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Fanciful vs Delightful - What's the difference?

fanciful | delightful |

As adjectives the difference between fanciful and delightful

is that fanciful is imaginative or fantastic; unreal or imagined while delightful is pleasant; pleasing, bringing satisfaction, enjoyment or pleasure.

fanciful

English

Alternative forms

* fancifull * phanciful * phancifull

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • imaginative or fantastic; unreal or imagined

    • Derived terms

    * fancifully * fancifulness

    delightful

    English

    Alternative forms

    * delightfull (archaic)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pleasant; pleasing, bringing satisfaction, enjoyment or pleasure.
  • *
  • *:An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.