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fantast

or phan·tast

[ fan-tast ]

noun

  1. a visionary or dreamer.


fantast

/ ˈfæntæst /

noun

  1. a dreamer or visionary


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Word History and Origins

Origin of fantast1

First recorded in 1580–90; from German, Fantast, Phantast, from Greek phantastḗs “boaster”; a derivative of the verb phantázein “to make visible, present to the eye or mind”

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Word History and Origins

Origin of fantast1

C16: from German Phantast , from Greek phantastēs boaster; English word influenced in meaning by fantastic

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Example Sentences

You can imagine how I felt when I saw that he looked upon me as a foolish fantast.

A dissipated fantast with the half-insane imagination of the drunkard—Hoffmann.

The epithet "fantast" may be equally suitably applied to Brentano.

Besides plays, now unreadable, he wrote two long novels and a number of short tales, which all bear witness to the fantast in him.

He has himself a good deal of the fantast again, but with a better basis of solidity beneath it.

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