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Definitions for fanciful
ˈfæn sɪ fəlfan·ci·ful

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. fanciful, notionaladjective

    indulging in or influenced by fancy

    "a fanciful mind"; "all the notional vagaries of childhood"

  2. fanciful, imaginary, notionaladjective

    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. fancifuladjective

    having a curiously intricate quality

    "a fanciful pattern with intertwined vines and flowers"

Wiktionary

  1. fancifuladjective

    imaginative or fantastic; unreal or imagined

  2. Etymology: fancy + -ful

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Fancifuladjective

    Etymology: fancy and full.

    Some fanciful men have expected nothing but confusion and ruin from those very means, whereby both that and this is most effectually prevented. John Woodward, Natural History.

    What treasures did he bury in his sumptuous buildings? and how foolish and fanciful were they? John Hayward.

    It would show as much singularity to deny this, as it does a fanciful facility to affirm it. Samuel Garth, Preface to Ovid.

ChatGPT

  1. fanciful

    Fanciful refers to something that is imaginative, unreal, creative, fantastical, or whimsical. It often denotes ideas, objects, or actions that are not influenced by practical considerations and might be formed by an unrestrained imagination.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Fancifuladjective

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

  2. Fancifuladjective

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

  3. Fancifuladjective

    curiously shaped or constructed; as, she wore a fanciful headdress

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of fanciful in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of fanciful in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of fanciful in a Sentence

  1. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz:

    You've got to be willing to take on the lobbyists, which means not just some fanciful waste, fraud and abuse but specifying, 'These are the programs I would eliminate,'.

  2. Mitch McConnell:

    Two years of exhaustive investigation and nothing to establish the fanciful conspiracy theory that Democratic politicians and TV talking heads had treated like a foregone conclusion, this ought to be good news for everyone but my Democratic colleagues seem to be publicly working through the five stages of grief.

  3. Sophocles, Trachiniae:

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

  4. Scott Pruitt:

    There was a declared war on coal, a war on fossil fuels, the EPA was weaponized against certain sectors of our economy and that’s not the role of a regulator. Renewables need to be part of our energy mix, but to think that will be the dominant fuel is simply fanciful.

  5. Wilhelm von Humboldt:

    If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe that the whole treasure of morality and order is enshrined in the female character.

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