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fantastic
adjective as in strange, different; imaginary
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absurd, crazy, exotic, fanciful, grotesque, imaginative, implausible, incredible, insane, ludicrous, odd, outlandish, preposterous, ridiculous, singular, unbelievable, unreal, weird
Weak matches
artificial, capricious, chimerical, comical, eccentric, erratic, extravagant, extreme, far-fetched, fictional, foolish, foreign, freakish, hallucinatory, illusive, irrational, mad, misleading, nonsensical, out of sight, peculiar, phantasmagorical, quaint, suppositious, unlikely, wacky, whimsical
adjective as in enormous
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Weak matches
cracking, extreme, humongous, massive, monstrous, monumental, prodigious, severe, stupendous, towering
adjective as in wonderful, excellent
Strongest matches
awesome, delicious, first-rate, great, marvelous, sensational, superb, unreal
Weak matches
A-1, best, best ever, cat's meow, far-out, first-class, like wow, out of sight, out of this world, primo
Example Sentences
The sympathizers, who are to all appearances still innocuous fellow-citizens in a nontotalitarian society, can hardly be called single-minded fanatics; through them, the movements make their fantastic lies more generally acceptable, can spread their propaganda in milder, more respectable forms, until the whole atmosphere is poisoned with totalitarian elements which are hardly recognizable as such but appear to be normal political reactions or opinions.
In an interview on the prize website, she described “Orbital” as a space pastoral and said she wanted to write a realistic, rather than fantastic, version of humans in low Earth orbit.
And I think that’s fantastic.”
"In terms of sport, this is a fantastic opportunity for India to show it wants cricket to flourish, rather than saying 'no, we don't fancy going to Pakistan'. Every one of the big nations need to travel to all of the other countries in order to grow the game and in that respect, India has too much clout."
And Jeremy Strong is fantastic as Cohn, also getting his character’s mannerisms down perfectly.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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