fantasy

noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ mere, pure, sheer, total

▪

Most of what they told us was pure fantasy.

▪ ultimate

▪

the ultimate human fantasy: being able to fly

▪ utopian

▪ wild

▪

She dismissed the idea as a wild fantasy.

▪ escapist

▪ paranoid

▪ violent

▪ revenge

▪

She was seething with anger and filled with revenge fantasies.

▪ personal, private, secret

▪ childhood, childish

▪ adolescent

▪ erotic, romantic, sexual

▪ male

VERB + FANTASY

▪ enjoy, entertain, have, indulge in

▪

She didn't entertain silly fantasies about love at first sight.

▪

They indulge in teenage fantasies about being the greatest rock band in the world

▪ build, create, weave

▪

She had woven a whole fantasy about living near the coast.

▪ feed, feed off, fuel

▪ act out

▪

Children can act out their fantasies in a secure environment.

▪ fulfil/fulfill, indulge, live, live out, play out, satisfy

▪

My childhood fantasies were finally fulfilled.

▪

He was willing to indulge her wildest fantasies.

▪

He was able to play out his fantasy of rock stardom.

FANTASY + NOUN

▪ life

▪ land, realm, world

▪

You're living in a fantasy world.

▪ figure

▪

children that project their own identities onto fantasy figures

▪ adventure, book, film, game, genre, movie, novel, story, writer

▪ baseball, basketball, football, sports (esp. AmE)

▪ league, team

PREPOSITION

▪ fantasy about

▪

She had a fantasy about going to live on a South Pacific island.

▪ fantasy of

▪

adolescent fantasies of power, glory and recognition

PHRASES

▪ the realm of fantasy (esp. AmE), the realms of fantasy (BrE)

▪

The idea belonged in the realms of fantasy.

▪ a world of fantasy

▪

She felt she had entered a world of fantasy.