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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 2. Having the nature of a phantom; unreal. --Shak. 3. Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as fantastic minds; a fantastic mistress. 4. 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. --T. Gray. Syn: Fanciful; imaginative; ideal; visionary; capricious; chimerical; whimsical; queer. See {Fanciful}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Fantastic \Fan*tas"tic\, n. A person given to fantastic dress, manners, etc.; an eccentric person; a fop. --Milton. Our fantastics, who having a fine watch, take all ocasions to drow it out to be seen. --Fuller. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: fantastic adj 1: ludicrously odd; "Hamlet's assumed antic disposition"; "fantastic Halloween costumes"; "a grotesque reflection in the mirror" [syn: {antic}, {fantastical}, {grotesque}] 2: extraordinarily good; 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: {howling(a)}, {marvelous}, {rattling(a)}, {terrific}, {tremendous}, {wonderful}, {wondrous}] 3: extravagantly fanciful and unrealistic; foolish; "a fantastic idea of his own importance" 4: existing in fancy only; "fantastic figures with bulbous heads the circumference of a bushel"- Nathaniel Hawthorne [syn: {fantastical}] 5: exceedingly or unbelievably great; "the bomb did fantastic damage"; "Samson is supposed to have had fantastic strength"; "phenomenal feats of memory" [syn: {phenomenal}]
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