'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]