the fanciful horses on an old-fashioned merry-go-round
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
Having served on the Fed, I find this objection fanciful in the extreme.
It fails because it is usually based on fanciful or distorted comparisons.
Makine is a good writer, poetic but never fanciful, and one who treats childhood reflected through experience with delicacy.
The avatar can be a realistic depiction of the actual person or a completely fanciful one.
The notion of some man on a white horse saving the party with a late candidacy is fanciful.
This is not just some fanciful theory.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB►too
· No, that was too fanciful.· With such singers, such music and such a story, Mr Alden's approach seemed nevertheless too fanciful by half.· No, too fanciful to consider him in the role of murderer.
1imagined rather than based on facts – often used to show disapproval: a fanciful story The suggestion that there was a conspiracy is not entirely fanciful.2full of unusual and very detailed shapes or complicated designs: fanciful decorations—fancifully adverb