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Fantastic

Fan-tăs'tic or Fan-tăs'tic-al, a.

adjective

a. [Fr. fantastique, Pr. fantastic, Sp., Pg., & It. fantastico, Gr. φανταστικός, from φαντάζειν. See supra.]

  1. Producing or existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical.
  2. Having the nature of a phantom. Shak.
  3. Indulging the vagaries of imagination; exhibiting fantasy; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic mistress.
  4. Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or unreality; irregular; wild; capricious.

There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high. Gray. Syn.—Fanciful; imaginative; ideal; visionary; capricious; chimerical; whimsical. See FANCIFUL.

Fan-tăs'tic, n.

noun

n. A person given to fantastic dress, manners, &c.; hence, a dandy. Milton. Our fantastics, who, having a fine watch, take all occasions to draw it out to be seen. Fuller.