fantastical
pronunciation
How to pronounce fantastical in British English:
UK [fæn'tæstɪkl]
How to pronounce fantastical in American English:
US [fæn'tæstɪkəl]
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- Adjective:
- existing in fancy only
- ludicrously odd
Word Origin
- fantastical (adj.)
- late 15c., from fantastic + -al (1). Related: Fantastically.
Example
- 1. It took seven years to complete and gave him a taste for creating fantastical environments .
- 2. However , prosecutors said that was a " fantastical " defence .
- 3. To comfort her in her grief she is assigned a new project : to reconstruct a fantastical 19th-century clockwork swan .
- 4. However , it is fantastical to think that this can be achieved by imposing germanic debt ceilings continent-wide .
- 5. Much of what mr hashimoto wants is so ambitious that it verges on the fantastical .