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Fantastic and Awesome Definitions

Fantastic

Based on or existing only in fantasy; unreal
Fantastic mythological creatures.
The fantastic realms of science fiction.

Awesome

Inspiring awe
An awesome thunderstorm.

Fantastic

Strange or fanciful in form, conception, or appearance
“The fire assumed fantastic shapes as he watched” (Ward Just).

Awesome

Expressing awe
Stood in awesome silence before the ancient ruins.

Fantastic

Unrealistic; irrational
“the early jubilant years of the Restoration with their fantastic hopes of a Golden Age and incorruptible power” (Janet Todd).

Awesome

(Slang) Remarkable; outstanding
"a totally awesome arcade game" (Los Angeles Times).
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Fantastic

Exceedingly great in size or degree; extravagant
A fantastic sum of money.

Awesome

(dated) Causing awe or terror; inspiring wonder or excitement.
The waterfall in the middle of the rainforest was an awesome sight.
The tsunami was awesome in its destructive power.

Fantastic

Wonderful or superb; remarkable
A fantastic trip to Europe.

Awesome

(colloquial) Excellent, exciting, remarkable.
That was awesome!
Awesome, dude!

Fantastic

An eccentric person.

Awesome

(slang) nodot=a: the quality, state, or essence of being awesome.
Pure awesome
Made of awesome
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Fantastic

Existing in or constructed from fantasy; of or relating to fantasy; fanciful.
He told fantastic stories of dragons and goblins.
His fantastic post-college plans had all collapsed within a year of graduation.
She had a fantastic view of her own importance that none of her colleagues shared.

Awesome

Causing awe; appalling; awful; as, an awesome sight.

Fantastic

Not believable; implausible; seemingly only possible in fantasy.
The events were so fantastic that only the tabloids were willing to print them.
She entered the lab and stood gaping for a good ten minutes at the fantastic machinery at work all around her.

Awesome

Expressive of awe or terror.
An awesome glance up at the auld castle.

Fantastic

Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; grotesque.

Awesome

Inspiring awe or admiration or wonder;
New York is an amazing city
The Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight
The awesome complexity of the universe
This sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath
Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent
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Fantastic

Wonderful; marvelous; excellent; extraordinarily good or great (used especially as an intensifier).
"I had a simply fantastic vacation, and I can't wait to tell you all about it!"

Fantastic

(archaic) A fanciful or whimsical person.

Fantastic

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

Fantastic

Having the nature of a phantom; unreal.

Fantastic

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

Fantastic

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.

Fantastic

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

Fantastic

Ludicrously odd;
Hamlet's assumed antic disposition
Fantastic Halloween costumes
A grotesque reflection in the mirror

Fantastic

Extraordinarily good; used especially as intensifiers;
A fantastic trip to the Orient
The film was fantastic!
A howling success
A marvelous collection of rare books
Had a rattling conversation about politics
A tremendous achievement

Fantastic

Extravagantly fanciful and unrealistic; foolish;
A fantastic idea of his own importance

Fantastic

Existing in fancy only;
Fantastic figures with bulbous heads the circumference of a bushel

Fantastic

Exceedingly or unbelievably great;
The bomb did fantastic damage
Samson is supposed to have had fantastic strength
Phenomenal feats of memory

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