fanciful

Modifying Another Word

• somewhat: A somewhat fanciful topic: The Social Implications of the Internet.
• rather: This colorful print gives a rather fanciful representation of the rowing barge, which is still displayed in the Royal Naval Museum at Portsmouth.
• merely: These responses are not merely fanciful, music here is a useful metaphor.
• entirely: That would have been an entirely fanciful construction of s 1(3 ).
• too: Is it too fanciful to imagine him speaking with a bread country accent, possibly from the Devon area?
• quite: Much of it quite fanciful based on some of the most imaginative lobbying I have seen from any organization.

Infinitive complement

• imagine: Is it too fanciful to imagine him speaking with a bread country accent, possibly from the Devon area?
• suggest: Yesterday it is not being too fanciful to suggest he might have helped them win the Ashes.
• say: I don't think it's fanciful to say that it has a noticeably more southern flavor.
• see: Is it too fanciful to see in the portrait of the Rector that strong face implacably set against Joseph?
• speculate: It may be fanciful to speculate on the consequences of those ' fifty women ' in Belfast City Council.

Modifies a noun

• dress: Original red cloth, decorated with figure of woman in fanciful dress.
• notion: And the United States missed all of this, because they believed their own myths and their own fanciful notions.
• speculation: We think that that may be the more fanciful speculation.
• tale: Shock horror and fanciful tales of financial corruption followed in 1995.
• creature: What role have birds and beasts played in sacred and symbolic imagery and how were fanciful creatures perceived?
• interpretation: But its meaning and evidential value are lost in a bewildering maze of forced or fanciful interpretations.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: Prynn's suggestion of common work between the three parties seems fanciful however.
• sound: This may sound fanciful, but is merely a hypothesis that would explain some odd facts.
• appear: The figure of 170 members given for England does not appear fanciful.