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fantastic

fan·tas·tic

UK/fænˈtæs.tɪk/ US/fanˈtʰas.tɪk(ʰ)/ common

adjective

1.

ludicrously odd

  • “Hamlet”
  • “;”
  • “;”
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”
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
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5.

exceedingly or unbelievably great

  • “the bomb did fantastic damage”
  • “Samson is supposed to have had fantastic strength”
  • “phenomenaRl feats of memory”
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Phrases

  • Alice in Wonderland
  • off-the-wall slang
  • plastic fantastic
  • trip the light fantastic

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