Can someone explain to a non-native speaker what’s surprising about this?
> The leap from a word meaning "imaginary" to a word meaning "fantastic" struck me as odd initially, but apparently it comes from the sense of the word "imaginary" as "unreal".
What other sense is there that Wiktionary doesn’t know about?
> The leap from a word meaning "imaginary" to a word meaning "fantastic" struck me as odd initially, but apparently it comes from the sense of the word "imaginary" as "unreal".
What other sense is there that Wiktionary doesn’t know about?
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/imaginary