About The Word Fanciful
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Fanciful
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What's The Definition Of Fanciful?
[adj] indulging in or influenced by fancy; "a fanciful mind"; "all the notional vagaries of childhood"
[adj] having a curiously intricate quality; "a fanciful pattern with intertwined vines and flowers" [adj] not based on fact; dubious; "the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties"- F.D.Roosevelt; "a small child's imaginary friends"; "her imagined fame"; "to create a notional world for oneself" Synonyms | Synonyms for Fanciful: creative | fancy | imaginary | imagined | notional | originative | unreal Related Terms | Find terms related to Fanciful: absurd | air-built | airy | antic | apocryphal | arbitrary | baroque | bizarre | brain-born | capricious | changeable | chimerical | cloud-built | conceptual | cranky | crotchety | curious | dream-built | dreamlike | ethereal | extravagant | fabulous | false | fancied | fancy-born | fancy-built | fancy-woven | fantasied | fantasque | fantastic | fatuitous | fatuous | fickle | fictional | fictitious | fictive | flaky | florid | freakish | gaseous | gossamery | Gothic | grotesque | harebrained | humorsome | ideal | ideational | ideological | illusory | imaginary | imaginative | imagined | immaterial | impossible | impulsive | incomprehensible | inconceivable | inconstant | incredible | kinky | legendary | maggoty | make-believe | merely nominal | moody | motiveless | mythical | not real | notional | odd | original | outlandish | peculiar | petulant | phantomlike | preposterous | quirky | rarefied | rococo | shadowy | spirituous | subtile | subtle | supposititious | temperamental | tenuous | theoretical | unaccountable | unactual | unbelievable | unexpected | unimaginable | unreal | unrealistic | unreasonable | unrestrained | unsubstantial | unusual | vagarious | vagrant | vaporous | variable | visionary | wanton | wayward | whimsical | wild | windy | wrong See Also | Fanciful In Webster's Dictionary \Fan"ci*ful\, a.
1. Full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and
experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary
projects.
2. Conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or
reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a
fanciful scheme; a fanciful theory.
3. Curiously shaped or constructed; as, she wore a fanciful
headdress.
Gather up all fancifullest shells. --Keats.
Syn: Imaginative; ideal; visionary; capricious; chimerical;
whimsical; fantastical; wild.
Usage: {Fanciful}, {Fantastical}, {Visionary}. We speak of
that as fanciful which is irregular in taste and
judgment; we speak of it as fantastical when it
becomes grotesque and extravagant as well as
irregular; we speak of it as visionary when it is
wholly unfounded in the nature of things. Fanciful
notions are the product of a heated fancy, without any
tems are made up of oddly assorted fancies, aften of
the most whimsical kind; visionary expectations are
those which can never be realized in fact. --
{Fan"ci*ful*ly}, adv. -{Fan"ci*ful*ness}, n.
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