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fanciful

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of fanciful

1 conceived or made without regard for reason or reality

she harbors the fanciful notion that she has a talent for singing

Synonyms of fanciful

absurd, bizarre, crazy, fantastic (also fantastical), foolish, insane, nonsensical, preposterous, unreal, wild

Words Related to fanciful

implausible, inconceivable, incredible, unbelievable, unimaginable, unthinkable

extravagant, grotesque

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

Alice-in-Wonderland, Kafkaesque, nightmarish

dreamlike, surreal

Phrases Synonymous with fanciful

off the wall [slang]

Antonyms of fanciful

realistic, reasonable

2 not real and existing only in the imagination

the fanciful creatures that J.R.R. Tolkien created for his Middle Earth novels

Synonyms of fanciful

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

Words Related to fanciful

fabled, legendary, romantic

abstract, hypothetical, theoretical (also theoretic)

unbelievable, unconvincing, unlikely

conceived, envisaged, envisioned, pictured, visualized

daydreamlike, deceptive, delusional, delusive, hallucinatory, illusory, phantasmagoric (or phantasmagorical)

concocted, fabricated, feigned, fictive

inexistent, nonexistent

Near Antonyms of fanciful

authentic, genuine, true

factual, verifiable, verified

believable, convincing, realistic

corporeal, material, physical, solid, substantial

palpable, tangible

Antonyms of fanciful

actual, existent, existing, real

Synonym Discussion of fanciful

imaginary, fanciful, visionary, fantastic, chimerical, quixotic mean unreal or unbelievable. imaginary applies to something which is fictitious and purely the product of one's imagination.

- an imaginary desert isle

fanciful suggests the free play of the imagination.

- a teller of fanciful stories

visionary stresses impracticality or incapability of realization.

- visionary schemes

fantastic implies incredibility or strangeness beyond belief.

- a fantastic world inhabited by monsters

chimerical combines the implication of visionary and fantastic.

- chimerical dreams of future progress

quixotic implies a devotion to romantic or chivalrous ideals unrestrained by ordinary prudence and common sense.

- a quixotic crusade

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