What is another word for fanciful?
813 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ fˈansɪfə͡l], [ fˈansɪfəl], [ f_ˈa_n_s_ɪ_f_əl]
Fanciful is defined as something that is imaginative or whimsical. Synonyms for fanciful include creative, inventive, illusionary, imaginative, dreamlike, and inventive. These words indicate an imaginative mind and a playful approach to things. Creative refers to something original and unique, while dreamlike indicates an otherworldly sense. Illusionary could refer to an unreal or imaginary situation, whereas imaginative is a broader term describing a mind that conjures up new and imaginative ideas. Inventive indicates a talent for creating things that did not exist before. In short, synonyms for fanciful express imaginative and creative qualities and could be used across a wide range of settings.
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Similar words for fanciful:
- airy (adjective)
- capricious (adjective)
- chimeric (adjective)
- false (adjective)
- fictitious (adjective)
- figurative (adjective)
- imaginary (adjective)
- improbable (adjective)
- insubstantial (adjective)
- moony (adjective)
- motiveless (adjective)
- sensitive (adjective)
- subjective (adjective)
- unreal (adjective)
- witty (adjective)
- aimless (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- arbitrary (adjective)
- delusive (adjective)
- dreamy (adjective)
- extravagant (adjective)
- fabled (adjective)
- facetious (adjective)
- fancy (adjective)
- fantastic (adjective)
- fictional (adjective)
- grotesque (adjective)
- hallucinatory (adjective)
- ideal (adjective)
- illusory (adjective)
- illusory/illusive (adjective)
- imaginary, romantic (adjective)
- imaginative (adjective)
- invented (adjective)
- legendary (adjective)
- mythical/mythological (adjective)
- quaint (adjective)
- romantic (adjective)
- supererogative (adjective)
- utopian (adjective)
- wanton (adjective)
- fancied
- fanciful
- in the air
- ingenuous
- jocular
- mythical
- noun
- other relevant words (adjective)
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Fanciful:
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adj.
• airy • capricious- Flitting ,
- YOYO ,
- any way the wind blows ,
- changeable ,
- erratic ,
- fickle ,
- fitful ,
- fleeting ,
- flighty ,
- fluctuating ,
- fly-by-night ,
- frivolous ,
- impulsive ,
- indecisive ,
- random ,
- scatterbrained ,
- sporadic ,
- vacillating ,
- volatile ,
- wayward ,
- whimsical ,
- yo-yo ,
- oddest ,
- up and down .
- Misrepresentative ,
- casuistic ,
- contrary to fact ,
- cooked-up ,
- off the mark ,
- sophistical ,
- inexact ,
- mendacious ,
- untruthful .
- in firm ,
- too little too late ,
- fly by night ,
- in corporeal ,
- in firmer ,
- in firmest ,
- in substantial ,
- in-corporeal ,
- in-firmer ,
- in-firmest ,
- in-substantial ,
- meta physical ,
- meta-physical .
- Systemless ,
- adrift ,
- ambivalent ,
- careless ,
- chancy ,
- haphazard ,
- irregular ,
- motiveless ,
- nonsystematic ,
- rambling ,
- reasonless ,
- spastic ,
- unmethodical ,
- wandering .
- dewy-eyed ,
- gooey ,
- lovesick ,
- maudlin ,
- mawkish ,
- mushy ,
- poetic ,
- sappy ,
- schmaltzy ,
- sensitive ,
- sentimental ,
- sloppy ,
- soft ,
- starry-eyed ,
- tender .
- fits starts ,
- in decisive ,
- in discriminate ,
- in-decisive ,
- in-discriminate ,
- more bits and pieces ,
- more bits-and-pieces ,
- more directionless ,
- more drifting ,
- more goalless ,
- more objectless ,
- more undirected ,
- more unguided ,
- more vagrant ,
- most bits and pieces ,
- most bits-and-pieces ,
- most directionless ,
- most drifting ,
- most goalless ,
- most objectless ,
- most undirected ,
- most unguided ,
- most vagrant ,
- un availing ,
- un directed ,
- un guided ,
- un planned ,
- un predictable ,
- un-availing ,
- un-directed ,
- un-guided ,
- un-planned ,
- un-predictable .
- in consistent ,
- in judicious ,
- in-consistent ,
- in-judicious ,
- injudicious ,
- offhand ,
- un accountable ,
- un reasonable ,
- un scientific ,
- un-accountable ,
- un-reasonable ,
- un-scientific .
- in tangible ,
- in-tangible ,
- introspective ,
- mis tier ,
- mis-tier ,
- misty ,
- more daydreaming ,
- more introvertive ,
- more lulling ,
- more phantasmagorical ,
- more relaxing ,
- most daydreaming ,
- most introvertive ,
- most lulling ,
- most phantasmagorical ,
- most relaxing ,
- out of world ,
- out this world ,
- out world ,
- pre occupied ,
- pre-occupied ,
- preoccupied ,
- soothing ,
- un substantial ,
- un-substantial .
- ex pensive ,
- ex-pensive ,
- in ordinate ,
- in-ordinate ,
- more overpriced ,
- more ridiculous ,
- more spendthrift ,
- most overpriced ,
- most spendthrift ,
- ostentatious ,
- over priced ,
- over-priced ,
- un balanced ,
- un conscionable ,
- un-balanced ,
- un-conscionable ,
- un-restrained .
- flippest ,
- funnier ,
- in decorous ,
- in-decorous ,
- ironic ,
- irreverent ,
- joking ,
- more capering ,
- more ironic ,
- more jesting ,
- more joshing ,
- more punning ,
- more wisecracking ,
- most capering ,
- most comic ,
- most jesting ,
- most jocose ,
- most joshing ,
- most punning ,
- most sportive ,
- most wisecracking ,
- pulling leg ,
- pulling one leg ,
- pulling ones leg ,
- sportive ,
- wry .
- De Luxe ,
- de-luxe ,
- frillier ,
- frilliest ,
- more beautifying ,
- more custom ,
- more decorated ,
- more elaborate ,
- more embellished ,
- more froufrou ,
- more garnished ,
- more gingerbread ,
- most beautifying ,
- most custom ,
- most decorated ,
- most embellished ,
- most froufrou ,
- most garnished ,
- most gingerbread ,
- re splendent ,
- re-splendent ,
- un usual ,
- un-usual .
- far fetched ,
- in credible ,
- in sane ,
- in saner ,
- in sanest ,
- in-credible ,
- in-sane ,
- in-saner ,
- in-sanest ,
- out of sight ,
- out sight ,
- un believable ,
- un likelier ,
- un likeliest ,
- un likely ,
- un-believable ,
- un-likelier ,
- un-likeliest ,
- un-likely .
- de formed ,
- de-formed ,
- grodier ,
- in congruous ,
- in-congruous ,
- malformed ,
- more antic ,
- more surrealistic ,
- most antic ,
- most surrealistic ,
- sur realistic ,
- sur-realistic ,
- un cannier ,
- un canniest ,
- un canny ,
- un-cannier ,
- un-canniest ,
- un-canny ,
- un-natural .
- high flown ,
- highflown ,
- hypo thetical ,
- hypo-thetical ,
- in the clouds ,
- ivorytower ,
- more ivory tower ,
- more ivory-tower ,
- more ivorytower ,
- more out of reach ,
- more out-of-reach ,
- more transcendental ,
- most ideal ,
- most ivory tower ,
- most ivory-tower ,
- most ivorytower ,
- most out of reach ,
- most out-of-reach ,
- un attainable ,
- un earthlier ,
- un earthliest ,
- un earthly ,
- un-attainable ,
- un-earthlier ,
- un-earthliest ,
- un-earthly .
- bluesky ,
- more blue sky ,
- more blue-sky ,
- more bluesky ,
- more semblant ,
- most blue sky ,
- most blue-sky ,
- most bluesky ,
- most illusory ,
- most semblant .
- avant garde ,
- avantgarde ,
- in spired ,
- in-spired ,
- inspired ,
- more originative ,
- more pie in the sky ,
- more pie-in-the-sky ,
- most originative ,
- most pie in the sky ,
- most pie-in-the-sky .
- Told ,
- handeddown ,
- more handed down ,
- more handed-down ,
- more handeddown ,
- more told ,
- more unhistoric ,
- more unhistorical ,
- more unverifiable ,
- most handed down ,
- most handed-down ,
- most handeddown ,
- most told ,
- most unhistoric ,
- most unhistorical ,
- most unverifiable ,
- re-lated ,
- un historic ,
- un historical ,
- un verifiable ,
- un-historic ,
- un-historical ,
- un-verifiable .
- more captivating ,
- more oddball ,
- more old world ,
- more old-world ,
- more oldworld ,
- most captivating ,
- most old world ,
- most old-world ,
- most oldworld ,
- old-world ,
- oldworld .
- ex citing ,
- loveydovey ,
- more fairy tale ,
- more fairy-tale ,
- more fairytale ,
- more lovey dovey ,
- more lovey-dovey ,
- more loveydovey ,
- more syrupy ,
- most fairy tale ,
- most fairy-tale ,
- most fairytale ,
- most lovey dovey ,
- most lovey-dovey ,
- most loveydovey ,
- most syrupy ,
- starry eyed ,
- starryeyed ,
- tear jerking ,
- tearjerking ,
- un realistic ,
- un-realistic .
Other synonyms:
- chimeric ,
- false ,
- fictitious ,
- ideal ,
- legendary ,
- quaint ,
- subjective .
- made-up .
Other relevant words:
- Air-built ,
- Cloud-built ,
- Fairy-like ,
- Fantasied ,
- Fatuitous ,
- Gestic ,
- Gossamery ,
- Humorsome ,
- Mopus ,
- Non-existent ,
- Rhapsodist ,
- Romancer ,
- Story-book ,
- Subtile ,
- Supererogative ,
- Unpractical ,
- Unsteadfast ,
- Vagarious ,
- abstract ,
- absurd ,
- affected ,
- aimless ,
- airy ,
- airy-fairy ,
- alien ,
- antic ,
- apocryphal ,
- apparent ,
- arabesque ,
- assembly ,
- awfulness ,
- awkward ,
- baroque ,
- bizarre ,
- blue sky ,
- byzantine ,
- captious ,
- castles in the air ,
- celebrated ,
- changeful ,
- character ,
- clever ,
- comical ,
- complex ,
- complicated ,
- conceptional ,
- contrary ,
- contrived ,
- crackpot ,
- cranky ,
- crazy ,
- creative ,
- crotchety ,
- curious ,
- deceptive ,
- decorated ,
- decorative ,
- delusional ,
- delusionary ,
- delusive ,
- delusory ,
- disloyal ,
- doubtful ,
- dreadfulness ,
- dream ,
- dreamed-up ,
- dreamer ,
- dreamlike ,
- droll ,
- dubious ,
- eccentric ,
- elaborate ,
- elegant ,
- embellished ,
- embroidered ,
- ethereal ,
- exotic ,
- extravagant ,
- fable ,
- fabricated ,
- fabrication ,
- fabulous ,
- fairy ,
- fairy tale ,
- faithless ,
- fallacious ,
- falsehood ,
- falsity ,
- fanatic ,
- fancied ,
- fancier ,
- fancy ,
- fancy-woven ,
- fantasized ,
- fantasque ,
- fantastic ,
- fantasy ,
- far-fetched ,
- farcical ,
- fatuous ,
- fey ,
- fiction ,
- fictionalization ,
- figment ,
- figmental ,
- figurative ,
- figured ,
- fishy ,
- flaky ,
- flight ,
- floating ,
- florid ,
- foolhardy ,
- foolish ,
- foreigner ,
- freakish ,
- frightfulness ,
- funny ,
- gaseous ,
- geek ,
- giddy ,
- gingerbread ,
- gothic ,
- grandiose ,
- grotesque ,
- hallucinational ,
- hallucinative ,
- hallucinatory ,
- hare-brained ,
- harebrained ,
- heedless ,
- hypothetical ,
- hysterical ,
- idealist ,
- idealistic ,
- idealized ,
- ideational ,
- ideological ,
- idyllic ,
- illogical ,
- illusional ,
- illusionary ,
- illusive ,
- illusory ,
- imaginative ,
- imagined ,
- immaterial ,
- immoderate ,
- impalpable ,
- implausible ,
- impossible ,
- impracticable ,
- impractical ,
- improbable ,
- improvident ,
- incomprehensible ,
- inconceivable ,
- inconsistent ,
- inconstant ,
- incorporeal ,
- incredible ,
- insane ,
- insubstantial ,
- intangible ,
- intricate ,
- invention ,
- irrational ,
- irresolute ,
- irresponsible ,
- judgmental ,
- kinky ,
- laughable ,
- ludicrous ,
- mad ,
- madcap ,
- maggoty ,
- make-believe ,
- mercurial ,
- misleading ,
- mistaken ,
- moody ,
- moony ,
- mutable ,
- mythic ,
- mythical ,
- mythologic ,
- newcomer ,
- nightmarish ,
- not real ,
- notional ,
- novel ,
- odd ,
- oddball ,
- oddity ,
- offbeat ,
- on cloud nine ,
- optimistic ,
- original ,
- originative ,
- ornamental ,
- ornamented ,
- ornate ,
- outlandish ,
- outrageous ,
- outsider ,
- particular ,
- peculiar ,
- petulant ,
- phantasmagoric ,
- phantasmagorical ,
- phantasmic ,
- phantom ,
- phantomlike ,
- pinchbeck ,
- pipe dream ,
- pixyish ,
- playful ,
- pompous ,
- preposterous ,
- pretend ,
- puckish ,
- queer ,
- questionable ,
- quirky ,
- quixotic ,
- quizzical ,
- rarefied ,
- rarely vacillant ,
- rash ,
- reckless ,
- remarkable ,
- remote ,
- rich ,
- ridiculous ,
- rococo ,
- romance ,
- romanticist ,
- rum ,
- screaming ,
- shadowy ,
- showy ,
- singular ,
- skittish ,
- sleeveless ,
- somnambulist ,
- spectral ,
- speculative ,
- spiritual ,
- spirituous ,
- storied ,
- story ,
- strange ,
- stranger ,
- subtle ,
- supererogatory ,
- suppositious ,
- supposititious ,
- surreal ,
- temperamental ,
- tenuous ,
- theoretical ,
- ugly ,
- unaccountable ,
- unactual ,
- unbelievable ,
- uncertain ,
- uncivilized ,
- uncommon ,
- unconformable ,
- uncontained ,
- unconventional ,
- undecided ,
- undependable ,
- undeserved ,
- unexpected ,
- unfaithful ,
- unimaginable ,
- unjustifiable ,
- unjustified ,
- unlikely ,
- unorthodox ,
- unpredictable ,
- unreal ,
- unrealistic ,
- unrealizable ,
- unreasonable ,
- unreliable ,
- unrestrained ,
- unstable ,
- unsteady ,
- unsubstantial ,
- unsure ,
- unthinkable ,
- untrue ,
- untrustworthy ,
- unusual ,
- unworkable ,
- utopian ,
- vagrant ,
- vaporous ,
- variable ,
- visionary ,
- visualized ,
- wanton ,
- wavering ,
- weird ,
- wild ,
- windy ,
- wishy-washy ,
- witty ,
- wrong .
- Froufrou ,
- Objectless ,
- Old World ,
- Semblant ,
- Unhistorical ,
- arbitrary ,
- bits and pieces ,
- bits-and-pieces ,
- blue-sky ,
- brain wave ,
- breaking ground ,
- capricious ,
- directionless ,
- fairy-tale ,
- fairytale ,
- fits and starts ,
- flipper ,
- floater ,
- frilly ,
- goalless ,
- grody ,
- handed-down ,
- hot and cold ,
- in clouds ,
- introvertive ,
- ivory-tower ,
- lovey dovey ,
- lovey-dovey ,
- not serious ,
- off beaten track ,
- off the beaten track ,
- out of reach ,
- out-of-reach ,
- overpriced ,
- pie-in-the-sky ,
- pulling one's leg ,
- punning ,
- putting one on ,
- romantic ,
- surrealistic ,
- syrupy ,
- thriftless ,
- undirected ,
- unguided ,
- unhistoric ,
- unverifiable ,
- wisecracking .
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How to use "Fanciful" in context?
Fanciful often refers to something or someone that is excessive or fanciful in thought, word, or deed. This word can also be used to describe something that is truly imaginative or beautifully crafted. Fanciful often has a whimsical quality and often refers to fanciful things like dreams, daydreams, and illusions. There is a certain attractiveness to the fanciful and it often makes people happy.
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Equivalence
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Adjective
fantastic.
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Other Related
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Adjective
capricious, extravagant, fancy, flamboyant, frivolous, imaginative, outlandish, whimsical, wild.
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