fanciful
/ˈfænsɪfl̩/ adjective C1- 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.
- Unreal or imagined.
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"For a mixture of the modern and the mediæval, of the practical and of the wildly fanciful, I think this is surely the limit," said he.
“It is surely rather fanciful.”
No doubt you thought me fanciful.
I am not a fanciful person, but I give you my word that I seemed to hear Moriarty’s voice screaming at me out of the abyss.
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