(a.) Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical.
(a.) Having the nature of a phantom; unreal.
(a.) Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic mistress.
(a.) Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; oddly shaped; grotesque.
(n.) A person given to fantastic dress, manners, etc.; an eccentric person; a fop.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cape no longer has the monopoly on talent; the stars are scattered these days, and Franklin's "fantastically discriminating" deputy Robin Robertson can take credit for many recent triumphs, including their most recent Booker winner, Anne Enright.
(2) I’m so happy to be joining Arsenal, a club which has a great manager, a fantastic squad of players, huge support around the world and a great stadium in London,” said Sánchez.
(3) I suppose he’ll have to go to QPR.” Lampard released a statement confirming his departure from Chelsea that read: “When I arrived at this fantastic club 13 years ago I would never have believed that I would be fortunate enough to play so many games and enjoy sharing in so much success.
(4) He is big, strong, athletic, very quick and has got a fantastic leap on him," said McClaren.
(5) Thank you to Manchester United, not just the directors, coaching staff, medical staff, the players, the fans, all of you – you have been the most fantastic experience of my life, so thank you.
(6) Fantastic Beasts, which is set 70 years prior to the arrival of Potter and his pals at the magical Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, will feature the swashbuckling adventurer Newt Scamander.
(7) I went to see the Who recently, which was fantastic, but the band I truly love has to be the one I first got into, Guns N' Roses.
(8) United have a fantastic spirit, we don't have the same spirit.
(9) "[The consortium award] is fantastic news for them and is a testament to the leadership of their individual organisations," he said.
(10) I think we are still the underdogs because they have high quality but we will try to do our best – if we lose it’s because Sevilla made a fantastic performance.” As well as missing a penalty Sevilla also hit the woodwork on two occasions, with the Leicester goal living a charmed life at times.
(11) While the last 20 minutes were as low key as World Cup games get, Klose was responsible for a fantastic block to deny Alejandro Bedoya an equaliser in stoppage time.
(12) "There are idle MPs with no outside interests and there are fantastic public servants that do have them."
(13) He hailed the decision to award the Games to London, saying: "This is just the most fantastic opportunity to do everything we ever dreamed of in British sport."
(14) If you were to say within the aviation industry we can reduce our carbon footprint by 25%, people would be saying well that’s fantastic, that is big news.
(15) It is the most fantastic exercise: high intensity, all the limbs are moving simultaneously, and you have to try to keep the brain fully focused.
(16) Undoubtedly some of them see the Corbyn surge as a fantastic recruitment opportunity, or the next stage in fomenting the kind of revolution that has never taken place in a single western country.
(17) My experience, my maturity, was always present in the control of the emotions and the situation and during the season we had some crucial moments that we coped with in a fantastic way.
(18) The Libyan Red Crescent (LRC) is really one of the few actors left on the ground, along with a handful of national NGOs.” “The LRC volunteers are doing a fantastic job despite the difficult and challenging environment but at some point they will need support,” he said, adding that assessments were ongoing and a potential deployment by federation members from Tunisia was under consideration.
(19) She is fantastically clever and when she's on about ideas she is astonishing.
(20) It was intended, according to its creator, as a “warning to America”, a horrifying and fantastical vision of the future in which the US – ludicrously – had elected as its president Donald Trump .
Surreal
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Future Brown have connections in the fashion industry, last year soundtracking a surreal film for the brand Telfar.
(2) But now the document turns crazily surreal, like the pointless war itself.
(3) According to Deborah Mattinson, his pollster, Brown " loved slogans and believed them to be imbued with a mystical power capable of persuading the most intransigent voter", and therefore went a bundle on them – not least " A future fair for all ", the surreal dud with which Labour went to the country in 2010, following 2005's equally idiotic " forward not back ".
(4) The surreal air of calm surrounding Spain's bond market shows no signs of dissipating.
(5) But, such is the intensity and surreal nature of this situation, we are all experiencing an emotional journey of self-discovery that will change us – hopefully for the better – for ever.
(6) "It started out as surreal, then people joined in and it sort of faded a bit, but it seemed pretty heartfelt from Rodman's side," Simon Cockerell, a tour guide who attended the game, told Reuters.
(7) There is the very real, or perhaps surreal, prospect, of postal workers simultaneously downing tools (parking their trolleys) and subscribing a few hundred quid for Royal Mail shares.
(8) The show stars Berry as a jobbing actor with vaunting ambition who gets into surreal scrapes, with a supporting cast including Doon Mackichan as his agent and Robert Bathurst as his housemate.
(9) Platt: "But when you score a goal like that you just go outside yourself for a bit, everything is surreal.
(10) Others are said to be clinging on to the idea that Ukip remains a convenient means of taking votes from the Tories (witness the surreally complacent words of the Labour frontbencher Angela Eagle: “I’m not as worried as some might be about Ukip’s appeal to Labour voters.
(11) Most people were concerned about how many people had been killed but luckily enough there was no game on at the time and it was the middle of the afternoon and it was a surreal experience.
(12) Was it surreal seeing your brother, Boris Johnson , take much of the credit for organising the whole thing?
(13) Before the crash, the proposed solutions to Bradford’s problems sometimes entered the realms of the surreal.
(14) In recent weeks, during which I kept waiting for the phrase “THE TRIAL OF ROLF HARRIS” to stop sounding completely surreal (it didn’t), I have pondered them a lot.
(15) A man with a machine gun chatting to a protester about midgies might seem delightfully British, but it also emphasises the surrealness of Trident and how we resort to small talk because its destructive potential is so unfathomably big.
(16) The police had blocked the roads – they also told us they didn’t know much more than us, and it was all a bit surreal.
(17) The DNC, the Sanders campaign and the Clinton campaign have all been damaged by one of the most surreal political scandals in recent history.
(18) Surreal character comedy doesn’t do it justice, really.
(19) There's something oddly surreal about some of these images.
(20) So, again, we weren't kidding when we said this whole thing was going to be surreal for a variety of reasons, not all of them particularly fun or amusing.