Meaning & use
Fanciful
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imaginative or unrealistic, often in a whimsical or impractical way.
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The children invented fanciful stories about dragons living in the old barn.
Critics dismissed his business plan as fanciful and unlikely to work.
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Derived from "fancy," in the older sense of imagination rather than the modern sense of luxury or elegance.
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