fanciful
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- 16
- Words With Friends
- 20
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- 8
/ˈfænsɪfl̩/
Definition of fanciful
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
-
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
-
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.”
- Unreal or imagined.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From fancy + -ful.
Words you can make from fanciful
71 playable · top: FANFIC (14 pts)
Best play fanfic 14 points6-letter words
3 words5-letter words
9 words4-letter words
29 words- CAFF 12 pts
- CUFF 12 pts
- LUFF 10 pts
- NAFF 10 pts
- NIFF 10 pts
- NUFF 10 pts
- CALF 9 pts
- CUIF 9 pts
- FLIC 9 pts
- FUCI 9 pts
- ALIF 7 pts
- FAIL 7 pts
- FAIN 7 pts
- FAUN 7 pts
- FILA 7 pts
- FLAN 7 pts
- NAIF 7 pts
- CAIN 6 pts
- CAUL 6 pts
- CLAN 6 pts
- LAIC 6 pts
- UNCI 6 pts
- ANIL 4 pts
- LAIN 4 pts
- LUNA 4 pts
- NAIL 4 pts
- ULAN 4 pts
- ULNA 4 pts
- UNAI 4 pts
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