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   fanciful

   /ˈfansɪf(ʊ)l/

   adjective

   • 1. over-imaginative and unrealistic: "ever more fanciful proposals were raised"
   • ▪ existing only in the imagination: "fanciful lunar inhabitants" Similar imaginativeinventivewhimsicalimpracticalcapriciousflightydreamydaydreamingquixoticchimericalhead in the cloudsout of touch with realityin a world of one's ownarchaic:visionaryfantasticextravagantfar-fetchedromanticunbelievableridiculousabsurdpreposterousimaginaryfanciedunrealillusorymade-upmake-believemythicalfabulouslegendaryfairy taleinformal:far outtallcrackpotcock and bullhard to swallow/takeOpposite down-to-earthliteral
   • 2. highly ornamental or imaginative in design: "a fanciful Art Nouveau bar" Similar ornateexoticimaginativecreativefancycuriousoddbizarrestrangeeccentricunusualoriginalextravagantfantasticgrotesqueGothicbaroqueOpposite practical

   Derivatives

   • 1. fancifully adverb
   • 2. fancifulness noun

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