Fanciful is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FANCIFUL in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• indulging in fancies
• over-imaginative and unrealistic
• existing only in the imagination
• highly ornamental or imaginative in design
• not based on fact
• 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.
• indulging in or influenced by fancy
• not based on fact; unreal
• having a curiously intricate quality

Words related to FANCIFUL

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How to use FANCIFUL in a sentence

• Roumelia was the name Jack had given the rose-lands near the stream, in fanciful allusion to the Turkish province of flowers.
• Proceed as above, by frying some slices of bread cut in any fanciful shape.
• The only work on the subject that has the smallest pretensions to system, and that is fanciful, involved, irregular, abrupt, and obscure, is PURCHAS HIS PILGRIMS.
• The hull is painted in a fanciful style, generally blue, red, green and white, with bright red masts.
• Now, this is simply a large piece of white coral, but all around and about are fanciful shapes, nearly as large as the one described.
• Hideous statues and fanciful figures stand under the halls, some of which are painted in bright red colours.
• Their nature may best be understood by means of a fanciful analogy.
• His fanciful philosophical suggestions have never been of the slightest practical use.
• Following so aptly the fanciful creation of his thought, the apparition had acquired peculiar significance.
• Our contracted space will not allow our indulging in fanciful research, nor would it benefit our readers if we did so.
• But Taoism is also the name commonly given not only to this fanciful church but also to the philosophic ideas expounded in the Tao-te-ching and in the works of Chuang-tzu.
• A platform at the rear may be occupied by musicians in fanciful costume.
• Many fanciful accounts have been written of voyages to the moon, of which the following story by Edgar Allan Poe is among the best.
• Certainly we are not in danger of being led into any profound or fanciful speculations by the ignorant painters of the later schools of art.
• He flew over a garden! But witnesses in such trials were fanciful people.
• This is not a fanciful story, but was told to us by a man who knew the superintendent, Joe Lathrop, Robinson, Terrence Mulvaney, and Tim Murphy.
• Of what significance in the life of an adult is fanciful imagery? 10.
• Fornander, chief of them, are severe with Captain Cook on account of his alleged greed, not paying enough for the red feathers woven into fanciful forms.
• He worked by the conventional rules of astrology, and was quite prepared to take fees for so doing, although he had very little faith in them, preferring his own fanciful ideas.
• Though the feudal hierarchy was originally based on conquest or domestic subjection, it came to have a fanciful or chivalrous or political force.
• Though full of fanciful ideas, Van Helmont had the experimental spirit and was the first chemist to discover the diversity of gases.
• He was busied in these fanciful imaginings, when suddenly over that extended prospect the faint, distant tolling of a bell rang sadly out and died.
• Rumor, with her thousand tongues, had been busy, and, as is not unusual on such occasions, embellished the story with innumerable fanciful ornaments.

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