fantastic

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"
    

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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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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194 Moby Thesaurus words for "fantastic":
      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