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phantastick

phantastick is the archaic form 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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Forms of phantastick

comparativemore phantastick
superlativemost phantastick

Questions about phantastick

What is phantastick the archaic form of?
Phantastick is the archaic form of fantastic.

Words near phantastick in the dictionary

  1. phantastic
  2. phantastica
  3. phantastical
  4. phantasticall
  5. phantastically
  6. phantastick
  7. phantastics
  8. phantasticum
  9. phantastikon
  10. phantastikons
  11. phantastique

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Adapted from Wiktionary: phantastick (page history and authors); fantastic (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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