adv
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adv
in an imaginative, playful, or unrealistic way
The child fancifully imagined the clouds as ships at sea.
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From fanciful plus the adverb-forming suffix -ly. Fanciful comes from fancy, so the word keeps the sense of imagination, invention, or decorative unreality.