Dictionary entry

Fantastic

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Fan‐tas″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.