Another word for fantastic
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Adjective
Appealing to fancy
- Characterized by, arising from, or subject to whimsy:
- Playful or fanciful, especially in a humorous way:
- Having a lively imagination, especially a creative imagination.
- Created by, indicative of, or characterized by imagination or creativity.
- Tending to indulge in the fanciful or in make-believe.
- Highly decorated:
- Complex or intricate:
- Elegantly fashionable or sophisticated:
- Created in the fancy; imaginary or unreal:
- Tending to indulge in fancy:
- Showing invention or whimsy in design; imaginative.
See also:Existing only in the imagination
- Characterized by vision or foresight.
- Having the nature of fantasies or dreams; illusory.
- Existing in imagination only; imaginary.
- Not real or substantial; illusory.
- So remarkable as to elicit disbelief; fantastic.
- Surreal.
- Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.
- Speculative or theoretical.
- Understood in terms of semantic content rather than grammatical structure. The word did is notional in We did the work and relational in We did not agree.
- Having existence only in the imagination; unreal.
- Of or being the coefficient of the imaginary unit in a complex number.
- Of, involving, or being an imaginary number.
- Created in the fancy; imaginary or unreal:
- Tending to indulge in fancy:
- Showing invention or whimsy in design; imaginative.
- Of or relating to concepts or mental conception:
- Of or relating to conceptualism.
- Highly improbable or illusory:
- Relating to or being an organism or substance that is a chimera:
- Relating to a monoclonal antibody produced from the cells of an organism, usually a mouse, in which the constant region has been replaced with a human sequence of amino acids. This is done in the laboratory by replacing part of the DNA sequence in the nonhuman cells of an organism with a sequence of human DNA.
See also:Following no predictable pattern
- Characterized by, arising from, or subject to whimsy:
- Playful or fanciful, especially in a humorous way:
- Evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures.
- Capable of being readily vaporized.
- Tending to vary often or widely, as in price:
- Likely to change or vary; subject to variation; changeable.
- Inconstant; fickle.
- Tending to exhibit genetic variation or variation in a physical trait:
- Not firm, solid, or securely in place; unstable.
- Fluctuating; changeable:
- Not even or regular; wavering:
- Tending strongly to change:
- Not constant; fluctuating:
- Wavering or fickle:
- Difficult to foretell or foresee:
- Something difficult or impossible to foretell or foresee.
- Not known or established; questionable:
- Not determined; undecided:
- Not having sure knowledge:
- Sensitive to tickling.
- Easily offended or upset; touchy.
- Requiring skillful or tactful handling; delicate:
- Relating to or caused by temperament:
- Excessively sensitive or irritable; moody.
- Likely to perform unpredictably; undependable:
- Of or relating to the god Mercury.
- Of or relating to the planet Mercury.
- Having the characteristics of eloquence, shrewdness, swiftness, and thievishness attributed to the god Mercury.
- Changing or varying, especially often and without discernible pattern or reason.
- Fickle; faithless.
- Not regular or predictable; erratic:
- Lacking in correct logical relation; contradictory:
- Not in agreement or harmony; incompatible:
- Markedly unusual or abnormal; strange:
- Relating to or being a freak:
- Capricious or whimsical.
- Characterized by erratic changeableness or instability, especially with regard to affections or attachments; capricious.
- Having no fixed or regular course; wandering:
- Lacking consistency, regularity, or uniformity:
- Deviating from the customary course in conduct or opinion; eccentric:
- Liable to change; capricious:
- Being such that alteration is possible:
- Varying in color or appearance when seen from different angles:
- Characterized by, arising from, or subject to caprice; impulsive or unpredictable:
So remarkable as to elicit disbelief
- Remarkable or extraordinary; wonderful.
- To a wonderful or remarkable extent.
- Admirable or very good; excellent or splendid:
- Capable of eliciting wonder; astonishing:
- Not to be believed; incredible:
- Astonishing, extraordinary, or extreme:
- So great in scope, degree, or importance as to amaze:
- Extremely large in amount, extent, or size; enormous:
- Remarkable; outstanding:
- Impressively great in size, force, or extent; enormous:
- Extraordinary; marvelous:
- Portentous; ominous.
- Of, relating to, or constituting phenomena or a phenomenon.
- Extraordinary; outstanding:
- Known or derived through the senses rather than through the mind.
- Of the nature of a miracle; preternatural.
- So astounding as to suggest a miracle; phenomenal:
- Able to work miracles.
- Causing wonder or astonishment.
- Of the highest or best kind or quality; first-rate:
- So implausible as to elicit disbelief; unbelievable:
- Astonishing, extraordinary, or extreme:
- Extremely pleasing or successful:
- Barely credible; astonishing:
- Of the nature of a fable or myth; legendary.
- Causing astonishment in; causing to be astonished.
- Present participle of astonish.
See also:Conceived or done with no reference to reality or common sense
- Characterized by ludicrous, repulsive, or incongruous distortion, as of appearance or manner.
- Outlandish or bizarre, as in character or appearance.
- Of, relating to, or being the grotesque style in art or a work executed in this style.
- Not readily believable because of improbable elements therein:
- Very strange or unusual, especially in a striking or shocking way.
- A foolish or ludicrous act; a caper:
- A buffoon, especially a performing clown.
- Ludicrously odd; bizarre.
Consisting or suggestive of fiction
- Having been fabricated; invented:
- Changed or adorned by the application of cosmetics or makeup:
- Complete; finished:
- Of, relating to, or created by imaginative invention.
- Of, relating to, or being fiction; fictional.
- Relating to or being a kinshiplike relationship among people who are not related by heredity, marriage, or adoption, often involving the use of kinship terms.
- Concocted or fabricated, especially in order to deceive or mislead; make up:
- Of or relating to the characters, settings, or plots that are created for a work of fiction:
- Created in the fancy; imaginary or unreal:
- Tending to indulge in fancy:
- Showing invention or whimsy in design; imaginative.
See also:Particularly excellent
Idioms:See also:
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Another word for fantastic
Modifier
Based on or suggesting fantasy
- Extremely unconventional:
- (literally) Not accessible to view.
- (idiomatic, of a goal, aspiration, etc) Not yet attainable.
- (idiomatic, colloquial) Superb, excellent.
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of a style in art and architecture developed in Europe from the early 17th to mid-18th century, emphasizing dramatic, often strained effect and typified by bold, curving forms, elaborate ornamentation, and overall balance of disparate parts.
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of a style of composition that flourished in Europe from about 1600 to 1750, marked by expressive dissonance and elaborate ornamentation.
- Extravagant, complex, or bizarre, especially in ornamentation:
- Made by humans, especially in imitation of something natural:
- Not arising from natural or necessary causes; contrived or arbitrary:
- Affected or insincere:
- Having manners of a specific kind:
- Having or showing a certain manner:
- Artificial or affected:
- Acted upon, influenced, or changed.
- Emotionally stirred or moved.
- Infected or attacked, as by disease.
- Exceedingly lofty or exalted:
- Highly pretentious or inflated:
- Of or characterized by hallucination.
- Inducing hallucination.
- Having existence only in the imagination; unreal.
- Of or being the coefficient of the imaginary unit in a complex number.
- Of, involving, or being an imaginary number.
- Illusory.
- Not clear in meaning or expression; inexplicit.
- Not thinking or expressing oneself clearly:
- Lacking definite shape, form, or character; indistinct:
- Extremely unreasonable, incongruous, or inappropriate:
- Impossible to take seriously; silly:
- Of, relating to, or manifesting the view that there is no order or meaning in human life or in the universe.
- Departing from a recognized, conventional, or established norm or pattern.
- Deviating from a circular form or path, as in an elliptical orbit.
- Not having the same center:
- Created in the fancy; imaginary or unreal:
- Tending to indulge in fancy:
- Showing invention or whimsy in design; imaginative.
- Highly improbable or illusory:
- Characterized by ludicrous, repulsive, or incongruous distortion, as of appearance or manner.
- Outlandish or bizarre, as in character or appearance.
- Of, relating to, or being the grotesque style in art or a work executed in this style.
- Not real or substantial; illusory.
- So remarkable as to elicit disbelief; fantastic.
- Surreal.
- Difficult to believe; not plausible.
- Contrary to nature, reason, or common sense; absurd.
- Deserving or inspiring ridicule; absurd, preposterous, or silly.
- So absurd or incongruous as to be laughable.
- Most remote in any direction; outermost or farthest:
- Being in or attaining the greatest or highest degree; very intense:
- Being far beyond the norm:
- Extremely pleasing or successful:
- Barely credible; astonishing:
- Of the nature of a fable or myth; legendary.
- From another part of the world; foreign:
- Intriguingly unusual or different; excitingly strange:
- Of or involving striptease:
- Located away from one's native country:
- Of, characteristic of, or from a place or country other than the one being considered:
- Conducted or involved with other nations or governments; not domestic:
- Provoking mirth or amusement; funny.
- Of or relating to comedy.
- Admirable or very good; excellent or splendid:
- Capable of eliciting wonder; astonishing:
- Having no fixed or regular course; wandering:
- Lacking consistency, regularity, or uniformity:
- Deviating from the customary course in conduct or opinion; eccentric:
- Strikingly odd or unusual, especially in an unsettling way; strange:
- Suggestive of the supernatural:
- Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
- Very strange or unusual, especially in a striking or shocking way.
- Conspicuously unconventional; bizarre.
- Located far from civilized areas; remote:
- Of foreign origin; not native.
- Not ordinary or usual; odd or strange:
- Belonging distinctively or primarily to one person, group, or kind; special or unique:
- A privilege or property that is exclusively one's own.
- Being only one; individual; lone:
- Being the only one of a kind; unique:
- Being beyond what is ordinary, especially in being exceptionally good; remarkable:
- Charmingly odd, especially in an old-fashioned way:
- Unfamiliar or unusual in character; strange:
- Cleverly made or done.
- Deviating from what is expected or normal; strange:
- Odd or unconventional, as in behavior; eccentric:
- Of a questionable nature or character; suspicious:
- Deviating from what is ordinary, usual, or expected; strange or peculiar:
- Being in excess of the indicated or approximate number, extent, or degree. Often used in combination:
- Constituting a remainder:
- Not previously known; unfamiliar:
- Not of one's own or a particular locality, environment, or kind; not native:
- Out of the ordinary or difficult to account for; unusual or peculiar:
- Markedly unusual or abnormal; strange:
- Relating to or being a freak:
- Capricious or whimsical.
- Exceeding reasonable bounds:
- Unreasonably high in cost; exorbitant:
- Lavish or imprudent in spending money:
- Characterized by, arising from, or subject to caprice; impulsive or unpredictable:
- Characterized by, arising from, or subject to whimsy:
- Playful or fanciful, especially in a humorous way:
Antonyms:Seemingly impossible
- Of, relating to, or constituting phenomena or a phenomenon.
- Extraordinary; outstanding:
- Known or derived through the senses rather than through the mind.
- Not to be believed; incredible:
- Astonishing, extraordinary, or extreme:
- So implausible as to elicit disbelief; unbelievable:
- Astonishing, extraordinary, or extreme:
Synonym Study
- Grotesque suggests a ludicrously unnatural distortion of the normal or real, or a fantastic combination of elements the grotesque grimaces of the comedian
- Bizarre suggests that which is extraordinarily eccentric or strange because of startling incongruities, extreme contrasts, etc. music with a bizarre atonality
- Fantastic implies a lack of restraint in imagination, suggesting that which is extravagantly fanciful or unreal in design, conception, construction, etc. fantastic notions
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