Fantasy
['fæntəsɪ;-zɪ] or ['fæntəsi]
Definition
(noun.) imagination unrestricted by reality; 'a schoolgirl fantasy'.
(noun.) fiction with a large amount of imagination in it; 'she made a lot of money writing romantic fantasies'.
(verb.) indulge in fantasies; 'he is fantasizing when he says he plans to start his own company'.
Edited by Carmella--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice; humor.
(n.) Fantastic designs.
(v. t.) To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like; to fancy.
Typed by Gwendolyn
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Caprice, whim, whimsey, FANCY.
Edited by Henry
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See FANCY]
Editor: Nita
Definition
n. fancy: imagination: mental image: love: whim caprice.—v.t. to fancy conceive mentally.—adj. Fan′tasied filled with fancies.—n. Fan′tasm (same as Phantasm).—adj. Fan′tasque fantastic.—ns. Fan′tast a person of fantastic ideas; Fantas′tic one who is fantastical.—adjs. Fantas′tic -al fanciful: not real: capricious: whimsical: wild.—adv. Fantas′tically.—n. Fantas′ticalness.—v.t. and v.i. Fantas′ticate.—ns. Fantas′ticism; Fantas′tico (Shak.) a fantastic.
n. Phantā′siast one of those Docet?who believed Christ's body to have been a mere phantom.
Checker: Salvatore
Examples
- A Greek girl, called Helena, who lives in the Island of Fantasy. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Did I not tell you it was the Island of Fantasy, and therefore full of wonders? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Alas, the beautiful Island of Fantasy! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- How did it come by the extraordinary name of Fantasy? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Come with me to the Island of Fantasy, and you also will be happy. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The Island of Fantasy? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Oh yes; he is the king of the Island of Fantasy. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The Island of Fantasy! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Where is this Island of Fantasy? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- But it is not fantasy and whim, uncle. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I tell you this is the Island of Fantasy—the only fairyland yet remaining on earth. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The Island of Fantasy, or, to call it by its real name, Melnos, does exist in the ?gean Sea. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I cannot understand your Island of Fantasy. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Pseudo-counts, patriarchal knights, islands of fantasy, hintings of dangers. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- No one can any longer dismiss the fantasy because it is logically inconsistent, superficially absurd, or objectively untrue. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- A wealth of evidence could be adduced to support this from the studies of dreams and fantasies made by the Freudian school of psychologists. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Can I guess a woman's waking thoughtsmuch less her sleeping fantasies? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- So far as we can judge, he drew no fantasies, no ghosts or anything of that sort. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And in the name of equality what fantasies of taxation have we not woven? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Editor: Sheldon