What is another word for fanciful?
383 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ f_ˈa_n_s_ɪ_f_əl], [ fˈansɪfə͡l], [ fˈansɪfəl]Table of Contents
Similar words for fanciful:- all (adjective)
- capricious (adjective)
- deceptive (adjective)
- fictitious (adjective)
- figurative (adjective)
- illusive (adjective)
- imaginary (adjective)
- imaginary, romantic (adjective)
- motiveless (adjective)
- mythologic (adjective)
- sensitive (adjective)
- fanciful (noun)
- other synonyms
- fancied
- ingenuous
- jocular
- other relevant words
Definition for Fanciful:
Synonyms for Fanciful:
adj.
•all (adjective) •capricious (adjective)- frivolous,
- fluctuating,
- impulsive,
- whimsical,
- flighty,
- fitful,
- wayward,
- scatterbrained,
- vacillating,
- Flitting,
- quirky,
- sporadic,
- Vagarious,
- mercurial,
- fleeting,
- changeable,
- flaky,
- indecisive,
- random,
- volatile,
- mutable,
- erratic,
- fickle,
- Humorsome,
- temperamental,
- changeful,
- fly-by-night.
- fabulous,
- aerial,
- preposterous,
- mythical,
- on cloud nine,
- incredible,
- wild,
- curious,
- kinky,
- shadowy,
- floating,
- absurd,
- poetic,
- suppositious,
- visionary,
- fancied,
- castles in the air,
- offbeat,
- pipe dream,
- bizarre.
n.
•fanciful (noun)Other synonyms:
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- chimeric.
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- made-up.
- impossible,
- undependable,
- elegant,
- idealized,
- fancier,
- contrary,
- fanatic,
- variable,
- laughable,
- fabricated,
- gaseous,
- unsure,
- impractical,
- ornate,
- fabrication,
- immoderate,
- foolish,
- captious,
- far-fetched,
- incorporeal,
- apocryphal,
- uncommon,
- embellished,
- faithless,
- hallucinative,
- airy-fairy,
- supererogatory,
- implausible,
- newcomer,
- sleeveless,
- Rhapsodist,
- spirituous,
- doubtful,
- wavering,
- weird,
- falsehood,
- inconstant,
- unaccountable,
- foolhardy,
- Air-built,
- unbelievable,
- unlikely,
- unjustifiable,
- disloyal,
- eccentric,
- funny,
- not real,
- unreliable,
- fey,
- unorthodox,
- crotchety,
- falsity,
- fictionalization,
- fable,
- unjustified,
- contrived,
- queer,
- harebrained,
- fantasque,
- illusive,
- Romancer,
- theoretical,
- spiritual,
- figured,
- maggoty,
- abstract,
- idyllic,
- illusional,
- unrealistic,
- fatuous,
- gothic,
- inconsistent,
- puckish,
- uncertain,
- frightfulness,
- unrestrained,
- irresolute,
- original,
- peculiar,
- freakish,
- assembly,
- unconventional,
- clever,
- quixotic,
- outrageous,
- optimistic,
- grandiose,
- fairy,
- Story-book,
- intangible,
- fantasy,
- outsider,
- stranger,
- storied,
- rococo,
- delusory,
- Cloud-built,
- vaporous,
- Gestic,
- ludicrous,
- celebrated,
- Unpractical,
- vagrant,
- unsubstantial,
- cranky,
- questionable,
- rum,
- Unsteadfast,
- apparent,
- madcap,
- awkward,
- subtle,
- showy,
- unusual,
- undeserved,
- outlandish,
- phantomlike,
- geek,
- decorated,
- ethereal,
- rarefied,
- fairy tale,
- foreigner,
- florid,
- visualized,
- unthinkable,
- mad,
- screaming,
- arabesque,
- spectral,
- uncivilized,
- pinchbeck,
- quizzical,
- tenuous,
- heedless,
- crackpot,
- unrealizable,
- ornamented,
- wishy-washy,
- giddy,
- reckless,
- hare-brained,
- droll,
- untrustworthy,
- nightmarish,
- oddball,
- remote,
- uncontained,
- fishy,
- improvident,
- unsteady,
- comical,
- farcical,
- ideational,
- idealistic,
- romance,
- unexpected,
- oddity,
- pretend,
- baroque,
- Gossamery,
- invention,
- hallucinational,
- unworkable,
- embroidered,
- story,
- supposititious,
- rash,
- Subtile,
- illogical,
- character,
- misleading,
- byzantine,
- unactual,
- skittish,
- Fatuitous,
- inconceivable,
- Fairy-like,
- unstable,
- surreal,
- fiction,
- petulant,
- fancy-woven,
- undecided,
- impracticable,
- dubious,
- exotic,
- pixyish,
- delusional,
- decorative,
- illusionary,
- conceptional,
- antic,
- delusionary,
- dreamer,
- immaterial,
- idealist,
- remarkable,
- particular,
- singular,
- pompous,
- witty,
- moody,
- unconformable,
- affected,
- speculative,
- Mopus,
- alien,
- dream,
- insane,
- impalpable,
- romanticist,
- phantom,
- deceptive,
- unimaginable,
- fantasized,
- windy,
- untrue,
- hypothetical,
- dreadfulness,
- rich,
- fallacious,
- crazy,
- novel,
- flight,
- Fantasied,
- ugly,
- strange,
- make-believe,
- figment,
- somnambulist,
- ornamental,
- awfulness,
- mistaken,
- unpredictable,
- unfaithful.
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Equivalence
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Adjective
fantastic.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Other Related
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Adjective
whimsical, imaginative, fancy, extravagant, frivolous, flamboyant, outlandish, wild, capricious.
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Antonyms for Fanciful:
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adj.
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imaginary, romantic
real, unfanciful, usual, serious, normal, ordinary, grave, unromantic, sincere, unimaginative, reasonable, sensible.
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Other antonyms:
commonplace, sound, palpable, plain, existing, solid, factual, believable, prosaic, accurate, calculable, physical, verified, authentic, material, corporeal, verifiable, uncreative, calculated, tangible, regular, convincing, sure.
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imaginary, romantic