Fanciful and Factual

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Fanciful adjective - Not real and existing only in the imagination.

Usage example: the fanciful creatures that J.R.R. Tolkien created for his Middle Earth novels

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Factual is an antonym for fanciful.

Nearby Words: fancy, fancied, fancier, fancifully

Factual adjective - Restricted to or based on fact.

Usage example: a factual biography of George Washington that scoffs at the story about the cherry tree

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Fanciful is an antonym for factual in true topic.

Nearby Words: fact, factually

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