Definition of “fanciful”

Blackmail Molly thinks, but then she aye was a mite fanciful.

But as Lovelock neatly argues in his own essay, even in her finery Gaia was never any more fanciful than her arch foe, the selfish gene.

Changelings exist in folklore, but the fanciful tales could be simplistic, early accounts of autism.

For years, Mr Ryan has dined out on tales of a life too fanciful even for Hollywood.

I found embarrassingly fanciful the analogy of men with chafing horses.

In my dictionary the definition of this word reads, ``Quaint, grotesque, extremely fanciful , wild.

It's one of the most exciting scenes to see an early-morning fairground with wagons and tents and fanciful structures.

The inglenook, like the kitchen, was recent, Moira's fanciful restoration of a probably imaginary early feature.

There were other fanciful aids, other ways of impressing on children his unconscious contempt for the world of ideas.