- (informal) extremely good; excellent synonym great, brilliant
- He's done a fantastic job.
- This was a fantastic opportunity for students.
- You look fantastic!
- It was a fantastic achievement.
- The weather was absolutely fantastic.
- You've got the job? Fantastic!
- it is fantastic to do something It was fantastic to see so many families enjoying themselves.
Synonyms greatgreatcool ▪ fantastic ▪ fabulous ▪ terrific ▪ brilliant ▪ awesome ▪ epicThese are all informal words that describe somebody/something that is very good, impressive, great fun, etc.great (informal) very good; giving a lot of pleasure:- We had a great time in Madrid.
- I think their new song’s really cool.
- ‘How was your holiday?’ ‘Fantastic!’
- Jane’s a fabulous cook.
- She’s doing a terrific job.
- ‘How was the show?’ ‘Brilliant!’
- The show was just awesome.
- The adventure and action are truly epic in scope.
- to have a(n) great/cool/fantastic/fabulous/terrific/brilliant/awesome time
- to look/sound great/cool/fantastic/fabulous/terrific/brilliant/awesome
- really great/cool/fantastic/fabulous/terrific/brilliant/awesome
- absolutely great/fantastic/fabulous/terrific/brilliant/awesome/epic
Extra Examples- The sense of freedom was absolutely fantastic.
- a fantastic beach in Australia
- This cake tastes fantastic.
- We had a really fantastic holiday.
- We had really fantastic weather in Rio.
- ‘How was your trip?’ ‘ Fantastic!’
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- feel
- look
- …
- really
- truly
- utterly
- …
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- (informal) very large; larger than you expected synonym enormous, amazing
- The response to our appeal was fantastic.
- The car costs a fantastic amount of money.
- (also less frequent fantastical)[usually before noun] strange and showing a lot of imagination synonym weird
- fantastic dreams of forests and jungles
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- look
- seem
- …
- rather
- impossible to put into practice; impossible to believe
- a fantastic scheme/project
- It may sound rather fantastic, but it's the truth.
- The plot gets increasingly fantastic as the film goes on.
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘unreal’): from Old French fantastique, via medieval Latin from Greek phantastikos, from phantazein ‘make visible’, phantazesthai ‘have visions, imagine’, from phantos ‘visible’ (related to phainein ‘to show’). From the 16th to the 19th cents the Latinized spelling phantastic was also used.
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