fancifully

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fancifully - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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 - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  fancifully
      adv 1: in a fanciful manner; "the Christmas tree was fancifully
             decorated" [syn: fancifully, whimsically]