Meaning of fantastique | Babel Free
fæntæsˈtɪkDefinitions
A genre of literature and film that is characterized by the intrusion of the supernatural into the realistic framework of a story.
Equivalents
Examples
“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.”
CEFR level
C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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