Fanciful

//ˈfænsɪfl̩//

"Fanciful" in a Sentence (9 examples)

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

The parade floats are large and fanciful, and feature animated figures of children, birds and animals. Each square centimeter is covered with plant material - flowers, stems, leaves, stalks and seeds.

His ideas are often fanciful, but they're always original.

Artists from around the world have created fanciful, strange, beautiful and huge sculptures at a beach on Denmark's West coast.

Over the centuries, Tibetan monks have created mandalas, fanciful images of the universe with complex iconography.

Today's the 9th of May of 2025. All day has been grey skies. After morning Iced Coffee with oat milk at Tim Hortons café, I went walking towards the Roman Catholic church on St. Albans Road, just so I could pass by the big tree that looks like a jacaranda tree with purple blooms, but isn't a jacaranda. (The species remind me of South America.) More of the brick-like impressions on the pedestrian have been painted white, not red as I would imagine. Lulu Islanders aren't so fanciful with colours, unlike Vancouver or other cities. I went to the major worship hall, again to admire the fancy colourful stained glass. The crucifix is adorned with white fabric. At the smaller Adoration Chapel, I began to notice on the right front the Virgin Mary statue with the Child statue on her side. In the evening, I returned to the café to enjoy a Green Tea with oat milk, a Blackberry Yuzu Lemonade Quencher, and a Roast Beef Craveable Sandwich. At home, I amused myself with Korean grammar, which was a slight distraction to my core studies of Esperanto and Lojban. With StreetView, I started looking again at the streets in South Korea. Maybe, I will try more of the countryside, as I have done with Thailand. For lunch and dinner at home was noodle dishes.

The lawyers for the defense advised the defendant to confess to the crime, but in such a fanciful and elaborate way that, in their opinion, it would greatly mitigate the inevitable sentence of conviction.

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.

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