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phantast

phantast is the alternative form of fantast.

Meaning of fantast

Noun

fantast (plural fantasts)

  1. (archaic) One whose manners or ideas are fantastic and fanciful; a dreamer.
    • He is indeed all this; and what he has more than all this peculiar to himself, I seem to convey to my own mind in some measure by saying, — that he is a quiet and sublime enthusiast with a strong tinge of the fantast, — the humourist constantly mingling with, and flashing across, the philosopher...1804, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, notes on Thomas Browne's Vulgar Errors

Forms of phantast

pluralphantasts

Questions about phantast

What is phantast the alternative form of?
Phantast is the alternative form of fantast.

Words near phantast in the dictionary

  1. phantasmological
  2. phantasmology
  3. phantasmophobia
  4. phantasms
  5. Phantasos
  6. phantast
  7. phantastic
  8. phantastica
  9. phantastical
  10. phantasticall
  11. phantastically

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