| slovo | definícia |
fanciful
(encz) | fanciful,bizarní adj: PetrV |
fanciful
(encz) | fanciful,imaginární adj: PetrV |
fanciful
(encz) | fanciful,nereálný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
fanciful
(encz) | fanciful,podivný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
fanciful
(encz) | fanciful,vymyšlený adj: PetrV |
Fanciful
(gcide) | 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.
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2. Conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or
reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a
fanciful scheme; a fanciful theory.
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3. Curiously shaped or constructed; as, she wore a fanciful
headdress.
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Gather up all fancifullest shells. --Keats.
Syn: Imaginative; ideal; visionary; capricious; chimerical;
whimsical; fantastical; wild.
Usage: 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.
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fanciful
(wn) | fanciful
adj 1: indulging in or influenced by fancy; "a fanciful mind";
"all the notional vagaries of childhood" [syn:
fanciful, notional]
2: not based on fact; unreal; "the falsehood about some fanciful
secret treaties"- F.D.Roosevelt; "a small child's imaginary
friends"; "to create a notional world for oneself" [syn:
fanciful, imaginary, notional]
3: having a curiously intricate quality; "a fanciful pattern
with intertwined vines and flowers" |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
fancifully
(encz) | fancifully,fiktivně adv: Zdeněk Brožfancifully,smyšleně adv: Zdeněk Brož |
fancifulness
(encz) | fancifulness,fanatičnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
Fanciful
(gcide) | 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.
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2. Conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or
reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a
fanciful scheme; a fanciful theory.
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3. Curiously shaped or constructed; as, she wore a fanciful
headdress.
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Gather up all fancifullest shells. --Keats.
Syn: Imaginative; ideal; visionary; capricious; chimerical;
whimsical; fantastical; wild.
Usage: 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.
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Fancifully
(gcide) | 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.
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2. Conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or
reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a
fanciful scheme; a fanciful theory.
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3. Curiously shaped or constructed; as, she wore a fanciful
headdress.
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Gather up all fancifullest shells. --Keats.
Syn: Imaginative; ideal; visionary; capricious; chimerical;
whimsical; fantastical; wild.
Usage: 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.
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Fancifulness
(gcide) | 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.
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2. Conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or
reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a
fanciful scheme; a fanciful theory.
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3. Curiously shaped or constructed; as, she wore a fanciful
headdress.
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Gather up all fancifullest shells. --Keats.
Syn: Imaginative; ideal; visionary; capricious; chimerical;
whimsical; fantastical; wild.
Usage: 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.
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fancifully
(wn) | fancifully
adv 1: in a fanciful manner; "the Christmas tree was fancifully
decorated" [syn: fancifully, whimsically] |
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