Etymology

sucktastic

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Today it means: Bad; terrible. Full definition →

English fantastic ← Middle French fantastique ← Late Latin phantasticus
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic*sūkaną
  2. Proto-West Germanic*sūkan
  3. Old Englishsūcan
  4. Middle Englishsouken
  5. Englishsuck
  6. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*bʰh₂nyéti
  8. Proto-Hellenic*pʰáňňō
  9. Ancient Greekφαίνω (phaínō)
  10. Ancient Greekφαντάζω (phantázō)
  11. Ancient Greekφανταστικός (phantastikós)
  12. Late Latinphantasticus
  13. Middle Frenchfantastique
  14. Englishfantastic
  15. English todaysucktastic

From suck + -tastic.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.