Word Meanings - FANCIFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary projects. 2. Conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a fanciful

Additional info about word: FANCIFUL

1. Full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary projects. 2. Conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a fanciful scheme; a fanciful theory. 3. Curiously shaped or constructed; as, she wore a fanciful headdress. Gather up all fancifullest shells. Keats. Syn. -- Imaginative; ideal; visionary; capricious; chimerical; whimsical; fantastical; wild. -- 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. -- Fan"ci*ful*ly, adv. -Fan"ci*ful*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FANCIFUL)

• Cabalistic
• Mystic
• symbolical
• fanciful
• occult
• Capricious
• Wayward
• uncertain
• freakish
• fitful
• fickle
• changeful
• whimsical
• humorsome
• inconstant
• crotchety
• Dreamy
• Fanciful
• visionary
• speculative
• abstracted
• absent
• foggy
• Fickle
• capricious
• irresolute
• changeable
• vacillating
• mutable
• unreliable
• veering
• shifting
• variable
• restless
• unstable
• Fitful
• impulsive
• desultory
• unequal
• irregular

Related words: (words related to FANCIFUL)

• OCCULTISM
  A certain Oriental system of theosophy. A. P. Sinnett.
• VACILLATING
  Inclined to fluctuate; wavering. Tennyson. -- Vac"il*la`ting*ly, adv.
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• OCCULT
  Hidden from the eye or the understanding; inviable; secret; concealed; unknown. It is of an occult kind, and is so insensible in its advances as to escape observation. I. Taylor. Occult line , a line drawn as a part of the construction of a figure
• VISIONARY
  1. Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions. The visionary hour When musing midnight reigns. Thomson. 2. Affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination; given
• UNEQUALABLE
  Not capable of being equaled or paralleled. Boyle.
• CAPRICIOUS
  Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable. "Capricious poet." Shak. "Capricious humor." Hugh Miller. A capricious partiality to the Romish practices. Hallam. Syn. -- Freakish; whimsical; fanciful;
• CHANGEFUL
  Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.
• MUTABLE
  1. Capable of alteration; subject to change; changeable in form, qualities, or nature. Things of the most accidental and mutable nature. South. 2. Changeable; inconstant; unsettled; unstable; fickle. "Most mutable wishes." Byron. Syn.
• SHIFT
  divide; akin to LG. & D. schiften to divide, distinguish, part Icel. skipta to divide, to part, to shift, to change, Dan skifte, Sw. skifta, and probably to Icel. skifa to cut into slices, as n., a 1. To divide; to distribute; to apportion. To
• ABSTRACTION
  The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or
• OCCULTED
  Concealed by the intervention of some other heavenly body, as a star by the moon. (more info) 1. Hidden; secret. Shak.
• ABSENTATION
  The act of absenting one's self. Sir W. Hamilton.
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• IMPULSIVELY
  In an impulsive manner.
• ABSTRACTEDLY
  In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind.
• ABSENTEEISM
  The state or practice of an absentee; esp. the practice of absenting one's self from the country or district where one's estate is situated.
• VACILLATION
  1. The act of vacillating; a moving one way and the other; a wavering. His vacillations, or an alternation of knowledge and doubt. Jer. Taylor.
• UNEQUALNESS
  The quality or state of being unequal; inequality; unevenness. Jer. Taylor.
• ABSENTEE
  One who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee. Macaulay.
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• AWAYWARD
  Turned away; away. Chaucer.
• PROVISIONARY
  Provisional. Burke.
• CRESTLESS
  Without a crest or escutcheon; of low birth. "Crestless yeomen." Shak.
• UNSHIFTABLE
  1. That may 2. Shiftless; helpless.