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FANCIFULLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fancifully mean?
• FANCIFULLY (adverb)
The adverb FANCIFULLY has 1 sense:
1. in a fanciful manner
Familiarity information: FANCIFULLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a fanciful manner
Synonyms:
fancifully; whimsically
Context example:
the Christmas tree was fancifully decorated
Pertainym:
fanciful (indulging in or influenced by fancy)
Context examples
He was unaware of her gaze, and she watched him intently, speculating fancifully about the strange warp of soul that led him, a young man with signal powers, to fritter away his time on the writing of stories and poems foredoomed to mediocrity and failure.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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