fanciful
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6.0
- adjective
- /ˈfæn.sɪ.fəl/
:
fantasioso
- His ideas were so fanciful that few took him seriously when he proposed walking on clouds.
- fanciful tale
- fanciful story
- seem fanciful
You're living in a fanciful world and life really gets you.
- You're living in a fanciful world and life really gets you.
- Britain has a veto, so suggestions of an EU army are fanciful.
- It deals with the definitions of London Bridge and attempts, realistic or fanciful, to repair it.
- People just dismiss these ideas as fanciful speculation for which there's no evidence.
- Throughout the European Union, officials and politicians harken back to distant, even fanciful times of perceived national ethnic purity.
- But I was like, I was, it was one of those there's life before that flight where I was young and naive and, and fanciful.
- Again, I think that one's fanciful too, but it should be on our list.
- Not the unknown unknown and some excursion into fanciful epistemology.
- I meaning a fanciful, vain attempt at something is quixotic.
- And then it created all of these, you know, fanciful afterlife after worlds, something beyond this.
- So let's not get into this fanciful states of surrendering. These are all words thrown around. Nobody knows what is surrender
Examples
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As unlikely as it may now sound, Oldenburg's supposition was not fanciful.
Academic text (2013) -
Though that sounds fairly fanciful too, it is closer to reality than one would imagine.
Academic text (2008) -
And it's not too fanciful to think of it as the centre of a research network.
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Love, you and your fanciful stories.
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I know it sounds fanciful, but that's what was said.
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They live in a world of fanciful dreams.
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If it's too fanciful, it will be rejected because people will listen to it and go, no, that's crazy.
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It's a fanciful tale of escaped zoo animals that storm the stage and take over the orchestra.
Academic text (2015) -
People just dismiss these ideas as fanciful speculation for which there's no evidence.
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Honey, I don't know what fanciful scenario you're writing in your own mind, but I suggest you get a grip - on your imagination.
Synonyms
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3.2
Only in the mind and not real
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3.4
Made up in stories or in your mind, not real
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4.0
Not having a sensible idea of what can be done in real life
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2.7
Very strange and like a dream or story, not real
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3.7
Having many new and different ideas
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6.0
Found only in old stories and not real, like dragons or unicorns
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6.0
Unlikely to be true because it seems unreal and extreme
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7.4
Being playful and imaginative in a way that seems unpredictable
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7.0
Not likely to be true or hard to believe
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8.0
Very strange and like something made up in dreams or stories
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7.9
Having ideas about a perfect world that are impossible to make real
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8.5
Not real and made up for a story or to hide the truth
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8.8
Not practical and too much like a dream
Full of playful, imaginative, and unusual details that surprise people
Not real because it is only in someone's mind
Imaginative in a way that is not practical
Having strong feelings and a dreamy view of life
Not showing things as they are in real life, often like a dream
Antonyms
How Imaginary
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Fanciful comes from the common word fancy, which means 'imagination', plus the ending -ful meaning 'full of'. So something fanciful is 'full of imagination', which is why the word describes ideas or stories that are unreal or hard to believe.