Fanciful
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
Illusory is a synonym for fanciful in imaginary topic. In some cases you can use "Illusory" instead an adjective "Fanciful", when it comes to topics like ideal, vision, unreal, like a dream.
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- ideal and fanciful
- ideal and illusory
- whimsical and fanciful
- whimsical and illusory
- imaginary and fanciful
- imaginary and illusory
- insubstantial and fanciful
- insubstantial and illusory
- fantastic and fanciful
- fantastic and illusory
- visionary and fanciful
- visionary and illusory
- delusive and fanciful
- delusive and illusory
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