Meaning & use

fantastic

adjective·Everyday

Extremely good or impressive; excellent.

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The team put on a fantastic performance in front of a sold-out stadium.

We had a fantastic time exploring the old town on our last day of vacation.

A note on using this word

Fantastic is also used in its older sense to mean strange or fanciful, as in "a fantastic creature from folklore," though the everyday meaning of "excellent" is far more common now.

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