# fantastic

Pronunciation: say "fan-TAS-tik" /fænˈtæstɪk/

## Adjective

1. Extremely good; wonderful or excellent, often used to add strong positive emphasis.
   - Simple: Extremely good, much better than people expect.
   - _She got a fantastic job offer just weeks after graduating._
   - _The team delivered a fantastic performance in the championship final._
2. Strange and highly imaginative, as if from a dream or fantasy rather than real life; oddly or extravagantly shaped.
   - Simple: Very strange and full of imagination, like something from a dream and not from real life.
   - _The painter filled the canvas with fantastic creatures unlike anything in nature._
   - _Her stories blend everyday life with fantastic elements like flying ships and living statues._
3. So implausible or far-fetched as to seem possible only in fantasy; hard to credit as real.
   - Simple: So strange or unlikely that it is very hard to believe.
   - _The witness gave a fantastic account of events that the jury found impossible to accept._
   - _His claims grew more fantastic with every retelling._
4. Of a size, amount, or degree: enormous, going well beyond what is normal or anticipated. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: Of a size or amount: very large, much more than you would expect.
   - _The painting sold for a fantastic sum, nearly ten times what the experts had predicted._
   - _Rents downtown have climbed at a fantastic pace over the past decade._

## Noun

5. A whimsical or fanciful person, given to extravagant notions and eccentric imaginings. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: A person who is full of odd, dreamy, make-believe ideas.

## Origin

This word was borrowed from Middle French fantastique, which came from Late Latin phantasticus, itself from Ancient Greek phantastikos ('imaginary, fictional'), ultimately tracing back to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning 'to shine'. It is equivalent to fantasy plus the suffix -tic.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/fantastic (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).