fantastically

adverb

fan·​tas·​ti·​cal·​ly fan-ˈta-sti-k(ə-)lē 

fən-

1

: in a fantastic manner

2

: to a fantastic degree : extremely

fantastically expensive clothes

Synonyms

• achingly
• almighty
• archly
• awful
• awfully
• badly
• beastly
• blisteringly
• bone
• colossally
• corking
• cracking
• damn
• damned
• dang
• deadly
• desperately
• eminently
• enormously
• especially
• ever
• exceedingly
• exceeding
• extra
• extremely
• fabulously
• far
• fiercely
• filthy
• frightfully
• full
• greatly
• heavily
• highly
• hugely
• immensely
• incredibly
• intensely
• jolly
• majorly
• mightily
• mighty
• monstrous [chiefly dialect]
• mortally
• most
• much
• particularly
• passing
• rattling
• real
• really
• right
• roaring
• roaringly
• seriously
• severely
• so
• sore
• sorely
• spanking
• specially
• stinking
• such
• super
• supremely
• surpassingly
• terribly
• that
• thumping
• too
• unco
• uncommonly
• vastly
• very
• vitally
• way
• whacking
• wicked
• wildly

Examples of fantastically in a Sentence

a community production of the classic musical that featured fantastically bad singing

Recent Examples on the Web

There are films that do that journey fantastically well; this isn't one that was ever looking to do that. —Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2024

There is a fantastically zany song about the Rainbow Bridge—a kind of mythical gateway to heaven for pets and their owners—which turns unexpectedly profound on its reprise late in the show, and a delightfully counterintuitive number about ghosts and the afterlife. —Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024

When unadulterated and committed purely to its core business, this is a fantastically stable and well-valued enterprise. —Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2024

September 11, 2001, was a fantastically beautiful day in New York: the heat had just broken. —Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 17 Sep. 2024

Word History

Etymology

fantastical + -ly entry 2

First Known Use

1543, in the meaning defined at sense 1