Fantasia vs Fantastic - What's the difference?
fantasia | fantastic |
(music) An unstructured orchestral composition.
Any unstructured work.
* 1899 , Israel Zangwill, "They that Walk in Darkness": Ghetto Tragedies (page 289)
* 2003 , Kevin L. O'Brien, Strange Stars & Alien Shadows (page 39)
A traditional festival with exhibitions of .
Existing in or constructed from fantasy; of or relating to fantasy; fanciful.
Not believable; implausible; seemingly only possible in fantasy.
Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; grotesque.
* T. Gray
Wonderful; marvelous; excellent; extraordinarily good or great (used especially as an intensifier ).
As a noun fantasia
is fantasy.As an adjective fantastic is
fantastic.fantasia
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* phantasia (chiefly dated)Noun
(en noun)- When, at the head-centre, the lady demonstrator, armed with a Brobdingnagian whalebone needle, threaded with a bright red cord, executed herringboned fantasias on a canvas frame resembling a violin stand, it all looked easy enough.
- Her art is always with her, clothing her from throat to toes in an indelible fantasia of color and form and myth.
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* fantastick (obsolete) * (l) * (l) (obsolete) * phantastique (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)- He told fantastic stories of dragons and goblins.
- His fantastic post-college plans had all collapsed within a year of graduation.
- She had a fantastic view of her own importance that none of her colleagues shared.
- The events were so fantastic that only the tabloids were willing to print them.
- She entered the lab and stood gaping for a good ten minutes at the fantastic machinery at work all around her.
- There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, / That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high.
- "I had a simply fantastic vacation, and I can't wait to tell you all about it!"
