Crossword-Solution: ESCAPIST
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ESCAPIST | anagram | ASEPTICS, SPACIEST |
We have 23 clues for the answer “ESCAPIST”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Reality-avoiding sort | 1 answer |
| Reader of light fiction. | 1 answer |
| One seeking mental diversion | 1 answer |
| One fleeing from reality | 1 answer |
| Like your daily crossword puzzle, perhaps | 1 answer |
| Like many summer movies | 1 answer |
| Like many romance novels | 1 answer |
| Like a daydreamer | 1 answer |
| Entertaining, often | 1 answer |
| ONE avoiding life | 2 answers |
| ONE avoiding reality | 2 answers |
| Builder of air castles. | 2 answers |
| Like some fiction | 3 answers |
| Ivory tower | 8 answers |
| A PERSON WHO ESCAPES INTO A WORLD OF FANTASY | 11 answers |
| sloucher | 16 answers |
| dodger | 17 answers |
| daydreamer | 31 answers |
| Idealist | 38 answers |
| Dreamer | 39 answers |
| Quitter | 46 answers |
| IMPRACTICAL person | 46 answers |
| Fugitive | 68 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AEMECZ
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with ESCAPIST (3)
When they got tired of Confucianism, they interested themselves in Taoism of the politically innocent, escapist, meditative Buddhism.
Among artists, dissatisfaction was growing ever stronger against the implausible gods and heroes painted by academicians and also against the escapist tendency of the Romantics, who loved to paint exotic scenes, removed from ordinary experience.
The military applications of capacitite had crossed his mind only vaguely and been dismissed with an escapist shrug.
Quotes with ESCAPIST (3)
Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!
My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one
The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist' compared with biography, and to both cries one should make the same answer: that freedom to invent outweighs loyalty to mere happenstance, the accidents of history; and good readers should know how to filter a general applicability from a particular story.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, The Atlantic, WSJ.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1952–2024).