Synonyms for fancy
ˈfæn sifan·cy

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1. fancyverb

   Decorative.

   The film rose from Stephen's fancy.

   Synonyms:
   decorative, ornate

   Antonyms:
   simple, plain

2. fancyverb

   would like

   I had a fancy to learn to play the flute.

   Synonyms:
   feel like

3. fancyadjective

   Executed with skill.

   He initiated the game winning play with a fancy, deked saucer pass to the winger.

   Synonyms:
   like

4. fancyadjective

   Unnecessarily complicated.

   I'm not keen on him and his fancy ideas.

   Synonyms:
   highfalutin

   Antonyms:
   simple

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1. 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.

   Synonyms:
   belief, caprice, conceit, conception, desire, humor, idea, image, imagination, inclination, liking, mood, predilection, supposition, vagary, whim

   Antonyms:
   actuality, certainty, fact, reality, truth, verity

   Preposition:
   To have a fancy for or take a fancy to a person or thing.

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1. fancy

   Synonyms:
   thought, belief, idea, supposition, imagination, caprice, notion, conceit, vagary, inclination, whim, humor, predilection, desire

   Antonyms:
   object, subject, fact, reality, order, law, truth, system, verity, aversion, horror, fantastic

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1. illusion, fantasy, phantasy, fancynoun

   something many people believe that is false

   "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy"

   Synonyms:
   deception, legerdemain, fantasy, trick, illusion, delusion, phantasy, magic trick, thaumaturgy, head game, conjuring trick, fondness, semblance, magic, conjuration, partiality

   Antonyms:
   vanilla, chaste, featureless, dry, mere(a), stern, simple(a), austere, trim, severe, simple, stark, bare(a), inelaborate, literal, homely, unelaborate, plain, tailored

2. fancynoun

   a kind of imagination that was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination

   Synonyms:
   phantasy, partiality, illusion, fantasy, fondness

   Antonyms:
   chaste, stark, mere(a), literal, simple(a), simple, vanilla, plain, inelaborate, dry, homely, trim, austere, stern, bare(a), featureless, tailored, unelaborate, severe

3. fondness, fancy, partialityadjective

   a predisposition to like something

   "he had a fondness for whiskey"

   Synonyms:
   tenderness, heart, warmheartedness, partisanship, philia, partiality, illusion, affectionateness, warmness, affection, warmth, lovingness, phantasy, fondness, fantasy

   Antonyms:
   simple(a), vanilla, plain, mere(a), austere, bare(a), featureless, simple, trim, severe, homely, inelaborate, stern, dry, tailored, unelaborate, stark, chaste, literal

4. fancyverb

   not plain; decorative or ornamented

   "fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes"

   Antonyms:
   vanilla, stern, austere, unelaborate, severe, stark, mere(a), dry, bare(a), trim, literal, chaste, simple, plain, homely, simple(a), tailored, featureless, inelaborate

5. visualize, 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"

   Synonyms:
   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, realise

   Antonyms:
   stern, trim, dry, austere, featureless, mere(a), simple, plain, unelaborate, chaste, vanilla, tailored, homely, stark, simple(a), bare(a), inelaborate, severe, literal

6. fancy, 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 for

   Antonyms:
   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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1. fancynoun

   Synonyms:
   IMAGINATION

2. fancynoun

   Synonyms:
   notion, idea, thought, conception, conceit, impression, apprehension

3. fancynoun

   Synonyms:
   liking, fondness, inclination, PENCHANT, taste

4. fancynoun

   Synonyms:
   caprice, humor, whim, crotchet, quirk, freak, vagary, whimsey, maggot, fantasy, odd fancy

5. fancyverb

   Synonyms:
   imagine, think, suppose, believe, take it into one's head

6. fancyverb

   Synonyms:
   conceive, imagine, form a conception of, figure to one's self

7. fancyverb

   Synonyms:
   like, be pleased with, have a fancy for

8. fancyadjective

   Synonyms:
   imaginative, of the fancy

9. fancyadjective

   Synonyms:
   ornamental (rather than useful), elegant, fine, nice

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1. fancyadjective

   Synonyms:
   ornate, elaborate, ornamental, fanciful, exorbitant, fabulous, extravagant

2. fancynoun

   Synonyms:
   imagination, conception, conceit, idea, apprehension, impression, opinion, notion, caprice, whim, whimsey, fantasy, vagary, maggot, crotchet, inclination, liking, fondness, penchant, taste

3. fancyverb

   Synonyms:
   believe, imagine, apprehend, conjecture, conceive, like

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1. List of paraphrases for "fancy":

   chic, fantasy, fanciful, classy, novelty, luxurious, whim, caprice, elegant, knack, swell, imitation, imagination, costume, nice

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1. Jay Jordan:

   It was all for show, for her, everything had to be decorated very fancy, garnished to a T. She was very involved with the table settings. The flowers alone stretched the whole length of the table. The food was secondary, in a way.

2. James Russell Lowell:

   Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.

3. Anna Zafesova:

   Not only because its one of very few sources of free information about corruption and the abuse of power in Putins Russia, but also because its a sign that Navalny is not just a famous media person, he has dozens of young women and men perfectly capable of carrying on his investigative work. Maybe they are less charismatic than he, but they are proof that the Russian opposition is not only virtual and cannot be silenced with the poisoning of its leader. POISONED KREMLIN CRITIC ALEXEI NAVALNY OUT OF COMA AND RESPONSIVE: GERMAN HOSPITAL Navalnys spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh and fellow team member Georgi Alburov front the Tatarstan film, and said they were followed and harassed while shooting by men who blocked their paths with quad bikes or lurked nearby. Some dramatic images along those lines appear in the film.Yarmysh talks about how Tatarstan was supposed to be one of Navalnys stops on his late summer swing through Russian regions ahead of elections. Navalny was lobbying forSmart Voting. He argued that ifhe and people like him couldnt run in elections in Russia, the next best thing wasto simply vote for a candidate who is not from the same party as President Vladimir Putin, United Russia. Navalnyfamously called it the party of crooks and thieves and wantedto chip away at its monopoly on power howeverpossible.He believes Smart Voting can eventually dislodge it from power. GERMANY SUGGESTS HALT TO RUSSIA PIPELINE PROJECT, SEEKS COOPERATION WITH NAVALNY POISONING INVESTIGATION In the documentary from Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, Navalnys team keeps up his stylistic pace with drone video of what itidentifiesas the palatial homes of the regional president and his family, punctuated withvideoof the vast collection of fancy watches from Patek Phillipe to Breguet worn byleaderRustam Minnikhanov. Even if you dont understand Russian, it is compelling TV, Zafesova said. Navalnys investigations have evolved over the years from merely facts and analysis on his blog to full-scale movies.He invented a whole new way to oppose power, a mix of media and politics which is very important in a censored media environment like Russia and fills the void of free media as well as free debate and an independent judicial system.Navalnys videos are funny, clever, precise and shocking, not just angry denunciations of the wrongdoings of government.

4. Benny Gantz:

   When I was lying in the muddy trenches with my soldiers during freezing winter nights, you, Benjamin Netanyahu, left Israel in order to learn English and practice it at fancy cocktail parties.

5. Joan Didion:

   The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.