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English adjective: fancy | |||
| 1. | fancy not plain; decorative or ornamented | ||
| Samples | Fancy handwriting. Fancy clothes. | ||
| Similar | aureate, baroque, battlemented, busy, castellated, castled, churrigueresco, churrigueresque, crackle, damascene, damask, dressy, elaborate, embattled, fanciful, fantastic, flamboyant, florid, fussy, lacelike, lacy, luxuriant, puff, puffed, rococo, vermicular, vermiculate, vermiculated | ||
| See also | adorned, decorated, rhetorical | ||
| Antonyms | plain | ||
English noun: fancy | |||
| 1. | fancy (cognition) something many people believe that is false | ||
| Samples | They have the illusion that I am very wealthy. | ||
| Synonyms | fantasy, illusion, phantasy | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | misconception | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | bubble, ignis fatuus, will-o'-the-wisp, wishful thinking | ||
| 2. | fancy (cognition) a kind of imagination that was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | imagination, imaginativeness, vision | ||
| 3. | fancy (feeling) a predisposition to like something | ||
| Samples | He had a fondness for whiskey. | ||
| Synonyms | fondness, partiality | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | liking | ||
English verb: fancy | |||
| 1. | fancy (creation) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | ||
| Samples | I can't see him on horseback!. I can see what will happen. I can see a risk in this strategy. | ||
| Synonyms | envision, figure, image, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s that CLAUSE | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | conceive of, envisage, ideate, imagine | ||
| Verb group | realise, realize, see, understand, visualise, visualize | ||
| 2. | fancy (emotion) have a fancy or particular liking or desire for | ||
| Samples | She fancied a necklace that she had seen in the jeweler's window. | ||
| Examples | Sam cannot fancy Sue , They fancy more bread | ||
| Synonyms | go for, take to | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | desire, want | ||
| Entail | like | ||
Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
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