Antonyms for fanciful
ˈfæn sɪ fəlfan·ci·ful

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1. fanciful

   That is fanciful which is dictated or suggested by fancy independently of more serious considerations; the fantastic is the fanciful with the added elements of whimsicalness and extravagance. The fanciful swings away from the real or the ordinary lightly and pleasantly, the fantastic extravagantly, the grotesque ridiculously. A fanciful arrangement of objects is commonly pleasing, a fantastic arrangement is striking, a grotesque arrangement is laughable. A fanciful theory or suggestion may be clearly recognized as such; a visionary scheme is erroneously supposed to have a basis in fact. Compare synonyms for DREAM; IDEA; IMAGINATION.

   Antonyms:
   accurate, calculable, calculated, commonplace, literal, ordinary, prosaic, real, reasonable, regular, sensible, solid, sound, sure, true

   Synonyms:
   chimerical, fantastic, grotesque, imaginative, visionary

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1. fanciful

   Antonyms:
   natural, literal, regular, real, sober, ordinary, truthful, accurate, correct, orderly, calculable

   Synonyms:
   grotesque, chimerical, unreal, imaginary, quaint, eccentric, freakish, humorsome, erroneous, capricious, whimsical, erratic, absurd, fitful

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1. fanciful, notionaladjective

   indulging in or influenced by fancy

   "a fanciful mind"; "all the notional vagaries of childhood"

   Antonyms:
   existent, uncreative, plain, real

   Synonyms:
   conceptional, ideational, speculative, notional, imaginary

2. fanciful, imaginary, notionaladjective

   not based on fact; unreal

   "the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties"- F.D.Roosevelt; "a small child's imaginary friends"; "to create a notional world for oneself"

   Antonyms:
   uncreative, plain, existent, real

   Synonyms:
   conceptional, ideational, speculative, notional, imaginary

3. fancifuladjective

   having a curiously intricate quality

   "a fanciful pattern with intertwined vines and flowers"

   Antonyms:
   existent, plain, real, uncreative

   Synonyms:
   notional, imaginary

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1. fancifuladjective

   Synonyms:
   whimsical, capricious, visionary, imaginative, unpractical, chimerical, fantastic, illusive, phantasmic, quixotic, bizarre, erratic

How to use fanciful in a sentence?

1. Mitch McConnell:

   Two years of exhaustive investigation and nothing to establish the fanciful conspiracy theory that Democratic politicians and TV talking heads had treated like a foregone conclusion, this ought to be good news for everyone but my Democratic colleagues seem to be publicly working through the five stages of grief.

2. Wilhelm von Humboldt:

   If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe that the whole treasure of morality and order is enshrined in the female character.

3. Sophocles, Trachiniae:

   Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

4. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez:

   We aren't proposing anything fanciful, it's necessary and moreover it's possible.

5. Edgar Allen Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue:

   The ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

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