Synonyms for Fanciful:

• adj.

  •aimless (adjective)
  • more bits-and-pieces,
  • in discriminate,
  • more unguided,
  • more undirected,
  • most undirected,
  • most objectless,
  • un-predictable,
  • un-availing,
  • more goalless,
  • most bits and pieces,
  • in decisive,
  • un directed,
  • more drifting,
  • in-decisive,
  • most goalless,
  • flighty,
  • most bits-and-pieces,
  • wayward,
  • un predictable,
  • un-planned,
  • un guided,
  • most unguided,
  • most directionless,
  • un planned,
  • more vagrant,
  • in-discriminate,
  • more objectless,
  • un availing,
  • more bits and pieces,
  • un-guided,
  • most drifting,
  • un-directed,
  • more directionless,
  • fits starts,
  • most vagrant.
  •airy (adjective)
  • graceful,
  • Light-hearted,
  • lightest.
  •all (adjective)
  • fanciful,
  • notional.
  •arbitrary (adjective)
  • in judicious,
  • un-scientific,
  • un-reasonable,
  • un accountable,
  • offhand,
  • in consistent,
  • injudicious,
  • un-accountable,
  • un reasonable,
  • un scientific,
  • in-consistent,
  • in-judicious.
  •capricious (adjective)
  • mercurial,
  • fitful,
  • flaky,
  • frivolous,
  • oddest,
  • temperamental,
  • changeful,
  • volatile,
  • mutable,
  • any way the wind blows,
  • vacillating,
  • erratic,
  • yo-yo,
  • whimsical,
  • fly-by-night,
  • quirky,
  • sporadic,
  • changeable,
  • indecisive,
  • impulsive,
  • Humorsome,
  • fickle,
  • Flitting,
  • scatterbrained,
  • fluctuating,
  • Vagarious,
  • YOYO,
  • fleeting,
  • random,
  • up and down.
  •chimeric (adjective)
  • chimeral.
  •deceptive (adjective)
  • delusive.
  •delusive (adjective)
  • seeming.
  •dreamy (adjective)
  • in-tangible,
  • in tangible,
  • most relaxing,
  • most lulling,
  • mis-tier,
  • more lulling,
  • preoccupied,
  • more introvertive,
  • introspective,
  • most daydreaming,
  • pre-occupied,
  • most phantasmagorical,
  • soothing,
  • un substantial,
  • most introvertive,
  • mis tier,
  • out world,
  • more phantasmagorical,
  • out this world,
  • un-substantial,
  • pre occupied,
  • out of world,
  • more relaxing,
  • more daydreaming,
  • misty.
  •extravagant (adjective)
  • ex-pensive,
  • more overpriced,
  • more spendthrift,
  • in-ordinate,
  • ostentatious,
  • most spendthrift,
  • more ridiculous,
  • grandiose,
  • in ordinate,
  • over priced,
  • un-balanced,
  • ex pensive,
  • un-conscionable,
  • un balanced,
  • most overpriced,
  • ludicrous,
  • un-restrained,
  • over-priced,
  • un conscionable.
  •fabled (adjective)
  • famous,
  • most famous,
  • more fabulous.
  •facetious (adjective)
  • wry,
  • most jesting,
  • most jocose,
  • more punning,
  • most punning,
  • most comic,
  • most sportive,
  • pulling ones leg,
  • more capering,
  • laughable,
  • ironic,
  • most wisecracking,
  • more joshing,
  • more jesting,
  • pulling leg,
  • most capering,
  • facetious,
  • pulling one leg,
  • most joshing,
  • in-decorous,
  • more ironic,
  • irreverent,
  • more wisecracking,
  • flippest,
  • farcical,
  • sportive,
  • funnier,
  • joking,
  • in decorous.
  •false (adjective)
  • untruthful,
  • off the mark,
  • contrary to fact,
  • sophistical,
  • Misrepresentative,
  • inexact,
  • cooked-up,
  • mendacious,
  • casuistic.
  •fancy (adjective)
  • more beautifying,
  • de-luxe,
  • most froufrou,
  • most decorated,
  • more decorated,
  • more froufrou,
  • florid,
  • more embellished,
  • De Luxe,
  • most beautifying,
  • frilliest,
  • most embellished,
  • frillier,
  • un usual,
  • most custom,
  • more custom,
  • re splendent,
  • more garnished,
  • most gingerbread,
  • un-usual,
  • re-splendent,
  • most garnished,
  • more gingerbread,
  • more elaborate,
  • embellished.
  •fantastic (adjective)
  • in sane,
  • out of sight,
  • un likelier,
  • in-saner,
  • un-likely,
  • in-credible,
  • un-likelier,
  • in credible,
  • in-sane,
  • un likeliest,
  • in sanest,
  • incredible,
  • un believable,
  • un likely,
  • un-believable,
  • in saner,
  • un-likeliest,
  • in-sanest,
  • out sight,
  • far fetched.
  •fictional (adjective)
  • more pretend,
  • pre tend,
  • most pretend.
  •fictitious (adjective)
  • trumped-up,
  • figmental,
  • hyped up.
  •figurative (adjective)
  • figurative,
  • metaphoric,
  • metaphorical.
  •grotesque (adjective)
  • in congruous,
  • more surrealistic,
  • most surrealistic,
  • more antic,
  • de-formed,
  • sur-realistic,
  • most antic,
  • malformed,
  • in-congruous,
  • un cannier,
  • un-canniest,
  • grodier,
  • un-canny,
  • un canny,
  • sur realistic,
  • de formed,
  • un-natural,
  • un canniest,
  • un-cannier.
  •hallucinatory (adjective)
  • more phantasm,
  • most phantasm.
  •ideal (adjective)
  • more ivory tower,
  • un earthliest,
  • most ivorytower,
  • more out of reach,
  • un-earthliest,
  • most out-of-reach,
  • more out-of-reach,
  • un earthly,
  • ivorytower,
  • hypo-thetical,
  • most ivory tower,
  • high flown,
  • more transcendental,
  • hypo thetical,
  • un-attainable,
  • most out of reach,
  • un attainable,
  • un-earthly,
  • more ivorytower,
  • in the clouds,
  • more ivory-tower,
  • un-earthlier,
  • most ideal,
  • most ivory-tower,
  • un earthlier,
  • highflown.
  •illusive (adjective)
  • hallucinatory,
  • phantasmic,
  • phantasmagoric.
  •illusory (adjective)
  • floatest,
  • most barmecidal,
  • more barmecidal.
  •illusory/illusive (adjective)
  • more blue-sky,
  • more semblant,
  • most blue sky,
  • most illusory,
  • more bluesky,
  • most semblant,
  • most bluesky,
  • bluesky,
  • most blue-sky,
  • more blue sky.
  •imaginary (adjective)
  • apparitional,
  • dreamed-up,
  • Non-existent.
  •imaginary, romantic (adjective)
  • fabulous,
  • aerial,
  • shadowy,
  • offbeat,
  • pie in the sky,
  • kinky,
  • castles in the air,
  • curious,
  • mythical,
  • suppositious,
  • floating,
  • absurd,
  • preposterous,
  • visionary,
  • wild,
  • fancied,
  • on cloud nine,
  • pipe dream,
  • poetic,
  • bizarre.
  •imaginative (adjective)
  • avantgarde,
  • in-spired,
  • more pie in the sky,
  • more pie-in-the-sky,
  • more originative,
  • most pie in the sky,
  • most originative,
  • most pie-in-the-sky,
  • in spired,
  • avant garde,
  • inspired.
  •improbable (adjective)
  • not expected,
  • iffy,
  • hundred-to-one,
  • outside chance,
  • slim and none,
  • unheard of.
  •insubstantial (adjective)
  • in corporeal,
  • in substantial,
  • too little too late,
  • meta physical,
  • in-corporeal,
  • in-firmer,
  • in-substantial,
  • in firmer,
  • in-firmest,
  • meta-physical,
  • in firmest,
  • in firm,
  • fly by night.
  •invented (adjective)
  • in vented,
  • in-vented.
  •legendary (adjective)
  • more told,
  • un historic,
  • most handeddown,
  • most unhistoric,
  • more unverifiable,
  • re-lated,
  • most handed down,
  • more handed down,
  • most unhistorical,
  • Told,
  • more handed-down,
  • most told,
  • un-verifiable,
  • handeddown,
  • most handed-down,
  • more unhistorical,
  • un-historical,
  • un-historic,
  • more handeddown,
  • un verifiable,
  • most unverifiable,
  • more unhistoric,
  • un historical.
  •moony (adjective)
  • woolgathering,
  • most woolgathering,
  • more woolgathering.
  •motiveless (adjective)
  • Systemless,
  • ambivalent,
  • haphazard,
  • wandering,
  • careless,
  • spastic,
  • unmethodical,
  • adrift,
  • rambling,
  • reasonless,
  • irregular,
  • nonsystematic,
  • chancy,
  • motiveless.
  •mythical/mythological (adjective)
  • most fantasy,
  • folkloric,
  • more folkloric,
  • most folkloric,
  • pre-tended,
  • more fantasy.
  •mythologic (adjective)
  • mythologic.
  •quaint (adjective)
  • more old world,
  • more oldworld,
  • most old world,
  • most old-world,
  • most captivating,
  • old-world,
  • most oldworld,
  • oldworld,
  • more old-world,
  • more oddball,
  • more captivating.
  •romantic (adjective)
  • more fairy tale,
  • most syrupy,
  • more fairytale,
  • loveydovey,
  • ex citing,
  • more loveydovey,
  • un-realistic,
  • un realistic,
  • most fairy-tale,
  • starryeyed,
  • most fairytale,
  • tear jerking,
  • more syrupy,
  • most fairy tale,
  • most lovey dovey,
  • more lovey-dovey,
  • more lovey dovey,
  • tearjerking,
  • most lovey-dovey,
  • most loveydovey,
  • more fairy-tale,
  • starry eyed.
  •sensitive (adjective)
  • starry-eyed,
  • gooey,
  • mawkish,
  • soft,
  • lovesick,
  • sentimental,
  • sloppy,
  • dewy-eyed,
  • schmaltzy,
  • sensitive,
  • mushy,
  • tender,
  • maudlin,
  • sappy.
  •subjective (adjective)
  • nonobjective,
  • unobjective,
  • non-objective,
  • nonrepresentative.
  •supererogative (adjective)
  • uncalledfor.
  •unreal (adjective)
  • Storybook,
  • reachy.
  •utopian (adjective)
  • most ideological,
  • more ideological,
  • un-feasible,
  • most idealist,
  • dreamest,
  • more idealist,
  • un feasible.
  •wanton (adjective)
  • in-temperate,
  • un-reserved,
  • un-fettered,
  • most thriftless,
  • hot cold,
  • in temperate,
  • devil may care,
  • un fettered,
  • pro fuse,
  • pro-fuse,
  • more fluctuating,
  • more thriftless.
  •witty (adjective)
  • epigrammatic,
  • campier,
  • campiest,
  • campy.

• n.

  •
  • hysterical,
  • irrational,
  • dreamlike,
  • unreasonable,
  • irresponsible,
  • perverse,
  • ridiculous,
  • illusory,
  • playful,
  • wrong,
  • inventive,
  • childish,
  • extreme.
  •
  • confused,
  • contorted,
  • elaborate,
  • incomprehensible,
  • difficult,
  • involved,
  • intricate,
  • odd,
  • confusing,
  • complicated,
  • complex.
  •creative (noun)
  • creative.
  •fanciful (noun)
  • imagined.
  •far-fetched (noun)
  • far-fetched.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • fantastical,
  • conceptual,
  • fictive,
  • fictional,
  • invented.
  •
  • chimeric.
  •
  • made-up.
  •fancied
  • phantasmal.
  •ingenuous
  • naive.
  •Other relevant words:
  • faithless,
  • captious,
  • Fantasied,
  • baroque,
  • hallucinational,
  • screaming,
  • illogical,
  • Air-built,
  • pompous,
  • freakish,
  • frightfulness,
  • insane,
  • awfulness,
  • windy,
  • crazy,
  • fantasy,
  • phantomlike,
  • fabrication,
  • Subtile,
  • impalpable,
  • flight,
  • outrageous,
  • unrealistic,
  • strange,
  • impossible,
  • vaporous,
  • misleading,
  • delusional,
  • ideational,
  • Fatuitous,
  • fairy,
  • unimaginable,
  • idealized,
  • supererogatory,
  • deceptive,
  • not real,
  • uncontained,
  • undecided,
  • antic,
  • immoderate,
  • Fairy-like,
  • illusional,
  • impractical,
  • uncertain,
  • foolish,
  • fancier,
  • illusionary,
  • spectral,
  • fantasized,
  • unsure,
  • awkward,
  • weird,
  • pretend,
  • outlandish,
  • make-believe,
  • clever,
  • improvident,
  • comical,
  • doubtful,
  • undeserved,
  • visualized,
  • gaseous,
  • affected,
  • moody,
  • story,
  • fancy-woven,
  • ethereal,
  • subtle,
  • rash,
  • phantom,
  • apocryphal,
  • newcomer,
  • dreadfulness,
  • undependable,
  • unrestrained,
  • unfaithful,
  • remote,
  • ornate,
  • fantasque,
  • exotic,
  • unjustifiable,
  • inconstant,
  • unsubstantial,
  • mad,
  • unconventional,
  • fiction,
  • outsider,
  • showy,
  • embroidered,
  • nightmarish,
  • irresolute,
  • ornamental,
  • untrustworthy,
  • remarkable,
  • maggoty,
  • romance,
  • original,
  • disloyal,
  • arabesque,
  • fallacious,
  • somnambulist,
  • idealistic,
  • fey,
  • pinchbeck,
  • wishy-washy,
  • crotchety,
  • figment,
  • contrived,
  • reckless,
  • unpredictable,
  • Rhapsodist,
  • assembly,
  • rum,
  • uncommon,
  • rich,
  • quixotic,
  • funny,
  • unorthodox,
  • wavering,
  • idyllic,
  • theoretical,
  • character,
  • apparent,
  • airy-fairy,
  • immaterial,
  • figured,
  • intangible,
  • foolhardy,
  • Mopus,
  • oddball,
  • unreliable,
  • fanatic,
  • inconceivable,
  • alien,
  • unsteady,
  • romanticist,
  • surreal,
  • geek,
  • impracticable,
  • optimistic,
  • giddy,
  • unactual,
  • fatuous,
  • mistaken,
  • gothic,
  • unlikely,
  • ornamented,
  • unaccountable,
  • petulant,
  • celebrated,
  • sleeveless,
  • Gestic,
  • unconformable,
  • hallucinative,
  • unstable,
  • spiritual,
  • inconsistent,
  • particular,
  • dream,
  • quizzical,
  • pixyish,
  • Gossamery,
  • crackpot,
  • unexpected,
  • rococo,
  • harebrained,
  • unusual,
  • Unpractical,
  • witty,
  • skittish,
  • implausible,
  • foreigner,
  • Unsteadfast,
  • untrue,
  • droll,
  • spirituous,
  • abstract,
  • oddity,
  • decorated,
  • unjustified,
  • unbelievable,
  • vagrant,
  • novel,
  • illusive,
  • queer,
  • rarefied,
  • fishy,
  • unworkable,
  • peculiar,
  • elegant,
  • hare-brained,
  • supposititious,
  • fictionalization,
  • singular,
  • invention,
  • conceptional,
  • variable,
  • falsehood,
  • delusory,
  • heedless,
  • hypothetical,
  • falsity,
  • decorative,
  • Romancer,
  • byzantine,
  • delusionary,
  • rarely vacillant,
  • unrealizable,
  • puckish,
  • questionable,
  • fairy tale,
  • incorporeal,
  • tenuous,
  • dreamer,
  • stranger,
  • storied,
  • unthinkable,
  • contrary,
  • speculative,
  • dubious,
  • uncivilized,
  • fable,
  • idealist,
  • ugly,
  • eccentric,
  • Story-book,
  • madcap,
  • fabricated,
  • Cloud-built,
  • cranky.

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.