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fantastical Definition


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fantastic
fantastical
adj
    1. colloq
      Splendid; excellent.
      Thesaurus: first-rate, incredible, great, wonderful, excellent, marvellous, sensational, superb, out of this world; Antonym: ordinary, poor.
    2. colloq
      Enormous; amazing.
    3. Said of a story: absurd; unlikely; incredible.
      Thesaurus: far-fetched, implausible, preposterous, absurd, irrational, ludicrous, ridiculous; whimsical, imaginative, fanciful, phantasmagorical.
    4. Fanciful; capricious.
    5. Strange; weird.
    6. Unrealistic.
      Example: fantastic idea
Derivative: fantastically
adverb
    Etymology: 15c in sense 4: from Greek phantastikos presenting to the mind.



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