N. imagination, originality, invention, fancy, inspiration,
verve, warm imagination, heated imagination, excited imagination, sanguine imagination, ardent imagination, fiery imagination, boiling imagination, wild imagination, bold imagination, daring imagination, playful imagination, lively imagination, fertile imagination, fancy, "mind's eye", "such stuff as dreams are made of",
ideality,
idealism,
romanticism,
utopianism, castle-building, dreaming,
phrensy,
frenzy,
ecstasy,
extasy,
calenture,
reverie,
trance, day dream, golden dream,
somnambulism, conception, vorstellung,
excogitation, "a fine frenzy",
cloudland,
dreamland, flight of fancy, fumes of fancy, "thick coming fancies", creation of the brain, coinage of the brain,
imagery,
conceit,
maggot, figment,
myth, dream, vision, shadow,
chimera,
phantasm,
phantasy,
fantasy, fancy,
whim,
whimsey,
whimsy,
vagary,
rhapsody, romance,
gest,
geste,
extravaganza, air drawn dagger,
bugbear,
nightmare, flying dutchman, great sea serpent, man in the moon, castle in the air, pipe dream, pie-in-the-sky, chateau en espagne,
utopia,
atlantis, happy valley,
millennium,
fairyland, land of prester john, kingdom of micomicon, work of fiction, arabian nights, le pot au lait, dream of alnashar,
illusion,
phantom,
fata morgana,
vapor, stretch of the imagination, mythogenesis,
idealist,
romanticist,
visionary,
mopus, romancer, dreamer,
somnambulist,
rhapsodist, castle-buildier, fanciful projector
V. imagine, fancy, conceive,
idealize,
realize, dream, dream of, dream up, "give to airy nothing a local habitation and a name",
create,
originate,
devise,
invent, coin,
fabricate,
improvise, strike out something new, set one's wits to work, strain one's invention, crack one's invention, rack one's brains, ransack one's brains, cudgel one's brains,
excogitate, brainstorm, give play, give the reins, give a loose to the imagination, give fancy, indulge in reverie,
visualize, envision, conjure up a vision, fancy oneself, represent oneself, picture, picture-oneself, figure to oneself, vorstellen, float in the mind, suggest itself
Adj. imagined, ben trovato, air drawn, airbuilt, imagining, v,
imaginative, original,
inventive,
creative, fertile, romantic, high flown,
flighty,
extravagant,
fanatic,
enthusiastic, unrealistic,
utopian,
quixotic, ideal, unreal, in the clouds, in nubibus, unsubsantial,
illusory,
fabulous,
legendary,
mythical,
mythic,
mythological,
chimerical, imaginary,
visionary,
notional, fancy,
fanciful,
fantastic,
fantastical,
whimsical,
fairy, fairy-like,
gestic Phr. "a change came o'er the spirit of my dream", aegri somnia vana, dolphinum appingit sylvis in fluctibus aprum, "fancy light from fancy caught", "imagination rules the world", l'imagination gallope, le jugement ne va que le pas, musaeo contingens cuncta lepore, tous songes sont mensonges, wahrheil und dichtung
N. caprice, fancy,
humor,
whim,
whimsy,
whimsey,
whimwham,
crotchet, capriccio,
quirk,
freak,
maggot,
fad,
vagary,
prank, fit,
flimflam,
escapade,
boutade, wild-goose chase,
capriciousness,
kink V. be capricious, have a maggot in the brain, take it into one's head, strain at a gnat and swallow a camel, blow hot and cold, play fast and loose, play fantastic tricks, tourner casaque
Adj. capricious,
erratic,
eccentric, fitful,
hysterical, full of whims,
maggoty, inconsistent,
fanciful,
fantastic,
whimsical,
crotchety,
kinky, particular,
humorsome,
freakish,
skittish,
wanton,
wayward, contrary,
captious, arbitrary,
unconformable, penny wise and pound foolish,
fickle,
frivolous,
sleeveless,
giddy, volatile
Adv. by fits and starts, without rhyme or reason
Phr. nil fuit unquain sic inipar sibi, the deuce is in him
N. ridiculousness,
comicality,
oddity,
extravagance,
drollery,
farce, comedy,
burlesque,
buffoonery,
frippery, doggerel verses,
absurdity,
bombast,
anticlimax,
bathos,
eccentricity,
monstrosity,
laughingstock V. be ridiculous, pass from the sublime to the ridiculous, make one laugh, play the fool, make a fool of oneself, commit an absurdity
Adj. ridiculous,
ludicrous,
comical,
droll,
funny,
laughable, pour rire,
grotesque,
farcical, odd,
whimsical, whimsical as a dancing bear,
fanciful,
fantastic, queer,
rum,
quizzical,
quaint,
bizarre,
screaming,
eccentric, strange,
outlandish, out of the way,
baroque,
weird,
awkward,
extravagant,
outre,
monstrous,
preposterous,
bombastic, inflated,
stilted,
burlesque, mock heroic,
drollish, seriocomic, tragicomic,
gimcrack, contemptible,
doggerel,
ironical, risible
Phr. risum teneatis amici, rideret heraclitus, du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas
