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fanciful
Synonyms and Antonyms of fanciful
- she harbors the fanciful notion that she has a talent for singing
absurd, bizarre, crazy, fantastic (also fantastical), foolish, insane, nonsensical, preposterous, unreal, wild
implausible, inconceivable, incredible, unbelievable, unimaginable, unthinkable
bizarro, curious, eccentric, far-out, funny, kinky, kooky (also kookie), odd, outlandish, out-of-the-way, outré, peculiar, quaint, queer, queerish, quirky, screwy, strange, wacky (also whacky), way-out, weird
farcical, laughable, ludicrous, ridiculous
off the wall [slang]
- the fanciful creatures that J.R.R. Tolkien created for his Middle Earth novels
chimerical (also chimeric), fabulous, fantasied, fantastic (also fantastical), fictional, fictitious, ideal, imaginal, imaginary, imagined, invented, made-up, make-believe, mythical (or mythic), notional, phantasmal, phantasmic, phantom, pretend, unreal, visionary
Synonym Discussion of fanciful
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- an imaginary desert isle
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- a teller of fanciful stories
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- visionary schemes
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- a fantastic world inhabited by monsters
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- chimerical dreams of future progress
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- a quixotic crusade
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