Meanings
present singular third person fantasises · participle present fantasising · participle past fantasised · past fantasised
- UKnonstandardNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of fantasize.
He's so hot. I used to fantasise about him constantly.
1 more example
“Yeah sex is cool, but have you ever fantasised about an infrastructure renewal program funded by the taxes of billionaires?” is a representative Numtot fantasy.
2018 July 5, Elle Hunt, “Meet the Numtots: the millennials who find fixing public transport sexy”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 11 Apr 2021
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂-
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰh₂nyéti
- Proto-Hellenic*pʰáňňō
- Ancient Greekφαίνω (phaínō)
- Ancient Greekφαντάζω (phantázō)
- Ancient Greekφᾰ́ντᾰσῐς (phắntăsĭs)
- Ancient Greekφαντασία (phantasía)
- Latinphantasia
- Old Frenchfantasie
- Middle Englishfantasie
- Englishfantasy
- Englishfantasise
Cite this entry
fantasise. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fantasise
“fantasise.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fantasise. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fantasise,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fantasise.
Source: fantasise on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.