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Synonyms for fancy
ˈfæn sifan·cy
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Wiktionary
fancyverb
Decorative.
The film rose from Stephen's fancy.
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decorative, ornatefancyverb
would like
I had a fancy to learn to play the flute.
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feel likefancyadjective
Executed with skill.
He initiated the game winning play with a fancy, deked saucer pass to the winger.
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likefancyadjective
Unnecessarily complicated.
I'm not keen on him and his fancy ideas.
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highfalutinAntonyms:
simple
English Synonyms and Antonyms
fancy
An intellectual fancy is a mental image or picture founded upon slight or whimsical association or resemblance; a conceit has less of the picturesque and more of the theoretic than a fancy; a conceit is somewhat aside from the common laws of reasoning, as a fancy is lighter and more airy than the common mode of thought. A conceit or fancy may be wholly unfounded, while a conception always has, or is believed to have, some answering reality. (Compare REASON.) An intellectual fancy or conceit may be pleasing or amusing, but is never worth serious discussion; we speak of a mere fancy, a droll or odd conceit. An emotional or personal fancy is a capricious liking formed with slight reason and no exercise of judgment, and liable to fade as lightly as it was formed. In a broader sense, the fancy signifies the faculty by which fancies or mental images are formed, associated, or combined. Compare synonyms for DREAM; IDEA; IMAGINATION.
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belief, caprice, conceit, conception, desire, humor, idea, image, imagination, inclination, liking, mood, predilection, supposition, vagary, whimAntonyms:
actuality, certainty, fact, reality, truth, verityPreposition:
To have a fancy for or take a fancy to a person or thing.
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Princeton's WordNet
illusion, fantasy, phantasy, fancynoun
something many people believe that is false
"they have the illusion that I am very wealthy"
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deception, legerdemain, fantasy, trick, illusion, delusion, phantasy, magic trick, thaumaturgy, head game, conjuring trick, fondness, semblance, magic, conjuration, partialityAntonyms:
vanilla, chaste, featureless, dry, mere(a), stern, simple(a), austere, trim, severe, simple, stark, bare(a), inelaborate, literal, homely, unelaborate, plain, tailoredfancynoun
a kind of imagination that was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination
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phantasy, partiality, illusion, fantasy, fondnessAntonyms:
chaste, stark, mere(a), literal, simple(a), simple, vanilla, plain, inelaborate, dry, homely, trim, austere, stern, bare(a), featureless, tailored, unelaborate, severefondness, fancy, partialityadjective
a predisposition to like something
"he had a fondness for whiskey"
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tenderness, heart, warmheartedness, partisanship, philia, partiality, illusion, affectionateness, warmness, affection, warmth, lovingness, phantasy, fondness, fantasyAntonyms:
simple(a), vanilla, plain, mere(a), austere, bare(a), featureless, simple, trim, severe, homely, inelaborate, stern, dry, tailored, unelaborate, stark, chaste, literalfancyverb
not plain; decorative or ornamented
"fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes"
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vanilla, stern, austere, unelaborate, severe, stark, mere(a), dry, bare(a), trim, literal, chaste, simple, plain, homely, simple(a), tailored, featureless, inelaboratevisualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture, imageverb
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"
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ensure, project, interpret, examine, look, experience, get word, visualise, watch, assure, image, run across, go steady, protrude, learn, cast, run into, enter, discover, escort, jut, pick up, visit, reckon, jut out, consider, forecast, come across, cypher, get a line, externalize, get wind, contrive, take care, calculate, control, ascertain, insure, attend, compute, date, realize, see, check, stick out, foresee, meet, propose, witness, go for, count on, catch, construe, design, estimate, regard, visualize, picture, plan, find, work out, go through, take in, view, take to, throw, hear, render, externalise, go out, envision, determine, see to it, encounter, figure, find out, cipher, understand, depict, show, send off, realiseAntonyms:
stern, trim, dry, austere, featureless, mere(a), simple, plain, unelaborate, chaste, vanilla, tailored, homely, stark, simple(a), bare(a), inelaborate, severe, literalfancy, go for, take toverb
have a fancy or particular liking or desire for
"She fancied a necklace that she had seen in the jeweler's window"
Synonyms:
visualise, visualize, figure, take to, hold, image, project, consent, accept, hope, see, envision, go for, apply, picture, try forAntonyms:
stark, unelaborate, featureless, severe, tailored, dry, austere, homely, simple, stern, inelaborate, plain, mere(a), trim, literal, chaste, vanilla, bare(a), simple(a)
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
fancynoun
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IMAGINATIONfancynoun
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notion, idea, thought, conception, conceit, impression, apprehensionfancynoun
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liking, fondness, inclination, PENCHANT, tastefancynoun
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caprice, humor, whim, crotchet, quirk, freak, vagary, whimsey, maggot, fantasy, odd fancyfancyverb
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imagine, think, suppose, believe, take it into one's headfancyverb
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conceive, imagine, form a conception of, figure to one's selffancyverb
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like, be pleased with, have a fancy forfancyadjective
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imaginative, of the fancyfancyadjective
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ornamental (rather than useful), elegant, fine, nice
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
fancyadjective
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ornate, elaborate, ornamental, fanciful, exorbitant, fabulous, extravagantfancynoun
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imagination, conception, conceit, idea, apprehension, impression, opinion, notion, caprice, whim, whimsey, fantasy, vagary, maggot, crotchet, inclination, liking, fondness, penchant, tastefancyverb
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believe, imagine, apprehend, conjecture, conceive, like
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The Gemological Institute of America, the highest body for grading diamonds, have given this stone their highest possible grading, which is vivid pink, it's so strong the color. That makes it a very rare stone indeed, in fact it's the largest pear-shaped fancy vivid pink diamond ever to be offered at auction.
Consuming protein this way stimulates protein synthesis in the cells, which is just a fancy way of saying the production of healthy, lean muscle mass.
We had 18 Republicans, who joined with Democrats in the Senate, get on their fancy planes and go home, and we’re sitting here trying to do the work of the people, not spend money we don’t have, not drive up more inflation, not have 7,500 earmarks for $16 billion for pet leftist projects across this country.
The American, if he has a spark of national feeling, will be humiliated by the very prospect of a foreigner's visit to Congress -- these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage, these persons are a reflection on the democratic process rather than of it; they expose it in its process rather than of it; they expose it in its underwear.
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
Translations for fancy
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- غير حقيقيArabic
- въобразявам си, фантазия, въображение, украсен, обичам, майсторски изработен, харесвам, причудлив, каприз, представям си, пристрастие, прищявкаBulgarian
- fantasiaCatalan, Valencian
- mít chuťCzech
- fancyDanish
- kunstvoll, Einbildungskraft, Vorstellungskraft, Vorstellung, Anhänger, Einbildung, schrill, Eindruck, ausgefallen, Zuneigung, Anhängertum, Leidenschaft, Vernarrtheit, verworren, Fantasie, Einfall, edel, vertrackt, Idee, raffiniert, kraus, nobel, einfallsreich, Anhängerschaft, Gefallen, geschickt, schick, FansGerman
- φαντασίαGreek
- fantazioEsperanto
- apetecer, provocar, tincar, antojar, tener ganas, ser atraído por, gustarSpanish
- علاقه داشتن بهPersian
- hienostunut, tehdä mieli, intoilijat, hieno, harrastajat, haluta, oikku, koristeellinen, päähänpisto, ihastusFinnish
- fantaisieFrench
- saoil, smaoinichScottish Gaelic
- amante, fedele, fanatico, sbandata, mania, maniaco, impuntatura, fantasia, capriccio, ghiribizzoItalian
- impetusLatin
- zin in hebbenDutch
- fancyNorwegian
- zachciankaPolish
- chiquePortuguese
- extravagantRomanian
- маскарадныйRussian
- fintSwedish
- fanteziTurkish
- уявити, уявляти, хотіти, бажатиUkrainian
- پسند ہیںUrdu
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