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fanciful
adjective
1 fanciful
Indulging in or influenced by fancy:
— A fanciful mind.
synonym: notional.
Roget 853:
ridiculous,
ludicrous;
comical;
droll,
funny,
laughable,
pour rire,
grotesque,
farcical,
odd;
whimsical,
whimsical as a dancing bear;
fanciful,
fantastic,
queer,
rum,
quizzical,
quaint,
bizarre;
screaming;
eccentric
etc.
(unconformable)
83;
strange,
outlandish,
out of the way,
baroque,
weird;
awkward
etc.
(ugly)
846.
extravagant,
outre,
monstrous,
preposterous,
bombastic,
inflated,
stilted,
burlesque,
mock heroic.
drollish;
seriocomic,
tragicomic;
gimcrack,
contemptible
etc.
(unimportant)
643;
doggerel;
ironical
etc.
(derisive)
856;
risible.
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Roget 608:
capricious;
erratic,
eccentric,
fitful,
hysterical;
full of whims
etc.
n.;
maggoty;
inconsistent,
fanciful,
fantastic,
whimsical,
crotchety,
kinky [U.S.],
particular,
humorsome†,
freakish,
skittish,
wanton,
wayward;
contrary;
captious;
arbitrary;
unconformable
etc.
83;
penny wise and pound foolish;
fickle
etc.
(irresolute)
605;
frivolous,
sleeveless,
giddy,
volatile.
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2 fanciful
Not based on fact; existing only in the imagination:
— The falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties.
synonyms: imaginary, notional.
Roget 515:
imagined
etc.
v.;
ben trovato [It];
air drawn,
airbuilt†.
imagining
etc.
v.,
imaginative;
original,
inventive,
creative,
fertile.
romantic,
high flown,
flighty,
extravagant,
fanatic,
enthusiastic,
unrealistic,
Utopian,
Quixotic.
ideal,
unreal;
in the clouds,
in nubibus [Lat.];
unsubsantial†
etc.
4;
illusory
etc.
(fallacious)
495.
fabulous,
legendary;
mythical,
mythic,
mythological;
chimerical;
imaginary,
visionary;
notional;
fancy,
fanciful,
fantastic,
fantastical†;
whimsical;
fairy,
fairy-like;
gestic†.
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3 fanciful
Having a curiously intricate quality.
Moby thesaurus: Gothic, absurd, air-built, airy, antic, apocryphal, arbitrary, baroque, bizarre, brain-born, capricious, changeable, chimerical, cloud-built, conceptual, cranky, crotchety, curious, dream-built, dreamlike, ethereal, extravagant, fabulous, false, fancied, fancy-born, fancy-built, fancy-woven, fantasied, fantasque, fantastic, fatuitous, fatuous, fickle, fictional, fictitious, fictive, flaky, florid, freakish, gaseous, gossamery, grotesque, harebrained, humorsome, ideal, ideational, ideological, illusory, imaginary, imaginative, imagined, immaterial, impossible, impulsive, incomprehensible, inconceivable, inconstant, incredible, kinky, legendary, maggoty, make-believe, merely nominal, moody, motiveless, mythical, not real, notional, odd, original, outlandish, peculiar, petulant, phantomlike, preposterous, quirky, rarefied, rococo, shadowy, spirituous, subtile, subtle, supposititious, temperamental, tenuous, theoretical, unaccountable, unactual, unbelievable, unexpected, unimaginable, unreal, unrealistic, unreasonable, unrestrained, unsubstantial, unusual, vagarious, vagrant, vaporous, variable, visionary, wanton, wayward, whimsical, wild, windy, wrong ... show more.
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