Fanciful and Palpable

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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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Palpable is an antonym for fanciful.

Nearby Words: fancy, fancied, fancier, fancifully

Palpable adjective - Able to be perceived by a sense or by the mind.

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Fanciful is an antonym for palpable.

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