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fancied

[fan-seed] / ˈfæn sid /
ADJECTIVE
fanciful
Synonyms
STRONGEST
absurd bizarre extravagant fantastic fantastical fictional imaginative offbeat preposterous unreal whimsical
WEAK
aerial blue-sky capricious castles in the air chimerical curious dreamlike fabulous fairy-tale fictitious fictive flaky floating ideal illusory imagined incredible kinky legendary mythical notional on cloud nine pie in the sky pipe dream poetic shadowy suppositious visionary wild
Antonyms
STRONGEST
normal reasonable sensible usual
WEAK
grave ordinary real serious sincere unfanciful unimaginative unromantic
ADJECTIVE
imaginary
Synonyms
STRONGEST
abstract fanciful fantastic fictional hypothetical imagined theoretical unreal whimsical
STRONG
ideal visionary
WEAK
apocryphal apparitional assumed chimerical deceptive delusive dreamed-up dreamlike dreamy fabulous figmental fool's paradise hallucinatory illusive illusory imaginative legendary made-up mythological nonexistent notional phantasmal phantasmic quixotic shadowy spectral supposed supposititious trumped-up unsubstantial
Antonyms
STRONGEST
factual ordinary proven real
STRONG
practical
WEAK
existing genuine physical substantial true
ADJECTIVE
imagined
Synonyms
STRONGEST
imaginary
WEAK
insubstantial thought up
ADJECTIVE
nonexistent
Synonyms
STRONGEST
absent negative tenuous vacant
WEAK
airy baseless blank chimerical dead defunct departed dreamlike dreamy empty ethereal extinct extinguished few and far between flimsy gone gossamery groundless hallucinatory hypothetical illusory imaginary imagined immaterial imponderable insubstantial legendary lost missing mythical null null and void passed away passed on perished shadowy ungrounded unreal unsubstantial vague vaporous void without foundation
Antonyms
WEAK
actual existent existing real true
ADJECTIVE
notional
Synonyms
WEAK
abstract apocryphal apparitional assumed chimeric chimerical conceptual deceptive delusive dreamed-up dreamlike dreamy fabulous fanciful fantastic fantastical fictional figmental fool's paradise hallucinatory hypothetical ideal illusive illusory imaginative imagined legendary made-up mythological nonexistent phantasmal phantasmic quixotic shadowy spectral supposed supposititious theoretical trumped-up unreal unsubstantial visionary whimsical
ADJECTIVE
preferred
Synonyms
STRONGEST
approved favored
STRONG
adopted culled elected endorsed liked named picked sanctioned selected taken
WEAK
decided upon handpicked popular set apart settled upon singled out well-liked
Antonyms
WEAK
ill-favored rejected undesirable

Example Sentences

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Two teams fancied to challenge for the title this season produced a gripping day's entertainment as Surrey recovered from their early disarray to be all out for 328 in the last over of the day.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Instead, the Admiralty fed information about their system to a naval officer named Frederick Dreyer, who was a capable gunnery officer but not the great inventor he fancied himself to be.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

Odermatt, the reigning Olympic giant slalom champion who is fancied to add to his medal haul in Bormio, said training had differed from Wednesday's first run.

From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026

Yorkshire seamer George Hill took 51 wickets at 16.72 last summer, though does not bowl at a pace currently fancied.

From BBC • Jan. 11, 2026

He glanced at the ground, Truth, fancied he found, And homeward to Washington skips.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann