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Meaning of 'fanciful' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Fanciful [ a.]
- Full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary projects.
- Conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a fanciful scheme; a fanciful theory.
- Curiously shaped or constructed; as, she wore a fanciful headdress.

Meaning of 'fanciful' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . fanciful [ s]
Meaning (1):
- indulging in or influenced by fancy
Example in sentence:
  • a fanciful mind;
  • all the notional vagaries of childhood
Meaning (2):
- having a curiously intricate quality
Example in sentence:
  • a fanciful pattern with intertwined vines and flowers
Meaning (3):
- not based on fact; existing only in the imagination
Example in sentence:
  • a small child's imaginary friends;
  • the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties;
  • to create a notional world for oneself

Nearby Words:

fan fan palm fan-nerved fan-tailed fanal fanatic fanatical fanaticism fanaticize fanaticized

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