adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
too
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No, that was too fanciful .
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With such singers, such music and such a story, Mr Alden's approach seemed nevertheless too fanciful by half.
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No, too fanciful to consider him in the role of murderer.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a fanciful idea
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I dismissed the rumors as fanciful .
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the fanciful horses on an old-fashioned merry-go-round
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Having served on the Fed, I find this objection fanciful in the extreme.
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It fails because it is usually based on fanciful or distorted comparisons.
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Makine is a good writer, poetic but never fanciful , and one who treats childhood reflected through experience with delicacy.
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The avatar can be a realistic depiction of the actual person or a completely fanciful one.
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The notion of some man on a white horse saving the party with a late candidacy is fanciful .
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This is not just some fanciful theory.