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Synonyms for fanciful
ˈfæn sɪ fəlfan·ci·ful
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
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.
Synonyms:
chimerical, fantastic, grotesque, imaginative, visionaryAntonyms:
accurate, calculable, calculated, commonplace, literal, ordinary, prosaic, real, reasonable, regular, sensible, solid, sound, sure, true
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Princeton's WordNet
fanciful, notionaladjective
indulging in or influenced by fancy
"a fanciful mind"; "all the notional vagaries of childhood"
Synonyms:
conceptional, ideational, speculative, notional, imaginaryAntonyms:
existent, uncreative, plain, realfanciful, 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"
Synonyms:
conceptional, ideational, speculative, notional, imaginaryAntonyms:
uncreative, plain, existent, realfancifuladjective
having a curiously intricate quality
"a fanciful pattern with intertwined vines and flowers"
Antonyms:
existent, plain, real, uncreative
Dictionary of English Synonymes
fancifuladjective
Synonyms:
visionary, imaginative, whimsical, CAPRICIOUSfancifuladjective
Synonyms:
chimerical, imaginary, ideal, fantastical, wild
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
fancifuladjective
Synonyms:
whimsical, capricious, visionary, imaginative, unpractical, chimerical, fantastic, illusive, phantasmic, quixotic, bizarre, erratic
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "fanciful":
whimsical, extravagant, imaginative, fancy, capricious, frivolous
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#4089 | fantastic | |
#6823 | fancy | |
#13230 | unreal | |
#15937 | imaginary | |
#16818 | absurd | |
#18910 | erroneous | |
#19460 | imaginative | |
#19590 | visionary | |
#20140 | speculative | |
#22085 | eccentric | |
#24836 | quaint | |
#27639 | whimsical | |
#30439 | frivolous | |
#31949 | erratic | |
#34015 | extravagant | |
#36903 | grotesque | |
#39207 | notional | |
#44241 | fanciful | |
#45715 | capricious | |
#77027 | freakish | |
#119226 | fitful | |
#202594 | ideational | |
#210635 | chimerical | |
#327192 | conceptional |
How to use fanciful in a sentence?
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.
To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful.
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.
Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
There was a declared war on coal, a war on fossil fuels, the EPA was weaponized against certain sectors of our economy and that’s not the role of a regulator. Renewables need to be part of our energy mix, but to think that will be the dominant fuel is simply fanciful.
Translations for fanciful
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- خياليArabic
- нереален, фантастиченBulgarian
- PhantasievollGerman
- fantástico, imaginario, imaginadoSpanish
- kuvitteellinen, mielikuvituksellinenFinnish
- imaginaire, fantaisisteFrench
- काल्पनिकHindi
- képzeletbeli, furcsaHungarian
- fantastisIndonesian
- fantasiosoItalian
- דמיוניHebrew
- 想像Japanese
- ಕಾಲ್ಪನಿಕKannada
- 기발한Korean
- fantasievol, denkbeeldig, fantastisch, verzonnenDutch
- dziwacznyPolish
- fantásticoPortuguese
- прихотливыйRussian
- химернийUkrainian
- شاندارUrdu
- 撒娇的Chinese
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