fanciful
Collocations
4ADJ.
beautiful, capricious, strange
VERB + FANCIFUL
created
FANCIFUL + NOUN
images, museum, they're
ADV.
always, often
Definitions
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.
Unreal or imagined.
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Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
6Near-synonyms: conceptual, fancied, ideal, notional
WiktionaryIt 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.
WiktionaryWe are our memory, we are that fanciful museum of capricious forms, that mountain of broken mirrors.
Tatoeba · #6393204His ideas are often fanciful, but they're always original.
Tatoeba · #11700254Artists from around the world have created fanciful, strange, beautiful and huge sculptures at a beach on Denmark's West coast.
Tatoeba · #11751663Over the centuries, Tibetan monks have created mandalas, fanciful images of the universe with complex iconography.
Tatoeba · #12127599