Definition for Fanciful:

• Guided or dictated by fancy, more or less whimsical; fantastical; whimsical; visionary.

Synonyms for Fanciful:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • notional.
  •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.
  •deceptive (adjective)
  • delusive.
  •fictitious (adjective)
  • figmental.
  •figurative (adjective)
  • figurative.
  •illusive (adjective)
  • hallucinatory,
  • phantasmic,
  • phantasmagoric.
  •imaginary (adjective)
  • Non-existent,
  • dreamed-up.
  •imaginary, romantic (adjective)
  • 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.
  •motiveless (adjective)
  • Systemless,
  • ambivalent,
  • haphazard,
  • wandering,
  • careless,
  • spastic,
  • unmethodical,
  • adrift,
  • rambling,
  • reasonless,
  • irregular,
  • nonsystematic,
  • chancy,
  • motiveless.
  •mythologic (adjective)
  • mythologic.
  •sensitive (adjective)
  • starry-eyed,
  • gooey,
  • mawkish,
  • soft,
  • lovesick,
  • sentimental,
  • sloppy,
  • dewy-eyed,
  • schmaltzy,
  • sensitive,
  • mushy,
  • tender,
  • maudlin,
  • sappy.

• n.

  •
  • illusory,
  • wrong,
  • irresponsible,
  • playful,
  • ridiculous,
  • dreamlike,
  • unreasonable,
  • hysterical,
  • irrational.
  •
  • incomprehensible,
  • complex,
  • elaborate,
  • intricate,
  • odd,
  • complicated.
  •fanciful (noun)
  • creative,
  • imagined.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • fantastical,
  • conceptual,
  • fictive,
  • fictional,
  • invented.
  •
  • chimeric.
  •
  • made-up.
  •fancied
  • phantasmal.
  •ingenuous
  • naive.
  •jocular
  • facetious.
  •Other relevant words:
  • 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.

Paraphrases for Fanciful:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    fantastic.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    novelty, bizarre, costume.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    whimsical, imaginative, fancy, extravagant, frivolous, flamboyant, outlandish, wild, capricious.

Antonyms for Fanciful:

• adj.

  • imaginary, romantic
    real, unfanciful, usual, serious, normal, ordinary, grave, unromantic, sincere, unimaginative, reasonable, sensible.
  • 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.

Homophones for Fanciful:

• fancifully, fungible.