Showing Results for "fancied"

fancied

[fan-seed] / ˈfæn sid /

ADJECTIVE

fanciful

Synonyms

STRONGEST

absurd bizarre extravagant fantastic fantastical fictional imaginative offbeat preposterous unreal whimsical

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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

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normal reasonable sensible usual

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grave ordinary real serious sincere unfanciful unimaginative unromantic

ADJECTIVE

imaginary

Synonyms

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abstract fanciful fantastic fictional hypothetical imagined theoretical unreal whimsical

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ideal visionary

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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

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factual ordinary proven real

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practical

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existing genuine physical substantial true

ADJECTIVE

imagined

Synonyms

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imaginary

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insubstantial thought up

ADJECTIVE

nonexistent

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absent negative tenuous vacant

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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

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actual existent existing real true

ADJECTIVE

notional

Synonyms

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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

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approved favored

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adopted culled elected endorsed liked named picked sanctioned selected taken

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decided upon handpicked popular set apart settled upon singled out well-liked

Antonyms

WEAK

ill-favored rejected undesirable

Example Sentences

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Fancied to feature by some of the shrewder racing pundits.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2022

Fancied mounts last Saturday on Dubai World Cup night, including in the $10m feature race, showed that he has lost none of his appeal with the horsemen who possess the big-race firepower.

From The Guardian • Apr. 3, 2013

Tigrane: It's very tiring / When you always / Repeat / Repeat yourself, / But is this a good time / To say I've always / Fancied you.

From The Guardian • Oct. 8, 2010

But their action halted production of penicillin and blood plasma: Real or Fancied.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fancied, or not fancied—I question not myself to know which—I choose to believe that I owe my very life to you—ay—smile, and think it an exaggeration if you will.

From North and South by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

fancied

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