fancifully

1. 1.

   in a fanciful manner

   “the Christmas tree was fancifully decorated”

   Synonymswhimsically

Questions about fancifully

What does fancifully mean?

fancifully means "in a fanciful manner".

How many syllables are in fancifully?

fancifully has 4 syllables and divides as fan-ci-ful-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for fancifully?

Close synonyms include whimsically. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fancifully a common word?

fancifully is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.