fantastical
adjective uk/fænˈtæs.tɪ.kəl/ us/fænˈtæs.tɪ.kəl/
奇异的
strange and wonderful, like something out of a story
Fantastical Buddhist temples and medieval castles cling to Bhutan's misty valleys. 奇异的佛教寺庙和中世纪的城堡依附在不丹朦胧的山谷中。
古怪的,荒谬的
so strange or extreme that it does not seem to be true or reasonable
Nobody knew what to make of the fantastical claims she had made to police. 人知道她向警方提出的那些荒谬的指控是怎么回事。
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- Tarot cards bear fantastical illustrations of characters dubbed the Fool, the Devil, the Sun, the Lover and Death.
- Her paintings show fantastical sea creatures.
- Back in 1882, this visionary imagined a 1950s world of flying machines, fantastical fashions, and futuristic fantasy.
- Some elements of his statement are perhaps fantastical; many are contradictory.
- Public debate revolved around numbers - as in a "$1.3 trillion tax cut" - that experts on both sides understood to be fantastical.