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<syn>Syn. -- Fanciful; imaginative; ideal; visionary; capricious; chimerical; whimsical; queer. See <er>Fanciful</er>.</syn>

<h1>Fantastic</h1> <Xpage=542>

<hw>Fan*tas"tic</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A person given to fantastic dress, manners, etc.; an eccentric person; a fop.</def>

<i>Milton.</i>

<blockquote>Our <b>fantastics</b>, who, having a fine watch, take all ocasions to drow it out to be seen. <i>Fuller.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Fantastical</h1> <Xpage=542>

<hw>Fan*tas"tic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic.</def>

<h1>Fantasticality</h1> <Xpage=542>

<hw>Fan*tas`ti*cal"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Fantastically.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Fantastically</h1> <Xpage=542>

<hw>Fan*tas"tic*al*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a fantastic manner.</def>

<blockquote>the letter A, in scarlet, <b>fantastically</b> embroidered with gold thread, upon her bosom. <i>Hawthorne.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Fantastic-alness</h1> <Xpage=542>

<hw>Fan*tas"tic-al*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality of being fantastic.</def>

<h1>Fantasticism</h1> <Xpage=542>

<hw>Fan*tas"ti*cism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality of being fantastical; fancifulness; whimsicality.</def>

<i>Ruskin.</i>

<h1>Fantasticly</h1> <Xpage=542>

<hw>Fan*tas"tic*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>Fantastically.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Fantasticness</h1> <Xpage=542>

<hw>Fan*tas"tic*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Fantasticalness.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Fantasticco</h1> <Xpage=542>

<hw>Fan*tas"tic*co</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[It.]</ety> <def>A fantastic.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Fantasy</h1> <Xpage=542>

<hw>Fan"ta*sy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Fantasies</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[See <er>Fancy</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice; humor.</def>

<blockquote>Is not this something more than <b>fantasy</b> ? <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>A thousand <b>fantasies</b> Being to throng into my memory. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>