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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 |