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fanciful

 adjective
     
fan‧ci‧ful
1 imagined rather than based on facts - often used to show disapproval:
a fanciful story
The suggestion that there was a conspiracy is not entirely fanciful.
2 full of unusual and very detailed shapes or complicated designs:
fanciful decorations
—fancifully adverb
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