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Definition of Fanciful
Fanciful

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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Fanciful Quotations

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
Edgar Allan Poe

I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.
Patti Smith

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

Fanciful Translations

fanciful in German is phantasiereich
fanciful in Norwegian is fantasifull
fanciful in Spanish is imaginativo
fanciful in Swedish is nyckfull, fantasi, romantisk


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