Fantastic vs Ideal - What's the difference?
fantastic | ideal | Synonyms |
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 ).
Optimal; being the best possibility.
Perfect, flawless, having no defects.
* Rambler
Pertaining to ideas, or to a given idea.
Existing only in the mind; conceptual, imaginary.
* 1796 , Matthew Lewis, The Monk , Folio Society 1985, p. 256:
* 1818 , ,
Teaching or relating to the doctrine of idealism.
(mathematics) Not actually present, but considered as present when limits at infinity are included.
A perfect standard of beauty, intellect etc., or a standard of excellence to aim at.
(mathematics, order theory) A non-empty]] lower set (of a partially ordered set) which is [[closure, closed under binary suprema (a.k.a. joins).[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_prime_ideal_theorem#Prime_ideal_theorems]
(for example, algebra) A subring closed under multiplication by its containing ring.
Fantastic is a synonym of ideal.
As an adjective fantastic
is fantastic.As a noun ideal is
ideal (perfect standard).fantastic
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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!"
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 alsoAntonyms
* (incredibly wonderful) sucktasticDerived terms
* fantastical * fantasticallyideal
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Adjective
(en adjective)- There will always be a wide interval between practical and ideal excellence.
- The idea of ghosts is ridiculous in the extreme; and if you continue to be swayed by ideal terrors —
[[s:Frankenstein/Chapter 4, Chapter 4],
- Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
- the ideal theory or philosophy
- ideal point
- An ideal triangle in the hyperbolic disk is one bounded by three geodesics that meet precisely on the circle.
Synonyms
* See alsoNoun
(en noun)- Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny -
- If (1) the empty set were called a "small" set, and (2) any subset of a "small" set were also a "small" set, and (3) the union of any pair of "small" sets were also a "small" set, then the set of all "small" sets would form an ideal .
- Let be the ring of integers and let be its ideal of even integers. Then the quotient ring is a Boolean ring.
- The product of two ideals and is an ideal which is a subset of the intersection of and . This should help to understand why maximal ideals' are prime ' ideals . Likewise, the union of and is a subset of .