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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 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. 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: fanciful adj 1: indulging in or influenced by fancy; "a fanciful mind"; "all the notional vagaries of childhood" [syn: {notional}] 2: not based on fact dubious; "the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties"- F.D.Roosevelt; "a small child's imaginary friends"; "her imagined fame"; "to create a notional world for oneself" [syn: {imaginary}, {imagined}, {notional}] 3: having a curiously intricate quality; "a fanciful pattern with intertwined vines and flowers"
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