Meaning of fantast | Babel Free

Definitions

One whose manners or ideas are fantastic and fanciful; a dreamer.

archaic

Equivalents

Examples

“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” […].”

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