Definitions for Fanciful
ˈfæn sɪ fəlfan·ci·ful

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fancifuladjective

   imaginative or fantastic; unreal or imagined

2. Etymology: fancy + -ful

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fancifuladjective

   Etymology: fancy and full.

   1. Imaginative; rather guided by imagination than reason.

   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.

   2. Directed by the imagination, not the reason; full of wild images.

   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.

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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 DictionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

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. 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.

2. Ron Johnson:

   It is not the fanciful to think that ISIS may be assaulting some of those refugees with some of their operatives.

3. 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.

4. Sophocles:

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

5. Edgar Allen Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue:

   The ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Fanciful
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Fanciful
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Fanciful
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Fanciful