Fantastic vs Smashing - What's the difference?
fantastic | smashing | Related terms |
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 ).
Serving to smash (something).
(British informal ) Wonderful, very good or impressive.
Gerund: The action of the verb to smash .
Fantastic is a related term of smashing.
As adjectives the difference between fantastic and smashing
is that fantastic is fantastic while smashing is serving to smash (something).As a noun smashing is
gerund: the action of the verb to smash .As a verb smashing is
.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!"
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 * fantasticallysmashing
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The boxer delivered a smashing blow to his opponent's head.
- We had a smashing time at the zoo.
Noun
(en noun)- Some Greek dance is traditionally accompanied by the smashing of crockery.