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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(now rare) One whose manners or ideas are fantastic and fanciful; a dreamer..
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.
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” […].
Use fantast when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Fantast means (now rare) One whose manners or ideas are fantastic and fanciful; a dreamer..
Common synonyms include futurist.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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