fantast

fantast

noun

Definition of FANTAST

one whose conduct is guided more by the image of perfection than by the real world <yet another short-lived utopian community that was the brainchild of a naive fantast>

Synonyms Don Quixote, dreamer, fantast, idealizer, ideologue (also idealogue), romantic, romanticist, utopian, visionary

Related Words emotionalist, sentimentalist; daydreamer, fantasizer, woolgatherer; Micawber, optimist, Pollyanna; do-gooder, reformer; perfectionist; doctrinaire, theorist, thinker

Near Antonyms cynic, defeatist, pessimist; empiric, empiricist

Antonyms hardnose, pragmatist, realist