Reverse Dictionary: FANCIFUL

ADJECTIVES
► AERIAL unreal, imaginary; fanciful, other-worldly → 1581
► AERIFIED insubstantial, fanciful, affected → 1821 obs.
► AIRY-FAIRY light and delicate, whimsical; fanciful → 1981 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► ARSE-VERSY fanciful, preposterous → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ARSEY-WARSEY fanciful, preposterous → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ARSY-FARCY fanciful, preposterous → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ARSY-VERSY fanciful, preposterous → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► COCKLE-BRAINED whimsical, eccentric, flighty, fanciful; foolish, chuckle-headed → 1824 Sc.
► DIVERSOME fanciful, hard to please, fastidious; squeamish → 1865 Eng. dial.
► FANCICAL ► FANCICLE ► FANSICLE fanciful; whimsical → 1671 rare exc. Eng. dial.
► FANTASIOUS adj. full of fancies, capricious → c1489 obs.
► FANTASQUE fanciful, fantastic; curious → 1701
► FANTY-SHEENY showy, fanciful, over-particular → 1847 Eng. dial.
► KINKY markedly fanciful or eccentric → 1847 Amer. sl.
► LAPUTAN pertaining to Laputa, the flying island in Gulliver’s Travels; hence, visionary, absurd, fanciful, preposterous, ridiculous, impossible → 1866
► MAGGATIVE full of whims or fancies; whimsical, capricious, crotchety → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► MAGGATIVOUS full of whims or fancies; whimsical, capricious, crotchety → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► MAGGOT-BRAINED whimsical, fanciful, eccentric; a general epithet of abuse → L17 sl.
► MAGGOT-HEADED whimsical, fanciful, eccentric; a general epithet of abuse → L17 sl.
► MAGGOTISH crotchety; full of whims or perverse fancies → a1700 obs.
► MAGGOT-PATED whimsical, fanciful, eccentric; a general epithet of abuse → L17 sl.
► MAGGOT-PLATED whimsical, fanciful, eccentric; a general epithet of abuse → L17 sl.
► MAGGOTTING full of whims or fancies, whimsical, capricious, crotchety → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MAGGOTY full of whims and foolish fancies; freakish → 1678
► MAGGOTY-HEADED full of whims or fancies, whimsical, capricious, crotchety → 1894 Sc.
► MAGGOTY-MINDED full of whims or fancies, whimsical, capricious, crotchety → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MIMMOCKY fanciful, dainty; used contemptuously → 1896 Eng. dial.
► MIMPING affected, mincing; dainty, fanciful about food → 1871 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► MIMPSY-PIMSY dainty, fastidious, fanciful, affected → 1892 Eng. dial.
► MIMPY affected, mincing; dainty, fanciful about food → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► NATLING trifling, fanciful, ornamental → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► NOTIONAL strange, having odd or peculiar ideas; fanciful, whimsical; opinionated; temperamental; fussy → 1791 Amer. dial.
► NOTIONATE given to notions or impulses, fanciful, whimsical → 1850 Sc. & Amer. dial.
► VAPOROUS 1. of persons or minds: inclined to be fanciful, vague, or frothy, in ideas or discourse → 1605
2. of ideas, feelings, etc.: fanciful, idle, unsubstantial, vain → 1605

ADVERBS
► AFFECTLY artificially, fancifully → 1579 obs.
► HUMOURSOMELY capriciously, fancifully; peevishly; later, humorously, comically → 1653

NOUNS
► CUCKOO-LAND a fanciful or ideal realm or domain → 1916
► FANTASTIC a fanciful composition ..1641 obs.
► JIGGALORUM a fanciful thing of little value; a trifle → 1613 colloq. obs.
► MAGGOT fancifulness → 1701 obs.
► MOTHER HUBBARD nonsense, fanciful talk, lies → 1980s sl.
► OMINY a fad or fanciful contrivance → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► QUAINTISE fine or curious dress; fineness, elegance or fancifulness in dress → ?1300 obs.
► WHIM-WHAM any odd or fanciful object or thing → 1984 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► WHURLIEGIRKIE an untrue or fanciful tale → 1887 Sc.

NOUNS – PERSON
► FADDLE a fanciful person, either fastidious in trifles or devoted to some particular hobby; a fussy, over-particular person; one full of whims and fancies → 1881 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FANTASTIC one who has fanciful ideas or indulges in wild notions → 1598 obs.
► FANTASTICAL one who has fanciful ideas or notions → 1589 obs.
► SABIN a whimsical or fanciful person → 1881 (Bk.)
► SANNOCK a fanciful, dainty person; one who is slow and undecided, or namby-pamby → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)

VERBS
► FANCIFY to make fanciful → 1890