Word Finder - fanciful

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Imaginative or fantastic.

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Unreal or imagined.

It was too fanciful to look so far ahead when he needed to determine how to prevent his people from starving.

Majolica is known for its fanciful, and colorful, detailed forms.

He held that the Hebrew must be read without points, and his interpretation rested largely on fanciful symbolism.

As a historian, however, some of his speculations have been considered fanciful.

Free passes to Disney might sound as fanciful as a Disney cartoon, but they do exist.

Sarrazin, Beowulf-studien (1888), which advocates the strange theory that Beowulf is a translation by Cynewulf of a poem by the Danish singer Starkadr, contains, amid much that is fanciful, not a little that deserves careful consideration.

This colorful print gives a rather fanciful representation of the rowing barge, which is still displayed in the Royal Naval Museum at Portsmouth.

Soon Barrie becomes a frequent playmate to the children, using the boys ' imagination to take them on fanciful adventures.

It's a bag so vivid and fanciful, it's likely to turn heads wherever it goes.

A fanciful explanation of his lameness is that it alludes to the elegiac couplet, one verse of which is shorter than the other.

The variation may have been one of local use, either in Judea or in Babylonia; or the author may have had some fanciful reason for the transposition, such as, for example, that Pe following Samech (mo) might suggest the word nmo, " Wail ye!

These responses are not merely fanciful, music here is a useful metaphor.

The results of the enterprise of Mehemet Ali and Jumel in Egypt prove such an idea to be not altogether fanciful, and warn us also against hastily arguing that the plan is too artificial to succeed on a large scale.

But his frequent use of antithesis and paradox, the varied and fanciful imagery by which he realizes religious emotion, though they are indeed in accordance with the poetical conventions of his time, are also the unconstrained expression of an ardent and concentrated imagination.

For extra accessorizing, enhance your funky color with fanciful feathers.

Aside from using multiple sheets of paper to create fanciful objects, all other rules of traditional origami are adhered to with 3D origami.

Betsey Johnson hobo bags are every bit as fanciful as the famous designer's runway fashion collections, but are still versatile enough for everyday use.

This fanciful notion, if repeated often enough, leaves conventional scientists scratching their heads and mistrusting all paranormal investigations.

With features like these, Asian dragon tattoos of faces can be very fanciful.

In 1825 an unknown sculptor created a memorial to a firefighter and added a fanciful "eagle" to the figure's helmet.

There is no evidence that this artificial reckoning according to the number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet was ever much more than a fanciful suggestion.

The name, like the whole story, may have been of Spanish or Indian origin, or it may have been purely fanciful.'

It has even been said to sleep on the wing, and Moore alludes to this fanciful "cloudrocked slumbering" in his Fire Worshippers.

But the memory of the high-handed proceedings of Puritan rulers was still too recent to allow Englishmen to run the risk of a reimposition of their yoke, and this feeling, fanciful as it was, was sufficient to keep the Test Act in force for years to come.

The first volume published of his posthumous works was the exquisite and splendid Thedtre en liberte, a sequence if not a symphony of seven poems in dramatic form, tragic or comic or fanciful eclogues, incomparable with the work of any other man but the author of The Tempest and The Winter's Tale in combination and alternation of gayer and of graver harmonies.

The Harz was the last stronghold of paganism in Germany, and to that fact are due the legends, in which no district is richer, and the fanciful names given by the people to peculiar objects and appearances of nature.

The clothing, when not a caricature of European dress, is of the scantiest, and the waggling tags in which the loin-cloths are tied behind early gave rise to fanciful stories that the inhabitants were naked and tailed.

The " Junior " factor aside, baby boys are also less apt to be given fanciful names.

That would have been an entirely fanciful construction of s 1(3 ).

Is it too fanciful to imagine him speaking with a bread country accent, possibly from the Devon area?

Much of it quite fanciful based on some of the most imaginative lobbying I have seen from any organization.

Prynn's suggestion of common work between the three parties seems fanciful however.

This may sound fanciful, but is merely a hypothesis that would explain some odd facts.

The figure of 170 members given for England does not appear fanciful.

On the one hand, the german idealists ' fanciful speculation about Geist collapsed upon itself.

What, for example, is particularly zany, offbeat or fanciful about 5.30?

Vigfusson and York Powell (Corpus Poeticum Boreale, Oxford, 1883) see in Yggdrasil not a primitive Norse idea, but one due to early contact with Christianity, and a fanciful adaptation of the cross.

Abbott's laborious From Letter to Spirit (1903), Joannine Vocabulary (1904) and Grammar (1906) overflow with statistical details and ever acute, often fanciful, conjecture.

It is perhaps not wholly fanciful to connect with this attitude the fact that Aristotle's pupils dealt with a surer hand than the master with the conclusions from premises of unlike modality, and that a formal advance of some significance attributable to Theophrastus and Eudemus is the doctrine of the hypothetical and disjunctive syllogisms.

In the above acceptation of the term, the Neoplatonic doctrine of emanations from the supra-essential One, the fanciful emanation-doctrine of some of the Gnostics (the aeons of the Valentinian system might be mentioned), and the elaborate esoteric system of the Kabbalah, to which the two former in all probability largely contributed, are generally included under the head of theosophy.

This is a purely fanciful name, but Lamus takes us into a religious world where we can trace the origin of the legend, and observe the god of an older religion becoming the subject of fairy tales (see Lamia) in a later period.

This design style is casually elegant with a compliment of sturdy, practical furniture, colorful textiles and useful rather than fanciful accents.

The exterior of the manor house is made of limestone and features many fanciful turrets, cupolas, and other Gothic ornaments.

Hatley's brightly designed and fanciful raincoats make rainy days fun.

Like plenty of other things, carousel horses didn't become a momentous success until they traveled to the United States where they became more colorful, fanciful and profit-worthy.

American tinsmiths began creating cookie cutters in fanciful shapes with a full plate on the back of the cutter.

This American-made line of fanciful accessories also includes aprons, decorative pillows, flip-flops and towels.

A sixteen inch black backpack with white guitar graphics, "Hannah Montana" screened in stage-lights yellow, charm chain and fanciful zipper pulls.

Colors might be bright and fanciful with a background in stripes, dots, or other fun looks - or they may more neutral with solid backgrounds or nature scenes.

Unique prom purses contribute to the overall mood of the evening, adding something fanciful and charming to your look while serving as a functional companion to hold your essentials.