fantastical
Speech parts
1. fantastical - Adjective
2. fantastical - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic.
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Examples
The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.
He is only fantastical that is not in fashion.
Old Americana vintage gangster stuff has a fantastical feel; it feels less dirty in a way. It feels like the opera of crime.
There are many films and TV shows I make where people find themselves in fantastical situations; as often as possible their reactions to it are very normal.
But what I think I like about coming-of-age stories is that there's everything in them. It's a genre that kind of contains everything: you have the chronicle, you can go into naturalism, but it's also about transforming physically, so it's kind of a fantastical genre.
I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.