fantastical
fantastical Lexical Profile
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• adjective
Imaginative, fanciful, or remote from reality; characteristic of or belonging to fantasy.
"The children's book is filled with illustrations of fantastical creatures and enchanted forests."
Strangely or extravagantly shaped; grotesque, bizarre, or eccentric in appearance or design.
"Centuries of wind erosion had carved the sandstone cliffs into fantastical spires and arches."
Based on ungrounded notions rather than reason or fact; wildly improbable, irrational, or implausible.
"The defense attorney dismissed the prosecution's timeline as a wholly fantastical theory unsupported by the evidence."
Word Nuance & Usage
While 'fantastic' is commonly used in everyday speech to mean 'excellent' or 'wonderful', 'fantastical' is almost exclusively reserved for describing things that are imaginative, surreal, or belong to the realm of fantasy.
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Word Origin & Etymology
Formed in the 15th century by adding the suffix '-al' to 'fantastic', which derives via Old French and Late Latin from Ancient Greek 'phantastikos' ('able to present or show to the mind'), from 'phantazein' ('to make visible').