Definition of fanciful
1
: marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience
a fanciful person a fanciful tale of a monster in the woods
2
: existing in fancy (see fancy entry 2) only
a fanciful notion the falsehoods about some fanciful secret treaties— F. D. Roosevelt
3
: marked by or as if by fancy or whim
gave their children fanciful names
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The first known use of fanciful was circa 1627
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