fantast

or phan·tast

[ fan-tast ]

/ ˈfæn tæst /

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noun

a visionary or dreamer.

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Origin of fantast

1580–90; <German, variant of Phantast<Greek phantastḗs boaster; modern sense by association with fantastic

Words nearby fantast

fantasied, fantasist, fantasize, fantasm, fantasmagoria, fantast, fantastic, fantastically, fantasticate, fantastico, fantasy

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How to use fantast in a sentence

You can imagine how I felt when I saw that he looked upon me as a foolish fantast.
Great Ghost Stories|Various
A dissipated fantast with the half-insane imagination of the drunkard—Hoffmann.
Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature, Vol. II (of 6): The Romantic School in Germany|Georg Brandes
The epithet "fantast" may be equally suitably applied to Brentano.
Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature, Vol. II (of 6): The Romantic School in Germany|Georg Brandes
Besides plays, now unreadable, he wrote two long novels and a number of short tales, which all bear witness to the fantast in him.
Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature, Vol. II (of 6): The Romantic School in Germany|Georg Brandes

He has himself a good deal of the fantast again, but with a better basis of solidity beneath it.
History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XX. (of XXI.)|Thomas Carlyle

British Dictionary definitions for fantast

fantast

/ (ˈfæntæst) /

noun

a dreamer or visionary

Word Origin for fantast

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

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