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ADJECTIVE | 1 | fancy | Not plain |
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NOUN | 1 | fancy, illusion, fantasy, phantasy | Something many people believe that is false |
2 | fancy | Fancy was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than imagination | |
3 | fancy, fondness, partiality | A predisposition to like something | |
VERB | 1 | fancy, visualize, visualise, envision, project, see, figure, picture, image | Imagine |
2 | fancy, go for, take to | Have a fancy or particular liking or desire for |
Sounds | fae'nsiy |
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Rhymes | absorbency, Ac / AC, accountancy, and 246 more rhymes in siy at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | Not plain. Decorative or ornamented. |
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Examples | "fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes" |
Similar | aureate, florid, flamboyant, showy; baroque, churrigueresque, churrigueresco; busy, fussy; battlemented, castellated, castled, crenelated, crenellated; dressy; crackle; damascene; damask; elaborate, luxuriant; embattled, crenelated, crenelate, crenellated, crenellate, indented; fanciful; garnished; lacy, lacelike; puff, puffed; rich; rococo; vermicular, vermiculate, vermiculated |
See also | adorned, decorated; rhetorical |
Contrary | plain |
Meaning | Something many people believe that is false. |
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Synonyms | illusion, fantasy, phantasy |
Narrower | bubble; will-o'-the-wisp, ignis fatuus; wishful thinking |
Broader | misconception |
Verbs | fancy |
Meaning | Fancy was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than imagination. |
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Broader | imagination, imaginativeness, vision |
Verbs | fancy |
Meaning | A predisposition to like something. |
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Synonyms | fondness, partiality |
Broader | liking |
Verbs | fancy |
Meaning | Imagine. Conceive of. See in one's mind. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE |
Synonyms | visualize, visualise, envision, project, see, figure, picture, image |
Broader | imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisage |
Similar to | understand, realize, realise, see; visualize, visualise |
Nouns | fancy; fancy |
Meaning | Have a fancy or particular liking or desire for. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
Model | They fancy more bread; Sam cannot fancy Sue |
Synonyms | go for, take to |
Entails | like |
Broader | desire, want |
Nouns | fancy; fancier |