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“Fantastical” means based on fantasy: not real. A fantastical journalism source is one filled with lies. You seem to think it means “extra fantastic.” Not corr

• strken 8mo ago
  It has a second definition which means something like "unbelievable in its strangeness/perfection", which can be used to imply that a real thing feels made up. I agree that it's not a good word choice when describing a thing that could actually be fake, but you could describe a view from a mountain as fantastical even though it was 100% real.