Defenition of the word fancy

• Defenition of the word fancy

  • not plain; decorative or ornamented; "fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes"
  • fancy was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than imagination
  • have a fancy or particular liking or desire for; "She fancied a necklace that she had seen in the jeweler's window"
  • a predisposition to like something; "he had a fondness for whiskey"
  • something many people believe that is false; "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy"
  • imagine; see in one's mind; "I can't see him on horseback!" "I can see what will happen"
  • imagine; conceive of; see in one''s mind; "I can''t see him on horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk in this strategy"
  • have a fancy or particular liking or desire for; "She fancied a necklace that she had seen in the jeweler''s window"
  • a kind of imagination that was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination
  • something many people believe that is false
  • a predisposition to like something
  • imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
  • have a fancy or particular liking or desire for
  • not plain; decorative or ornamented

Synonyms for the word fancy

• • assume
  • be attracted to
  • be inclined to
  • be interested in
  • be keen on
  • believe
  • castle in the sky
  • conjure
  • consider
  • daydream
  • decorative
  • delicate
  • desire
  • dream
  • elaborate
  • elegant
  • envision
  • expensive
  • extravagant
  • fantasy
  • feel like
  • figure
  • flight of the imagination
  • fondness
  • go for
  • have a desire for
  • hope
  • illusion
  • image
  • imagine
  • impressive
  • interpret
  • intricate
  • lavish
  • like
  • notion
  • ornamental
  • partiality
  • phantasy
  • picture
  • project
  • see
  • suppose
  • swanky
  • take to
  • think
  • upmarket
  • visualize
  • want
  • whim
  • would like

Similar words in the fancy

• • adorned
  • aureate
  • baroque
  • battlemented
  • busy
  • castellated
  • castled
  • churrigueresco
  • churrigueresque
  • crackle
  • crenelate
  • crenelated
  • crenellate
  • crenellated
  • damascene
  • damascened
  • damask
  • decorated
  • dressy
  • elaborate
  • embattled
  • fanciful
  • fancy
  • fancying
  • flamboyant
  • florid
  • fussy
  • garnished
  • indented
  • intricate
  • lacelike
  • lacy
  • luxuriant
  • puff
  • puffed
  • rhetorical
  • rich
  • rococo
  • showy
  • vermicular
  • vermiculate
  • vermiculated

Hyponyms for the word fancy

• • bubble
  • ignis fatuus
  • will-o'-the-wisp
  • wishful thinking

Hypernyms for the word fancy

• • conceive of
  • desire
  • envisage
  • ideate
  • imagination
  • imaginativeness
  • imagine
  • liking
  • misconception
  • vision
  • want

Antonyms for the word fancy

• • plain

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