fantastically

adverb

fan·​tas·​ti·​cal·​ly fan-ˈta-sti-k(ə-)lē 

fən-

1

: in a fantastic manner

2

: to a fantastic degree : extremely

fantastically expensive clothes

Synonyms

• achingly
• almighty
• archly
• awful
• awfully
• badly
• beastly
• blisteringly
• bone
• colossally
• corking
• cracking
• damn
• damned
• dang
• deadly
• desperately
• eminently
• enormously
• especially
• ever
• exceedingly
• exceeding
• extra
• extremely
• fabulously
• far
• fiercely
• filthy
• frightfully
• full
• greatly
• heavily
• highly
• hugely
• immensely
• incredibly
• intensely
• jolly
• majorly
• mightily
• mighty
• monstrous [chiefly dialect]
• mortally
• most
• much
• particularly
• passing
• rattling
• real
• really
• right
• roaring
• roaringly
• seriously
• severely
• so
• sore
• sorely
• spanking
• specially
• stinking
• such
• super
• supremely
• surpassingly
• terribly
• that
• thumping
• too
• unco
• uncommonly
• vastly
• very
• vitally
• way
• whacking
• wicked
• wildly

Examples of fantastically in a Sentence

a community production of the classic musical that featured fantastically bad singing

Recent Examples on the Web

Every department quickly gelled in the effort to create an ideal tension between the fantastically epic and the achingly intimate. —Scott Huver, Variety, 15 May 2024

Leo July 23 – August 22 This could be a fantastically productive day. —Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 5 Mar. 2024

Word History

Etymology

fantastical + -ly entry 2

First Known Use

1543, in the meaning defined at sense 1