What is the meaning of fanciful?

adjective

  • Indulging in or influenced by fancy.
    • usage: "a fanciful mind"; "all the notional vagaries of childhood"
  • Not based on fact; unreal.
    • usage: "the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties- F. D. Roosevelt; "a small child's imaginary friends"; "to create a notional world for oneself"
  • Having a curiously intricate quality.
    • usage: "a fanciful pattern with intertwined vines and flowers"
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