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fancied
adjective as in fanciful
Strongest matches
adjective as in imaginary
Weak matches
adjective as in imagined
Strongest match
Weak matches
adjective as in nonexistent
Weak matches
- 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
adjective as in notional
Weak matches
- 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 as in preferred
Example Sentences
"They were perhaps hunting like leopards -- dropping out of trees on any unsuspecting thing they fancied for dinner."
Co-author Prof Michael Archer said "drop crocs" were a "bizarre idea" but some were "perhaps hunting like leopards - dropping out of trees on any unsuspecting thing they fancied for dinner".
American Ilia Malinin, two-time reigning world champion and defending Skate Canada champion, is fancied in the men's event after a victory in France.
"We all wanted to look like Audrey Hepburn," she later told her biographer, "but I wasn't attractive and nobody fancied me."
Her husband Jacob was worried she no longer fancied him.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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