Fanciful

//ˈfænsɪfl̩// adj

adj ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Imaginative or fantastic; ignoring reality.

    "Near-synonyms: conceptual, fancied, ideal, notional"

  2. 2
    Unreal or imagined.
Adjective
  1. 1
    indulging in or influenced by fancy wordnet
  2. 2
    having a curiously intricate quality wordnet
  3. 3
    not based on fact; existing only in the imagination wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
imaginarynotionalabsurdair builtair-builtairy

Example

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"We are our memory, we are that fanciful museum of capricious forms, that mountain of broken mirrors."

Etymology

From fancy + -ful.

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