fancy
Adjective:
- Elaborate or decorative, not plain: Describes something that is ornamental, intricate, or more elaborate than the ordinary version.
- Imagined or whimsical: Relating to the imagination or capricious ideas.
Noun:
- A feeling of liking or desire: A transient liking or inclination for something or someone.
- The faculty of imagination: The power of the mind to create images or ideas, often in a light, playful, or capricious way.
- A capricious notion or whim: A sudden, often illogical, thought or desire.
Verb:
- To feel a desire for or take a liking to: To want something or find someone attractive.
- To imagine or believe something, often without strong evidence: To suppose or think, sometimes in a whimsical or unrealistic way.
Adjective:
- She wore a fancy dress covered in lace and ribbons to the party.
- The bakery sells fancy cakes with intricate sugar flowers.
Noun:
- He took a fancy to the idea of learning the violin.
- Her stories are full of whimsy and fancy.
- I had a sudden fancy for a cup of hot chocolate.
Verb:
- Do you fancy going to the cinema tonight?
- He fancied himself a great artist, though he had never sold a painting.
"To fancy oneself (as)...": To have a (sometimes unjustifiably) high opinion of one's own abilities or status in a particular role.
- He fancies himself as a comedian, but his jokes aren't very funny.
"To tickle one's fancy": To appeal to someone's imagination or sense of whimsy; to attract or amuse someone.
- The unusual antique shop really tickled her fancy.
Fanciful (adj): Over-imaginative or unrealistic; existing only in the imagination.
- She told fanciful tales about dragons and fairies.
Fancier (n): A person with a special interest and expertise in something, especially a breed of animal or plant.
- He is a well-known pigeon fancier.
Fancied (adj): Imagined or believed, often without foundation.
- Their fancied grievances caused unnecessary conflict.
- Adjective: Ornate, decorative, elaborate, intricate.
- Noun: Whim, caprice, inclination, fondness, imagination.
- Verb: Desire, like, wish for, imagine, suppose.
- Fancy up: To make something more decorative or elaborate.
- We need to fancy up the room before the guests arrive.
"Flight of fancy": An idea or plan that is imaginative but unrealistic or impractical.
- His plan to build a castle in the backyard was just a flight of fancy.
"Fancy-free": Free from commitments, especially romantic ones; carefree.
- After graduation, she was young and fancy-free, ready to travel the world.
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not plain; decorative or ornamented
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fancy handwriting
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fancy clothes
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a predisposition to like something
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he had a fondness for whiskey
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a kind of imagination that was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination
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something many people believe that is false
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they have the illusion that I am very wealthy
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have a fancy or particular liking or desire for
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She fancied a necklace that she had seen in the jeweler's window
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imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
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I can't see him on horseback!
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I can see what will happen
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I can see a risk in this strategy
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