fantastic [ fan·tas·tic ]
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1. Extraordinarily good or attractive.
He has a wonderful wife, a fantastic job and two brilliant children.
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2. Of an extraordinary size or degree.
she had spent a fantastic amount of cash
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3. Imaginative or fanciful; remote from reality.
fantastic hybrid creatures
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4. (of an object) seeming more appropriate to the imagination than to reality; strange or exotic.
The world before the flood is fantastic and strange, alluringly unreal.
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Origin
1. 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 centuries the Latinized spelling phantastic was also used.

