Definitions for fantastical
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fantastic, fantasticaladjective

   existing in fancy only

   "fantastic figures with bulbous heads the circumference of a bushel"- Nathaniel Hawthorne

2. antic, fantastic, fantastical, grotesqueadjective

   ludicrously odd

   "Hamlet's assumed antic disposition"; "fantastic Halloween costumes"; "a grotesque reflection in the mirror"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fantasticaladjective

   Of or pertaining to fantasy.

2. fantasticaladjective

   fanciful or whimsical

3. fantasticaladjective

   fantastic

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fantastical, Fantastickadjective

   Etymology: fantastique, Fr. from fantasy.

   1. Irrational; bred only in the imagination.

   The delight that a man takes from another’s sin, can be nothing else but a fantastical, preternatural complacency, arising from that which he really has no feeling of. South.

   2. Subsisting only in the fancy; imaginary.

   Present feats
   Are less than horrible imaginings:
   My thought, whose murther yet is but fantastical,
   Shakes so my single state of man, that function
   Is smother’d in surmise; and nothing is,
   But what is not. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   Men are so possessed with their own fancies, that they take them for oracles; and are arrived to some extraordinary revelations of truth, when indeed they do but dream dreams, and amuse themselves with the fantastick ideas of a busy imagination. Decay of Piety.

   3. Unreal; apparent only; having the nature of phantoms which only assume visible forms occasionally.

   Are ye fantastical, or that indeed
   Which outwardly ye shew? William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   4. Capricious; humourous; unsteady; irregular.

   Nor happiness can I, nor misery feel,
   From any turn of her fantastick wheel. Matthew Prior.

   5. Whimsical; fanciful; indulgent to one’s own imagination.

   They put such words in the mouths of one of these fantastical mind-infected people, that children and musicians call lovers. Philip Sidney.

   I’ll knit it up in silken strings,
   With twenty odd conceited true love knots:
   To be fantastick, may become a youth
   Of greater time than I. William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona.

   Duumvir is provided with an imperious, expensive and fantastick mistress; to whom he retires from the conversation of a discreet and affectionate wife. Tatler.

   We are apt to think your medallists a little fantastical in the different prices they set upon their coins, without any regard to the metal of which they are composed. Addison.

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1. fantastical

   Fantastical refers to something that is conceived or seeming to be conceived by an unrestrained imagination; incredibly imaginative, strange, or extremely fanciful. It typically pertains to imaginative creations that often venture beyond the realm of reality. This term often illustrates elements of fiction, fantasy, or extravagant exaggeration.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fantasticaladjective

   fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of fantastical in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of fantastical in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of fantastical in a Sentence

1. Elizabeth Marvel:

   We all assume that what we're doing on TV tends toward the fantastical, so it's been intense that it has been so [much like a] docudrama, quite frankly, it is remarkable how these writers read the tea leaves and see what's coming.

2. City Commissioner Al Schmidt:

   I have seen the most fantastical things on social media, making completely ridiculous allegations that have no basis in fact at all and see them spread.

3. Britney Spears:

   Britney was the family's breadwinner, and she also otherwise supported you. Publicly airing false or fantastical grievances is wrong, especially when designed to sell books. It is also potentially unlawful and defamatory.

4. Burton:

   It is a kind of policy in these days to prefix a fantastical title to a book which is to be sold; for as larks come down to a day-net, many vain readers will tarry and stand gazing, like silly passengers, at an antic picture in a painter?s shop that will not look at a judicious piece.

5. William Hazlitt:

   Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath -- tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=fantastical
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Fantastical
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=fantastical
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fantastical