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fanciful
Synonyms and Antonyms of fanciful
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conceived or made without regard for reason or reality
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]
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not real and existing only in the imagination
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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