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/ˈfænsɪfl̩/
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ˈfænsɪfəl
Adjective
Imaginative or fantastic; ignoring reality.
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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.
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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.
Unreal or imagined.
Adjective
indulging in or influenced by fancy
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a fanciful mind
all the notional vagaries of childhood
not based on fact; existing only in the imagination
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a small child's imaginary friends
to create a notional world for oneself
having a curiously intricate quality
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a fanciful pattern with intertwined vines and flowers