Entry Word: fantastic

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 conceived or made without regard for reason or reality <a fantastic scheme for getting rich quick>

Synonyms absurd, bizarre, crazy, fanciful, foolish, insane, nonsensical, preposterous, unreal, wild

Related Words inconceivable, incredible, unbelievable; extravagant, grotesque; eccentric, odd, peculiar, strange, weird; farcical, laughable, ludicrous, ridiculous

Antonyms realistic, reasonable

2 excitingly or mysteriously unusual <to European explorers, the Far East was a fantastic land filled with unimaginable riches> — see exotic
3 not real and existing only in the imagination <a science fiction writer who can conjure up fantastic worlds as make them seem as real as our own> — see imaginary
4 too extraordinary or improbable to believe <concocted some fantastic story to try to explain why they had returned home so late> — see incredible