Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Obsolete forms of fantastic, etc.

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

  • adjective See fantastic.

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  • adjective Dated form of fantastic.

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Examples

  • Magic is called a phantastic comedy; it might well be called a phantastic tragedy.

    Gilbert Keith Chesterton Patrick Braybrooke

  • STRANGER: He, then, who traces the pedigree of his art as follows — who, belonging to the conscious or dissembling section of the art of causing self-contradiction, is an imitator of appearance, and is separated from the class of phantastic which is

    The Sophist 2006

  • It follows that to make markets safer we have to examine the institutional context in which financial assets are first gathered up and then traded and in that context to consider steps to reduce the potential for markets to be seriously captured by phantastic objects, divided states and groupfeel.....

    David Tuckett: Making Markets Safer (Excerpt) David Tuckett 2012

  • I consider that the organizational failures followed from the power phantastic objects exert on mental states and the way institutions have increasingly stimulated this power for advantage and then increasingly become ruled by it.

    David Tuckett: Making Markets Safer (Excerpt) David Tuckett 2012

  • To build up to the point where there was the kind of asset price bubble we had before 2008, very many people in markets had at some level to have joined in the excited state and become trusting about the latest phantastic objects, even if they did not fully realize it.

    David Tuckett: Making Markets Safer (Excerpt) David Tuckett 2012

  • My interviews showed how markets are dangerously structured around stimulating the belief in phantastic objects, divided state thinking and groupfeel.

    David Tuckett: Making Markets Safer (Excerpt) David Tuckett 2012

  • To build up to the point where there was the kind of asset price bubble we had before 2008, very many people in markets had at some level to have joined in the excited state and become trusting about the latest phantastic objects, even if they did not fully realize it.

    David Tuckett: Making Markets Safer (Excerpt) David Tuckett 2012

  • In fact many people working in markets believe they really are phantastic objects themselves.

    David Tuckett: Making Markets Safer (Excerpt) David Tuckett 2012

  • My interviews showed how markets are dangerously structured around stimulating the belief in phantastic objects, divided state thinking and groupfeel.

    David Tuckett: Making Markets Safer (Excerpt) David Tuckett 2012

  • In fact many people working in markets believe they really are phantastic objects themselves.

    David Tuckett: Making Markets Safer (Excerpt) David Tuckett 2012

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