ZebraWords.com - The Definition of 'Fantastic', Synonyms of 'Fantastic' & More on 'Fantastic'

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

Barmecidal, Barmecide, Gothic, absurd, adroit, airy, alien, antic, appalling, apparent, apparitional, arbitrary, astonishing, autistic, balmy, baroque, beguiling, bewildering, beyond belief, bizarre, brain-born, capricious, chimeric, chimerical, clever, cockamamie, concocted, conspicuous, cooked-up, cracking, cranky, crazy, crotchety, deceptive, delusional, delusionary, delusive, delusory, dereistic, dream-built, dreamlike, dreamy, eccentric, egregious, enigmatic, erratic, erroneous, exceptional, exotic, extraordinary, extravagant, fabricated, fabulous, fallacious, false, fancied, fanciful, fancy-born, fancy-built, fancy-woven, fantasied, fantasque, fascinating, fictional, fictitious, fictive, figmental, flaky, florid, foolish, forged, formidable, freakish, great, grotesque, harebrained, hatched, high-flown, humorsome, illusional, illusionary, illusive, illusory, imaginary, imagined, implausible, impossible, incomprehensible, inconceivable, incredible, ingenious, insane, invented, irrational, kinky, laughable, legendary, loony, ludicrous, made-up, maggoty, manufactured, marked, marvelous, massive, miraculous, misleading, monstrous, monumental, moody, mortal, motiveless, mythical, nonsensical, notable, noteworthy, noticeable, notional, odd, of mark, ostensible, outlandish, outrageous, outre, outstanding, overwhelming, passing strange, peculiar, petulant, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantom, phenomenal, poppycockish, preposterous, prodigious, put-up, puzzling, quaint, queer, quirky, rare, remarkable, ridiculous, rococo, seeming, self-deceptive, self-deluding, sensational, signal, silly, singular, specious, spectacular, spectral, splendid, strange, striking, stupendous, superior, supposititious, temperamental, terrific, towering, tremendous, trumped-up, unaccountable, unactual, unbelievable, uncommon, unearthly, unexpected, unfounded, unheard-of, unimaginable, unique, unlikely, unprecedented, unreal, unrealistic, unreasonable, unrestrained, unsubstantial, vagarious, vagrant, visionary, wacky, wanton, wayward, weird, whimsical, wild, wonderful, wondrous

Dictionary Results for fantastic:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

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"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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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