See Also: fantastical(dictionary)
fantastical(dictionary)

fantastical (iou)



fantastical adjective & noun. Also (arch.) phantastical. LME.
[from FANTASTIC + -AL1.]
A. adjective.
= FANTASTIC adjective 1. LME.
R. G. Collingwood The way in which we distinguish real from fantastical ideas.
Of or pertaining to fantasy as a product or faculty of the mind; imaginative. Now rare. E16.
G. W. Knight Macbeth is fantastical and imaginative beyond other tragedies.
= FANTASTIC adjective 3. M16-E18.
= FANTASTIC adjective 4. M16.
D. L. Sayers A man so slight and fantastical in manner.
= FANTASTIC adjective 5. M16-E17.
= FANTASTIC adjective 6. M16.
b. noun. = FANTASTIC noun 1. Now arch. rare. E17.
fantasti'cality noun (a) fantastic character or quality, eccentricity, grotesqueness; (b) something that is fantastic, a whim: L16.
fantasticalness noun (a) rare the condition of being subject to phantasms; (b) fantasticality: M16.