fanciful

About 1.50 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Imaginative or fantastic; ignoring reality.

   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.

2. adjective Unreal or imagined.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Similar words

fancy imaginary imagined creative notional originative unreal fantastic imaginative dreamy

Often followed by

and to or as in than names tales theories

Word family

fancifully fancifulness fancifulnesses