fanciful

/'fænsiful/

Thân thiện

A child draws a fanciful creature with wings and horns.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Imaginative or whimsical in nature: Characterized by or showing a playful, inventive, or unusual quality, often departing from reality or practicality.
   • Not based on fact; unreal: Existing only in the imagination; conceived or created without a basis in reality.
   • Intricately or elaborately designed: Having a curious, decorative, and often intricate quality.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • The author is known for her fanciful stories about talking animals.
  • He dismissed the idea as a fanciful notion with no scientific basis.
  • The building's roof was decorated with fanciful gargoyles and carvings.

Advanced Usage

• "fanciful idea/notion": An idea that is imaginative but unrealistic or speculative.
  • His plan to build a city on Mars seemed like a fanciful idea at the time.
• "fanciful tale/story": A narrative that is invented and full of imaginative elements.
  • She entertained the children with a fanciful tale of a dragon who loved tea.

Variants and Related Words

• Fancy (noun/verb): The faculty of imagination; to imagine or take a liking to.
  • Children are full of fancy.
• Fancifully (adverb): In a fanciful manner.
  • The room was fancifully decorated.
• Fancifulness (noun): The quality of being fanciful.
  • The fancifulness of her artwork is charming.

Synonyms

• Whimsical: Playfully quaint or fanciful.
• Imaginary: Existing only in the imagination.
• Fantastical: Strange and wonderful, like something from a fantasy.
• Capricious: Given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior (shares the sense of unpredictability).

Antonyms

• Realistic: Having a sensible and practical idea of what can be achieved.
• Practical: Concerned with the actual doing or use of something.
• Factual: Concerned with what is actually the case.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• Flight of fancy: An idea or story that is very imaginative and not realistic.
  • His theory was dismissed as a mere flight of fancy.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. having a curiously intricate quality
   • a fanciful pattern with intertwined vines and flowers
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
3. indulging in or influenced by fancy
   • a fanciful mind
   • all the notional vagaries of childhood

Từ đồng nghĩa

• imaginary
• notional