fantastique

Borrowed from French fantastique. Doublet of fantastic.

fantastique (uncountable)

1. (art, literature) A genre of literature and film that overlaps with science fiction, horror and fantasy; associated chiefly with French literature
   • 1988, January 29, “Jonathan Rosenbaum”, in Invitation to the Trance‎:

     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 on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

• IPA^(key): /fɑ̃.tas.tik/

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• Rhymes: -ik

fantastique (plural fantastiques)

1. fantastic (related to fantasy or fantasies)

• fantastiquement

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