Fanciful
['fænsɪfʊl;-f(ə)l] or ['fænsɪfl]
Definition
(adj.) indulging in or influenced by fancy; 'a fanciful mind'; 'all the notional vagaries of childhood' .
(adj.) having a curiously intricate quality; 'a fanciful pattern with intertwined vines and flowers' .
(adj.) 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' .
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Definition
(a.) Full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary projects.
(a.) Conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a fanciful scheme; a fanciful theory.
(a.) Curiously shaped or constructed; as, she wore a fanciful headdress.
Editor: Natasha
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Visionary, imaginative, whimsical, CAPRICIOUS.[2]. Chimerical, imaginary, ideal, fantastical, wild.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Grotesque, chimerical, unreal, imaginary, quaint, eccentric, freakish,humorsome, erroneous, capricious, whimsical, erratic, absurd, fitful
ANT:Natural, literal, regular, real, sober, ordinary, truthful, accurate, correct,orderly, calculable
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Examples
- Much of their theory must seem to the modern mind merely fanciful and unsupported speculation. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I like you to be fanciful about your mother's health. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- It might as well be something about Mars or about some fanciful country unless it fructifies in the individual's own life. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But this is the fanciful side of the situation. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- No graceful little adornment, no fanciful little device, however trivial, anywhere expressed her influence. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I had expected some extravagant proposition, and remained silent awhile, collecting my thoughts that I might the better combat her fanciful scheme. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- They had but little clothing, but such as they had was fanciful in character and fantastic in its arrangement. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to the sound produced by cocking a rifle. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I am afraid I am sometimes very fanciful and troublesome. Jane Austen. Emma.
- But behold, they were not wild enough--they were not fanciful enough--they have not told half the story. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Formerly she had been a light-hearted infant, fanciful, but gay and childish. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- You know, papa, you said the other day I was getting fanciful. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- But there was now a great darkness besides; and that invested the storm with new terrors, real and fanciful. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The thing was incomprehensible to Tip, and altogether a fanciful notion. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- These are very fanciful ideas, to be mentioned only to be dismissed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- No doubt you thought me fanciful. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- A further step in this line brought Edison to the aerophone, around which the Figaro weaved its fanciful description. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I am not a fanciful person, but I give you my word that I seemed to hear Moriarty's voice screaming at me out of the abyss. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It is inclosed in a sort of little temple of yellow and white stone, of fanciful design. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- My dears, here interrupted Mrs. Pryor, does it not strike you that your conversation for the last ten minutes has been rather fanciful? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Give me five minutes of your attention; and I will undertake to show you that Science sanctions my proposal, fanciful as it may seem. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Especially when _one_ of those two is such a fanciful, troublesome creature! Jane Austen. Emma.
- In my fanciful times, I fancy that they might be anywhere; and I almost expect to see their dear faces on the bridges or the quays. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He found, when he looked up, that this sensation was not a fanciful one. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- But the talk of the two was anything but fanciful, as they were engaged in discussing their projected tour in Levantine waters. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The bedstead, chairs, and lounges, were of bamboo, wrought in peculiarly graceful and fanciful patterns. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The floors were laid in fanciful figures wrought in mosaics of many-colored marbles. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It finds its greatest application in artistic and fanciful work in inks of various colors, and its development into chromo-lithography in the Nineteenth Century has grown into a fine art. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I explained her character to you, and how she interposed some ridiculous fanciful notions in the way of our being as respectable as I tried for. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It is surely rather fanciful. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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