FANCIFUL
fanciful, notional
(adjective) indulging in or influenced by fancy; “a fanciful mind”; “all the notional vagaries of childhood”
fanciful
(adjective) having a curiously intricate quality; “a fanciful pattern with intertwined vines and flowers”
fanciful, imaginary, notional
(adjective) not based on fact; existing only in the imagination; “the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties”- F.D.Roosevelt; “a small child’s imaginary friends”; “to create a notional world for oneself”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
fanciful (comparative more fanciful, superlative most fanciful)
Imaginative or fantastic.
Unreal or imagined.
Source: Wiktionary
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.
– 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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