Fantasize

English

Verb

Fantasize (third-person singular simple present fantasizes, present participle fantasizing, simple past and past participle fantasized)

1. (intransitive) To indulge in fantasy; to imagine things only possible in fantasy.
2. (transitive) To portray in the mind, using fantasy.

Thesaurus

coin, conceit, conceive, conceptualize, concoct, cook up, counterfeit, create, dream, dream up, envisage, envision, experience imaginatively, fabricate, fake, fancy, fictionalize, forge, fudge, hallucinate, hatch, hoke up, ideate, imagine, invent, make up, manufacture, mold, mull over, muse, originate, produce, shape, speculate, suppose, think up, trump up

Alternative forms

• fantasise (British)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈfæntəˌsaɪz/

Translations

intransitive: to indulge in fantasy

Croatian: fantazirati (hr) French: fantasmer (fr) Hungarian: fantáziál (hu)

Romanian: a avea fantezii Russian: фантазировать (ru) (fantazírovat') impf. Spanish: fantasear (es)

transitive: to portray in the mind

Hungarian: fantáziál (hu)