fanciful

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: fan=ci=ful

CIDE DICTIONARY

fanciful, a. 

•  Full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary projects.  [1913 Webster]
•  Conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a fanciful scheme; a fanciful theory.  [1913 Webster]
•  Curiously shaped or constructed; as, she wore a fanciful headdress.  [1913 Webster]

  "Gather up all fancifullest shells."

Syn. -- Imaginative; ideal; visionary; capricious; chimerical; whimsical; fantastical; wild.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

fanciful, adj.
1 existing only in the imagination or fancy.
2 indulging in fancies; whimsical, capricious.
3 fantastically designed, ornamented, etc.; odd-looking.

Derivative

fancifully adv. fancifulness n.

THESAURUS

fanciful

Gothic, absurd, air-built, airy, antic, apocryphal, arbitrary, baroque, bizarre, brain-born, capricious, changeable, chimerical, cloud-built, conceptual, cranky, crotchety, curious, dream-built, dreamlike, ethereal, extravagant, fabulous, false, fancied, fancy-born, fancy-built, fancy-woven, fantasied, fantasque, fantastic, fatuitous, fatuous, fickle, fictional, fictitious, fictive, flaky, florid, freakish, gaseous, gossamery, grotesque, harebrained, humorsome, ideal, ideational, ideological, illusory, imaginary, imaginative, imagined, immaterial, impossible, impulsive, incomprehensible, inconceivable, inconstant, incredible, kinky, legendary, maggoty, make-believe, merely nominal, moody, motiveless, mythical, not real, notional, odd, original, outlandish, peculiar, petulant, phantomlike, preposterous, quirky, rarefied, rococo, shadowy, spirituous, subtile, subtle, supposititious, temperamental, tenuous, theoretical, unaccountable, unactual, unbelievable, unexpected, unimaginable, unreal, unrealistic, unreasonable, unrestrained, unsubstantial, unusual, vagarious, vagrant, vaporous, variable, visionary, wanton, wayward, whimsical, wild, windy, wrong

ROGET THESAURUS

fanciful

Caprice

N caprice, fancy, humor, whim, whimsy, whimsey, whimwham, crotchet, capriccio, quirk, freak, maggot, fad, vagary, prank, fit, flimflam, escapade, boutade, wild-goose chase, capriciousness, kink, capricious, erratic, eccentric, fitful, hysterical, full of whims, maggoty, inconsistent, fanciful, fantastic, whimsical, crotchety, kinky, particular, humorsome, freakish, skittish, wanton, wayward, contrary, captious, arbitrary, unconformable, penny wise and pound foolish, fickle, frivolous, sleeveless, giddy, volatile, by fits and starts, without rhyme or reason, nil fuit unquain sic inipar sibi, the deuce is in him.

Ridiculousness

N ridiculousness, comicality, oddity, extravagance, drollery, farce, comedy, burlesque, buffoonery, frippery, doggerel verses, absurdity, bombast, anticlimax, bathos, eccentricity, monstrosity, laughingstock, ridiculous, ludicrous, comical, droll, funny, laughable, pour rire, grotesque, farcical, odd, whimsical, whimsical as a dancing bear, fanciful, fantastic, queer, rum, quizzical, quaint, bizarre, screaming, eccentric, strange, outlandish, out of the way, baroque, weird, awkward, extravagant, outre, monstrous, preposterous, bombastic, inflated, stilted, burlesque, mock heroic, drollish, seriocomic, tragicomic, gimcrack, contemptible, doggerel, ironical, risible, risum teneatis amici, rideret Heraclitus, du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas.

Imagination

N imagination, originality, invention, fancy, inspiration, verve, warm imagination, heated imagination, excited imagination, sanguine imagination, ardent imagination, fiery imagination, boiling imagination, wild imagination, bold imagination, daring imagination, playful imagination, lively imagination, fertile imagination, fancy, mind's eye, such stuff as dreams are made of, ideality, idealism, romanticism, utopianism, castle-building, dreaming, phrensy, frenzy, ecstasy, extasy, calenture, reverie, trance, day dream, golden dream, somnambulism, conception, Vorstellung, excogitation, a fine frenzy, cloudland, dreamland, flight of fancy, fumes of fancy, thick coming fancies, creation of the brain, coinage of the brain, imagery, conceit, maggot, figment, myth, dream, vision, shadow, chimera, phantasm, phantasy, fantasy, fancy, whim, whimsey, whimsy, vagary, rhapsody, romance, gest, geste, extravaganza, air drawn dagger, bugbear, nightmare, flying Dutchman, great sea serpent, man in the moon, castle in the air, pipe dream, pie-in-the-sky, chateau en Espagne, Utopia, Atlantis, happy valley, millennium, fairyland, land of Prester John, kindgom of Micomicon, work of fiction, Arabian nights, le pot au lait, dream of Alnashar, illusion, phantom, Fata Morgana, vapor, stretch of the imagination, mythogenesis, idealist, romanticist, visionary, mopus, romancer, dreamer, somnambulist, rhapsodist, castle-buildier, fanciful projector, imagined, ben trovato, air drawn, airbuilt, imagining, imaginative, original, inventive, creative, fertile, romantic, high flown, flighty, extravagant, fanatic, enthusiastic, unrealistic, Utopian, Quixotic, ideal, unreal, in the clouds, in nubibus, unsubsantial, illusory, fabulous, legendary, mythical, mythic, mythological, chimerical, imaginary, visionary, notional, fancy, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, whimsical, fairy, fairy-like, gestic, a change came o'er the spirit of my dream, aegri somnia vana, dolphinum appingit sylvis in fluctibus aprum, fancy light from fancy caught, imagination rules the world, l'imagination gallope, le jugement ne va que le pas, musaeo contingens cuncta lepore, tous songes sont mensonges, Wahrheil und Dichtung, DIVISION II COMMUNICATION OF IDEAS.