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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "fanciful" in a sentence

    fanciful example sentences

    fanciful


    1. once upon a time is a little fanciful


    2. or am I being fanciful? I know I’m only on my own for a short time, that Dave will be back in a couple of days and, with a bit of luck, we might build something lasting


    3. A brook carved fanciful shapes into the rock, and he was admiring it from it’s mossy bank when he came to a thick plank spanning it


    4. There was a lot of ornamental detail on most houses, porch rails were fanciful twists of thick vine, with clumps of leaves, large maroon flowers and long string beans


    5. They rode that to the southern end of the Eastern Slope, then walked down Gense Spiral and reached a streetcar that ran out of the mountain thru the Eastern Breech and out onto a route where streetcar, cargo and foot traffic converged into a great avenue that leapt out of the mountain on a fanciful crystal bridge thirty five stories above the inner branch of the Imoneea river


    6. amused at the juxtaposition of profane, fanciful beasts


    7. What wasn't the glowing ceiling panel was a fanciful creation of living stalactite, the bedposts were columns of it


    8. The floor of the main room was furnished with comfortable fur standcushions and end tables topping fanciful stalagmites growing out of the floor


    9. But he trusted Penelope, and knew she was not one to concoct such fanciful tales


    10. Told me fanciful tales of having no money, no work and no prospects

    11. It's not a fanciful


    12. which he dismissed as fanciful


    13. Without it, Christianity is a chimera, a fanciful notion


    14. It might be culturally closer to Arizona, where much of the white population directs their still deep racism at Natives rather than invents fanciful stories of an Indian in the family as southerners do


    15. For the rest of the journey home she worked on a fanciful notion that the man was nothing more than a ghost and their meeting had been her first experience of a supernatural event


    16. (you) is also cast in a fanciful way


    17. There is nothing fanciful about it


    18. But he will never be fanciful and disorderly


    19. nor its desires and fears, nor are you the mind with its fanciful


    20. Nonetheless, a glance at its initial days as an English colony reveals perhaps a fanciful history in its development as a whole, but extraneous and outlandish on occasions

    21. Revolution, however, made things that had once been taken fanciful suddenly seem possible


    22. Who was this fanciful upstart who thought to tell them? Even though he was Jacob’s favorite, he had not yet earned their respect


    23. The mighty trees around them were decorated on the lower twenty meters of their trunks with white and gold flowers, and ribbons placed in fanciful designs, about four white ribbons to every gold one


    24. around on these fanciful streets and looked at all of the


    25. The mighty trees around them were decorated on the lower sixty feet of their trunks with white and gold flowers, and ribbons placed in fanciful designs, about four white ribbons to every gold one


    26. Horst had advanced to a new VW Beetle with a split oval rear window while Peter now owned a brand new bicycle which he had earned by producing in-store advertising for various stores and transforming plain bars into fanciful African kraals with secluded hideaways


    27. The ceilings were carved plaster and featured sea creatures from real to fanciful


    28. There is no singular aspect of a dream or its nature, but they can all be discerned if you begin to recollect them and use them, and exercise your mind so that they are seen as important, not something of fanciful whimsy which you'll have no interest in after 45 minutes of being awake and beginning to engage in your daily activities


    29. As fate would have it, Stallman's fanciful GNU


    30. From it the nocturnal itinerary of the colonel from the dawn he left Macondo at the head of twenty-one men on his way to a fanciful rebellion until he returned for the last time wrapped in a blanket stiff with blood could have been reconstructed

    31. After the accident when she received her gift of vision, the account had a different appeal to her senses as a result of her newly created perspective; no longer was the Grey Man the object of mere fanciful ghost stories intended to scare children and visitors


    32. spherical curvature since it’s infinite and could have nothing existing outside its fanciful


    33. said flatly as he handed Jed a fanciful quill pen


    34. Of course, Frank at first thought the tale fanciful at best, but the level of detail was astounding and he was prone to believe the strange little man with the haggard, staring eyes and his fervent avowals that something had happened


    35. Hitler’s somewhat fanciful scheme was to continue the war in the hope that Churchill’s grand, if somewhat fragile alliance, consisting of Great Britain, the USA, and the USSR, would ultimately collapse


    36. “You have a very fanciful imagination,” Higgins said with near contempt


    37. Such was the fanciful imagination of early


    38. And his fanciful spirits were growing more complex and powerful


    39. might be somebody’s toys?” Hillary rejected the fanciful explanation


    40. Alicia’s story about the sect was not entirely fanciful, however imaginative her general interest in the

    41. What a fanciful notion! Don’t all peoples have their own idiosyncrasies? And yet, all are prone to ridicule others for their peculiar beliefs


    42. This miraculous incident, more fantastic than the one at the Battle of Badr, would illustrate the Arab penchant for the fanciful ‘birds of war’, much before the Quran gave them authenticity with its scriptural sanction


    43. Just as easily as I’ve described in my fanciful ransom scenario, these people could dictate similar terms to a world held captive by their own awesome power to destroy it


    44. unbounded, all inclusive love for the other? The fanciful


    45. Later, they stop caring about people and what they say, and so they leave the practice of profitable work, as they are made to feel covetous of imaginary treasures and fanciful possessions through their desire (for example, they are told things such as: you don’t need to work, because Al’lah is the Provider)


    46. That smiling portrait of her in my head was probably fanciful thinking


    47. If I hadn’t lived it, I’d consider it a fanciful farce


    48. “You think we'll manage to get enough to invest in a ship?” said Johnny, having missed Mary's fanciful tone


    49. It was senseless, illogical, idiotic, fanciful


    50. Forget about the fanciful corrupt mathematics that proves nothing when the cosmos does not confirm











































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    Synonyms for "fanciful"

    fanciful notional imaginary

    "fanciful" definitions

    indulging in or influenced by fancy


    not based on fact; existing only in the imagination


    having a curiously intricate quality