fanciful

Speech parts

1. fanciful - Adjective

2. fanciful - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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.

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Examples

Knowledge must come through action you can have no test, which is not fanciful save by trial. Sophocles

Decapitation is a fanciful strategy. John Mearsheimer

Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Certainly there are spots which inevitably attach to themselves an atmosphere of holiness and goodness; it might not then be too fanciful to say that some houses are born bad. Shirley Jackson

Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him. Honoré de Balzac

But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape. Henry Morton Stanley

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