What does "fantastic" mean?
Fantastic: Having the nature of a phantom; unreal. Shak.
Additional senses
- 2.Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic mistress.
- 3.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. See Fanciful.
- 4.A person given to fantastic dress, manners, etc.; an eccentric person; a fop. Milton. Our fantastics, who, having a fine watch, take all ocasions to drow it out to be seen. Fuller.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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