fantastique

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French fantastique. Doublet of fantastic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fæntæsˈtɪk/

Noun

fantastique (uncountable)

1. (film, literature) A genre of literature and film that is characterized by the intrusion of the supernatural into the realistic framework of a story.
   • 1988 January 29, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Invitation to the Trance”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     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.

See also

• fantastique on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin phantasticus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek φᾰντᾰστῐκός (phantastikós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɑ̃.tas.tik/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ik

Adjective

fantastique (plural fantastiques)

1. fantastic (related to fantasy or fantasies)
2. (film, literature) related to the fantastique genre.

Derived terms

• fantastiquement

Descendants

• →⇒ Dutch: fantastisch
  • Petjo: fantasties
  • → Indonesian: fantastis
• →⇒ German: fantastisch
• → Romanian: fantastic

Noun

fantastique m (plural fantastiques)

1. (film, literature) A genre of literature and film that is characterized by the intrusion of the supernatural into the realistic framework of a story.

Descendants

• → English: fantastique

Further reading

• “fantastique”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.