Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A very bizarre person.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A fantastic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A fantastic.

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  • adjective informal, humorous fantastic

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Italian, imaginary, from Late Latin phantasticus; see fantastic.]

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From Italian fantastico ("fantastic")

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Examples

  • Speaking to show hosts Ant and Dec, Gino described his victory as "fantastico", his trademark word.

    The Daily Record - Home 2009

  • Speaking to show hosts Ant and Dec, Gino described his victory as "fantastico", his trademark word.

    The Daily Record - Home 2009

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  • Not sure where the "fantastico" name came from - but we uploaded and installed every single language package manually.

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  • Not sure where the "fantastico" name came from - but we uploaded and installed every single language package manually.

    phpBB.com 2009

  • Not sure where the "fantastico" name came from - but we uploaded and installed every single language package manually.

    phpBB.com 2009

  • Not sure where the "fantastico" name came from - but we uploaded and installed every single language package manually.

    phpBB.com Rick King 2009

  • Not sure where the "fantastico" name came from - but we uploaded and installed every single language package manually.

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  • The pox of such antic, lisping, fantasticoes; these new tuners of accents.

    Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, II. iv.

    August 22, 2014