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phantastic

phantastic is the archaic spelling of fantastic.

Meaning of fantastic

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.
  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...
  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...

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Noun

phantastic (plural phantastics)

  1. (obsolete) Any hallucinogenic drug.

Forms of phantastic

Adjective
comparativemore phantastic
superlativemost phantastic
Noun
pluralphantastics

Words formed from phantastic

Questions about phantastic

What does phantastic mean?
Phantastic means any hallucinogenic drug.
What is phantastic the archaic spelling of?
Phantastic is the archaic spelling of fantastic.
What part of speech is phantastic?
Phantastic is a noun.
What is the plural of phantastic?
The plural of phantastic is phantastics.

Words near phantastic in the dictionary

  1. phantasmology
  2. phantasmophobia
  3. phantasms
  4. Phantasos
  5. phantast
  6. phantastic
  7. phantastica
  8. phantastical
  9. phantasticall
  10. phantastically
  11. phantastick

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