FANCIFUL


Meaning of FANCIFUL in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

too

No, that was too fanciful .

With such singers, such music and such a story, Mr Alden's approach seemed nevertheless too fanciful by half.

No, too fanciful to consider him in the role of murderer.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a fanciful idea

I dismissed the rumors as fanciful .

the fanciful horses on an old-fashioned merry-go-round

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Having served on the Fed, I find this objection fanciful in the extreme.

It fails because it is usually based on fanciful or distorted comparisons.

Makine is a good writer, poetic but never fanciful , and one who treats childhood reflected through experience with delicacy.

The avatar can be a realistic depiction of the actual person or a completely fanciful one.

The notion of some man on a white horse saving the party with a late candidacy is fanciful .

This is not just some fanciful theory.

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