单词 | fantasy |
释义 | fantasy/ˈfantəsi![]() noun (plural fantasies) 1 [mass noun] The faculty or activity of imagining impossible or improbable things: his researches had moved into the realms of fantasy [as modifier]: a fantasy world...
Synonyms imagination, creativity, fancy, invention, originality, vision, speculation, make-believe, daydreaming, reverie 1.1 [count noun] A fanciful mental image, typically one on which a person often dwells and which reflects their conscious or unconscious wishes: the notion of being independent is a child’s ultimate fantasy...
Synonyms dream, daydream, pipe dream, flight of fancy, fanciful notion, wish, wishful thinking; fond hope, chimera, delusion, illusion, figment of the imagination, castle in the air, castle in Spain informal pie in the sky, cloud cuckoo land 1.2 [count noun] An idea with no basis in reality: it is a misleading fantasy to suggest that the bill can be implemented...
1.3A genre of imaginative fiction involving magic and adventure, especially in a setting other than the real world.Of course some popular genre fiction - fantasy, science fiction, crime - can be of a high calibre as well....
Synonyms myth, legend, fable, fairy tale, romance; science fiction, sci-fi, horror; sword and sorcery; escapism 1.4 [as modifier] Denoting a competition or league in which participants select imaginary teams from among the players in a real sports league and score points according to the actual performance of their players: he’s my second-round draft choice in fantasy baseball this year look at their dedication to fantasy leagues and the enormous minutiae of the stats they memorize 2 Music A fantasia.Field also wrote fantasies and rondos (using popular melodies), études, waltzes, and works for piano duet....
verb (fantasies, fantasying, fantasied) [with object] literary Imagine the occurrence of; fantasize about: it is ludicrous to fantasy ‘disinventing’ the hydrogen bomb...
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French fantasie, from Latin phantasia, from Greek 'imagination, appearance', later 'phantom', from phantazein 'make visible'. From the 16th to the 19th cents the Latinized spelling phantasy was also used. Rhymes |
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