Fantastic

Podcast 1 · Introduction

Fantastic

A documentary-style narration: origin, meaning, and feel.

Part of speech

adjective

Pronunciation

fan-TAS-tik  /fanˈtastɪk/

Definition

Extraordinarily good or attractive; wonderful. Also: imaginative or fanciful; remote from reality; bizarre and difficult to believe.

Plain meaning

Amazingly good — and, in its older sense, belonging to fantasy or imagination rather than reality.

Register

Informal and enthusiastic in its 'wonderful' sense. More formal and literary in its imagination/fantasy sense.