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Definition of 'fanciful'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (adj.) fanciful
whimsical in appearance:
fanciful designs in lace.

2. fanciful
imaginary; unreal:
fanciful lands of romance.

3. fanciful
led by fancy rather than by reason and experience:
a fanciful mind.

Etymology: (1620–30)

Definition of 'fanciful'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (adj) fanciful, notional
indulging in or influenced by fancy
"a fanciful mind"; "all the notional vagaries of childhood"

2. (adj) fanciful, imaginary, notional
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"

3. (adj) fanciful
having a curiously intricate quality
"a fanciful pattern with intertwined vines and flowers"

Definition of 'fanciful'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) fanciful
full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary projects

2. (adj) fanciful
conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a fanciful scheme; a fanciful theory

3. (adj) fanciful
curiously shaped or constructed; as, she wore a fanciful headdress

Translation of 'fanciful'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: inclined to have fancies, especially strange, unreal ideas She's a very fanciful girl.
Afrikaans: vol fieterjasies/ grille/	Arabic: نَزَوي، غَريب الأطوار، وه	Bulgarian: надарен с въображение
Brazilian: caprichoso	Czech: snivý; s velkou fantazií	German: phantasiereich
Danish: fantasifuld	Greek: φαντασιόπληκτος	Spanish: caprichoso
Estonian: luulelennuline	Farsi: خیالباف	Finnish: mielikuvituksellinen
French: fantasque	Hebrew: שוֹגֶה בְּדִמיוֹנוֹת	Hindi: काल्पनिक
Croatian: podložan fantaziji	Hungarian: szeszélyes	Indonesian: pengkhayal
Icelandic: ímyndunarveikur, haldinn	Italian: fantasioso	Japanese: 空想にふける
Korean: 별난, 공상에 잠기는	Lithuanian: turintis vaizduotę	Latvian: untumains; kaprīzs
Malay: suka berkhayal	Dutch: grillig	Norwegian: fantasirik, lunefull; (fo
Polish: fantazjujący	Persian: خیالباف	Pashto: په خيال مين، خيال پرست، خ
Portuguese: caprichoso	Romanian: visător	Russian: капризный
Slovak: snivý	Slovenian: čudaški	Serbian: maštovit
Swedish: fantasifull, full av inbi	Thai: ที่เพ้อฝัน	Turkish: hayalperest
Taiwanese: 愛幻想的	Ukrainian: примхливий, капризний	Urdu: غیر حقیقی تصورات رکھنا
Vietnamese: (người) hay tưởng tượng	Chinese: 爱空想的
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