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fanciful

adj
/ˈfænsɪfl̩/

Etymology

From fancy + -ful.

  1. derived from *bʰh₂nyéti✻
  2. derived from φαντασία
  3. derived from phantasia
  4. derived from fantasia
  5. derived from fantasie
  6. derived from fansy
  7. suffixed as fanciful — “fancy + ful”

Definitions

  1. Imaginative or fantastic

    Imaginative or fantastic; ignoring reality.

    • Near-synonyms: conceptual, fancied, ideal, notional
    • It was fanciful to suppose that all he had to do would be to stride into a top law firm and he would be hired on the spot.
    • Mr. Butler, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain,” treats his newest novelistic conceit as an occasion to toss every possible ingredient into a fanciful hellscape and then let these elements run wild.

  2. Unreal or imagined.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at fanciful. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01fanciful02imagined03mind04aware05conscious06alert07alarm08attention09romantic

A definitional loop anchored at fanciful. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at fanciful

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA