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not likely to succeed or happen in the real world: He has some fanciful notion about converting one room of his apartment into a gallery. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Not believable. belief. by no stretch (of the imagination) idiom. fancifully. far-fetched. fishy. implausibility. implausible. implausibly. incredible. joke. kid.
The meaning of FANCIFUL is marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience. How to use fanciful in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Fanciful.
not likely to succeed or happen in the real world: He has some fanciful notion about converting one room of his apartment into a gallery. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Not believable. belief. by no stretch (of the imagination) idiom. fancifully. far-fetched. fishy. implausible. implausibly. incredible. incredibly. joke. kid. likely.
If you describe an idea as fanciful, you disapprove of it because you think it comes from someone's imagination, and is therefore unrealistic.
Fanciful definition: characterized by or showing fancy; capricious or whimsical in appearance. See examples of FANCIFUL used in a sentence.
having the ability or power to create, especially something new or imaginative. adjective. not based on fact; unreal. “"the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties"- F.D.Roosevelt” synonyms: imaginary, notional. unreal. lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria. adjective.
adj. 1. not based on fact; dubious or imaginary: fanciful notions. 2. made or designed in a curious, intricate, or imaginative way. 3. indulging in or influenced by fancy; whimsical. ˈfancifully adv. ˈfancifulness n.
