fantastic
Pronunciation: /fænˈtæs.tɪk/
The English word “fantastic” has 6 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Wonderful; marvelous; excellent; extraordinarily good or great (used especially as an intensifier).
- Existing in or constructed from fantasy; of or relating to fantasy; fanciful.
- Given to fanciful ideas, impulsive; irrational.
- Not believable; implausible; seemingly only possible in fantasy.
- Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; grotesque.
noun
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French fantastique, borrowed from Late Latin phantasticus, borrowed from Ancient Greek φᾰντᾰστῐκός (phăntăstĭkós, “imaginary, fantastic; fictional”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to shine”). Equivalent to fantasy + -tic. Doublet of fantastique.
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