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Fantasia vs Fantastic - What's the difference?

fantasia | fantastic |

As a noun fantasia

is fantasy.

As an adjective fantastic is

fantastic.

fantasia

English

Alternative forms

* phantasia (chiefly dated)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (music) An unstructured orchestral composition.
  • Any unstructured work.
  • * 1899 , Israel Zangwill, "They that Walk in Darkness": Ghetto Tragedies (page 289)
  • 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.
  • * 2003 , Kevin L. O'Brien, Strange Stars & Alien Shadows (page 39)
  • Her art is always with her, clothing her from throat to toes in an indelible fantasia of color and form and myth.
  • A traditional festival with exhibitions of .
  • fantastic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * fantastick (obsolete) * (l) * (l) (obsolete) * phantastique (archaic)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Existing in or constructed from fantasy; of or relating to fantasy; fanciful.
  • 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.
  • Not believable; implausible; seemingly only possible in fantasy.
  • 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.
  • Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; grotesque.
  • * T. Gray
  • There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, / That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high.
  • Wonderful; marvelous; excellent; extraordinarily good or great (used especially as an intensifier ).
  • "I had a simply fantastic vacation, and I can't wait to tell you all about it!"

    Synonyms

    * (based in fantasy rather than reality) fabulous, fantastical * (extravagantly fanciful and unrealistic) foolish, hare-brained, unrealistic, wild * (incredibly wonderful) brilliant, fabulous, splendid, super, wonderful * See also

    Antonyms

    * (incredibly wonderful) sucktastic

    Derived terms

    * fantastical * fantastically