Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FAN'CI-FUL, a. [See Fancy.]

1. Guided by the imagination, rather than by reason and experience; subject to the influence of fancy; whimsical; applied to persons. A fanciful man forms visionary projects.
2. Dictated by the imagination; full of wild images; chimerical; whimsical; ideal; visionary; applied to things; as, a fanciful scheme; a fanciful theory.