wishful thinker

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   a person who escapes into a world of fantasy

   Synonymsescapistdreamer

   Broaderdaydreamer

Questions about wishful thinker

What does wishful thinker mean?

wishful thinker means "a person who escapes into a world of fantasy".

What is another word for wishful thinker?

Close synonyms include escapist, dreamer. 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 wishful thinker a common word?

wishful thinker is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.