fanciful

English

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Etymology

From fancy +‎ -ful.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfænsɪfl̩/
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  • Hyphenation: fan‧ci‧ful

Adjective

fanciful (comparative more fanciful, superlative most fanciful)

  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.
    • 2009 September 7, Janet Maslin, “News at Styx: Who’s Hot in Hades”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 August 2021:
      Mr. Butler, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain,” treats his newest novelistic conceit as an occasion to toss every possible ingredient into a fanciful hellscape and then let these elements run wild.
  2. Unreal or imagined.
    (Can we add an example for this sense?)

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