Fancy Meaning and Definition


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What is the definition Fancy? What is its meaning in the dictionary? Derivations, Example sentences, Words starting with Fancy, Words ending with Fancy, How to pronounce? Antonyms, Synonyms, Related sentences and more...

Fancy meaning

Word: Fancy

How to pronounce: ˈfænsɪ

Adjective

Definitions:

1. Elaborate in structure or decoration.

Example sentences: "The furniture was very fancy"

2. (of a drawing, painting, or sculpture) created from the imagination rather than from life.

Transitive verb

Definitions:

1. Feel a desire or liking for.

2. Regard (a horse, team, or player) as a likely winner.

3. Imagine; think.

Example sentences: "He fancied he could smell the perfume of roses"

Noun

Definitions:

1. A feeling of liking or attraction, typically one that is superficial or transient.

Example sentences: "This does not mean that the law should change with every passing fancy"

2. The faculty of imagination.

Example sentences: "My research assistant is prone to flights of fancy"

3. (in 16th and 17th century music) a composition for keyboard or strings in free or variation form.


Synonyms:

fashionable

trendy

fashion

freakish

bizarre

whimsical

unusual

freaky

inordinate

fantastical

fantastic

imagination

fantasy

illusion

phantasy

imaginativeness

ideation

conceit

delusion

patterned

decorative

ornate

whimsy

whim

vagary

fad

caprice

freak

kink

intricate

sophisticated

complicated

imagine

envision

visualize

envisage

ideate

quaint

quirky

haberdashery

notion

fantasize

see

masquerade

grotesque

baroque

think

conceive

like

enjoy

complex

invention

creativity

contrivance

inventiveness

figment

chimera

relish

taste

pipe dream

dream

daydream

weird

steep

stiff

love

partiality

delight

fondness

love affair

conjure

elaborate

picture

image

vision

lavish

extravagant


Derivations:

fanciful

fancied

fancying

fancier

fancifully


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Fancy in Other Languages...

Spanish: Lujo

German: Phantasie

French: Fantaisie

Italian: Fantasia

Turkish: Fantezi


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