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: fan-ci-ful-ly. The stress falls on "ci".

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.