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Entry 5 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Fantastic

/făn-tăs'-tĭk/ · Fan·tas·tic · IPA /[fanˈtʰas.tɪk(ʰ)]/
01 a. Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical.
  1. 1.
    Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical.
  2. 2.
    Having the nature of a phantom; unreal.
  3. 3.
    Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic mistress.
  4. 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.
02 n. A person given to fantastic dress, manners, etc.; an eccentric person; a fop.
  1. 1.
    A person given to fantastic dress, manners, etc.; an eccentric person; a fop.
    “Our fantastics, who, having a fine watch, take all ocasions to draw it out to be seen.” — Fuller.