fanciful in English

adjective
1
(of a person or their thoughts and ideas) overimaginative and unrealistic.
a fanciful story about a pot of gold

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1. No, that was too fanciful.

2. Children are very fanciful.

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4. Additional anagrams, and acrostics are fanciful

5. I dismissed the rumors as fanciful.

6. Larry Daley and his fanciful tales.

7. This is not just some fanciful theory.

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9. None of these fanciful schemes, however, were truly Edenlike.

10. Now this might sound like a fanciful tale.

11. It was imaginative waistcoat with exceedingly fanciful glass buttons.

12. Chimeric, conceptual, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, imaginary, notional, unreal, visionary

13. No, too fanciful to consider him in the role of murderer.

14. 22 synonyms for Chimerical: chimeric, conceptual, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, imaginary

15. 23 Designing silicon chips to mimic human organs sounds fanciful.

16. Antipodes is a fanciful, quintessential Mediterranean Retreat overlooking The Pacific Ocean

17. The suggestion that there was a conspiracy is not entirely fanciful.

18. That fanciful world we return to, usually, when we become geriatrics.

19. 19 A craze for classification and nomenclature superceded the ingenious or fanciful systems.

20. It fails because it is usually based on fanciful or distorted comparisons.

21. Romantic fanciful thoughts and connotative and elegant idiosyncrasy unfold rich an tender feeling.

22. Having served on the Fed, I find this objection fanciful in the extreme.

23. Jacobus da Varagine typically begins with an (often fanciful) etymology for the saint's name.

24. (1 Corinthians 13:4, 5) Clearly, this love is no fanciful notion or superficial sentiment.

25. An anthropomorphic creature or character: Her journal is filled with fanciful drawings of Anthros.

26. This is an illogical, nay, fanciful urge since I have never really heard them.

27. Perhaps Paul had in mind religious lies promoted by sensational tales or fanciful legends.

28. In effect, a cultural symbiosis forms between fanciful, driven club owners and inveterate clubgoers.

29. The avatar can be a realistic depiction of the actual person or a completely fanciful one.

30. He has some fanciful notion about converting one room of his apartment into a gallery.

31. Was thy existence then too fanciful For our life's common light, who are so dull?

32. I was holding on to some fanciful notion of marriage as a vehicle for independence.

33. It is fanciful to assume that a tight-fisted state will produce open-handed citizens.

34. Bougainvillea is a tropical vining shrub that comes in a wide array of bright and fanciful colors

35. It was not ambiguous, however, to the point of explaining the fanciful calculations of the Council.

36. With such singers, such music and such a story, Mr Alden's approach seemed nevertheless too fanciful by half.

37. Some of these products have fanciful names which imply that they are for the calorie conscious.

38. Cheery Lynn designs B117 fanciful flourish: a beautiful leafy flourish great for any paper craft project

39. While Broadsheets take a more conventional journalistic road, tabloids lean towards more fanciful and, in many cases, derogatory reporting

40. A witty expression or fanciful idea: "opinionated and very funny in his Conceits" (Paul Theroux)

41. Chimerical Merely imaginary;produced by or as if by a wildly fanciful imagination;fantastic; improbable or unrealistic

42. But these themes are always interspersed with more fanciful ones: grimacing masks, weird animals, exuberant abstract patterns.

43. Judgement must be suspended and as many ideas as possible, nomatterhow fanciful, collected and recorded, from any source.

44. This may seem a somewhat fanciful proposition, but no less a person than Chomsky has suggested such a possibility.

45. Could accepting such fanciful notions cloud your vision of the important qualities necessary for a successful, enduring marriage?

46. Also, some critics disliked the fanciful nature of many of the new weapons and vehicles introduced by the expansion.

47. A fanciful idea by some toy manufacturer which only goes to underline what was said previously about imagination and licence!

48. 28 Explanation: Clouds of glowing hydrogen gas fill this colorful skyscape in the faint but fanciful constellation Monoceros, the Unicorn.

49. The attraction of shells has often been enhanced by attributing to them symbolic meanings suggested by more or less fanciful resemblances.

50. Makine is a good writer, poetic but never fanciful, and one who treats childhood reflected through experience with delicacy.