Fantastic (Adjective)
Meaning 1
Extravagantly fanciful in design, construction, appearance; "Gaudi's fantastic architecture".
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Meaning 2
Existing in fancy only; "fantastic figures with bulbous heads the circumference of a bushel"- Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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Meaning 3
Extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous collection of rare books"; "had a rattling conversation about politics"; "a tremendous achievement".
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Meaning 4
Ludicrously odd; "Hamlet's assumed antic disposition"; "fantastic Halloween costumes"; "a grotesque reflection in the mirror".
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Examples
- The masquerade ball featured some fantastic getups, including a man dressed as a walking candelabra and a woman wearing a full-body spandex suit covered in glow-in-the-dark stars.
- Her fantastic fashion sense was evident in the way she paired striped socks with polka-dot pants and a leopard-print top.
- The film's special effects were over-the-top in their depiction of a fantastical world where buildings twisted and turned like melted wax and trees bore fruit that looked like crystal balls.
- After a few too many drinks, he struck a fantastic pose on the dance floor, flailing his arms and making "ca-ching" noises with his mouth.
- The avant-garde artist's use of neon pink and green in her sculptures created a fantastic, dreamlike atmosphere in the gallery that was both jarring and mesmerizing.
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Meaning 5
Fanciful and unrealistic; foolish; "a fantastic idea of his own importance".
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