fantastically

Thân thiện

She sings fantastically in the school choir.

Definition

1. Adverb:
   • In an exceedingly or extraordinarily good or impressive manner: Used to emphasize that something is done to an exceptional degree, often implying wonder or admiration.
   • In a strange, bizarre, or fanciful manner: Resembling something from fantasy; unrealistically or imaginatively.

Usage and Examples

• As an intensifier (meaning: exceedingly, extremely):

  • The team performed fantastically and won the championship.
  • She is fantastically talented at playing the violin.
  • The new software works fantastically well.

• As a descriptor of strangeness or fantasy:

  • The artist painted fantastical creatures, each one fantastically detailed.
  • The story was fantastically imagined, full of impossible events.

Advanced Usage and Nuances

• "Fantastically" as an intensifier is often used in informal, emphatic speech to convey a very high degree of quality or success. It is similar to "incredibly" or "amazingly."
  • He managed the crisis fantastically.
• When describing something as strange or unreal, it often precedes adjectives like "complex," "detailed," or "imagined."
  • The plot was fantastically convoluted.

Variants and Related Words

• Fantastic (adjective):
  • Extremely good or excellent: "We had a fantastic time."
  • Imaginative or fanciful; remote from reality: "He told a fantastic story about dragons."
• Fantasy (noun): The faculty or activity of imagining things, especially things that are impossible or improbable.

Synonyms

• As an intensifier: Extremely, incredibly, wonderfully, fabulously, extraordinarily.
• Describing strangeness: Bizarrely, fancifully, unrealistically, whimsically.

Notes on Usage

• The primary modern use is as a synonym for "extremely well" or "exceptionally."
• The meaning related to fantasy or strangeness is less common in everyday conversation but is standard in literary or descriptive contexts.
• It is an adverb of manner and typically modifies verbs (e.g., ) or adjectives (e.g., ).

Học thuật

Adverb

1. exceedingly; extremely
   • she plays fabulously well

Từ đồng nghĩa

• fabulously
• incredibly