fantastic
part of speech
adjective (fantastic; more fantastic, most fantastic)
meaning for a pupil
1) (informal) Fantastic means extremely good, wonderful: «a fantastic party». tree →
2) Fantastic means strange and imaginary, like something from a fantasy story: «fantastic creatures». tree →
3) (informal) A fantastic amount is very large: «a fantastic sum of money». tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life and school, teachers say «Fantastic work!» as praise. In reading lessons, fantastic beasts and fantastic worlds belong to fantasy stories, not real life. Phrases: «fantastic!», «a fantastic time», «fantastic beasts».
examples
- We had a fantastic time at the beach. tree →
- Fantastic work on your story! tree →
- The book is full of fantastic creatures like dragons and griffins. tree →
- The view from the mountain was fantastic. tree →
- He told a fantastic tale about flying to the moon. tree →
- The prize was a fantastic amount of money. tree →
- The broken clouds hung in fantastic forms upon the wood-covered hills by the rapid Rhone. tree →
note
Used a lot in speech; in careful writing, choose a more exact word (excellent, imaginative). Adverb: fantastically. Related: fantasy (imaginary stories). Old sense «imaginary» is still used in stories.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «fantastic» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.