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fantasy - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | fantasy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imagination, dream |
| Synonyms: | Atlantis, Utopia, air castle, apparition, appearance, bubble*, chimera, conceiving, creativity, daydream, delusion, envisioning, externalizing, fabrication, fairyland, fancy, fancying, fantasia, figment*, flight, flight of imagination, fool's paradise, hallucination, head trip, illusion, imaginativeness, imagining, invention, mind trip, mirage, nightmare, objectifying, originality, rainbow*, reverie, trip, vagary, vision |
| Notes: | fantasy is imagination unrestricted by reality; phantasm is a ghostly appearing figure or something existing in perception only |
| Antonyms: | reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | delusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misconception, misbelief |
| Synonyms: | apparition, blunder, casuistry, chicanery, daydream, deception, deceptiveness, dream, eidolon, error, fallacy, false impression, fancy, fantasy, figment*, fool's paradise, ghost, hallucination, head trip, ignis fatuus, illusion, lapse, mirage, misapprehension, mistake, optical illusion, oversight, phantasm, phantom, pipe dream*, self-deception, shade, speciousness, spuriousness, trickery, trip, vision |
| Antonyms: | actuality, certainty, fact, reality, surety, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exaggeration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overstatement, embellishment |
| Synonyms: | amplification, baloney*, boasting, caricature, coloring, crock*, elaboration, embroidery, emphasis, enlargement, exaltation, excess, extravagance, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, figure of speech, fish story*, flight of fancy*, hogwash*, hyperbole, inflation, jazz*, line*, misrepresentation, pretension, rant, romance, stretch, untruth, whopper*, yarn*, aggrandizement, magnification, misjudgment, overemphasis, overestimation, pretentiousness, tall story |
| Antonyms: | reduction, understatement, minimization, unembellishment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fable |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fantasy, story |
| Synonyms: | allegory, apologue, bunk*, crock*, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, fantasy, fib, fiction, figment, fish story*, hogwash*, invention, legend, lie, myth, parable, romance, tale, untruth, white lie*, whopper*, yarn, bestiary, fairy story, old chestnut, old saw, one for the birds, tall story |
| Antonyms: | truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fad |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | craze |
| Synonyms: | affectation, amusement, caprice, chic, conceit, cry, custom, dernier cri, eccentricity, fancy, fantasy, fashion, frivolity, furor, hobby, humor, innovation, kick, kink, mania, mode, passion, quirk, rage, sport, style, thing, trend, vagary, vogue, whim, whimsy, wrinkle, fool notion, in, in thing, latest word, new look, newest wrinkle, passing fancy |
| Antonyms: | standard, tradition |
| Main Entry: | fiction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | made-up story |
| Synonyms: | anecdote, book, concoction, crock*, drama, fable, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, fib, fish story*, imagination, improvisation, invention, legend, lie, misrepresentation, myth, narrative, novel, prevarication, romance, smoke*, tale, untruth, whopper*, yarn*, best seller, cliff-hanger, clothesline, figment of imagination, hooey, potboiler, storytelling, tall story, terminological inexactitude, work of imagination |
| Antonyms: | truth, non-fiction |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | figment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | creation in one's mind |
| Synonyms: | bubble*, castle in the air*, chimera, daydream, dream, fable, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, fiction, illusion, improvisation, invention, lie, nightmare, production |
| Antonyms: | reality |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hallucination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dream, delusion |
| Synonyms: | aberration, apparition, fantasy, figment of the imagination*, head trip, illusion, mirage, phantasm, phantom, trip*, vision, wraith, phantasmagoria |
| Antonyms: | experience, fact, reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | illusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | false appearance; false belief |
| Synonyms: | apparition, bubble*, chimera, confusion, daydream, deception, delusion, déjè vu, error, fallacy, false impression, fancy, fantasy, figment of imagination, fool's paradise, ghost, hallucination, head trip, hocus-pocus*, idolism, ignus fatuus, image, invention, make-believe, mirage, misapprehension, misbelief, misconception, misimpression, mockery, myth, optical illusion, paramnesia, phantasm, pipe dream*, rainbow*, seeming, semblance, trip*, virtual reality |
| Antonyms: | certainty, event, fact, reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | imagination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | power to create in one's mind |
| Synonyms: | acuteness, artistry, awareness, chimera, cognition, conception, creation, creativity, enterprise, fabrication, fancy, fantasy, flight of fancy*, idea, illusion, image, imagery, ingenuity, insight, inspiration, intelligence, invention, notion, originality, realization, sally, supposition, thought, thoughtfulness, verve, vision, wit, creative thought, ideality, inventiveness, mental agility, perceptibility, resourcefulness, unreality, visualization, wittiness |
| Antonyms: | being, entity, existence, material, reality, substance, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | make-believe |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imagined, unreal |
| Synonyms: | dream, false, fantasy, fraudulent, imaginary, made-up, mock, pretend, pretended, sham, simulated, acted, fantasized, fictional |
| Antonyms: | real, true, unimagined |
| Main Entry: | make-believe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unreality |
| Synonyms: | charade, disguise, dream, fairy tale, fantasy, imagination, pageant, pretense, pretension, sham, dissimulation, fakery, playacting, pretentiousness |
| Antonyms: | reality, truth |
| Main Entry: | mirage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imaginary vision |
| Synonyms: | delusion, fantasy, hallucination, illusion, optical illusion, phantasm, ignis fatuus |
| Main Entry: | myth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fictitious story, often ancient |
| Synonyms: | allegory, apologue, creation, delusion, fable, fabrication, fancy, fantasy, fiction, figment, folk tale, illusion, imagination, invention, legend, lore, parable, saga, superstition, tale, tradition, fairy story, folk ballad, mythos, tall story |
| Antonyms: | fact, truth, non-fiction |
| Main Entry: | mythical/mythological |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | make-believe, fairy-tale |
| Synonyms: | allegorical, chimerical, fabled, fabulous, false, fanciful, fantasy, fictitious, imaginary, legendary, made-up, nonexistent, pretended, storied, traditional, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical, created, fabricated, fictive, folkloric, invented, mythic, supposititious |
| Antonyms: | factual, historical, real, true |
| Main Entry: | nightmare |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad dream or experience |
| Synonyms: | dream, fancy, fantasy, hallucination, horror, illusion, incubus, ordeal, phantasm, torment, trial, tribulation, vision, succubus |
| Antonyms: | daymare |
| Main Entry: | pipe dream |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unrealistic hope |
| Synonyms: | air castle, airy hope, castle in the air, castle in the sky, castle in the sky, chimera, daydream, false hope, fantastic notion, fantasy, fool's paradise, fool's paradise, golden dream, pie in the sky, unreal hope, wishful thinking |
| Main Entry: | reverie |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | daydream |
| Synonyms: | absent-mindedness, absorption, abstraction, castle-building, castles in the air, contemplation, detachment, dreaminess, dreaming, fantasy, fool's paradise, head trip, inattention, meditation, mind trip, muse, musing, pensiveness, phantasy, pipe dream*, preoccupation, study, thought, trance, trip*, woolgathering |
| Antonyms: | nightmare |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | utopian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imaginary, ideal |
| Synonyms: | abstract, airy, ambitious, chimerical, dream, fanciful, fantasy, grandiose, hopeful, idealist, idealistic, illusory, impossible, impractical, lofty, otherworldly, perfect, pretentious, quixotic, romantic, transcendental, unfeasible, visionary, arcadian, ideological, pie-in-the-sky |
| Antonyms: | real |
| Main Entry: | whim |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sudden idea |
| Synonyms: | caprice, conceit, craze, desire, disposition, dream, fad, fancy, fantasy, freak, humor, impulse, inclination, notion, quirk, sport, thought, urge, vagary, vision, whimsy, passing thought |
| Antonyms: | plan |
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