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Chadner Navarro, Travel + Leisure, 9 Apr. 2024
There is a fantastic shop in Maritima called Tulsi selling local kaftans, sandals and crochets.
—Erin Florio, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Apr. 2024
This is fantastic for keeping phones, tablets, laptops and smaller devices charged for days and days.
—Meredith Woerner, Variety, 5 Apr. 2024
Our review notes that this Arlo model is a wireless outdoor security camera that installs in minutes and delivers fantastic 2K video while working well with most personal assistants, from Alexa to Google to HomeKit.
—Gabriela Vatu, PCMAG, 5 Apr. 2024
The Whipped Collection from Negative includes modal boxers that are fantastic for working around vulvodynia symptoms.
—Caroline Reilly, SELF, 4 Apr. 2024
This upholstered platform bed is a fantastic option for those in a never-ending search for more closet and drawer space.
—Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 4 Apr. 2024
Here many of the signals are mixed — but the vibes are fantastic.
—Alex Travelli, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2024
Wow what a fantastic game btw @AlabamaMBB & @UNC_Basketball .
—Ben Morse, CNN, 29 Mar. 2024
Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 3 May 2023
Smith renders the functional fantastic.
—Adam Bradley, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2022
Gemini May 21-June 20 Life is taking a turn for the fantastic.
—Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 15 Mar. 2023
Mixed with this pastoral mood are the first hints of something uncanny, a fantastic of the everyday, as when Toprak’s character, Saffet, is seen smoking at the fairground, an amusement ride at his back, the shrieking bodies awhirl around his head like mad angels.
—Yasmine Seale, Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
Among the fire fights, there's mystery, mischief, and even a few stand alone anthology seasons — like season eight: Dreamland — that are down-right fantastic.
—Melissa Sherrard, EW.com, 6 Jan. 2023
But the reading of Ti’s last wishes sets Josie on a journey to learn her mother’s history, to encounter the fantastic, to discover herself and her own power — and to fight.
—Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2022
However, guest pianist Linda Gentille and Assistant Cruise Director Richard Rubin’s shows were over-the-top fantastic.
—Debbi Kickham, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2022
After a banner 2021 for high-end genre films, industry vets are hopeful that the fantastic can resurrect the corpse of pre-COVID theatrical distribution.
—Jamie Lang, Variety, 12 Feb. 2022
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Word History
Adjective
fantastic going back to Middle English fantastik "of imagination as a faculty, produced by the imagination, not real, unfounded, false, supernatural," borrowed from Middle French & Late Latin; Middle French fantastique, borrowed from Late Latin phantasticus "of the imagination, deceptive, imaginary," borrowed from Greek phantastikós "able to produce the appearance of something, resulting from the imagination," from phantast- (stem in nominal derivation corresponding to phantasía "appearance, image, imagination" and phantázein "to make visible, present to the eye or mind, (middle voice) place before one's mind, imagine") + -ikos -ic entry 1; fantastical going back to Middle English fantasticalle, from fantastik + -alle -al entry 1 — more at fantasy entry 1
Noun
derivative of fantastic entry 1
Adjective
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Noun
1598, in the meaning defined above
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“Fantastic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fantastic. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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