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Fantastic can still be used to describe something fantasy-esque in modern usage. Albeit it's probably getting more rare. Like "fantastic voyage", "fantastic be

• tesseract 5y ago
  And "fancy" still retains some links to "fantastic" and "fantasy", as in "fancy dress" or "flight of fancy".
• StavrosK 5y ago
  "Fantastical" is probably more used for that nowadays (and that very rarely), but it didn't occur to me that there could be any other explanation, as in Greek we use "fantastic" for both meanings commonly, ie "fantastic job" and "fantastic world" (imaginary world).