word-vault/dist/data/cards/fa/fantastic.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "fantastic",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "extremely good; excellent",
            "sensetop": "it is fantastic to do something",
            "labels": "(informal)(informal)(informal)(informal)(informal)(informal)(British English, informal)(informal, especially North American English)(informal)",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He's done a **fantastic job**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This was a **fantastic opportunity** for students."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You **look fantastic**!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was a fantastic achievement."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The weather was **absolutely fantastic**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You've got the job? Fantastic!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was fantastic to see so many families enjoying themselves.",
                    "contextForm": "it is fantastic to do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The sense of freedom was absolutely fantastic."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a fantastic beach in Australia"
                },
                {
                    "text": "This cake tastes fantastic."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We had a really fantastic holiday."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We had really fantastic weather in Rio."
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘How was your trip?’ ‘ Fantastic!’"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "feel", "look"],
                "adverb": ["really", "truly", "utterly"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "very large; larger than you expected",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The response to our appeal was fantastic."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The car costs a fantastic amount of money."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "strange and showing a lot of imagination",
            "labels": "less frequent",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "fantastic dreams of forests and jungles"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "look", "seem"],
                "adverb": ["rather"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "impossible to put into practice; impossible to believe",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **fantastic scheme/project**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It may sound rather fantastic, but it's the truth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The plot gets increasingly fantastic as the film goes on."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fænˈtæstɪk/",
                "audio": "fa/fantastic/fantastic__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fænˈtæstɪk/",
                "audio": "fa/fantastic/fantastic__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the sense ‘unreal’): from Old French fantastique, via medieval Latin from Greek phantastikos, from phantazein ‘make visible’, phantazesthai ‘have visions, imagine’, from phantos ‘visible’ (related to phainein ‘to show’). From the 16th to the 19th cents the Latinized spelling phantastic was also used."
}