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Fanciful

adjective

Indulging in or influenced by fancy. Synonym: notional. "All the notional vagaries of childhood"

Not based on fact; unreal. Synonyms: imaginary, notional. "A small child's imaginary friends" , "To create a notional world for oneself"

Having a curiously intricate quality.

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"Fanciful" Quotes from Famous Books

... which my ardent fancy invested them, will long outlive the memory of the hardships I have endured among them, the snow-storms that have pelted me on their summits, and the rains that have drenched me in their valleys. Fanciful perhaps, but ...

— Tent Life in Siberia • George Kennan

... 8, and Lesbros, p. 27. Houssaye, pp. 100-106, relates a pathetic and perhaps wholly fanciful romance, in which Guillaume de Bez and Mlle. Marivaux were the chief actors; but, contrary to the custom of Marivaux's comedies, love did not triumph; the worldly mother married her son unhappily, and the blind father, who thought that he could read so well ...

— A Selection from the Comedies of Marivaux • Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux

... is the name given by the early Spaniards to this range, meaning both mouse and squirrel. It had its origin either in the fact that one of its several peaks bore a fanciful resemblance to a squirrel, or because of the immense numbers of that little rodent always to be ...

— The Old Santa Fe Trail - The Story of a Great Highway • Henry Inman

... fancy, miss," said Eliza. "I always was fanciful from a child dreaming of the pearly gates and them little angels with nothing on only their heads and wings so cheap to dress, I always think, ...

— The Enchanted Castle • E. Nesbit

... some of the blessings held out to the savage by civilization, and they are only some of them. The picture is neither fanciful nor overdrawn; there is no trait in it that I have not personally witnessed, or that might not have been enlarged upon; and there are often other circumstances of greater injury and aggression, which, if dwelt upon, would have ...

— Journals Of Expeditions Of Discovery Into Central • Edward John Eyre

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