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Fanciful vs Unfounded - What's the difference?

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Fanciful is a related term of unfounded.


As adjectives the difference between fanciful and unfounded

is that fanciful is imaginative or fantastic; unreal or imagined while unfounded is having no strong foundation; not based on solid reasons or facts.

fanciful

English

Alternative forms

* fancifull * phanciful * phancifull

Adjective

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

    • Derived terms

    * fancifully * fancifulness

    unfounded

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having no strong foundation; not based on solid reasons or facts.
  • Not having been founded or instituted.
  • * 1980 , Helen Louise Gardner, ?John Carey, English Renaissance studies (page 268)
    • Even the great world as yet undiscovered, the cities as yet unfounded , and the history as yet unwritten, are lost: fallen from the beginning.

    Synonyms

    * (not based on solid reasons or facts) baseless, groundless, ungrounded