From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Fantastic \Fan*tas"tic\, n.
A person given to fantastic dress, manners, etc.; an
eccentric person; a fop. --Milton.
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Our fantastics, who, having a fine watch, take all
ocasions to draw it out to be seen. --Fuller.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Fantastic \Fan*tas"tic\, a. [F. fantastique, fr. Gr. ???????????
able to represent, fr. ????????? to make visible. See
{Fancy}.]
1. Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not
real; chimerical.
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2. Having the nature of a phantom; unreal. --Shak.
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3. Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of
absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a
fantastic mistress.
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4. Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or
eccentricity; irregular; oddly shaped; grotesque.
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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}.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fantastic
adj 1: ludicrously odd; "Hamlet's assumed antic disposition";
"fantastic Halloween costumes"; "a grotesque reflection
in the mirror" [syn: {antic}, {fantastic}, {fantastical},
{grotesque}]
2: 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" [syn: {fantastic}, {grand},
{howling(a)}, {marvelous}, {marvellous}, {rattling(a)},
{terrific}, {tremendous}, {wonderful}, {wondrous}]
3: fanciful and unrealistic; foolish; "a fantastic idea of his
own importance" [syn: {fantastic}, {wild}]
4: existing in fancy only; "fantastic figures with bulbous heads
the circumference of a bushel"- Nathaniel Hawthorne [syn:
{fantastic}, {fantastical}]
5: extravagantly fanciful in design, construction, appearance;
"Gaudi's fantastic architecture"
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