Meaning

2 senses
  1. Imaginative 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.

  2. Unreal or imagined.

    phantasievoll, irreal, unrealistisch

    прихотливыйprixotlivyj

    химе́рнийxymérnyj

More definitions
  • indulging in or influenced by fancy
  • having a curiously intricate quality
  • not based on fact; existing only in the imagination

Examples

4 sentences
  1. His ideas are often fanciful, but they're always original.

    deSeine Ideen sind oft überspannt, aber immer originell.

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  2. We are our memory, we are that fanciful museum of capricious forms, that mountain of broken mirrors.

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  3. Over the centuries, Tibetan monks have created mandalas, fanciful images of the universe with complex iconography.

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  4. Artists from around the world have created fanciful, strange, beautiful and huge sculptures at a beach on Denmark's West coast.

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Translations

6 languages
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Русский
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Deutsch
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imaginative or unreal:

Origin

From fancy + -ful.

From fancy + -ful.

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Forms

more fanciful, most fanciful
Comparativemore fanciful Lesson
Superlativemost fanciful Lesson

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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