fanciful

fanciful embroidery of the facts.

a brooch with a fanciful and intricate device;

a fanciful story about a pot of gold.

edged the quilt with fanciful embroidery.

he quickly disabused me of my fanciful notions.

the Moon Maiden is one of a number of fanciful lunar inhabitants.

a fanciful account that embellishes the true story.

the yarn's fanciful excesses are counterpointed with some sharp and unsentimental dialogue.

a fanciful pattern with intertwined vines and flowers. Somethingexotic is unusual and intriguing in appearance or effect:

The modern poets have gone back to the fanciful poems of the metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century for many of their images.