fantastic : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: fantastic	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for fantastic
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fantastic adj ludicrously odd; "Hamlet's assumed antic disposition"; "fantastic Halloween costumes"; "a grotesque reflection in the mirror" Synonym(s): antic, fantastic, fantastical, grotesque 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" Synonym(s): fantastic, grand, howling(a), marvelous, marvellous, rattling(a), terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous fanciful and unrealistic; foolish; "a fantastic idea of his own importance" Synonym(s): fantastic, wild existing in fancy only; "fantastic figures with bulbous heads the circumference of a bushel"- Nathaniel Hawthorne Synonym(s): fantastic, fantastical extravagantly fanciful in design, construction, appearance; "Gaudi's fantastic architecture"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fantastic \Fantas"tic\, a. [F. fantastique, fr. Gr. [?][?][?][?][?][?][?][?][?][?][?] able to represent, fr. [?][?][?][?][?][?][?][?][?] to make visible. See {Fancy}.] 1. Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical. 2. Having the nature of a phantom; unreal. --Shak. 3. Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic* minds; a fantastic mistress. 4. Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; oddly shaped; grotesque. There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high. --T. Gray. Syn: Fanciful; imaginative; ideal; visionary; capricious; chimerical; whimsical; queer. See {Fanciful}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fantastic \Fantas"tic\, n. A person given to fantastic* dress, manners, etc.; an eccentric person; a fop. --Milton. Our fantastics, who, having a fine watch, take all ocasions to drow it out to be seen. --Fuller.