About The Word Fanciful
Learn about the word Fanciful to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Fanciful definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
Fanciful
| Fanciful Definition And Meaning |
|---|
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.
|
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Elementary school ‐ a school for young children; usually the first 6…
- Press stud ‐ a fastener used…
- Butterfly valve ‐ a valve in a carburetor that consists of a disc that turns and…
- Cuirass ‐ medieval body armor that covers the…
- Stole ‐ a wide scarf worn about their…
- European perch ‐ a perch native…
- Anseriformes ‐ ducks; geese; swans;…
- Tepic ‐ a city in west…
- Actinomycin ‐ any of various red antibiotics isolated from…
- Pluckiness ‐ the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible…