| Main Entry: | fanciful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imaginary, romantic |
Synonyms: |
absurd, aerial, bizarre, blue sky, capricious, castles in the air, chimerical, curious, dreamlike, extravagant, fabulous, fairy-tale, fancied, fantastic, fantastical, fictional, fictitious, fictive, flaky*, floating, ideal, illusory, imaginative, imagined, incredible, kinky*, legendary, mythical, notional, offbeat, on cloud nine, pie in the sky, pipe dream, poetic, preposterous, shadowy, suppositious, unreal, visionary, whimsical, wild |
Antonyms: |
grave, ordinary, real, serious, sincere, unfanciful, unimaginative, unromantic |
| Main Entry: | illusory/illusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceptive, false |
Synonyms: |
apparent, blue-sky, chimerical, deceitful, delusive, delusory, fake, fallacious, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, fictitious, fictive, hallucinatory, ideal, imaginary, misleading, mistaken, ostensible, pseudo*, seeming, semblant, sham*, suppositious, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical |
Antonyms: |
certain, factual, real, sure, true |
| Main Entry: | imaginative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | creative, inventive |
Synonyms: |
artistic, avant-garde, blue-sky, brain wave, breaking ground, clever, dreamy, enterprising, extravagant, fanciful, fantastic, fertile, fictive, high-flown, ingenious, inspired, offbeat, original, originative, pie-in-the-sky, poetic, poetical, productive, quixotic, romantic, utopian, visionary, vivid, way out, whimsical |
| Notes: | imaginary means not based on fact while imaginative means marked by independence and creativity in thought or action |
Antonyms: |
dull, uncreative, unimaginative, uninventive, unresourceful |
| Main Entry: | unrealistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not believable or practical |
Synonyms: |
blue sky, floating, gone*, half-baked, impossible, impracticable, impractical, improbable, ivory-tower, nonrealistic, nonsensical, not applicable, not sensible, on cloud nine, quixotic, reachy, romantic, silly, starry-eyed, theoretical, unreal, unworkable |
Antonyms: |
believable, practical, pragmatic, realistic, reasonable, sensible |
| Main Entry: | illusory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceptive |
Synonyms: |
Barmecidal, apparent, blue sky, chimerical, deceitful, delusive, delusory, fallacious, false, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, fictitious, fictive, float, hallucinatory, ideal, illusive, imaginary, misleading, mistaken, ostensible, pipe dream, seeming, semblant, sham, suppositious, supposititious, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical |
Antonyms: |
genuine, real |
| Main Entry: | silver lining |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bright side of situation |
Synonyms: |
blue sky, break in the clouds, bright side, comforting prospect, good side, hopeful prospect, positive side |
| Main Entry: | hallucinatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illusive |
Synonyms: |
apparent, blue-sky, chimeric, chimerical, deceitful, delusive, delusory, dreamlike, fake*, fallacious, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, fictitious, fictive, ideal, illusory, imaginary, misleading, mistaken, ostensible, phantasm, phantasmagoric, phantasmal |
| Main Entry: | phantasmagoric |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illusive |
Synonyms: |
apparent, blue-sky, chimeric, chimerical, deceitful, delusive, delusory, dreamlike, fake*, fallacious, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, fictitious, fictive, hallucinatory, ideal, illusory, imaginary, misleading, mistaken, ostensible, phantasmal, phantasmic, pseudo*, seeming, semblant, sham*, suppositious, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical |
| Main Entry: | phantasmal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illusive |
Synonyms: |
apparent, blue-sky, chimeric, chimerical, deceitful, delusive, delusory, dreamlike, fake*, fallacious, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, fictitious, fictive, hallucinatory, ideal, illusory, imaginary, misleading, mistaken, ostensible, phantasmagoric, phantasmic, pseudo*, seeming, semblant, sham*, suppositious, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical |
| Main Entry: | phantasmic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illusive |
Synonyms: |
apparent, blue-sky, chimeric, chimerical, deceitful, delusive, delusory, dreamlike, fake*, fallacious, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, fictitious, fictive, hallucinatory, ideal, illusory, imaginary, misleading, mistaken, ostensible, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, pseudo*, seeming, semblant, sham*, suppositious, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical |