fancifully
1
5.7
- adverb
- /ˈfæn.sɪ.fəl.i/
:
fantasiosamente
- In an act of astonishing appropriation, Storm reworks virtually every Native American tradition to his fancifully autobiographical monologue.
- fancifully carved
Examples
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A lot of people who fancifully think of themselves as "monks" even with families, jobs, and the whole 9(-5), have nothing of the grit, determination, or interest in awakening or going beyond as the ancestors they read about.
Blog text (2) -
The RAND scholars fancifully conclude that America's share of the cost of their preferred $42 billion force projection strategy would range from just $420 million to $1.4 billion.
Academic text (1998) -
As Hudson (1987) himself has put it somewhat fancifully for the Creeks,
Academic text (1995) -
Which is an attitude already too prominent among those of us who live in what we so fancifully call "western civilization," especially those of us who are wholehearted enthusiasts of capitalism.
Blog text (13) -
Runaway slaves are presented as the only persons capable of harnessing the resources of what the author fancifully labels Florida "jungles."
Academic text (2017) -
They could be monochromatic or fancifully ornamented, with geometrics such as checkerboard patterns being a perennial favorite.
Blog text (22) -
Holstrom's violation is the fancifully painted 55-gallon buckets underneath the gutters of her farmhouse on a mesa 15 miles from the resort town of Telluride.
Blog text (14) -
And Joyce assures the reader thematically and technically that both this completion and any symbolic interpretation of Dubliners are not to be made fancifully by enthusiastic and free association; rather, they are to be made by a careful, self-effacing, objective examination of his text.
Academic text (1991) -
The Abbe had constructed the chair from a confessional booth he had cut down and affixed, through ingenious if mischievous rabbeting, to a fancifully engraved coffin.
Fiction book (1992) -
The café was fancifully decorated with twinkling lights and colorful murals.
Synonyms
3
5.7
In a playful, creative way that feels a little strange
2
4.1
In a creative way that uses new ideas
1
8.2
In a showy way that has too many decorations and details
In a decorated and stylish way
Antonyms
How Fanciful
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3.5
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5.7
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5.7
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6.0
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4.5
1
3.4
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1.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Fancifully comes from the common word fancy, which is like fantasy and means 'imagination', and the ending -ly makes it describe how something is done. So, to do something fancifully is to do it in a dreamy, playful, or unreal way, often like a small story or decoration.