Quaint or strange in form, conception, or appearance. Unrestrainedly fanciful; extravagant: fantastic hopes (like actually winning the race... you wish!). Bizarre, as in form or appearance; strange: fantastic attire; fantastic behavior. Based on or existing only in fantasy; unreal: fantastic ideas about his own superiority on a cross bike. Wonderful or superb; remarkable: a fantastic trip to Europe to actually see a 'real' cross race.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English ‘fantastik’, imagined bike race in knee deep mud, from Old French ‘fantastique’, from Late Latin ‘phantasticus’, imaginary, from Greek ‘phantastikos’, able to create mental images of bikes in mud, from phantazesthai, to appear strong while freezing, wet and covered in mud; see fantasy
OTHER FORMS: fan·tas ti·cal i· (Noun), fan·tas ti·cal·ly (Adverb)
SYNONYMS: fantastic, bizarre, grotesque, fanciful, exotic
These adjectives apply to what may seem to be a very strange or strikingly unusual bike race in a city park. Fantastic describes what seems to have slight relation to the real world because of its strangeness or extravagance: "could there actually be 50 half naked men and women covered in mud jumping over barriers… WTF? That is Cross-Tastic!". Bizarre stresses oddness that is heightened by striking contrasts and incongruities and that shocks or fascinates: a bizarre art nouveau façade. Grotesque refers principally to deformity and distortion that approach the point of caricature or even absurdity: statues of grotesque pain push back again the prevailing winds as they rode like possessed demons emerging from the deep mud to wreak revenge on your very soul! Fanciful applies to what is strongly influenced by imagination, caprice, or whimsy: a fanciful pattern of multi-colored lights danced before his eyes as he collapses in near complete exhaustion happy only to lie still in the mud. Something exotic is unusual and intriguing: exotic colors adorned their skintight shorts and shits as the flow past like the wind in a mad dash for the finish line.
These adjectives apply to what may seem to be a very strange or strikingly unusual bike race in a city park. Fantastic describes what seems to have slight relation to the real world because of its strangeness or extravagance: "could there actually be 50 half naked men and women covered in mud jumping over barriers… WTF? That is Cross-Tastic!". Bizarre stresses oddness that is heightened by striking contrasts and incongruities and that shocks or fascinates: a bizarre art nouveau façade. Grotesque refers principally to deformity and distortion that approach the point of caricature or even absurdity: statues of grotesque pain push back again the prevailing winds as they rode like possessed demons emerging from the deep mud to wreak revenge on your very soul! Fanciful applies to what is strongly influenced by imagination, caprice, or whimsy: a fanciful pattern of multi-colored lights danced before his eyes as he collapses in near complete exhaustion happy only to lie still in the mud. Something exotic is unusual and intriguing: exotic colors adorned their skintight shorts and shits as the flow past like the wind in a mad dash for the finish line.
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