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fanciful

adjective (fanciful, more fanciful, most fanciful)

«fanciful» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

Everyday

Fanciful means full of imagination, with ideas that are not based on fact or proof. tree →
Fanciful can mean odd, unreal or made up. tree →

In the lessons

a fanciful idea or conclusion is clever and imaginative but not proved; a cat may call a person fanciful for dreaming

Examples

You have a fanciful idea about dragons. tree →
The cat said I was fanciful. tree →
The story has a fanciful picture of a flying castle. tree →
That is a fanciful guess; we need proof. tree →

Note

nothing for maths

On Mova

Trees and pragmatics of «fanciful» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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