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Fantastic Fænˈtæstɪk Adjective Job Opportunity Students Achievement Weather

Word3 fantastic
WordType (adjective)
Phonetic /fænˈtæstɪk/ /fænˈtæstɪk/
Example
  • he's done a fantastic job.
  • this was a fantastic opportunity for students.
  • you look fantastic!
  • it was a fantastic achievement.
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fantastic

(adjective)/fænˈtæstɪk/ /fænˈtæstɪk/
  1. extremely good; excellent
    • SYNONYM great
      https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/great_2
    • 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 was fantastic to see so many families enjoying themselves.

    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!’
  2. very large; larger than you expected
    • SYNONYM enormous
      https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/enormous
    • The response to our appeal was fantastic.
    • The car costs a fantastic amount of money.
  3. strange and showing a lot of imagination
    • SYNONYM weird
      https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/weird_2
    • fantastic dreams of forests and jungles
  4. 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 Origin

    • late 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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