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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (5)

1. ludicrously odd;
- Example: "Hamlet's assumed antic disposition"
- Example: "fantastic Halloween costumes"
- Example: "a grotesque reflection in the mirror"
[syn: antic, fantastic, fantastical, grotesque]

2. extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers;
- Example: "a fantastic trip to the Orient"
- Example: "the film was fantastic!"
- Example: "a howling success"
- Example: "a marvelous collection of rare books"
- Example: "had a rattling conversation about politics"
- Example: "a tremendous achievement"
[syn: fantastic, grand, howling(a), marvelous, marvellous, rattling(a), terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous]

3. fanciful and unrealistic; foolish;
- Example: "a fantastic idea of his own importance"
[syn: fantastic, wild]

4. existing in fancy only;
- Example: "fantastic figures with bulbous heads the circumference of a bushel"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
[syn: fantastic, fantastical]

5. extravagantly fanciful in design, construction, appearance;
- Example: "Gaudi's fantastic architecture"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Fantastic \Fan*tas"tic\, n. A person given to fantastic dress, manners, etc.; an eccentric person; a fop. --Milton. [1913 Webster] Our fantastics, who, having a fine watch, take all ocasions to draw it out to be seen. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Fantastic \Fan*tas"tic\, a. [F. fantastique, fr. Gr. ??????????? able to represent, fr. ????????? to make visible. See Fancy.] 1. Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical. [1913 Webster] 2. Having the nature of a phantom; unreal. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic mistress. [1913 Webster] 4. Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; oddly shaped; grotesque. [1913 Webster] There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high. --T. Gray. Syn: Fanciful; imaginative; ideal; visionary; capricious; chimerical; whimsical; queer. See Fanciful. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

fantastic adj 1: ludicrously odd; "Hamlet's assumed antic disposition"; "fantastic Halloween costumes"; "a grotesque reflection in the mirror" [syn: antic, fantastic, fantastical, grotesque] 2: extraordinarily good or great ; 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" [syn: fantastic, grand, howling(a), marvelous, marvellous, rattling(a), terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous] 3: fanciful and unrealistic; foolish; "a fantastic idea of his own importance" [syn: fantastic, wild] 4: existing in fancy only; "fantastic figures with bulbous heads the circumference of a bushel"- Nathaniel Hawthorne [syn: fantastic, fantastical] 5: extravagantly fanciful in design, construction, appearance; "Gaudi's fantastic architecture"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

194 Moby Thesaurus words for "fantastic": Barmecidal, Barmecide, Gothic, absurd, adroit, airy, alien, antic, appalling, apparent, apparitional, arbitrary, astonishing, autistic, balmy, baroque, beguiling, bewildering, beyond belief, bizarre, brain-born, capricious, chimeric, chimerical, clever, cockamamie, concocted, conspicuous, cooked-up, cracking, cranky, crazy, crotchety, deceptive, delusional, delusionary, delusive, delusory, dereistic, dream-built, dreamlike, dreamy, eccentric, egregious, enigmatic, erratic, erroneous, exceptional, exotic, extraordinary, extravagant, fabricated, fabulous, fallacious, false, fancied, fanciful, fancy-born, fancy-built, fancy-woven, fantasied, fantasque, fascinating, fictional, fictitious, fictive, figmental, flaky, florid, foolish, forged, formidable, freakish, great, grotesque, harebrained, hatched, high-flown, humorsome, illusional, illusionary, illusive, illusory, imaginary, imagined, implausible, impossible, incomprehensible, inconceivable, incredible, ingenious, insane, invented, irrational, kinky, laughable, legendary, loony, ludicrous, made-up, maggoty, manufactured, marked, marvelous, massive, miraculous, misleading, monstrous, monumental, moody, mortal, motiveless, mythical, nonsensical, notable, noteworthy, noticeable, notional, odd, of mark, ostensible, outlandish, outrageous, outre, outstanding, overwhelming, passing strange, peculiar, petulant, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantom, phenomenal, poppycockish, preposterous, prodigious, put-up, puzzling, quaint, queer, quirky, rare, remarkable, ridiculous, rococo, seeming, self-deceptive, self-deluding, sensational, signal, silly, singular, specious, spectacular, spectral, splendid, strange, striking, stupendous, superior, supposititious, temperamental, terrific, towering, tremendous, trumped-up, unaccountable, unactual, unbelievable, uncommon, unearthly, unexpected, unfounded, unheard-of, unimaginable, unique, unlikely, unprecedented, unreal, unrealistic, unreasonable, unrestrained, unsubstantial, vagarious, vagrant, visionary, wacky, wanton, wayward, weird, whimsical, wild, wonderful, wondrous