Funtastic vs Fantastic - What's the difference?
funtastic | fantastic |
(nonstandard) Fantastically fun.
* 1960 , Eloise M. Jaeger & Harry Leighton, Teaching of Tennis: For School and Recreation Programs , Burgess Publishing (1960),
* 2005 , Ruth Bushi, Dan Jones, & Anthony Leyton, The Push Guide to Which University 2006 , Nelson Thomses (2005), ISBN 0748794891,
* 2009 , Sydney Salter, Jungle Crossing , Harcourt (2009), ISBN 9780152064341,
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 adjectives the difference between funtastic and fantastic
is that funtastic is fantastically fun while fantastic is existing in or constructed from fantasy; of or relating to fantasy; fanciful.funtastic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- But mom! Can't I go to the fair? The others say it will be funtastic !
page 58:
- The game becomes more "funtastic " if the teacher not only calls out the name of a line or space but adds a novel way of getting there or something novel to do once the players arrive at the designated line or space.
page 336:
- Comedy: The comedy scene here is funtastic - check out Club Jongleurs and the Leicester Comedy Festival which is the biggest in Britain, attracting over 40,000 people a year.
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- I turned thirteen the week after school got out (and had a slumber party that even Fiona called "oh-so funtastic ").
fantastic
English
Alternative forms
* 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!"