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Fantastic

fantastic
~ adj 1 extremely good, attractive, enjoyable etc  (You look fantastic! | Sounds like a fantastic idea to me.) 2 spoken used when someone has just told you something good  ("I've passed my driving test." "Fantastic!") 3 a fantastic amount is extremely large  (Teenagers spend fantastic amounts of money on clothes.) 4 a plan, suggestion etc that is fantastic is not likely to be possible 5 only before noun a fantastic story, creature, or place is very strange or unreal  (fantastic tales of dragons and fairy queens) - fantastically adv  (a fantastically expensive meal)
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  Note: The form 'fantastical' is also used for meaning 3. 1. If you say that something is fantastic, you are emphasizing that you think it is very good or that you like it a lot. (INFORMAL) I have a fantastic social life... I thought she was fantastic. = great ADJ c darkgreen]emphasis 2. A fantastic amount or quantity is an extremely large one. ...fantastic amounts of money. ADJ: ADJ n • fantastically ...a fantastically expensive restaurant. ADV: ADV adj/adv 3. You describe something as fantastic or fantastical when it seems strange and wonderful or unlikely. Unlikely and fantastic legends grew up around a great many figures, both real and fictitious... The book has many fantastical aspects. ADJ ...
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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   I. adjective  also ~al  Etymology: Middle English ~, ~al, from Middle French & Late Latin; Middle French fantastique, from Late Latin phantasticus, from Greek phantastikos producing mental images, from phantazein to present to the mind — more at fancy  Date: 14th century  1.  a. based on fantasy ; not real  b. conceived or seemingly conceived by unrestrained fancy  c. so extreme as to challenge belief ; unbelievable; broadly exceedingly large or great  2. marked by extravagant fantasy or extreme individuality ; eccentric  3. (~) excellent, superlative a ~ meal  • ~ality noun  • ~alness noun Synonyms:  ~, bizarre, grotesque mean conceived, made, or carried out without adherence to truth or reality. ~ may connote unrestrained extravagance in conception or merely ingenuity of decorative invention dreamed up ~ rumors to spread. bizarre applies to the sensationally queer or strange and implies violence of contrast or incongruity of combination a bizarre medieval castle built in the heart of a modern city. grotesque may apply to what is conventionally ugly but artistically effective or it may connote ludicrous awkwardness or incongruity often with sinister or tragic overtones grotesque statues adorn the cathedral though grief-stricken, she made a grotesque attempt at a smile.  Synonym: see in addition imaginary.  II. noun  Date: 1598 eccentric 2 ...
Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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  adj. (also fantastical) 1 colloq. excellent, extraordinary. 2 extravagantly fanciful; capricious, eccentric. 3 grotesque or quaint in design etc. Derivatives fantasticality n. fantastically adv. Etymology: ME f. OF fantastique f. med.L fantasticus f. LL phantasticus f. Gk phantastikos (as FANTAST) ...
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  фантастический ...
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  1. причудливый, фантастический, странный, эксцентричный fantastic costumes —- эксцентричные костюмы fantastic music —- странная (фантастическая) музыка 2. экстравагантный, капризный fantastic acts of kindness —- экстравагантная (чрезмерная) доброта 3. эмоц-усил. изумительный, потрясающий I find the book fantastic —- я считаю эту книгу замечательной the results were fantastic —- результаты превзошли все ожидания a fantastic sum of money —- куча денег 4. уст. воображаемый, нереальный, фантастичный fantastic fears —- выдуманные страхи ...
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  - c.1385, from O.Fr. fantastique, from L.L. phantasticus "imaginary," from Gk. phantastikos "able to imagine," from phantazein "make visible" (middle voice phantazesthai "picture to oneself"), see fantasy. Slang sense of "wonderful, marvelous" first recorded 1938. ...
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