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Synonyms for fanciful
Synonyms for fanciful: notional and imaginary. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for fanciful
Interchangeable with fanciful in this sense
Audited under fanciful's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one fanciful carries in that sense.
- notionaladjective, in the sense "indulging in or influenced by fancy"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name fanciful as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- imaginaryimaginary is an adjective in the sense "not based on fact"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under fanciful and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
indulging in or influenced by fancy
A fanciful mind.
The true synonym
notional
Same sentence, swapped: A notional mind.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- fictitious
- inconceivable
- unrealistic
Where fanciful turns up in the game
fanciful is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
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