FANTASTIC

a. n.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical.

2.
a.

Having the nature of a phantom; unreal. Shak.

3.
a.

Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic mistress.

4.
a.

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.

5.
n.

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.