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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.



Fan"ci*less (?), a. Having no
fancy; without ideas or imagination.
[R.]


A pert or bluff important wight,

Whose brain is fanciless, whose blood is white.

Armstrong.


Fan"cy (?), n.; pl.
Fancies (#). [Contr. fr. fantasy, OF.
fantasie, fantaisie, F. fantaisie, L.


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