Fan*tas"tic , n. A person given to fantastic dress, manners,
etc.; an eccentric person; a fop. Milton.
Our fantastics, who, having a fine
watch, take all ocasions to draw it out to be seen.
Fuller.
Fan*tas"tic (?), a. [F. fantastique, fr. Gr.
&?;&?;&?;&?;&?;&?;&?;&?;&?;&?;&?; able to represent, fr.
&?;&?;&?;&?;&?;&?;&?;&?;&?; to make visible. See Fancy.]
1. Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical.
2.
Having the nature of a phantom; unreal.
Shak.
3. Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic mistress.
4.
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.
T. Gray. Syn. -- Fanciful; imaginative;
ideal; visionary; capricious; chimerical; whimsical;
queer. See Fanciful.
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