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fanciful

[fan-si-fuhl] / ˈfæn sɪ fəl /
ADJECTIVE
imaginary, romantic
Synonyms
STRONGEST
absurd bizarre extravagant fantastic fantastical fictional imaginative offbeat preposterous unreal whimsical
WEAK
aerial blue-sky capricious castles in the air chimerical curious dreamlike fabulous fairy-tale fancied fictitious fictive flaky floating ideal illusory imagined incredible kinky legendary mythical notional on cloud nine pie in the sky pipe dream poetic shadowy suppositious visionary wild
Antonyms
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normal reasonable sensible usual
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grave ordinary real serious sincere unfanciful unimaginative unromantic

Example Sentences

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An industry colleague recently admitted that while she was appalled by Ms. Owens’s fanciful claims, she kept tuning in for the next installment of “crazy.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

It is not fanciful to suspect that Iranian capabilities are being degraded very quickly.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 13, 2026

Stern and Epstein even discussed a fanciful plan to take over the giant German lender Deutsche Bank with the help of Qatari investors, the emails suggest - which never came to fruition.

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2026

"I'm optimistic enough, but I know that we have to work really hard so that optimism becomes a reality, not just a fanciful dream," he said.

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

Uto'pian, ideal, fanciful, chimerical: from "Utopia"—an imaginary island, represented by Sir Thomas More, in a work called "Utopia," as enjoying the greatest perfection in politics laws, and society.

From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton