大到不像真的（誇張的量）
從「不像真的」滑向數量：大得讓人覺得像想像出來的、難以置信。
fantastic (extremely large amount) · adjective · A2
Describing an amount that is extremely large.
龐大的 / 驚人的
核心畫面
You can think of the root picture as 'something straight out of the imagination' — strange, magical, unlike anything real. From that root, the word slides outward: things that are unreal, then amounts so huge they seem unreal, and finally anything so good it feels almost unreal.
可以想成它最底層的畫面比較像「彷彿從想像裡走出來的東西」——奇異、魔幻、和現實對不上。從這個根往外滑：先是不像真的、…更多收起
可以想成它最底層的畫面比較像「彷彿從想像裡走出來的東西」——奇異、魔幻、和現實對不上。從這個根往外滑：先是不像真的、辦不到的，再到大得不像真的數量，最後變成好到不像真的——也就是今天最常用的「超棒」。同一個「不像真的」貫穿全部。From the word’s history
From Greek phantastikos 'of the imagination', from phantasia 'imagination' (same root as fantasy, phantom). The original sense is 'belonging to imagination, not to the real world' — which is why the most basic picture here is the magical/imaginary one, and the everyday 'wonderful' is a later, faded extension.
源自希臘文 phantastikos「屬於想像的」，再往上是 phantasia「想像」（和 fantasy、phantom 同源）。本義是「屬於想像、不屬於現實」——所以這裡最根本的畫面比較像「奇幻、想像出來的」那個，而日常的「超棒」其實是後來淡化出去的延伸。
etymonline.com/word/fantastic
From the picture
好到不像真的（超棒·今日常用）
「不像真的」最後落到「好得不像真的」：當一件事好到讓人不敢相信，就用 fantastic 來讚嘆。這支是字義淡化後的日常主流用法。
fantastic (extremely good) · adjective · A2
Extremely good, nice, or enjoyable.
超棒的 / 很讚
Also in this word
fantastic (imaginary, magical) · adjective · A2
Describing a story, creature, or place that is imaginary, very strange, and magical.
奇幻的 / 魔幻的
fantastic (unrealistic plan/idea) · adjective · A2
Describing a plan or idea that is not likely to be possible or real.
不切實際的
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
fantasticadj/fænˈtæs.tɪk/
- 1
Wonderful; marvelous; excellent; extraordinarily good or great (used especially as an intensifier).
- "I had a simply fantastic vacation, and I can't wait to tell you all about it!"
- 2
Existing in or constructed from fantasy; of or relating to fantasy; fanciful.
- He told fantastic stories of dragons and goblins.
- His fantastic post-college plans had all collapsed within a year of graduation.
- 3
archaicGiven to fanciful ideas, impulsive; irrational.
- She was a frightened fool, and she was fantastic, and I suppose that, at that time, she really cared for that imbecile.
- 4
archaicNot believable; implausible; seemingly only possible in fantasy.
- And indeed, when in the writings of Paracelſus I meet with ſuch Phantaſtick and Un-intelligible Diſcourſes as that Writer often puzzels and tyres his Reader with, father'd upon ſuch excellent Experiments, as though he ſeldom clearly teaches, I often find he knew ; me thinks the Chymiſts, in their ſearches after truth, are not unlike the Navigators of Solomons Tarſhiſh Fleet, who brought home from their long and tedious Voyages, not only Gold, and Silver, and Ivory, but Apes and Peacocks too ; For ſo the Writings of ſeveral (for I ſay not, all) of your Hermetick Philoſophers preſent us, together with divers Subſtantial and noble Experiments, Theories, which either like Peacocks feathers make a great ſhew, but are neither ſolid nor uſeful ; or elſe like Apes, if they have ſome appearance of being rational, are blemiſh'd with ſome abſurdity or other, that when they are Attentively conſider'd, makes them appear Ridiculous.
- Since 1 part in 100,000 would imply that one could put a Shuttle up each day for 300 years expecting to lose only one, we could properly ask "What is the cause of management's fantastic faith in the machinery?"
- 5
archaicResembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; grotesque.
- There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, / That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high.
- […]This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty; such as lurks In some wild Poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim.
fantasticnoun/fænˈtæs.tɪk/
- 1
archaicA fanciful or whimsical person.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。