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Same as Phantasm.

One whose manners or ideas are fantastic. [R.] Coleridge.

FANTASTIC a. 5 definitions

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

FANTASTIC-ALNESS n.

The quality of being fantastic.

Fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic.

FANTASTICALITY n.

Fantastically. [Obs.]

FANTASTICALLY adv.

In a fantastic manner. the letter A, in scarlet, fantastically embroidered with gold thread, upon her bosom. Hawthorne.

FANTASTICISM n.

The quality of being fantastical; fancifulness; whimsicality. Ruskin.

FANTASTICLY adv.

Fantastically. [Obs.]

FANTASTICNESS n.

Fantasticalness. [Obs.]

A fantastic. [Obs.] Shak.

FANTASY n. 3 definitions

Fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice; humor. Is not this something more than fantasy Shak. A thousand fantasies Being to throng into my memory. Milton.

FANTIGUE; FANTIQUE n.

State of worry or excitment; fidget; ill humor. [Prov. Eng.] Dickens.

Puppets caused to perform evolutions or dramatic scenes by means of machinery; also, the representations in which they are used.

FANTOD; FANTAD n.

State of worry or excitement; fidget; fuss; also, indisposition; pet; sulks. [Slang]

See Phantom. Fantom corn, phantom corn. Grose.

Fuddled. [Obs.] Shak.

FAR a. 10 definitions

remote; mutually separated by a wide space or extent. They said, . . . We be come from a far country. Josh. ix. 6. The nations far and near contend in choice. Dryden.

A going out of the way; a digression. [Obs.] Fuller.