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Etymology
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fancy + -ful
Pronunciation
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- IPA(key): /ˈfænsɪfəl/
- Hyphenation: fan‧ci‧ful
Adjective
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fanciful (comparative more fanciful, superlative most fanciful)
- Imaginative or fantastic; ignoring reality.
- Near-synonyms: conceptual, fancied, ideal, notional
It was fanciful to suppose that all he had to do would be to stride into a top law firm and he would be hired on the spot.
- Unreal or imagined.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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Translations
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imaginative or unreal
- Bulgarian: нереален (bg) (nerealen), фантастичен (bg) (fantastičen)
- Danish: fantasifuld, fantastisk
- Dutch: denkbeeldig (nl), verzonnen (nl), fantastisch (nl), fantasievol (nl)
- Finnish: mielikuvituksellinen (fi), kuvitteellinen (fi)
- French: imaginaire (fr), fantaisiste (fr)
- Galician: imaxinario m
- German: phantasievoll, irreal (de), unrealistisch (de)
- Hungarian: képzeletbeli (hu)
- Irish: meonúil, guanach
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: fantasifull
- Nynorsk: fantasifull
- Persian: خیالانگیز (xiyâl-angiz)
- Polish: dziwaczny (pl)
- Russian: прихотливый (ru) m (prixotlivyj)
- Spanish: fantasioso (es), fantástico (es), imaginativo (es)
- Swedish: fantasifull (sv)
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