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58 words match “FANTAST”

FANTAST n.
One whose manners or ideas are fantastic. [R.] Coleridge.
FANTASTIC a. 5 definitions
Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic mistress.
FANTASTIC-ALNESS n.
The quality of being fantastic.
FANTASTICAL a.
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.]
FANTASTICO n.
A fantastic. [Obs.] Shak.
ANTIC a. 2 definitions
Odd; fantastic; fanciful; grotesque; ludicrous. The antic postures of a merry-andrew. Addison. The Saxons . . . worshiped many idols, barbarous in name, some monstrous, all antic for shape. Fuller.
ANTIQUE a.
Odd; fantastic. [In this sense, written antic.]
APISH a.
Having the qualities of an ape; prone to imitate in a servile manner. Hence: Apelike; fantastically silly; foppish; affected; trifling. The apish gallantry of a fantastic boy. Sir W. Scott.
ARABESQUE n.
nts, fruits, foliage, etc., as well as figures of men and animals, real or imaginary, are fantastically interlaced or put together.
BAD LANDS n.
rn United States, where horizontal strata (Tertiary deposits) have been often eroded into fantastic forms, and much intersected by canons, and where lack of wood, water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country, whence the name, first given by the Canadian French, Mauvaises Terres (bad lands).…
BAUBLE n.
club. [Obs.] "A fool's bauble was a short stick with a head ornamented with an ass's ears fantastically carved upon it." Nares.
BIZARRE a.
Odd in manner or appearance; fantastic; whimsical; extravagant; grotesque. C. Kingsley.
CALENDER n.
One of a sect or order of fantastically dressed or painted dervishes.
CAPRICIOSO; CAPRICCIOSO a.
In a free, fantastic style.
CHIMERICAL a.
Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in thought; as, chimerical projects.
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