fanciful en · ADJ
Pronunciation
Etymology
From fancy + -ful.
Meanings
-
Imaginative or fantastic; ignoring reality.
Mr. Butler, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain,” treats his newest novelistic conceit as an occasion to toss every possible ingredient into a fanciful hellscape and then let these elements run wild.
2009 September 7, Janet Maslin, “News at Styx: Who’s Hot in Hades”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2021:It was fanciful to suppose that all he had to do would be to stride into a top law firm and he would be hired on the spot.
Near-synonyms: conceptual, fancied, ideal, notional
- Unreal or imagined.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more fanciful | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| phanciful | alternative, obsolete | lexicographic | |
| most fanciful | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| fancifull | alternative, obsolete | lexicographic | |
| phancifull | alternative, obsolete | lexicographic |
Deriveds
nonfanciful · fancifully · unfanciful · overfanciful · fancifulness
Synonyms
notional · fancied · ideal · conceptual
Translations (34)
bg нереален (imaginative or unreal) · th เพ้อฝัน (imaginative or unreal) · uk химе́рний (imaginative or unreal) · hi मनगढ़ंत (imaginative or unreal) · nb fantasifull (imaginative or unreal) · ga guanach (imaginative or unreal) · pl dziwaczny (imaginative or unreal) · fa خیالانگیز (imaginative or unreal) · gl imaxinario (imaginative or unreal) · da fantasifuld (imaginative or unreal) · nl fantastisch (imaginative or unreal) · de irreal (imaginative or unreal) · eo fantazia (imaginative or unreal) · es fantasioso (imaginative or unreal) · hi कल्पित (imaginative or unreal) · de phantasievoll (imaginative or unreal) · ru прихотливый (imaginative or unreal) · nn fantasifull (imaginative or unreal) · fi kuvitteellinen (imaginative or unreal) · fr imaginaire (imaginative or unreal) · fr fantaisiste (imaginative or unreal) · nl verzonnen (imaginative or unreal) · es fantástico (imaginative or unreal) · hi काल्पनिक (imaginative or unreal) · bg фантастичен (imaginative or unreal) · hu képzeletbeli (imaginative or unreal) · ga meonúil (imaginative or unreal) · fi mielikuvituksellinen (imaginative or unreal) · da fantastisk (imaginative or unreal) · sv fantasifull (imaginative or unreal) · nl fantasievol (imaginative or unreal) · nl denkbeeldig (imaginative or unreal) · es imaginativo (imaginative or unreal) · de unrealistisch (imaginative or unreal)