English-Thai Dictionary

fanciful

ADJ เพ้อฝัน  ซึ่ง นึกฝัน  จินตนาการ  imaginary fictitious real por-fan

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FANCIFUL

a.[See Fancy. ] 1. Guided by the imagination, rather than by reason and experience; subject to the influence of fancy; whimsical; applied to persons. A fanciful man forms visionary projects.
2. Dictated by the imagination; full of wild images; chimerical; whimsical; ideal; visionary; applied to things; as a fanciful scheme; a fanciful theory.

 

FANCIFULLY

adv. 1. In a fanciful manner; wildly; whimsically.
2. According to fancy.

 

FANCIFULNESS

n. 1. The quality of being fanciful, or influenced by the imagination, rather than by reason and experience; the habit of following fancy; applied to persons.
2. The quality of being dictated by imagination; applied to things.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

FANCIFUL

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.

 

2. Conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a fanciful scheme; a fanciful theory.

 

3. Curiously shaped or constructed; as, she wore a fanciful headdress. Gather up all fancifullest shells. Keats.

 

Syn. -- 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 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.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

fanciful

fan ci ful |ˈfansəfəl ˈfænsɪfəl | ▶adjective (of a person or their thoughts and ideas ) overimaginative and unrealistic: a fanciful story about a pot of gold. • existing only in the imagination or fancy: the Moon Maiden is one of a number of fanciful lunar inhabitants. • designed to be exotically ornamental rather than practical: fanciful bonnets. DERIVATIVES fan ci ful ly |-f (ə )lē |adverb, fan ci ful ness noun

 

Oxford Dictionary

fanciful

fan ¦ci |ful |ˈfansɪfʊl, -f (ə )l | ▶adjective 1 over-imaginative and unrealistic: ever more fanciful proposals were raised. • existing only in the imagination: fanciful lunar inhabitants. 2 highly ornamental or imaginative in design: a fanciful Art Nouveau bar. DERIVATIVES fancifully adverb, fancifulness noun

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

fanciful

fanciful adjective 1 a fanciful story: fantastic, far-fetched, unbelievable, extravagant; ridiculous, absurd, preposterous; imaginary, made-up, make-believe, mythical, fabulous; informal tall, hard to swallow. ANTONYMS literal. 2 a fanciful girl: imaginative, inventive; whimsical, impractical, dreamy, quixotic; out of touch with reality, in a world of one's own. ANTONYMS down-to-earth. 3 a fanciful building: ornate, exotic, fancy, imaginative, extravagant, fantastic; curious, bizarre, eccentric, unusual. ANTONYMS practical.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

fanciful

fanciful adjective 1 Maria is a fanciful girl: imaginative, inventive; whimsical, impractical, capricious, flighty, dreamy, daydreaming, quixotic, chimerical, head in the clouds, out of touch with reality, in a world of one's own; archaic visionary. ANTONYMS down-to-earth. 2 some of these stories were pretty fanciful: fantastic, extravagant, far-fetched, romantic, unbelievable, ridiculous, absurd, preposterous; imaginary, fancied, unreal, illusory, made-up, make-believe; mythical, fabulous, legendary, fairy tale; informal far out, tall, crackpot, cock and bull, hard to swallow /take. ANTONYMS literal. 3 the fanciful cornices and turrets of an imperial palace: ornate, exotic, imaginative, creative, fancy; curious, odd, bizarre, strange, eccentric, unusual, original; extravagant, fantastic, grotesque, gothic, baroque. ANTONYMS practical.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

fanciful

fan ci ful /fǽnsɪf (ə )l /形容詞 1 ｟否定的に ｠空想的な, 気まぐれな .2 〈物の外見 形 デザインが 〉珍しい ; 凝った .3 想像上の, 架空の .～ly 副詞 ～ness 名詞