fanciful
Imaginative or fantasticImaginative or fantastic; ignoring reality.
» His ideas are often fanciful, but they're always original.
Seine Ideen sind oft überspannt, aber immer originell.
Meaning
2 sensesImaginative or fantastic; ignoring reality.
Near-synonyms: conceptual, fancied, ideal, notional
It was fanciful to suppose that all he had to do would be to stride into a top law firm and he would be hired on the spot.
Unreal or imagined.
phantasievoll, irreal, unrealistisch
прихотливыйprixotlivyj
химе́рнийxymérnyj
- indulging in or influenced by fancy
- having a curiously intricate quality
- not based on fact; existing only in the imagination
Examples
4 sentencesHis ideas are often fanciful, but they're always original.
deSeine Ideen sind oft überspannt, aber immer originell.
We are our memory, we are that fanciful museum of capricious forms, that mountain of broken mirrors.
Over the centuries, Tibetan monks have created mandalas, fanciful images of the universe with complex iconography.
Artists from around the world have created fanciful, strange, beautiful and huge sculptures at a beach on Denmark's West coast.
Translations
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Origin
From fancy + -ful.From fancy + -ful.
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Forms
more fanciful, most fanciful| Comparative | more fanciful Lesson |
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| Superlative | most fanciful Lesson |
regular
Synonyms
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5 related wordsLessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
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