What does fantastic mean?
Word: Fantastic
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Fantastic means really excellent. It can also mean strange and full of imagination, like the magic in a fairy tale.
Synonyms: wonderful, excellent, superb
Antonyms: awful
How do you spell fantastic?
Syllables: fan - tas - tic
Tricky part: Children often change the a of tas to e and write fantestic, or start with fen. Both vowels are a.
Watch out for: fantastick, fantestic, fentastic
Memory tip: Fantastic and fantasy start with the same six letters, f-a-n-t-a-s, so if you can spell fantasy you are most of the way there.
Fantastic in a sentence
Example 1: Your painting of the peacock is fantastic.
Example 2: We had a fantastic picnic at Lalbagh.
Example 3: The film had fantastic dragons and flying ships.
Fun Fact
Fantastic first meant existing only in the imagination; the everyday sense of really excellent came into use only in the 1900s.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Connection
Choose the antonym of the word:
fantastic
a) splendid
b) brilliant
c) terrible
d) marvellous
Show answer
c) terrible. Terrible means very bad, the reverse of fantastic.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
Shreya scored a fantastik goal in the last minute of the match.
a) fantastik
b) minute
c) scored
d) match
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a) fantastik. Fantastic ends with a c.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) beautifull
b) exelent
c) wunderful
d) fantastic
Show answer
d) fantastic. Beautiful ends in one l, wonderful has an o after the w and excellent has xc and two l's; fantastic is right.
Word Makeup
Choose the suffix that completes the word:
fantastic
a) ally
b) elly
c) ly
d) aly
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a) ally. Words that end in ic add ally, so fantastic becomes fantastically, as magic becomes magically.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Your friend says your drawing is fantastic. What does she mean?
a) She wants you to colour it.
b) She likes it a lot.
c) She thinks it is too small.
d) She thinks it looks unfinished.
Show answer
b) She likes it a lot.
2. Which of these is fantastic in the fairy-tale sense?
a) a dog that barks at night
b) a cat that sleeps all day
c) a dragon that breathes fire
d) a bird that eats seeds
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c) a dragon that breathes fire
