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   Fan·tas·tic

   /fanˈtastik/

   

   adjective

   • 1. extraordinarily good or attractive: informal "they did a fantastic job" Similar tremendousremarkablegreatterrificenormoushugestrikingimpressiveoutstandingphenomenalmonumentaloverwhelmingmarvelouswonderfulsensationalmagnificentoutstandingsuperbsuperlativeexcellentvery goodfirst-ratefirst-classdazzlingout of this worldbreathtakinginformal:greatterrifictremendousfabulousfabmegasuperstellaracemagicA1crackingcoolwickedawesomeamazeballsway-outdefsupercalifragilisticexpialidociousbrilliantbrillsmashingbostingbonzerinformal, dated:spiffingtoppingtip-toptop-notchcapitalOpposite ordinarypoor
   • ▪ of an extraordinary size or degree: "she had spent a fantastic amount of cash"
   • 2. imaginative or fanciful; remote from reality: "fantastic hybrid creatures" Similar fancifulextravagantextraordinaryirrationalwildmadabsurdfar-fetchednonsensicalincredibleunbelievableunthinkableimplausibleimprobableunlikelydoubtfuldubiousstrangepeculiaroddqueerweirdeccentricinsanewhimsicalcapriciousimaginaryvisionaryromanticunrealillusorymake-believeinformal:crazycock-eyedoddballoff the wallbarmypottydaftstrangeweirdbizarreoutlandishqueerpeculiareccentricgrotesquefreakishsurrealexoticwhimsicalfancifulquaintimaginativeelaborateornateintricaterococobaroquephantasmagoricKafkaesqueOpposite rationalordinaryunremarkable
   • ▪ (of an object) seeming more appropriate to the imagination than to reality; strange or exotic: "visions of a fantastic, maze-like building"

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the sense ‘unreal’): from Old French fantastique, via medieval Latin from Greek phantastikos, from phantazein ‘make visible’, phantazesthai ‘have visions, imagine’, from phantos ‘visible’ (related to phainein ‘to show’). From the 16th to the 19th centuries the Latinized spelling phantastic was also used.

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