fanciful

adjective

1 Maria is a fanciful girl:

imaginative, inventive;

whimsical, impractical, capricious, flighty, dreamy, daydreaming, quixotic, chimerical, head in the clouds, out of touch with reality, in a world of one's own;

archaic visionary.

▷antonyms down-to-earth.

2 some of these stories were pretty fanciful:

fantastic, extravagant, far-fetched, romantic, unbelievable, ridiculous, absurd, preposterous;

imaginary, fancied, unreal, illusory, made-up, make-believe;

mythical, fabulous, legendary, fairy tale;

informal far out, tall, crackpot, cock and bull, hard to swallow/take.

▷antonyms literal.

3 the fanciful cornices and turrets of an imperial palace:

ornate, exotic, imaginative, creative, fancy;

curious, odd, bizarre, strange, eccentric, unusual, original;

extravagant, fantastic, grotesque, Gothic, baroque.

▷antonyms practical.

fanciful Oxford Dictionary of English