Word Study
fantasize
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb fantasize has 2 senses
- fantasize(v = verb.creation) fantasise, fantasy - indulge in fantasies; "he is fantasizing when he says he plans to start his own company" is one way to conceive of, envisage, ideate, imagine
- fantasize(v = verb.creation) fantasise - portray in the mind; "he is fantasizing the ideal wife" is one way to conceive of, envisage, ideate, imagine
Derived forms noun fantasy1, noun fantasy3
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
fantasize, v. (also phantasize, -ise)
1 intr. have a fantasy or fanciful vision.
2 tr. imagine; create a fantasy about.
1 intr. have a fantasy or fanciful vision.
2 tr. imagine; create a fantasy about.
Derivative
fantasist n.
THESAURUS
fantasize
coin, conceit, conceive, conceptualize, concoct, cook up, counterfeit, create, dream, dream up, envisage, envision, experience imaginatively, fabricate, fake, fancy, fictionalize, forge, fudge, hallucinate, hatch, hoke up, ideate, imagine, invent, make up, manufacture, mold, mull over, muse, originate, produce, shape, speculate, suppose, think up, trump up
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