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Definition of fantastic in English:

fantastic

adjectivefanˈtastɪkfænˈtæstɪk
  • 1informal Extraordinarily good or attractive.

    〈非正式〉了不起的,绝妙的,极好的

    they did a fantastic job
    your support has been fantastic

    你的支持简直好极了。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He has a wonderful wife, a fantastic job and two brilliant children.
    • It has wonderful staff, a fantastic atmosphere, a menu that more or less has something you want however you are feeling.
    • But she's absolutely terrific, a really fantastic person who is very funny and very cheeky.
    • It was a fantastic day with a wonderful service and a great reception.
    • He was absolutely fantastic and it felt wonderful to see him on stage.
    • The one thing that has united everyone is terrific passion for this fantastic city of ours.
    • We walked around for hours taking photos and marvelling at the fantastic paintings and architecture.
    • Dragan Dzajic, a brilliant player with a fantastic left foot and brilliant technique.
    • It is an awesome, fantastic car, and it is really nice, but it just isn't for me.
    • So anyway, we all think you're fabulous, great and fantastic and so will the world's rock scene!
    • Of course, it would be churlish not to marvel at the fantastic performance of Tiger Woods.
    • The weather is fantastic, which has kind of thrown my body thermostat off kilter.
    • Excellent fresh fish, the most marvellous roast potatoes and fantastic cakes.
    • Godowsky is a very underrated composer, this disc is fantastic, Hamelin is superb!
    • We saw some fantastic competition and some brilliant races, particularly in the distance events.
    • Many of our resorts now offer fantastic facilities and a wide range of attractions and activities for everyone to enjoy.
    • There will also be a raffle for fabulous prizes including a fantastic hamper, so come along and try your luck.
    • I needed a full-time job to get a great house with my superb friends in a fantastic Sydney suburb.
    • We can now give the people what they want - access to a fantastic destination that has a huge array of attractions.
    • This wonderful daughter, fantastic friend, and excellent pupil had secured a place at a top university.
    Synonyms
    tremendous, remarkable, great, terrific, enormous, huge, striking, impressive, outstanding, phenomenal, monumental, overwhelming
    marvellous, wonderful, sensational, magnificent, outstanding, superb, superlative, excellent, very good, first-rate, first-class, dazzling, out of this world, breathtaking
    informal great, terrific, tremendous, smashing, fabulous, fab, mega, super, stellar, ace, magic, A1, cracking, cool, wicked, awesome, amazeballs, way-out, def, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
    British informal brilliant, brill, bosting
    Australian/New Zealand informal bonzer
    British informal, dated spiffing, topping, tip-top, top-notch, capital
    1. 1.1 Of an extraordinary size or degree.
      大得(或多得)难以置信的;惊人的
      she had spent a fantastic amount of cash
      Example sentencesExamples
      • They also learn a fantastic amount about science and about themselves.
      • The computer age means a fantastic amount of information and statistics can be accessed almost instantly.
      • It's a fantastic amount of money which could make an enormous difference to someone's life.
      • It's wonderfully remote, with fantastic cliffs and big white sandy beaches.
      • We wish to extend our sincere thanks to everyone who helped us in any way to achieve this fantastic amount.
      • We are learning a fantastic amount about consciousness from the current science.
      • But even that fantastic amount of cash would only replace sewers more than 100 years old.
      • Making them also uses a fantastic amount of water, far more than is used washing re-usable ones.
      • The great total of e260 was collected on the morning which is a fantastic amount.
  • 2Imaginative or fanciful; remote from reality.

    想像出来的,怪诞的;不现实的,异想天开的

    fantastic hybrid creatures
    Example sentencesExamples
    • There are ongoing sightings of sea-monsters and fantastic creatures lurking in the emerald green waters.
    • Most contain fantastic elements, from Lucifer and Jesus to a field of talking cows.
    • His life reads like a romantic novel, and much of his music bears the same colourful and fantastic traits.
    • Everything in Ilija's work is unreal and ahistorical, fantastic and imaginative.
    • The fantastic creatures and the magic that fuels them is utterly captivating.
    • His world is strange, fantastic, gritty and believable, it works very well as a fantasy world.
    Synonyms
    fanciful, extravagant, extraordinary, irrational, wild, mad, absurd, far-fetched, nonsensical, incredible, unbelievable, unthinkable, implausible, improbable, unlikely, doubtful, dubious
    strange, peculiar, odd, queer, weird, eccentric, insane, whimsical, capricious
    imaginary, visionary, romantic, unreal, illusory, make-believe
    informal crazy, barmy, potty, daft, cock-eyed, oddball, off the wall
    strange, weird, bizarre, outlandish, queer, peculiar, eccentric, grotesque, freakish, surreal, exotic
    whimsical, fanciful, quaint, imaginative, elaborate, ornate, intricate, rococo, baroque, phantasmagoric, Kafkaesque
    1. 2.1 (of an object) seeming more appropriate to the imagination than to reality; strange or exotic.
      visions of a fantastic, maze-like building

      对一座奇形怪状的、迷宫般的建筑的种种构想。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • The surrealism of the performance lies in how normal the fantastic and bizarre events of the banquet are portrayed.
      • For about four hours every day, the reflected sun throws fantastic shapes on the walls inside.
      • The fantastic medieval building is the best in the north of Scotland and gives a great insight into the area's Norse past.
      • But even as the light faded, strange and fantastic bird sounds came from every side.
      • Palm trees swayed as the wind combed their leaves into flying crests like strange and fantastic coiffure.
      • The world before the flood is fantastic and strange, alluringly unreal.
      • This island hosts a large number of strange-shaped stones and fantastic caves.

Derivatives

  • fantastical

  • adjectivefanˈtastɪk(ə)l
    • Imaginative or fanciful; remote from reality.

      想像出来的,怪诞的;不现实的,异想天开的

      a big, fantastical popcorn movie
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The enormous rotunda of Edinburgh's McEwan Hall is a fantastical, Victorian vision of the Italian Renaissance.
      • What a pity that in the closing stages, as the plot becomes ever more fantastical, the stylistic and kinetic energy wanes, and the spell is broken.
      • At other times it is difficult to envision the book's environs, wild and fantastical as they are.
  • fantasticality

  • nounfantastɪˈkalɪtifænˌtæstəˈkælədi
    • Between King Lear and these final plays, however, comes the oddly allegorical Cymbeline, a drama the gawky fantasticality of which betrays the poet's uneasy awareness that he stood at a psychological and spiritual crossroad.
      One presses forward along pathways and patterns heavy with ornamentation, as if groping through a mysterious maze, to engage ever more deeply with the visual inventions of this master of fantasticality.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense 'unreal'): from Old French fantastique, via medieval Latin from Greek phantastikos, from phantazein 'make visible', phantazesthai 'have visions, imagine', from phantos 'visible' (related to phainein 'to show'). From the 16th to the 19th cents the Latinized spelling phantastic was also used.

  • A word originally meaning ‘existing only in the imagination, unreal’ that comes from Greek phantastikos ‘vision’. Fantasy (Late Middle English) is of similar origin, as is fancy (Late Middle English), a contracted version of fantasy. The modern use of fantastic to mean ‘wonderful, excellent’ dates from the 1930s. The playful phrase trip the light fantastic, meaning ‘to dance’, goes back to John Milton's 1645 poem L'Allegro: ‘Come, and trip it as you go / On the light fantastic toe.’ Pant (Middle English) ‘to breath spasmodically’ goes back to the root verb of fantastic, phainon ‘to show’, via Old French pantaisier ‘be agitated, gasp’; as do phantom (Middle English) from phantasma ‘mere appearance’ and phenomenon (late 16th century) which meant ‘things appearing to view’ in the original Greek.

Rhymes

bombastic, drastic, dynastic, ecclesiastic, elastic, encomiastic, enthusiastic, gymnastic, iconoclastic, mastic, monastic, neoplastic, orgastic, orgiastic, periphrastic, plastic, pleonastic, sarcastic, scholastic, scholiastic

Definition of fantastic in US English:

fantastic

adjectivefanˈtastikfænˈtæstɪk
  • 1informal Extraordinarily good or attractive.

    〈非正式〉了不起的,绝妙的,极好的

    they did a fantastic job
    your support has been fantastic

    你的支持简直好极了。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He has a wonderful wife, a fantastic job and two brilliant children.
    • Excellent fresh fish, the most marvellous roast potatoes and fantastic cakes.
    • Many of our resorts now offer fantastic facilities and a wide range of attractions and activities for everyone to enjoy.
    • This wonderful daughter, fantastic friend, and excellent pupil had secured a place at a top university.
    • We can now give the people what they want - access to a fantastic destination that has a huge array of attractions.
    • Godowsky is a very underrated composer, this disc is fantastic, Hamelin is superb!
    • We saw some fantastic competition and some brilliant races, particularly in the distance events.
    • It was a fantastic day with a wonderful service and a great reception.
    • It is an awesome, fantastic car, and it is really nice, but it just isn't for me.
    • Dragan Dzajic, a brilliant player with a fantastic left foot and brilliant technique.
    • The one thing that has united everyone is terrific passion for this fantastic city of ours.
    • So anyway, we all think you're fabulous, great and fantastic and so will the world's rock scene!
    • I needed a full-time job to get a great house with my superb friends in a fantastic Sydney suburb.
    • Of course, it would be churlish not to marvel at the fantastic performance of Tiger Woods.
    • He was absolutely fantastic and it felt wonderful to see him on stage.
    • There will also be a raffle for fabulous prizes including a fantastic hamper, so come along and try your luck.
    • But she's absolutely terrific, a really fantastic person who is very funny and very cheeky.
    • It has wonderful staff, a fantastic atmosphere, a menu that more or less has something you want however you are feeling.
    • The weather is fantastic, which has kind of thrown my body thermostat off kilter.
    • We walked around for hours taking photos and marvelling at the fantastic paintings and architecture.
    Synonyms
    tremendous, remarkable, great, terrific, enormous, huge, striking, impressive, outstanding, phenomenal, monumental, overwhelming
    marvellous, wonderful, sensational, magnificent, outstanding, superb, superlative, excellent, very good, first-rate, first-class, dazzling, out of this world, breathtaking
    1. 1.1 Of an extraordinary size or degree.
      大得(或多得)难以置信的;惊人的
      she had spent a fantastic amount of cash
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The great total of e260 was collected on the morning which is a fantastic amount.
      • Making them also uses a fantastic amount of water, far more than is used washing re-usable ones.
      • It's wonderfully remote, with fantastic cliffs and big white sandy beaches.
      • They also learn a fantastic amount about science and about themselves.
      • It's a fantastic amount of money which could make an enormous difference to someone's life.
      • We are learning a fantastic amount about consciousness from the current science.
      • The computer age means a fantastic amount of information and statistics can be accessed almost instantly.
      • But even that fantastic amount of cash would only replace sewers more than 100 years old.
      • We wish to extend our sincere thanks to everyone who helped us in any way to achieve this fantastic amount.
  • 2Imaginative or fanciful; remote from reality.

    想像出来的,怪诞的;不现实的,异想天开的

    fantastic hybrid creatures
    novels are capable of mixing fantastic and realistic elements

    小说可以把不现实的和现实的成分掺杂在一起。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • There are ongoing sightings of sea-monsters and fantastic creatures lurking in the emerald green waters.
    • Everything in Ilija's work is unreal and ahistorical, fantastic and imaginative.
    • The fantastic creatures and the magic that fuels them is utterly captivating.
    • Most contain fantastic elements, from Lucifer and Jesus to a field of talking cows.
    • His world is strange, fantastic, gritty and believable, it works very well as a fantasy world.
    • His life reads like a romantic novel, and much of his music bears the same colourful and fantastic traits.
    Synonyms
    fanciful, extravagant, extraordinary, irrational, wild, mad, absurd, far-fetched, nonsensical, incredible, unbelievable, unthinkable, implausible, improbable, unlikely, doubtful, dubious
    strange, weird, bizarre, outlandish, queer, peculiar, eccentric, grotesque, freakish, surreal, exotic
    1. 2.1 (of an object) seeming more appropriate to the imagination than to reality; strange or exotic.
      visions of a fantastic, maze-like building

      对一座奇形怪状的、迷宫般的建筑的种种构想。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Palm trees swayed as the wind combed their leaves into flying crests like strange and fantastic coiffure.
      • But even as the light faded, strange and fantastic bird sounds came from every side.
      • The world before the flood is fantastic and strange, alluringly unreal.
      • The surrealism of the performance lies in how normal the fantastic and bizarre events of the banquet are portrayed.
      • This island hosts a large number of strange-shaped stones and fantastic caves.
      • For about four hours every day, the reflected sun throws fantastic shapes on the walls inside.
      • The fantastic medieval building is the best in the north of Scotland and gives a great insight into the area's Norse past.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense ‘unreal’): from Old French fantastique, via medieval Latin from Greek phantastikos, from phantazein ‘make visible’, phantazesthai ‘have visions, imagine’, from phantos ‘visible’ (related to phainein ‘to show’). From the 16th to the 19th centuries the Latinized spelling phantastic was also used.

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