"fanciful" meaning in English

See fanciful in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈfænsɪfəl/ Audio: en-us-fanciful.ogg , En-gb-fanciful.ogg Forms: more fanciful [comparative], most fanciful [superlative]
Etymology: From fancy + -ful. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|fancy|ful|pos=adjective}} fancy + -ful Head templates: {{en-adj}} fanciful (comparative more fanciful, superlative most fanciful)
  1. Imaginative or fantastic; ignoring reality.
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  2. Unreal or imagined.
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: fancifull [obsolete], phanciful [obsolete], phancifull [obsolete] Derived forms: fancifully, fancifulness Translations (imaginative or unreal): нереален (nerealen) (Bulgarian), фантастичен (fantastičen) (Bulgarian), fantasifuld (Danish), fantastisk (Danish), denkbeeldig (Dutch), verzonnen (Dutch), fantastisch (Dutch), fantasievol (Dutch), mielikuvituksellinen (Finnish), kuvitteellinen (Finnish), imaginaire (French), fantaisiste (French), imaxinario [masculine] (Galician), phantasievoll (German), irreal (German), unrealistisch (German), képzeletbeli (Hungarian), meonúil (Irish), guanach (Irish), fantasifull (Norwegian Bokmål), fantasifull (Norwegian Nynorsk), خیالانگیز (xiyâl-angiz) (Persian), dziwaczny (Polish), прихотливый (prixotlivyj) [masculine] (Russian), fantasioso (Spanish), fantástico (Spanish), imaginativo (Spanish), fantasifull (Swedish), химе́рний (xymérnyj) (Ukrainian)
Disambiguation of 'imaginative or unreal': 52 48

Alternative forms

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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfænsɪfəl/"
    },
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "fancifull"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "phanciful"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "phancifull"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "nerealen",
      "sense": "imaginative or unreal",
      "word": "нереален"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "fantastičen",
      "sense": "imaginative or unreal",
      "word": "фантастичен"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "imaginative or unreal",
      "word": "fantasifuld"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "imaginative or unreal",
      "word": "fantastisk"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "imaginative or unreal",
      "word": "denkbeeldig"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "imaginative or unreal",
      "word": "verzonnen"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "imaginative or unreal",
      "word": "fantastisch"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "imaginative or unreal",
      "word": "fantasievol"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "imaginative or unreal",
      "word": "mielikuvituksellinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "imaginative or unreal",
      "word": "kuvitteellinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "imaginative or unreal",
      "word": "imaginaire"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "imaginative or unreal",
      "word": "fantaisiste"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "imaginative or unreal",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "imaxinario"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "imaginative or unreal",
      "word": "phantasievoll"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "imaginative or unreal",
      "word": "irreal"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "imaginative or unreal",
      "word": "unrealistisch"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "imaginative or unreal",
      "word": "képzeletbeli"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "imaginative or unreal",
      "word": "meonúil"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "imaginative or unreal",
      "word": "guanach"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "imaginative or unreal",
      "word": "fantasifull"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "imaginative or unreal",
      "word": "fantasifull"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "xiyâl-angiz",
      "sense": "imaginative or unreal",
      "word": "خیالانگیز"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "imaginative or unreal",
      "word": "dziwaczny"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "prixotlivyj",
      "sense": "imaginative or unreal",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "прихотливый"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "imaginative or unreal",
      "word": "fantasioso"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "imaginative or unreal",
      "word": "fantástico"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "imaginative or unreal",
      "word": "imaginativo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "imaginative or unreal",
      "word": "fantasifull"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "xymérnyj",
      "sense": "imaginative or unreal",
      "word": "химе́рний"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fanciful"
}

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