fancy
adjective
1. not plain; decorative or ornamented
- fancy handwriting
- fancy clothes
Similar word(s): adorned, decorated, aureate, flamboyant, florid, flossy, baroque, churrigueresco, churrigueresque, busy, fussy, dressy, crackle, damascene, damask, elaborate, luxuriant, battlemented, castellated, castled, embattled, fanciful, fantastic, lacelike, lacy, puff, puffed, rococo, vermicular, vermiculate, vermiculated, rhetorical
2. of a high quality.
3. impressive; fashionable.
Sentences with fancy as an adjective:
- This is a fancy shawl.
- This box contains bottles of the fancy grade of jelly.
- He initiated the game winning play with a fancy, deked saucer pass to the winger.
- I'm not keen on him and his fancy ideas.
noun
1. something many people believe that is false
Similar word(s): fantasy, illusion, phantasy
Definition categories: thought, misconception
2. imagination or fantasy; held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination
- never had the wildest flights of fancy imagined such magnificence
Definition categories: thought, imagination, imaginativeness, vision
3. a predisposition to like something
- she had dismissed him quite brutally, relegating him to the status of a passing fancy, or less
Similar word(s): fondness, partiality
Definition categories: feeling, liking
Sentences with fancy as a noun:
- I had a fancy to learn to play the flute.
- He took a fancy to her.
- Trainspotting is the fancy of a special lot.
- the cat fancy
- He fell out of favor with the boxing fancy after the incident.
verb
1. imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
Similar word(s): envision, figure, image, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize
Definition categories: creation, envisage, ideate, imagine
2. have a fancy or particular liking or desire for
Definition categories: emotion, desire, want
Sentences with fancy as a verb:
- I fancy your new car, but I like my old one just fine.
- I fancy a burger tonight for dinner
- Do you fancy going to town this weekend?
- I fancy that girl over there.
- I fancy you'll want something to drink after your long journey.
- Fancy meeting you here!
- Fancy that! I saw Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy kissing in the garden.