Fān'ci-ful, a.
a. [See FANCY.]
Sense 1. Full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary projects.
Sense 2. Dictated by fancy; abounding in wild images; as, a fanciful scheme; a fanciful theory.
Synonyms—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 violates all propriety as well as regularity; 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 support in reason or truth; fantastical schemes or systems are made up of oddly-assorted fancies, often of the most whimsical kind; visionary expectations are those which can never be realized in fact.