fantastique
/fæntæsˈtɪk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.81 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A genre of literature and film that is characterized by the intrusion of the supernatural into the realistic framework of a story.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "And certainly the film's free-floating fantasy and the blatant transparency of its narrative--its capacity to be seen for the artifice that it is--are a lot closer to fantastique than they are to the more logically circumscribed forms of fancy celebrated in this country."
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Inflected Forms
more fantastique (comparative)
most fantastique (superlative)