A person who has visions, ideals, or fantasies, esp. one who indulges in impractical or unrealistic plans; a daydreamer; (now also in more…

A visionary, a dreamer; a flighty, impulsive person.

One who has fanciful ideas or notions.

One who has fanciful ideas or indulges in wild notions. Obs. exc. arch.

a person who expresses whimsical or eccentric ideas (see sense 2).

transferred in allusion to the proverb Sabini quod volunt somniant, ‘the Sabines dream what they will’ (Festus).

a silly whimsical person.

A whimsical or fantastic person.

A whimsical fellow. Obsolete.

One who indulges in fantastic ideas or schemes; an unpractical speculator or enthusiast.

A person concerned with imaginary things; a fantasist. Also: one who stresses the importance of the imagination.

= ideologist, n. 2. Now rare.

A person who has ideas, especially ideas regarded as impractical; a speculator; an idealist, a visionary, a mere theorist. Now rare.

One who fancies or imagines.

A person who creates, aspires to, or pursues ideals. Also depreciatively: one who entertains visionary or unpractical notions.

U.S. depreciative. An impractical dreamer; an idealist. Now usually as merged into uses of sense A. 1a with a depreciative connotation (cf. quot…

A person who is given to fantasizing; = fantast, n. 1.

a person who dreams; a dreamer.

Chiefly in Jewish usage: a person who indulges in impractical or unrealistic plans; an impractical dreamer.

One who ‘weaves’ fantasies.

a person who makes promises or cherishes dreams which cannot be fulfilled.