fantastique

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French fantastique.

Noun

fantastique (uncountable)

  1. (art, literature) A genre of literature and film that overlaps with science fiction, horror and fantasy; associated chiefly with French literature
    • 1988, January 29, “Jonathan Rosenbaum”, in Invitation to the Trance:
      And certainly the film's free-floating fantasy and the blatant transparency of its narrative--its capacity to be seen for the artifice that it is--are a lot closer to fantastique than they are to the more logically circumscribed forms of fancy celebrated in this country.
See also

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin phantasticus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek φᾰντᾰστῐκός (phantastikós).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɑ̃.tas.tik/
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Adjective

fantastique (plural fantastiques)

  1. fantastic (related to fantasy or fantasies)

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