fantasticize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To make fantastic; to use the imagination to embellish.
Example Sentences
- "By fantasticizing death we deny it once again."
- "The social and personal behaviour of Muslim men, women and societies as they are encountered in the West could very well be different from the way it is depicted in films or fantasticized in novels, and sometimes even in textbooks."
- "In performing this fantasticizing operation on language, embroiderers, like calligraphers, must keep in mind that their work is conducted in the liminal region between the sacred and profane."
- "History itself is fantasticized, or it could be said that it is somehow contaminated by its adhesive contact with fantastic."
- "The people of the town gave the matter a lot of thought, really "fantasticized" over it for a long time, and finally decided to open the cabaret on the right corner of the Promenade."
- "He doesn't have any false pretensions, he's straightforward, no fantasticizing, but full of mood."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂nyéti Proto-Hellenic *pʰáňňō Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō) Ancient Greek φαντάζω (phantázō) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Hellenic *-tis Ancient Greek -τῐς (-tĭs) Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Hellenic *-tós Ancient Greek -τος (-tos) ▲ Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Ancient Greek -τικός (-tikós) Ancient Greek φανταστικός (phantastikós)bor. Late Latin phantasticusbor. Middle French fantastiquebor. English fantastic Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English fantasticize From fantastic + -ize.