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fancy

• (a) not plain; decorative or ornamented
  • fancy handwriting
  • fancy clothes

Nouns

• (n) something many people believe that is false
  • they have the illusion that I am very wealthy
  phantasy, illusion, fantasy,
• (n) a kind of imagination that was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination
• (n) a predisposition to like something
  • he had a fondness for whiskey
  fondness, partiality,

Verbs

• (v) 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
  envision, picture, visualize, image, figure, visualise, see, project,
• (v) have a fancy or particular liking or desire for
  • She fancied a necklace that she had seen in the jeweler's window
  take to, go for,

Synonyms

phantasy illusion fantasy envision picture visualize image figure visualise see project take to go for fondness partiality

Antonyms

plain

See also

adorned decorated rhetorical

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