We are our memory, we are that fanciful museum of capricious forms, that mountain of broken mirrors.
Source: tatoeba (6393204)
Fanciful
//ˈfænsɪfl̩//
Synonyms for "fanciful" (128 found)
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Closest matches (26)
Strong matches (38)
Related words (64)
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Adjective(1 words)
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Synonyms
2 entriesderived
5 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
4 entriessimilar
5 entriesTranslations
31 translations across 19 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- нереален adj (imaginative or unreal)
- фантастичен adj (imaginative or unreal)
Danish
2 entries- fantasifuld adj (imaginative or unreal)
- fantastisk adj (imaginative or unreal)
Dutch
4 entries- denkbeeldig adj (imaginative or unreal)
- fantasievol adj (imaginative or unreal)
- fantastisch adj (imaginative or unreal)
- verzonnen adj (imaginative or unreal)
Esperanto
1 entries- fantazia adj (imaginative or unreal)
Finnish
2 entries- kuvitteellinen adj (imaginative or unreal)
- mielikuvituksellinen adj (imaginative or unreal)
French
2 entries- fantaisiste adj (imaginative or unreal)
- imaginaire adj (imaginative or unreal)
Galician
1 entries- imaxinario adj (imaginative or unreal)
German
3 entries- irreal adj (imaginative or unreal)
- phantasievoll adj (imaginative or unreal)
- unrealistisch adj (imaginative or unreal)
Hungarian
1 entries- képzeletbeli adj (imaginative or unreal)
Irish
2 entries- guanach adj (imaginative or unreal)
- meonúil adj (imaginative or unreal)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- fantasifull adj (imaginative or unreal)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- fantasifull adj (imaginative or unreal)
Persian
1 entries- خیالانگیز adj (imaginative or unreal)
Polish
1 entries- dziwaczny adj (imaginative or unreal)
Russian
1 entries- прихотливый adj (imaginative or unreal)
Spanish
3 entries- fantasioso adj (imaginative or unreal)
- fantástico adj (imaginative or unreal)
- imaginativo adj (imaginative or unreal)
Swedish
1 entries- fantasifull adj (imaginative or unreal)
Thai
1 entries- เพ้อฝัน adj (imaginative or unreal)
Ukrainian
1 entries- химе́рний adj (imaginative or unreal)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
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.
Source: tatoeba (11113344)
His ideas are often fanciful, but they're always original.
Source: tatoeba (11700254)
Artists from around the world have created fanciful, strange, beautiful and huge sculptures at a beach on Denmark's West coast.
Source: tatoeba (11751663)
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