fanciful
adj/ˈfænsɪfl̩/
Etymology From fancy + -ful.
1
Imaginative or fantastic; ignoring reality.
- Near-synonyms: conceptual, fancied, ideal, notional
- It was fanciful to suppose that all he had to do would be to stride into a top law firm and he would be hired on the spot.
1 more example
- Mr. Butler, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain,” treats his newest novelistic conceit as an occasion to toss every possible ingredient into a fanciful hellscape and then let these elements run wild.2009 September 7, Janet Maslin, “News at Styx: Who’s Hot in Hades”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2021:
2
Unreal or imagined.
- Derived terms
- fancifully, fancifulness, nonfanciful, overfanciful, unfanciful