'Fanciful' definitions:
Definition of 'fanciful'
From: WordNet
adjective
Indulging in or influenced by fancy; "a fanciful mind"; "all the notional vagaries of childhood" [syn: fanciful, notional]
adjective
Not based on fact; unreal; "the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties"- F.D.Roosevelt; "a small child's imaginary friends"; "to create a notional world for oneself" [syn: fanciful, imaginary, notional]
adjective
Having a curiously intricate quality; "a fanciful pattern with intertwined vines and flowers"
Definition of 'Fanciful'
From: GCIDE
- Fanciful \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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a fanciful scheme; a fanciful theory. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Curiously shaped or constructed; as, she wore a fanciful headdress. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fanciful'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'Fanciful'
- Fancied,
- Fancies,
- Fancifully,
- Fancifulness,
- Fancy,
- Fancying,
- The fancy,
- fancy up,
- Fancy Gap,
- Fancy ball,
- Fancy fair,
- Fancy goods,
- Fancy line,
- Fancy roller,
- Fancy stocks,
- Fancy store,
- Fancy woods,
- fancy dress,
- fancy man,
- fancy woman,
- flight of fancy,
- passing fancy,
- Fancy Gap, VA,
- Fancy-free,
- Fancy-sick,
- fancied up gussied gussied up tricked out,
- fancy-dress ball,
- footloose and fancy-free