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fantastic (adj.)

late 14c., "existing only in imagination, produced by (mental) fantasy," from Old 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. Old French had a different adjective form, fantasieus "weird; insane; make-believe." Medieval Latin also used fantasticus as a noun, "a lunatic," and Shakespeare and his contemporaries had it in Italian form fantastico "one who acts ridiculously."

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phantasm (n.)

mid-13c., fantesme, "that which has only seeming reality, permanence, or value;" c. 1300 as "an illusory experience or object; an apparition;" from Old French fantosme "a dream, illusion, fantasy; apparition, ghost, phantom" (12c.), and directly from Latin phantasma "an apparition, specter," in Late Latin also "appearance, image," from Greek phantasma "image, phantom, apparition; mere image, unreality," from phantazein "to make visible, display," from stem of phainein "to bring to light, make appear; come to light, be seen, appear; explain, expound, inform against; appear to be so," from PIE root *bha- (1) "to shine." Spelling conformed to Latin from 16c. (see ph). A spelling variant of phantom, "differentiated, but so that the differences are elusive" [Fowler].

fantabulous (adj.)
1957, creative merger of fantastic and fabulous.
fantastical (adj.)
late 15c., from fantastic + -al (1). Related: Fantastically.
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Definitions of fantastic

fantastic (adj.)
extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers;
the film was fantastic!
a fantastic trip to the Orient
Synonyms: grand / howling / marvelous / marvellous / rattling / terrific / tremendous / wonderful / wondrous
fantastic (adj.)
ludicrously odd;
fantastic Halloween costumes
Synonyms: antic / fantastical / grotesque
fantastic (adj.)
fanciful and unrealistic; foolish;
a fantastic idea of his own importance
Synonyms: wild
fantastic (adj.)
existing in fancy only; "fantastic figures with bulbous heads the circumference of a bushel"- Nathaniel Hawthorne;
Synonyms: fantastical
fantastic (adj.)
extravagantly fanciful in design, construction, appearance;
Gaudi's fantastic architecture
From wordnet.princeton.edu

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