Fanciful Definition

fănsĭ-fəl
adjective
Full of fancy; indulging in fancies; imaginative in a playful way; whimsical.
Webster's New World
Created in the fancy; imaginary; not real.
A fanciful tale.
Webster's New World
Showing fancy in construction or design; quaint; odd.
Fanciful costumes.
Webster's New World
The definition of fanciful is something that is imaginary in a fun way, or is something designed to be for decoration, rather than practical.
If you are a terrible singer but harbor a belief that some day you will be an opera star, this is an example of a fanciful dream.
Embellishments added to a dress that serve no purpose other than decoration are an example of something that would be described as fanciful.
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Origin of Fanciful

  • fancy +‎ -ful

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Fanciful Sentence Examples

  • It was too fanciful to look so far ahead when he needed to determine how to prevent his people from starving.

  • He held that the Hebrew must be read without points, and his interpretation rested largely on fanciful symbolism.

  • Majolica is known for its fanciful, and colorful, detailed forms.

  • A fanciful explanation of his lameness is that it alludes to the elegiac couplet, one verse of which is shorter than the other.

  • As a historian, however, some of his speculations have been considered fanciful.

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Words Starting With

FFAFAN

Words Ending With

LULFUL

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Words Starting With F and Ending With L

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