adjective

• 1informal Extraordinarily good or attractive.

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  • ‘they did a fantastic job’
  • ‘your support has been fantastic’
  • ‘This wonderful daughter, fantastic friend, and excellent pupil had secured a place at a top university.’
  • ‘He has a wonderful wife, a fantastic job and two brilliant children.’
  • ‘There will also be a raffle for fabulous prizes including a fantastic hamper, so come along and try your luck.’
  • ‘But she's absolutely terrific, a really fantastic person who is very funny and very cheeky.’
  • ‘I needed a full-time job to get a great house with my superb friends in a fantastic Sydney suburb.’
  • ‘He was absolutely fantastic and it felt wonderful to see him on stage.’
  • ‘We walked around for hours taking photos and marvelling at the fantastic paintings and architecture.’
  • ‘It was a fantastic day with a wonderful service and a great reception.’
  • ‘Of course, it would be churlish not to marvel at the fantastic performance of Tiger Woods.’
  • ‘The one thing that has united everyone is terrific passion for this fantastic city of ours.’
  • ‘The weather is fantastic, which has kind of thrown my body thermostat off kilter.’
  • ‘Excellent fresh fish, the most marvellous roast potatoes and fantastic cakes.’
  • ‘It has wonderful staff, a fantastic atmosphere, a menu that more or less has something you want however you are feeling.’
  • ‘Many of our resorts now offer fantastic facilities and a wide range of attractions and activities for everyone to enjoy.’
  • ‘We can now give the people what they want - access to a fantastic destination that has a huge array of attractions.’
  • ‘We saw some fantastic competition and some brilliant races, particularly in the distance events.’
  • ‘So anyway, we all think you're fabulous, great and fantastic and so will the world's rock scene!’
  • ‘Dragan Dzajic, a brilliant player with a fantastic left foot and brilliant technique.’
  • ‘Godowsky is a very underrated composer, this disc is fantastic, Hamelin is superb!’
  • ‘It is an awesome, fantastic car, and it is really nice, but it just isn't for me.’

  Synonyms

  tremendous, remarkable, great, terrific, enormous, huge, striking, impressive, outstanding, phenomenal, monumental, overwhelming

  marvellous, wonderful, sensational, magnificent, outstanding, superb, superlative, excellent, very good, first-rate, first-class, dazzling, out of this world, breathtaking

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  1. 1.1Of an extraordinary size or degree.
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     • ‘she had spent a fantastic amount of cash’
     • ‘Making them also uses a fantastic amount of water, far more than is used washing re-usable ones.’
     • ‘It's wonderfully remote, with fantastic cliffs and big white sandy beaches.’
     • ‘The great total of e260 was collected on the morning which is a fantastic amount.’
     • ‘We wish to extend our sincere thanks to everyone who helped us in any way to achieve this fantastic amount.’
     • ‘It's a fantastic amount of money which could make an enormous difference to someone's life.’
     • ‘The computer age means a fantastic amount of information and statistics can be accessed almost instantly.’
     • ‘We are learning a fantastic amount about consciousness from the current science.’
     • ‘But even that fantastic amount of cash would only replace sewers more than 100 years old.’
     • ‘They also learn a fantastic amount about science and about themselves.’

• 2Imaginative or fanciful; remote from reality.

  ‘fantastic hybrid creatures’

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  • ‘novels are capable of mixing fantastic and realistic elements’
  • ‘Everything in Ilija's work is unreal and ahistorical, fantastic and imaginative.’
  • ‘There are ongoing sightings of sea-monsters and fantastic creatures lurking in the emerald green waters.’
  • ‘Most contain fantastic elements, from Lucifer and Jesus to a field of talking cows.’
  • ‘The fantastic creatures and the magic that fuels them is utterly captivating.’
  • ‘His world is strange, fantastic, gritty and believable, it works very well as a fantasy world.’
  • ‘His life reads like a romantic novel, and much of his music bears the same colourful and fantastic traits.’

  Synonyms

  fanciful, extravagant, extraordinary, irrational, wild, mad, absurd, far-fetched, nonsensical, incredible, unbelievable, unthinkable, implausible, improbable, unlikely, doubtful, dubious

  strange, weird, bizarre, outlandish, queer, peculiar, eccentric, grotesque, freakish, surreal, exotic

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  1. 2.1(of an object) seeming more appropriate to the imagination than to reality; strange or exotic.
     ‘visions of a fantastic, maze-like building’
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     • ‘This island hosts a large number of strange-shaped stones and fantastic caves.’
     • ‘But even as the light faded, strange and fantastic bird sounds came from every side.’
     • ‘Palm trees swayed as the wind combed their leaves into flying crests like strange and fantastic coiffure.’
     • ‘The world before the flood is fantastic and strange, alluringly unreal.’
     • ‘For about four hours every day, the reflected sun throws fantastic shapes on the walls inside.’
     • ‘The fantastic medieval building is the best in the north of Scotland and gives a great insight into the area's Norse past.’
     • ‘The surrealism of the performance lies in how normal the fantastic and bizarre events of the banquet are portrayed.’