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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