Fanciful
Fanciful adjective - Conceived or made without regard for reason or reality.
Ostensible and fanciful are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Ostensible" instead an adjective "Fanciful".
Ostensible
Ostensible adjective - Appearing to be true on the basis of evidence that may or may not be confirmed.
Fanciful and ostensible are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Fanciful" instead an adjective "Ostensible".
Nearby Word: ostensibly
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- make-believe and fanciful
- make-believe and ostensible
- theoretical and fanciful
- theoretical and ostensible
- imaginary and fanciful
- imaginary and ostensible
- pretend and fanciful
- pretend and ostensible
- delusive and fanciful
- delusive and ostensible
- unreal and fanciful
- unreal and ostensible
- illusory and fanciful
- illusory and ostensible
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