Synonyms for fantastic
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Wonderful — wonderful; marvelous; excellent; extraordinarily good or great (used especially as an intensifier)
wonderful, terrific, great informal, gurt UK, phenomenal, marvelous US, marvellous UK, superb, fabulous, incredible, excellent, good, brilliant, extraordinary, splendid, spectacular, outstanding, exceptional, remarkable, tremendous, super, strange, sensational, astounding
2. Fantastical — not believable; implausible; seemingly only possible in fantasy
unreal informal, wild, bizarre, crazy, fanciful, grotesque, unrealistic, insane, antic, romantic, whimsical, absurd, foolish, illusive, imaginary, baroque, chimerical, capricious, crotchety, maggoty, fantastical rare, humorsome rare US, humoursome UK
Other
imaginative, preposterous, nonsensical, spectral, phantasmal
Definitions
- adj. 1
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!"
- adj. 2
Not believable; implausible; seemingly only possible in fantasy.
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That is fanciful which is dictated or suggested by fancy independently of more serious considerations; the fantastic is the fanciful with the added elements of whimsicalness and extravagance.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- wonderful The music we listened to last night was wonderful.
- superb It goes without saying that he is a superb pianist.
- terrific "You look terrific. Did you lose weight?" "I wish."
- phenomenal He lifted the car with his phenomenal strength.
- imaginative I struggle to understand their imaginative worlds.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| fantastic | rising | |
| wonderful | rising | |
| superb | steady | |
| terrific | rising | |
| phenomenal | steady | |
| imaginative | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- good1, wild1, gurt
- 5 letters
- great1, super2, crazy2, antic2
- 6 letters
- insane2, superb2, absurd2, unreal2
- 7 letters
- strange1, bizarre2, foolish2, baroque2, maggoty
- 8 letters
- romantic3, fabulous3, terrific3, splendid2, spectral2, fanciful3, illusive3
- 9 letters
- wonderful3, excellent3, brilliant2, imaginary5, marvelous3, grotesque2, whimsical3, crotchety3, humorsome
- 10 letters
- incredible4, remarkable4, tremendous3, phenomenal4, astounding3, marvellous3, capricious3, chimerical4, phantasmal, humoursome
- 11 letters
- outstanding3, spectacular4, exceptional4, sensational4, unrealistic4, imaginative5, fantastical, nonsensical4
- 12 letters
- preposterous4
- 13 letters
- extraordinary6
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (super2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- fantastique
- Italiano
- fantastico
- Español
- fantástico
- Deutsch
- fantastisch
- Català
- fantàstic