| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adverb | 1. Fantastically.[Websters]
2. In a wonderful, terrific or stupendous manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. In a splendid, excellent or superb manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. In a fabulous or great manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. In a bizarre or quaint manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. In an eccentric, strange or whimsical manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. In an odd or erratic manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. In a marvellous, brilliant, grandiose or marvelous manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. In a tremendous or grand manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the adjective fantastic.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective Form (fantastic) | 1. Ludicrously odd; "fantastic Halloween costumes".[Wordnet]. 2. Extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was fantastic!".[Wordnet]. 3. Fanciful and unrealistic; foolish; "a fantastic idea of his own importance".[Wordnet]. 4. Existing in fancy only; "fantastic figures with bulbous heads the circumference of a bushel".[Wordnet]. 5. Extravagantly fanciful in design, construction, appearance; "Gaudi's fantastic architecture".[Wordnet]. 6. Exceedingly or unbelievably great; "the bomb did fantastic damage"; "Samson is supposed to have had fantastic strength"; "phenomenal feats of memory".[Wordnet]. 7. Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical.[Websters]. 8. Having the nature of a phantom; unreal.[Websters]. 9. Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic mistress.[Websters]. 10. Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; oddly shaped; grotesque.[Websters]. | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "FANTASTICLY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Definition: fantastic
| Domain | Definition | ||
| MultiLingual Slang | Russian (pizdato). (references) | ||
| Wikipedic | The Fantastic is a literary genre of writing or art which intrudes fantasy elements into a story (or picture) that is basically representational or real-feeling. It is this foundation (and intrusion) upon a sense of the real world that differentiates the Fantastic genre from Fantasy or the Surreal. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: fantastic
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Bibliography of Fantastic Four titles | Another series, set in the regular Marvel Universe, has been released. Called Marvel Knights 4 it concentrates on the more human, realist dimension of the Fantastic Four. (references) | ||
| Captain Fantastic | Captain Fantastic was a regular feature of Do Not Adjust Your Set from 1968 to 1969 which appeared as a filmed insert between the videotaped sketches. (references) | ||
| Cinder Cone and the Fantastic Lava Beds | Cinder Cone is a cinder cone volcano in Lassen Volcanic National Park. Within the park it is located about 10 miles northeast of Lassen Peak and provides a magnificent view of Brokeoff Mountain, Lassen Peak, and Chaos Crags. (references) | ||
| Fantastic art | Fantastic art is a loosely defined art genre. The first "fantastic" artist is generally believed to be Hieronymous Bosch. Other artists who have been labeled fantastic include Brueghel, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Matthias Grünewald, Hans Baldung Grien, Francisco de Goya, Gustave Moreau, Henry Fuseli, Odilon Redon, Max Klinger, Arnold Böcklin, William Blake, Gustave Doré, Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Salvador Dali. (references) | ||
| Fantastic Art Centre | The Fantastic Art Centre is a non profit research project founded by Christian De Boeck in 1977. The Honorary Patron Emeritus is Prof. Ernst Fuchs. Other Honorary Patrons include Brigid Marlin, Prof. Philip Rubinov-Jacobson, Alex Grey, Michael Messner, Roman Hocke, Robert Venosa, Mati Klarwein, Odd Nerdrum, and Prof. Werner Tübke. (references) | ||
| Fantastic Caverns | Fantastic Caverns is a show cave located in Springfield, Missouri, discovered in 1867 by a group of twelve women. Fantastic Caverns is the only cave in North America to offer a ride-through tour, which lasts 55 minutes and is held in a Jeep-drawn tram. (references) | ||
| Fantastic Dizzy | Left: US Cover art. The art was first used for the UK release of Fantasy World Dizzy. (references) | ||
| Fantastic Five | Fantastic Five was the name of a comic book, a spin-off of Fantastic Four and part of Marvel Comics' MC2 imprint which lasted five issues, published in late 1999 and early 2000, and the team which starred in it. (references) | ||
| Fantastic Force | In the fictional Marvel Comics universe, the Fantastic Force was a short-lived superhero team that was a spin-off of the Fantastic Four. The team had its own title, which lasted for eighteen issues from November 1994 to April 1996. (references) | ||
| Fantastic Four (TV Guide) | The Fantastic Four No.1, written by Stan Lee and illustrated by Jack Kirby, went on sale in 1961. In the initial story, the astronauts-turned-superheroes are racing to beat "the commies" and discover the effects of "cosmic rays" in space. The comic is up to issue No.529 and usually ranks among the top 40 best-selling titles each month. (references) | ||
| Trip the light fantastic | Move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Ultimate Fantastic Four (story arcs) | Reed continues his research with the N-Zone teleportation device, but also finds time to develop new technologies with military applications. He uses these technologies as a bargaining chip with General Ross, the military supervisor of the Baxter Building, in exchange for their support and approval of an expedition that takes the Four into the N-Zone. A few months later, a space shuttle is refitted for N-Zone travel. Johnny gives it the unfortunate name of Awesome. (references) | ||
| Vienna School of Fantastic Realism | The Vienna School of Fantastic Realism is a group of artists formed in Austria in 1946. It includes Ernst Fuchs, Rudolf Hausner, Wolfgang Hutter and Fritz Janschka, all students of Professor Albert Paris von Gutersloh at the Vienna Academy. It was von Gutersloh's emphasis on the techniques of the Old Masters that gave the Fantastic Realist painters a grounding in realism (expressed with a clarity and detail some have compared to early Flemish painting) combined with religious and esoteric symbolism. (references) | ||
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