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Fanciful vs Fanatical - What's the difference?

fanciful | fanatical |

As adjectives the difference between fanciful and fanatical

is that fanciful is imaginative or fantastic; unreal or imagined while fanatical is having an extreme, irrational zeal or enthusiasm for a specific cause.

fanciful

English

Alternative forms

* fancifull * phanciful * phancifull

Adjective

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

    • Derived terms

    * fancifully * fancifulness

    fanatical

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • having an extreme, irrational zeal or enthusiasm for a specific cause