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Another word for fanciful

fanciful Synonyms

fanciful

modif.

Characterized by use of the fancy
fantastical, whimsical, capricious, playful, imaginative, inventive, imaginary, chimerical, visionary, dreamlike, illusory; see also imaginary, unreal.
Showing fancy in design
quaint, odd, extravagant; see fantastic 1.

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Another word for fanciful

adjective

Existing only in the imagination:
chimeric, chimerical, conceptual, fantastic, fantastical, imaginary, notional, unreal, visionary. See real
Consisting or suggestive of fiction:
fantastic, fantastical, fictional, fictitious, fictive, invented, made-up. See real
Appealing to fancy:
fancy, fantastic, fantastical, imaginative, whimsical. See plain

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The fanciful writings about the emperor Maximilian I.
20-22), and many fanciful fables.
A fanciful explanation of his lameness is that it alludes to the elegiac couplet, one verse of which is shorter than the other.
It was too fanciful to look so far ahead when he needed to determine how to prevent his people from starving.
He held that the Hebrew must be read without points, and his interpretation rested largely on fanciful symbolism.

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