fanciful

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
20
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈfænsɪfl̩/

Definition of fanciful

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  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.”
    “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.”
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adj

  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.”
    “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.

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Etymology

From fancy + -ful.

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