fantastical

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fantastical

A child wears a fantastical costume to the school play.

Definition
  1. Adjective:
    • Ludicrously odd; bizarre or grotesque in appearance or style: Describes something so strange, exaggerated, or unnatural that it seems absurd or laughable.
    • Existing only in the imagination; fanciful: Describes something conceived by the fancy or imagination, often with an unreal, whimsical, or mythical quality.
Examples of Usage
  • Adjective:
    • The artist created a fantastical creature with wings of fire and eyes of crystal.
    • The novel is set in a fantastical world where animals can speak.
    • He told a fantastical story about meeting a dragon, which no one believed.
Advanced Usage

  • "fantastical element": An unreal or imaginative component within a story or setting.

    • The film blends historical drama with fantastical elements like time travel.

  • "fantastical tale": A story that is highly imaginative and removed from reality.

    • Children are often captivated by fantastical tales of adventure.
Variants and Related Words
  • Fantastic (adj): Very impressive, extraordinary, or fanciful. (Note: "Fantastic" is a close synonym but can also mean "excellent" in informal usage, whereas "fantastical" more consistently implies strangeness or unreality).
  • Fantasy (n): The faculty or activity of imagining things, especially things that are impossible or improbable.
  • Fanciful (adj): Over-imaginative and unrealistic.
Synonyms
  • Bizarre: Very strange or unusual.
  • Grotesque: Comically or repulsively ugly or distorted.
  • Whimsical: Playfully quaint or fanciful, especially in an appealing and amusing way.
  • Unreal: Not related to reality; imaginary.
Related Phrases
  • Flight of fancy / Fantastical flight: An idea or story that is very imaginative and not based in reality.
    • His plan to build a castle in the clouds was a mere flight of fancy.
Related Idioms
  • A figment of one's imagination: Something that is not real but created by the mind.
    • The monster in the closet was just a figment of her imagination. (This idiom relates to the "existing in fancy only" sense of fantastical.)
fantastical

A child wears a fantastical costume to the school play.

Adjective
  1. ludicrously odd
    • Hamlet's assumed antic disposition
    • fantastic Halloween costumes
    • a grotesque reflection in the mirror
  2. existing in fancy only
    • fantastic figures with bulbous heads the circumference of a bushel- Nathaniel Hawthorne

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