Antonyms for fantastic


Grammar : Adj
Spell : fan-tas-tik
Phonetic Transcription : fænˈtæs tɪk


Definition of fantastic

Origin :
  • late 14c., "existing only in imagination," from Middle French fantastique (14c.), from Medieval Latin fantasticus, from Late Latin phantasticus "imaginary," from Greek phantastikos "able to imagine," from phantazein "make visible" (middle voice phantazesthai "picture to oneself"); see phantasm. Trivial sense of "wonderful, marvelous" recorded by 1938.
  • adj strange, different; imaginary
  • adj enormous
  • adj wonderful, excellent
Example sentences :
  • Here it is the fantastic and the bizarre that hold the imagination captive.
  • Extract from : « The Roof of France » by Matilda Betham-Edwards
  • From it, a thousand wild, illogical, and fantastic conclusions are drawn.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the Malakand Field Force » by Sir Winston S. Churchill
  • He was beginning to be disagreeably impressed by her fantastic behaviour.
  • Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad
  • It had a physiognomy and character of its own—this fantastic foreigner!
  • Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • To-day this appears to the majority of educated men a fantastic conception.
  • Extract from : « Albert Durer » by T. Sturge Moore
  • They regard it at best as a fantastic weakness, fit only for sickly people.
  • Extract from : « Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood » by George MacDonald
  • The towing of the Vulcan by an unknown power was the very climax of the fantastic.
  • Extract from : « The Cruise of the Dry Dock » by T. S. Stribling
  • This etext was produced from Fantastic Universe August 1957.
  • Extract from : « Now We Are Three » by Joe L. Hensley
  • But beneath, it all seemed so mysterious, fantastic, sinister.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 » by Various
  • We call such scruples in these days exaggerated and fantastic.
  • Extract from : « Bunyan » by James Anthony Froude

Synonyms for fantastic

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