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fanciful

ˈfan(t)-si-fəl 3 syllables rare

  1. adjective.marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience

    • a fanciful person
    • a fanciful tale of a monster in the woods
  2. adjective.existing in fancy only

    • a fanciful notion
    • the falsehoods about some fanciful secret treaties
  3. adjective.marked by or as if by fancy or whim

    • gave their children fanciful names

Origin

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