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fantastic

/fænˈtæs.tɪk/

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fantastic adjective: wonderful; marvelous; excellent; extraordinarily good or great (used especially as an intensifier).

Adjective

fantastic (comparative more fantastic, superlative most fantastic)

  1. Wonderful; marvelous; excellent; extraordinarily good or great (used especially as an intensifier).
    • "I had a simply fantastic vacation, and I can't wait to tell you all about it!"
  2. Existing in or constructed from fantasy; of or relating to fantasy; fanciful.
    • He told fantastic stories of dragons and goblins.
    • His fantastic post-college plans had all collapsed within a year of graduation.
  3. (archaic) Given to fanciful ideas, impulsive; irrational.
    • She was a frightened fool, and she was fantastic, and I suppose that, at that time, she really cared for that imbecile.1915, Ford Madox Hueffer [i.e., Ford Madox Ford], The Good Soldier […], London: John Lane, The Bodley Head; New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, →OCLC
  4. (archaic) Not believable; implausible; seemingly only possible in fantasy.
    • And indeed, when in the writings of Paracelſus I meet with ſuch Phantaſtick and Un-intelligible Diſcourſes as that Writer often puzzels and tyres his Reader with, father'd upon ſuch excellent Experiments, as though he ſeldom clearly teaches, I often find he knew ; me thinks the Chymiſts, in their...1661, Robert Boyle, “THE CONCLUSION”, in The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical, As they are wont to be...
    • Since 1 part in 100,000 would imply that one could put a Shuttle up each day for 300 years expecting to lose only one, we could properly ask "What is the cause of management's fantastic faith in the machinery?"1986 June 6, Richard Feynman, “Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle”, in Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, Report to the President
  5. (archaic) Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; grotesque.
    • There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, / That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high.1750 June 12 (date written; published 1751), T[homas] Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”, in Designs by Mr. R[ichard] Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley...
    • […]This round of green, this orb of flame,
      Fantastic beauty; such as lurks
      ⁠In some wild Poet, when he works
      Without a conscience or an aim.1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXIV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 53

Noun

fantastic (plural fantastics)

  1. (archaic) A fanciful or whimsical person.

fantastic meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

fantastic in Hindi

wonderful, marvelous, excellent, extraordinarily good
अद्भुत adbhut

fantastic in Tamil

அருமை, அருமையான

fantastic in Urdu

wonderful, marvelous, excellent, extraordinarily good
ادبھت adbhut

fantastic in Bengali

কল্পনাপ্রসূত, চমত্কার, উদ্ভট, অমূল, খেয়ালী, উদ্ভটি
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fantastic in Malayalam
അത്യുത്തമായ, ചപലമായ, വിചിത്രപ്രകൃതി, സുന്ദരവിഡ്ഢി
fantastic in Kannada
ನೆನಸಿದ, ನನ್ನಿಯಲ್ಲದ, ಸರಿಯಲ್ಲದ, ತಿರುಚಿದ
fantastic in Gujarati
અદ્ભુત adbhut
fantastic in Arabic
رَائِع rāʔiʕ
fantastic in Indonesian
fantastis

Examples of fantastic in a sentence

  • Daniel is amazing, wonderful, fantastic, and many other superlatives I can’t think of right now!
  • Please give all of the fantastic performers a big round of applause for their efforts this evening!
  • The DJ chose a fantastic track as his closer at the end of the night.

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Synonyms of fantastic

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Forms of fantastic

Adjective
comparativemore fantastic
superlativemost fantastic
alternative form (archaic)fantastick
alternative form (archaic)phantastic
alternative form (archaic)phantastick
alternative form (archaic)phantastique
Noun
pluralfantastics

Origin of fantastic

Borrowed from Middle French fantastique, borrowed from Late Latin phantasticus, borrowed from Ancient Greek φᾰντᾰστῐκός (phăntăstĭkós, “imaginary, fantastic; fictional”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to shine”). Equivalent to fantasy + -tic. Doublet of fantastique.

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Questions about fantastic

What does fantastic mean?
Fantastic means wonderful; marvelous; excellent; extraordinarily good or great (used especially as an intensifier).
What is fantastic in Hindi?
Fantastic in Hindi is अद्भुत (adbhut). See Fantastic meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is fantastic?
Fantastic can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce fantastic?
Fantastic is pronounced /fænˈtæs.tɪk/.

Words near fantastic in the dictionary

  1. fantasmatic
  2. fantasms
  3. fantasque
  4. fantast
  5. fantasterrific
  6. fantastic
  7. fantastical
  8. fantasticalities
  9. fantasticality
  10. fantastically
  11. fantasticalness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fantastic (page history and authors); fantastic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fantastic (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fantastic (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fantastic (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); અદ્ભુત (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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