fantastic

Compared meaning: excellent, impressive, or beyond the usual level (adjective).

比较义项：非常出色、令人印象深刻或超出寻常水平（形容词）。

• fantastic 本词

  Informal and enthusiastic; used in casual speech to praise everyday experiences like food, movies, or weather, often with real excitement.

  口语化、语气热情；常用于夸赞日常体验，如食物、电影或天气，带有明显的兴奋感。

  This burger place is fantastic, we come back every single week.

  这家汉堡店太棒了，我们每周都会再去光顾。

• wonderful

  Similar in strength to fantastic but warmer and more heartfelt; often describes experiences with family or friends that bring quiet, lasting joy.

  强度与 fantastic 相近，但语气更温暖、更饱含感情；常用于描述与家人或朋友共度、能带来温馨长久喜悦的经历。

  Grandma always makes our holidays feel wonderful, full of warmth and laughter.

  奶奶总能让我们的假期变得很温馨美好，充满温暖与欢笑。

• extraordinary

  Formal and objective; highlights that something goes far beyond the normal level, often used for skill, ability, or circumstances rather than everyday pleasures.

  语气正式、客观；强调某事物远超正常水平，常用于形容技能、能力或状况，而非日常生活中的愉快体验。

  Solving the equation that fast required extraordinary mathematical ability few people have.

  能这么快解出这道方程，需要极少数人才具备的非凡数学能力。

• remarkable

  Emphasizes that something is noticeable and worth commenting on, especially progress or improvement; more measured in tone than extraordinary, common in reports and reviews.

  强调某事引人注目、值得评论，尤其是进步或改善；语气比 extraordinary 更平和克制，常用于报告或评价中。

  Her English has shown remarkable improvement since she moved to Canada.

  自从搬到加拿大后，她的英语有了显著的进步。

Fantastic, wonderful, extraordinary, and remarkable all describe something impressive. Fantastic and wonderful mean very good and enjoyable, used in casual speech. Extraordinary and remarkable mean unusual and noticeable, used in formal contexts like skill or progress. Not compared: fantastic meaning 'imaginary', or extraordinary meaning 'special'.

这四个词都可以形容令人印象深刻、超出一般水平的事物，但侧重点不同：fantastic 和 wonderful 强调“非常好、令人愉悦”，语气随和、偏口语；extraordinary 和 remarkable 强调“不寻常、引人注目”，语气更正式、客观。这里不比较 fantastic 表示“虚构的、幻想的”（如 a fantastic story）以及 extraordinary 表示“额外召开的、特别的”（如 an extraordinary meeting）等其他义项。

Compared meaning: not real, existing only in imagination or legend (adjective).

比较义项：虚构的、非真实存在的（形容词）。

• fantastic 本词

  Fantastic describes something so strange or extraordinary that it seems hard to believe, often used for bizarre stories, creatures, or events rather than everyday facts.

  Fantastic形容某事物离奇古怪、超乎寻常，令人难以置信，通常用来描述怪异的故事、生物或事件，而非日常事实。

  His fantastic excuse for being late was almost too strange to believe.

  他迟到的借口离奇古怪，几乎让人难以置信。

• imaginary

  Imaginary means existing only in someone's mind, with no physical or real-world existence at all; it is neutral and does not suggest legend, exaggeration, or whimsy.

  Imaginary指某事物只存在于人的头脑之中，现实中并不存在，语气中性，不带有传说、夸张或异想天开的意味。

  Even at nine years old, she still talked to her imaginary friend.

  即使九岁了，她仍然会和自己想象出来的朋友说话。

• fabulous

  Fabulous, in this sense, describes beings or things that exist only in old legends and myths, such as mythical creatures, rather than things merely imagined or exaggerated.

  Fabulous在此义项中形容只存在于古老传说和神话中的生物或事物，例如神话生物，而不是单纯凭空想象或夸大的事物。

  Dragons and unicorns are fabulous beasts that appear throughout medieval legend.

  龙和独角兽是中世纪传说中随处可见的传说生物。

• fanciful

  Fanciful describes ideas, designs, or stories built from imagination rather than fact or logic, often implying they are impractical or whimsical rather than legendary or hard to believe.

  Fanciful形容凭空想象而非基于事实或逻辑而产生的想法、设计或故事，往往暗示这些想法不切实际或异想天开，而非源自传说或令人难以置信。

  Her fanciful drawings showed castles floating on clouds and rivers made of light.

  她那些异想天开的画作描绘了漂浮在云端的城堡和由光构成的河流。

Fantastic, imaginary, fabulous, and fanciful all describe things that are not real. Fantastic means so strange it seems hard to believe. Imaginary means existing only in the mind. Fabulous means from old legends and myths, like mythical creatures. Fanciful means built from imagination, not fact.

这四个词都可以形容“不真实、出自想象”的事物，但语气和侧重不同：fantastic强调离奇古怪、令人难以置信；imaginary强调只存在于头脑之中、没有实体；fabulous强调源自古老的传说或神话；fanciful强调凭空想象、不基于事实或逻辑，语气略带轻视。这里不比较fantastic和fabulous日常口语中更常用的“极好的，精彩的”这一义项。