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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 \ Fan" ci* ful\, a. 1. Full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary projects. [ 1913 Webster] 2. 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] 3. Curiously shaped or constructed; as, she wore a fanciful headdress. [ 1913 Webster] 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. -- { Fan" ci* ful* ly}, adv. -{ Fan" ci* ful* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 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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