fantasist

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

/ ˈfæn tə sɪst, -zɪst; fænˈteɪ ʒɪst /

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noun

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

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Origin of fantasist

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

Words nearby fantasist

fantail darter, fantail goldfish, fan-tan, fantasia, fantasied, fantasist, fantasize, fantasm, fantasmagoria, fantast, fantastic

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How to use fantasist in a sentence

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.
African speculative fiction is finally getting its due. Let’s talk about books to seek out.|Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Lavie Tidhar|May 14, 2021|Washington Post
The prime minister is a hybrid: regional hawk, Zionist statist, techno-globalist, neo-conservative, and Greater Israel fantasist.
Understanding John Kerry's Logic|Bernard Avishai|July 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The problem for Valle, what made him more than just another fantasist, was that he had begun to speak of actual women.
Cannibal Cop’s Dark Fetishes Detailed in Grisly Trial Testimony|Michael Daly|February 27, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Being John Malkovich: My favorite film by my favorite modern fantasist, Charlie Kauffman, a kind of genius.
Emma Thompson’s Favorite Movies, From ‘Mary Poppins’ to ‘Life of Brian’|Emma Thompson|February 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST

Pessimist: I thought you said you were an optimist - not a fantasist.
Post-Convention Hangover: America Isn't Working|David Frum|September 7, 2012|DAILY BEAST
What sort of fool or fantasist would ever suggest that “Republicans need a centrist candidate in 2012”?
A GOP Presidential Candidate Must Seize the Center to Win|Michael Medved|December 7, 2011|DAILY BEAST
He had learned early that he was not, and never would be, the fantasist that some of his earlier canvases indicate.
Adventures in the Arts|Marsden Hartley
And assuredly, the Marquis de Sade is only a timid bourgeois, a mediocre fantasist, beside him!
L-bas|J. K. Huysmans

British Dictionary definitions for fantasist

fantasist

/ (ˈfæntəsɪst) /

noun

a person who indulges in fantasies

a person who writes musical or literary fantasies

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