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fancied
adjective as in fanciful
Strongest matches
adjective as in imaginary
Weak matches
adjective as in imagined
Strongest match
Weak matches
adjective as in nonexistent
Weak matches
- airy
- baseless
- blank
- chimerical
- dead
- defunct
- departed
- dreamlike
- dreamy
- empty
- ethereal
- extinct
- extinguished
- few and far between
- flimsy
- gone
- gossamery
- groundless
- hallucinatory
- hypothetical
- illusory
- imaginary
- imagined
- immaterial
- imponderable
- insubstantial
- legendary
- lost
- missing
- mythical
- null
- null and void
- passed away
- passed on
- perished
- shadowy
- ungrounded
- unreal
- unsubstantial
- vague
- vaporous
- void
- without foundation
adjective as in notional
Weak matches
- abstract
- apocryphal
- apparitional
- assumed
- chimeric
- chimerical
- conceptual
- deceptive
- delusive
- dreamed-up
- dreamlike
- dreamy
- fabulous
- fanciful
- fantastic
- fantastical
- fictional
- figmental
- fool's paradise
- hallucinatory
- hypothetical
- ideal
- illusive
- illusory
- imaginative
- imagined
- legendary
- made-up
- mythological
- nonexistent
- phantasmal
- phantasmic
- quixotic
- shadowy
- spectral
- supposed
- supposititious
- theoretical
- trumped-up
- unreal
- unsubstantial
- visionary
- whimsical
adjective as in preferred
Example Sentences
The Chicago Bears are another fancied side in trouble.
Any time he collected the ball around the halfway line, you fancied his chances of going through to score.
Even if he cannot manage that - and he may well not, as Norris and Ferrari might be fancied to beat Red Bull there - the title will surely be won a week later in Qatar.
Garr fancied herself a prima ballerina, obsessively pursuing that goal after her father died.
Fulham won nine and lost eight of their 19 home Premier League games last season, but I always fancied them to win at Craven Cottage.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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