英和和英

語源

From fancy +‎ -ful.

発音

• IPA: /ˈfænsɪfl̩/
• ハイフネーション: fan‧ci‧ful

形容詞

fanciful (comparative more fanciful, superlative most fanciful)

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.

   • 2009 September 7, Janet Maslin, “News at Styx: Who’s Hot in Hades”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 31 August 2021:

     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.

2. Unreal or imagined.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

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