fanciful 音标拼音: [f'ænsɪfəl]
a . 奇怪的,稀奇的,想像的
奇怪的,稀奇的,想像的
fanciful adj 1 :
indulging in or influenced by fancy ; "
a fanciful mind ";
"
all the notional vagaries of childhood " [
synonym :
{
fanciful }, {
notional }]
2 :
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 " [
synonym :
{
fanciful }, {
imaginary }, {
notional }]
3 :
having a curiously intricate quality ; "
a fanciful pattern with intertwined vines and flowers "
Fanciful \
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a .
1 .
Full of fancy ;
guided by fancy ,
rather than by reason and experience ;
whimsical ;
as ,
a fanciful man forms visionary projects .
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2 .
Conceived in the fancy ;
not consistent with facts or reason ;
abounding in ideal qualities or figures ;
as ,
a fanciful scheme ;
a fanciful theory .
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3 .
Curiously shaped or constructed ;
as ,
she wore a fanciful headdress .
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Gather up all fancifullest shells . --
Keats .
Syn :
Imaginative ;
ideal ;
visionary ;
capricious ;
chimerical ;
whimsical ;
fantastical ;
wild .
Usage : {
Fanciful }, {
Fantastical }, {
Visionary }.
We speak of that as fanciful which is irregular in taste and judgment ;
we speak of it as fantastical when it becomes grotesque and extravagant as well as irregular ;
we speak of it as visionary when it is wholly unfounded in the nature of things .
Fanciful notions are the product of a heated fancy ,
without any tems are made up of oddly assorted fancies ,
aften of the most whimsical kind ;
visionary expectations are those which can never be realized in fact . --
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adv . -{
Fan "
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n .
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109 Moby Thesaurus words for "
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
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FANCIFUL Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster imaginary, fanciful, visionary, fantastic, chimerical, quixotic mean unreal or unbelievable imaginary applies to something which is fictitious and purely the product of one's imagination
FANCIFUL Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com Fanciful definition: characterized by or showing fancy; capricious or whimsical in appearance See examples of FANCIFUL used in a sentence
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FANCIFUL definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary If you describe an idea as fanciful, you disapprove of it because you think it comes from someone's imagination, and is therefore unrealistic or unlikely to be true
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fanciful - Wiktionary, the free dictionary fanciful (comparative more fanciful, superlative most fanciful) Imaginative or fantastic; ignoring reality near synonyms Near-synonyms: conceptual, fancied, ideal, notional It was fanciful to suppose that all he had to do would be to stride into a top law firm and he would be hired on the spot
Fanciful - Definition, Meaning Synonyms | Vocabulary. com Turn fanciful around and you get "full of fancy," which gives you the gist of the meaning The adjective refers to something not quite real, usually something with a whimsical or even dreamlike quality
FANCIFUL Synonyms: 122 Similar and Opposite Words - Merriam-Webster Some common synonyms of fanciful are chimerical, fantastic, imaginary, quixotic, and visionary While all these words mean "unreal or unbelievable," fanciful suggests the free play of the imagination
fanciful, adj. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary Factsheet What does the adjective fanciful mean? There are three meanings listed in OED's entry for the adjective fanciful See ‘Meaning use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence