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Definition of Fanciful
1. Adjective. Indulging in or influenced by fancy. "All the notional vagaries of childhood"
2. Adjective. Not based on fact; unreal. "To create a notional world for oneself"
3. Adjective. Having a curiously intricate quality. "A fanciful pattern with intertwined vines and flowers"
Definition of Fanciful
1. a. Full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary projects.
Definition of Fanciful
1. unrealistic [adj] - See also: unrealistic
Medical Definition of Fanciful
1. 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) Synonym: 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"cifully, -Fan"cifulness. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
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