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

The findings really do showcase just how fantastically diverse America's dining scene is, with winners including waffle spots in Hawaii, Thai food in Idaho, a French bistro in Illinois, an Italian eatery in Delaware, and a Lebanese spot in West Virginia. —Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 29 Mar. 2024

Leave it to the Ramones to offer a breakup song at Christmas, and a fantastically catchy one at that. —Gwen Ihnat, EW.com, 6 Nov. 2023

Her self-assuredness only strengthened over time, which Lashana Lynch captured so fantastically. —Debra Edwards, Essence, 21 Mar. 2024

The Valkyrie, or AM-RB 001 as it was known in development, is a fantastically wild-looking hypercar. —Sean Evans, Robb Report, 5 Mar. 2024

During the Reagan era, the lobbyist Paul Manafort—who would go on to be Trump’s 2016 campaign chairman—made a fantastically lucrative living by trying to bolster the image of autocrats as latter-day incarnations of Thomas Jefferson. —Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2024

Qualley and Viswanathan are fantastically committed and charismatic, with Qualley demonstrating a capacity for broad comedy. —Katie Walsh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2024

Qualley and Viswanathan are fantastically committed and charismatic, with the former demonstrating a capacity for broad comedy. —Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2024

Washington was fantastically successful in business, not just as a planter but as a serial entrepreneur. —The Editors, National Review, 19 Feb. 2024

Word History

Etymology

fantastical + -ly entry 2

First Known Use

1543, in the meaning defined at sense 1