FANTASIZER Synonyms: 32 Similar and Opposite Words

fantasizer

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as in woolgatherer

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Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes’s 17th-century epic about a deluded knight, is frequently called the first modern novel.

— Boris Kachka, The Atlantic, 3 July 2026
Smale joined Tring Park Performing Arts Classical Ballet Academy in 2021 and became a Royal Ballet Junior Associate in 2022, performing in productions of Cinderella, Don Quixote and The Winter’s Tale.

— Greg Evans, Deadline, 25 June 2026

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John Beltran is Detroit techno’s foremost daydreamer.

— Alex Robert Ross, Pitchfork, 13 Feb. 2026
The chronic daydreamer can easily identify with Catherine’s near-delusional longing for something to happen beyond the courtships and evenings around the pianoforte that seem to make up the better part of her future.

— Boris Kachka, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2026

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The versatility, the intelligence, the playmaking and that ineffable ability to win — the Frenchman was a basketball romantic’s dream.

— Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 24 June 2026
Now these two romantics, who remain at large, are being looked for by the Leicestershire Police.

— Sean Joseph OutKick, FOXNews.com, 18 June 2026

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The optimists in our midst are hoping for a big improvement on that and that one or both of them will land in the nine-to-16 range, but more than half of y’all are thinking bottom half of the league, and that’s more defensible.

— Josh Kendall, New York Times, 16 July 2026
Finally, of course, there are the ambitious optimists, people betting that fresh leadership will shake CNN out of it slumber (and give themselves a high-profile role to help achieve those goals).

— Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 14 July 2026

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