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# fantastic

adjective (fantastic; more fantastic, most fantastic)

«fantastic» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (informal) Fantastic means extremely good, wonderful: «a fantastic party». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fantastic/#m1)
2. Fantastic means strange and imaginary, like something from a fantasy story: «fantastic creatures». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fantastic/#m2)
3. (informal) A fantastic amount is very large: «a fantastic sum of money». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fantastic/#m3)

### In the lessons

In everyday life and school, teachers say «Fantastic work!» as praise. In reading lessons, fantastic beasts and fantastic worlds belong to fantasy stories, not real life. Phrases: «fantastic!», «a fantastic time», «fantastic beasts».

### Examples

- We had a fantastic time at the beach. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fantastic/#x1)
- Fantastic work on your story! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fantastic/#x2)
- The book is full of fantastic creatures like dragons and griffins. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fantastic/#x3)
- The view from the mountain was fantastic. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fantastic/#x4)
- He told a fantastic tale about flying to the moon. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fantastic/#x5)
- The prize was a fantastic amount of money. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fantastic/#x6)
- The broken clouds hung in fantastic forms upon the wood-covered hills by the rapid Rhone. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fantastic/#x7)

### Note

Used a lot in speech; in careful writing, choose a more exact word (excellent, imaginative). Adverb: fantastically. Related: fantasy (imaginary stories). Old sense «imaginary» is still used in stories.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «fantastic» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fantastic/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«fantastic» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/fantastic.html) on Mova free.