Fantastic vs Stupendous - What's the difference?
fantastic | stupendous |
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 ).
Astonishingly great or large; huge; enormous.
Of stunning volume, degree, or excellence; marvelous.
As adjectives the difference between fantastic and stupendous
is that fantastic is fantastic while stupendous is astonishingly great or large; huge; enormous.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 * fantasticallystupendous
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Adjective
(en adjective)- One cannot appreciate how stupendous the Matterhorn is without seeing it.
- The renovators created a stupendous new look for our house.
