What does Fantastical mean?
Definitions for Fantastical
fan·tas·ti·cal
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Fantastical.
Princeton's WordNet
fantastic, fantasticaladjective
existing in fancy only
"fantastic figures with bulbous heads the circumference of a bushel"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
antic, fantastic, fantastical, grotesqueadjective
ludicrously odd
"Hamlet's assumed antic disposition"; "fantastic Halloween costumes"; "a grotesque reflection in the mirror"
Wiktionary
fantasticaladjective
Of or pertaining to fantasy.
fantasticaladjective
fanciful or whimsical
fantasticaladjective
fantastic
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Fantastical, Fantastickadjective
Etymology: fantastique, Fr. from fantasy.
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.
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.
Are ye fantastical, or that indeed
Which outwardly ye shew? William Shakespeare, Macbeth.Nor happiness can I, nor misery feel,
From any turn of her fantastick wheel. Matthew Prior.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.
ChatGPT
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 Dictionary
Fantasticaladjective
fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Fantastical in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Fantastical in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of Fantastical in a Sentence
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.
The Handmaid Tale's amazing, flattering and horrible, you wished you lived in a world where when people dressed up as handmaids, it was just Halloween and not a political statement. I would very much like our show to become irrelevant -- interesting but completely fantastical.
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.
We cloak it in metaphor -- instead of painting a very literal picture of the person sick in bed we have broader brush strokes and try to create some kind of fantastical environment that mimics that particular situation and within that fantastical environment you can change the circumstance and make them something more triumphant. if you are good friends someone, and you are with one another and have a very strong relationship I think it’s a wonderful and healthy thing to do to be supportive and be physically present and again turning all these emotions into something productive. Turning this darkness into something bright and positive or at least attempting to.
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.
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