person; a fop. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our fantastics, who, having a fine watch, take all ocasions to draw it out to be seen. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Fantastically. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a fantastic manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

the letter A, in scarlet, fantastically embroidered with gold thread, upon her bosom. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being fantastic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being fantastical; fancifulness; whimsicality. Ruskin. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Fantastically. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Fantasticalness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]