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# fanciful

adjective (fanciful, more fanciful, most fanciful)

«fanciful» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Fanciful means full of imagination, with ideas that are not based on fact or proof. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fanciful/#m1)
2. Fanciful can mean odd, unreal or made up. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fanciful/#m2)

### In the lessons

a fanciful idea or conclusion is clever and imaginative but not proved; a cat may call a person fanciful for dreaming

### Examples

- You have a fanciful idea about dragons. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fanciful/#x1)
- The cat said I was fanciful. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fanciful/#x2)
- The story has a fanciful picture of a flying castle. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fanciful/#x3)
- That is a fanciful guess; we need proof. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fanciful/#x4)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «fanciful» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fanciful/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«fanciful» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/fanciful.html) on Mova free.