fantastical

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This unusual mode of locomotion was something incredibly fantastical, and, at the same time, ridiculous.

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  1. Same as fantastic. Some foolishe and fantasticall personnes haue wrytten. Hall, Henry IV., an. 6. Fantastical or chimerical I call such [ideas] as have no foundation in nature, nor have any conformity with that reality of being to which they are tacitly referred as to their archetypes. Locke, Human Understanding, II. xxx. 1.

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  • But even without all the facts, I can affirm at the outset that we have never faced a greater challenge than -- if I may coin a fantastical term -- these 'daedalus-zines.' —  F ;SF; - vol 100 issue 02 - February 2001
  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit proved that you can make a great feature movie by exploring the intersection of the real and the fantastical, the human and the 'toon. —  F ;SF - vol 101 issue 02 - August 2001
  • I can take delight in the fantastical, and in the grotesque—but here there is a want of life and consistency, as it seems to me!—the elf is no elf and speaks no elf-tongue: it is not the right key to touch this for supernatural music. —  The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 1845-1846
  • Few books manage to get under the skin the way this one does, and few novels of any type -- fantastical or mainstream -- manage to portray a character as convincingly, flaws and all. —  F ;SF; - vol 102 issue 05 - May 2002
  • She therefore has some familiarity with the fantastical, the futuristic, and the cheerfully bizarre. —  F ;SF; - vol 089 issue 03 - September 1995
 

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/fænˈtæstɪkəl/
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