Yes, it is a word
fanciful:
1. indulging in or influenced by fancy
" a faniful mind"
2. Not based on fact; unreal
"the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties"
3. Having a curiously intricate quality
"a fanciful pattern with intertwined vines and flowers"
synanymes of the word are:
imaginary,and , notional
fancy, fan- (as in fantastic or fantasy)
im so fanciful in my school
Ridiculous
Full of fanciness!?
The word that means a fanciful notion or impulse is whimor whimsy. An antonym for whimsy would be seriousness or deliberation.
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The young boy had created an imaginary world full of fanciful characters. The suggestion was obviously a fanciful one, one that could never be implemented. One inventor came up with a fanciful scheme to turn water into gasoline.
The Fanciful was created in 2008.
"Fancy-monger" is used by Rosalind in As You Like It. It is an invented word to replace "fishmonger".
"Winksquiffler" is a made-up word referring to a sort of dream in Roald Dahl's children's book, BFG (The Big Friendly Giant.) Because it is a fanciful word invented for a work of fantasy, it can mean whatever the reader imagines it to mean. This sort of imagining is much easier for children than for adults who are handicapped by reason.
The actual Wangdoodles from the book are not real, but as you know, it is a word in the English language that means 'a fanciful creature'