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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"ciful\, 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"cifully}, adv. -{Fan"ciful*ness}, n.

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"

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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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