Fantast

Quick meaning: Fantast is a noun meaning (now rare) One whose manners or ideas are fantastic and fanciful; a dreamer.

Meaning

(now rare) One whose manners or ideas are fantastic and fanciful; a dreamer.

Example Sentences

I recall one particularly heady Outreach meeting, in 1985, at which one of the speakers was a fantast named Jack Wheeler, who liked to say that Izvestia had described him as an “ideological gangster” […].

He is indeed all this; and what he has more than all this peculiar to himself, I seem to convey to my own mind in some measure by saying, — that he is a quiet and sublime enthusiast with a strong tinge of the fantast, — the humourist constantly mingling with, and flashing across, the philosopher, as the darting colours in shot silk play upon the main dye.

Word Forms

• fantasts

Synonyms for fantast

Depending on context, synonyms include futurist.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include futurist, fantastick, fantastry, fancier, fantasie, fancible.

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