fantasy

1. 1.

   indulge in fantasies

   “he is fantasizing when he says he plans to start his own company”

   Synonymsfantasizefantasise

   Broaderimagine

Other forms of fantasy

plural

fantasies·

past tense or participle

fantasied

present participle

fantasying·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fantasy

What does fantasy mean?

fantasy means "imagination unrestricted by reality". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fantasy?

fantasy has 3 syllables: fan-ta-sy. The stress falls on "fan". In IPA it is /ˈfæntəsi/.

What is another word for fantasy?

Close synonyms include phantasy, phantasy, illusion, phantasy, fancy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fantasy a common word?

fantasy is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.