Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A visionary; a dreamer.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One whose mind is full of fantastic notions; a person of fantastic ideas, manners, or mode of expression.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare One whose manners or ideas are fantastic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete One whose manners or ideas are fantastic and fanciful.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who predicts the future
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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My local library had a brainwave eariler this year and aboloished its scifi/fantast section (that was a real treasure trove) merging all the genres back into 'general fiction', it was a bloody nightmare as rather than browsing sf/fantasy to find new and interesting books I just tended to find myself looking for books I already wanted to read.
International Science Fiction Reshelving Day -- Good Idea or Bad Idea? 2009
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December 31, 2008 12: 14 AM fantast said ... wow great list, started a log too.
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Ashlee had her dark fantast wedding, Joe, as usual, got his way and Pete scored some major points with his new father-in-law, the tabby spy says.
Pete Wentz Ashlee Simpson Wedding Photos People Magazine May 2008 2008
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In a series of afterhours speeches, Rep. Robert Dornan of California, a fantast of the far right, spun this into a picture of Clinton as a real-life Manchurian Candidate-a man who had prepped for polities under the KGB.
A SILVER BULLET 2008
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I love fantast, but so much of it is the same story redone.
HH Com 190 Miss Snark 2006
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Especially after LOTR movie came out, fantast combat is way more familliar with mainstream population.
Towards a Casual RPG Greg Tannahill 2006
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Instead, I've been working on "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town," another book, this one an urban fantast/magic-realist thing about community wireless networking.
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One should not reproach the theorist who undertakes such a task by calling him a fantast; instead, one must allow him his fantasizing, since for him there is no other way to his goal whatsoever.
Einstein's Philosophy of Science Howard, Don A. 2004
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It was easy to understand why no explorer had brought back pictures, why the only record of this place should be in a book by a known fantast, why sights such as these were incredible-until witnessed.
The Dreamthief's Daughter Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 2001
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Somewhat too little of a fantast, this Vates of ours!
Paras. 25-49 1909
super-kawy commented on the word fantast
A visionary; a dreamer.
September 22, 2009
MaryW commented on the word fantast
Oliver Sacks, On the Move (New York: Knopf, 2015) (describing his cousin Carmel)December 26, 2015