FANTASTICALLY

fabulously, fantastically, incredibly

(adverb) exceedingly; extremely; “she plays fabulously well”; “behind you the coastal hills plunge to the incredibly blue sea backed by the Turkish mountains”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adverb

fantastically (comparative more fantastically, superlative most fantastically)

In a fantastic manner.

To an extent only in fantasy' outrageously; ridiculously.

Source: Wiktionary


Fan*tas"tic*al*ly, adv.

Definition: In a fantastic manner. the letter A, in scarlet, fantastically embroidered with gold thread, upon her bosom. Hawthorne.

FANTASTIC

Fan*tas"tic, a. Etym: [F. fantastique, fr. Gr. Fancy.]

1. Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical.

2. Having the nature of a phantom; unreal. Shak.

3. Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic mistress.

4. Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; oddly shaped; grotesque. There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high. T. Gray.

Syn.

– Fanciful; imaginative; ideal; visionary; capricious; chimerical; whimsical; queer. See Fanciful.

Fan*tas"tic, n.

Definition: A person given to fantastic dress, manners, etc.; an eccentric person; a fop. Milton. Our fantastics, who, having a fine watch, take all ocasions to drow it out to be seen. Fuller.

FANTASTICAL

Fan*tas"tic*al, a.

Definition: Fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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