fantastic
pronunciation
How to pronounce fantastic in British English:
UK [fænˈtæstɪk]
How to pronounce fantastic in American English:
US [fænˈtæstɪk]
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- Adjective:
- ludicrously odd
- extraordinarily good; used especially as intensifiers
- extravagantly fanciful and unrealistic; foolish
- existing in fancy only
- exceedingly or unbelievably great
Word Origin
- fantastic (adj.)
- late 14c., "existing only in imagination," from Middle French fantastique (14c.), from Medieval Latin fantasticus, from Late Latin phantasticus "imaginary," from Greek phantastikos "able to imagine," from phantazein "make visible" (middle voice phantazesthai "picture to oneself"); see phantasm. Trivial sense of "wonderful, marvelous" recorded by 1938. Old French had a different adjective form, fantasieus "weird; insane; make-believe." Medieval Latin also used fantasticus as a noun, "a lunatic," and Shakespeare and his contemporaries had it in Italian form fantastico "one who acts ridiculously."
Synonym
Example
- 1. Another fantastic picture is the piece of small household dust below .
- 2. But that would be a fantastic simulation of a dead brain in an empty vat .
- 3. A fantastic tale of adventure .
- 4. There are fantastic flashes , such as a woman born with a heart outside her body .
- 5. Some archaeologists have discovered a fantastic treasure , and they 're coming to new york .