fantastique

/fæntæsˈtɪk/

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French fantastique. Doublet of fantastic.

fantastique means belonging or relating to this genre. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.

fantastique is pronounced /fæntæsˈtɪk/.

adj

A genre of literature and film that is characterized by the intrusion of the supernatural into the realistic framework of a story.“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.”