noun
- a person given to fantasies or unrealistic ideas; a dreamer
Usage: archaic
Examples
- The old phantast spent his days imagining impossible inventions.
- She dismissed him as merely a phantast with no practical sense.
- The phantast’s wild theories were entertaining but impractical.
- Critics called the author a phantast for his bizarre fictional worlds.
- He was known as a harmless phantast who lived in his own imagination.