fanciful
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6.3
- adjective
- /ˈfæn.sɪ.fəl/
:
imaginativo
- From her hat extended a fanciful aigrette that danced and bobbed.
- fanciful costumes
- fanciful creatures
- fanciful designs
Examples
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Most of the books only had portraits of kings or fanciful renderings of battles by men who had not seen them.
Fiction book (1992) -
The store is Victorian, fanciful, and filled with whispering shadows.
Fiction book (1994) -
A fanciful recreation of ancient Jerusalem.
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Like here you can see kind of step by step the materials you need to build a really fanciful staircase.
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Others wore full-face masks with fanciful images painted on them.
Fiction book (1992) -
There are just some that strike that fanciful note in my mind/emotions that can set off daydreams.
Blog text (18) -
Some of the high rocky outcrops have been given such fanciful names as Indian Head, Cannon Rock, and Old Man of the Mountain.
Academic text (1998) -
Life looks easier here, out from the trees, on ranchettes behind fanciful wrought-iron gates.
Fiction book (2002) -
And they were useful to people to interpret their own lives in comparison to these fanciful worlds that are depicted in myths and fairy tales.
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The children's book featured a fanciful dragon that flew through a world of rainbows and candy.
Synonyms
63
2.7
Very strange and like a dream or story, not real
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8.0
Very strange and like something made up in dreams or stories
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9.6
Having a very showy, overly decorated style
Having many rich decorative details that look complex
How Ornate
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Morphology
Etymology
Fanciful comes from fancy, the same root as fantasy, and the ending -ful meaning 'full of'. So a 'fanciful' design is 'full of imagination' and often looks delicate, decorative, or unusually detailed.