fantastique

Unadapted borrowing from French fantastique. Doublet of fantastic.

• IPA^(key): /fæntæsˈtɪk/

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.

fantastique (comparative more fantastique, superlative most fantastique)

1. Belonging or relating to this genre.

• fantastique on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

• IPA^(key): /fɑ̃.tas.tik/

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• Rhymes: -ik

fantastique (plural fantastiques)

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

• fantastiquement

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

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.

• → English: fantastique

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