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fantasist

[ fan-tuh-sist, -zist; fan-tey-zhist ]

noun

  1. a person who writes or composes fantasies or fantasias in music, poetry, or the like.


fantasist

/ ˈfæntəsɪst /

noun

  1. a person who indulges in fantasies
  2. a person who writes musical or literary fantasies


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Word History and Origins

Origin of fantasist1

First recorded in 1920–25; fantas(y) + -ist

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Example Sentences

I am not sure I can claim Ngũgĩ as a fantasist, exactly, but with novels like “Wizard of the Crow” and “Devil on the Cross” he must be counted as one of the continent’s great writers.

The prime minister is a hybrid: regional hawk, Zionist statist, techno-globalist, neo-conservative, and Greater Israel fantasist.

The problem for Valle, what made him more than just another fantasist, was that he had begun to speak of actual women.

Being John Malkovich: My favorite film by my favorite modern fantasist, Charlie Kauffman, a kind of genius.

Pessimist: I thought you said you were an optimist - not a fantasist.

What sort of fool or fantasist would ever suggest that “Republicans need a centrist candidate in 2012”?

He had learned early that he was not, and never would be, the fantasist that some of his earlier canvases indicate.

And assuredly, the Marquis de Sade is only a timid bourgeois, a mediocre fantasist, beside him!

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