Escapist

Word ESCAPIST
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Definitions and meanings of "Escapist"

What do we mean by escapist?

Indulging in or characterized by escapism. adjective

Intended for or tending toward escape; especially, used to avoid, deny, or forget about reality, as through fantasy. adjective

Someone who wants to escape; especially from reality noun

A person who escapes into a world of fantasy noun

Someone who wants to escape; especially from reality

A person who immerses themselves in alternative reality; habitual diversion of the mind to purely imaginative activity or entertainment as an escape from reality or routine. Urban Dictionary

An escape artist. Someone who escapes either a bad situation quite easily, Or a person who breaks out of jail alot. Urban Dictionary

1) To repeatedly and vigorously cram something down another person's throat 2) To disproportionately value the opinions of idiots with no talent Urban Dictionary

An awesome gaming website that no one went on until they started showing Zero Punctuation. Most people only go on Wednesdays for Zero Punctuation, which is a shame because they have lots of other awesome shows like Unskippable and There Will Be Brawl. Urban Dictionary

An ending in the Henry Stickmin game Escaping the Prison where you sneak out through the rooftop undetected. Urban Dictionary

A game nobody has heard of about escaping prisons made by the developers of golf with your friends, Urban Dictionary

Someone who routinely goes off-line on Facebook messenger just as you are about to contact them, or if you have even typed in the text box and are about to hit send Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Escapist

The word "escapist" in example sentences

I use the term escapist advisedly, since it doesn't do justice to the past, any more than it hints at what present-day moviegoers might come to embrace. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I have heard it suggested that in "escapist" or "speculative" fiction that history doesn't matter -- you're writing wacky crap anyway. ❋ Duchess_webb (2004)

What makes the Jack Flash sequences arguably escapist is not just their gaucheness but the vicarious thrill of his anti-establishment rebellion. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

The dismissal of fairy tales, myths and fantastic fiction as "sentimental" or "merely escapist" is nothing new. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Sometimes, it's just plain escapist fiction, fun for the writer to write and the reader to read. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Don't mention the escapists visiting Warcry code, as you will have to say the word escapist and thus break rule number 1. 3. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If science fiction and fantasy can do that for people, I see nothing wrong with it being called escapist if it can give peace of mind for even a moment. ❋ Mish (2009)

The music can best be described as escapist blue collar Hip Hop with Funk and Jazz influences, with a unique urban flavour. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Others (generally defenders of the genre approach) would argue that * all* reading is a suspense of engagement with reality and thereby "escapist". ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

In my somewhat jaded opinion, most readers still want "escapist" literature -- to the extent they want literature at all -- that nevertheless doesn't stray too far from ordinary experience. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This does not mean Dickens is for "escapist" readers. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And if I'm not misinterpreting them, they are saying that Jordan offers them, more than anything else, a kind of escapist pleasure. ❋ Adam Roberts (2010)

Back to your post, I was saying that Adam sees the WoT in a negative light AND he tends to characterize its readership as a kind of escapist stereotype, at the very least in the quote that I offered. ❋ Adam Roberts (2010)

If a work is "escapist", what exactly is it trying to escape from, how is it defining the world-prison and the dream-idyll, and what does that say about us, our psyche and our culture? ❋ Hal Duncan (2008)

Food, sleep, sex, music, sports, video games, drugs etc. can all be forms of [escapism] [employed] by [the escapist] ❋ YoungEscapist (2012)

1)The man has [broken] out of so many prisons he is now known as an escapist. 2)[The woman] has a [tendency] to get out of arguements quite easily. Her husband now calls her an escapist. ❋ Kriztyn (2006)

1) I used to like that new song, but [the radio's] Escapistized it. 2) I used to enjoy going to that website, but they Escapistized a bunch of trolls and now [I can't stand] about half their [articles]. ❋ CaiusCaligula (2011)

Guy: Dude, [lets go] watch [Zero Punctuation] on The Escapist! [Brush]: Sweet, then lets watch Unforgotten Realms! Guy: What? ❋ TGBA (2009)

A: Sneaky Escapist has [epic] [music] B: [Yeah] ❋ I Like Tomatoes (2021)

[Jimmy] 1: Do you want to play the escapists 2? Jimmy [73]: [The Fuck] Is A the escapists? ❋ Random Person On UD (2021)

John: I tried to message Will [the other night], and just as I started [typing] in "what's up?" he went [offline]. Max: Yeah he always gets away at the last second, he's such a Facebook Escapist ❋ Laxman33 (2012)

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