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| arabesque |
a complex design of interlaced scrolls, foliage, and other fanciful shapes, or an ornamental object having such a design. [1/4 definitions] |
| castle in the air |
a fanciful wish or scheme; daydream; pipe dream. |
| chimerical |
existing only in the mind; fanciful. |
| cloud-cuckoo-land |
a fanciful, unrealistic, or Utopian place or condition. |
| conceit |
an imaginative idea or fanciful notion. [1/3 definitions] |
| dream |
a fanciful idea. [1/13 definitions] |
| extravaganza |
a light, variegated, and fanciful musical composition. [1/3 definitions] |
| fantast |
one given to fanciful, impractical dreams; visionary. |
| fantastic |
wildly imaginative or outlandish; fanciful; exaggerated. [1/5 definitions] |
| fantasy |
imagination or something imagined, esp. if fanciful, exaggerated, or bizarre. [1/5 definitions] |
| fish story |
(informal) an exaggerated or fanciful account, as of the huge fish that escaped. |
| notion |
a fanciful idea or impulse. [1/3 definitions] |
| romance |
to indulge in or produce fanciful stories. [1/7 definitions] |
| romantic |
impractical or overly idealized; fanciful. [1/8 definitions] |
| topiary |
of shrubs and trees, trimmed or trained into fanciful or decorative shapes. [1/3 definitions] |
| unreal |
fanciful, fantastic, or weird. [1/2 definitions] |
| vaporous |
fanciful or inflated; lacking evidence. [1/5 definitions] |
| whimsical |
slightly odd or amusing in a uniquely imaginative way; fanciful; quaint. [1/3 definitions] |
| whimsy |
an odd, fanciful, or capricious notion, or such notions collectively. [2 definitions] |
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