fanciful English

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What does fanciful mean?

fanciful

— adjective (= notional) indulging in or influenced by fancy a fanciful mind all the notional vagaries of childhood

— adjective having a curiously intricate quality a fanciful pattern with intertwined vines and flowers

— adjective (= imaginary, notional) 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

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fanciful English » English

imaginary

whimsical

notional

unreal

intricate

fantastic

extravagant

visionnary

visionary

untrue

subtil

subjective

stupid

strange

romantic

reckless

pretentious

overhead

ornate

odd

mythologic

mannered

ingenious

imaginative

illusory

ignorant

ideal

fussy

freakish

flowery

fictitious

fiction

fancy

fancied

false

elaborate

chimerical

affected

aerial

absurd

abstract

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  imaginary abstract conceptual creative (thought) fanciful fictional hypothetical unreal nonexistent doesn't exist