'Fancy' definitions:
Definition of 'fancy'
From: WordNet
adjective
Not plain; decorative or ornamented; "fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes" [ant: plain]
noun
Something many people believe that is false; "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy" [syn: illusion, fantasy, phantasy, fancy]
noun
A kind of imagination that was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination
noun
A predisposition to like something; "he had a fondness for whiskey" [syn: fondness, fancy, partiality]
verb
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" [syn: visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture, image]
verb
Definition of 'Fancy'
From: GCIDE
- Fancy \Fan"cy\ (f[a^]n"s[y^]), n.; pl. Fancies. [Contr. fr. fantasy, OF. fantasie, fantaisie, F. fantaisie, L. phantasia, fr. Gr. ???????? appearance, imagination, the power of perception and presentation in the mind, fr. ???????? to make visible, to place before one's mind, fr. ??????? to show; akin to ????, ???, light, Skr. bh[=a]to shine. Cf. Fantasy, Fantasia, Epiphany, Phantom.]
- 1. The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into new pictures or images; the power of readily and happily creating and recalling such objects for the purpose of amusement, wit, or embellishment; imagination. [1913 Webster]
- In the soul Are many lesser faculties, that serve Reason as chief. Among these fancy next Her office holds. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. An image or representation of anything formed in the mind; conception; thought; idea; conceit. [1913 Webster]
- How now, my lord ! why do you keep alone, Of sorriest fancies your companoins making ? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. An opinion or notion formed without much reflection; caprice; whim; impression. [1913 Webster]
- I have always had a fancy that learning might be made a play and recreation to children. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Inclination; liking, formed by caprice rather than reason; as, to strike one's fancy; hence, the object of inclination or liking. [1913 Webster]
- To fit your fancies to your father's will. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 5. That which pleases or entertains the taste or caprice without much use or value. [1913 Webster]
- London pride is a pretty fancy for borders. --Mortimer. [1913 Webster]
- 6. A sort of love song or light impromptu ballad. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- The fancy, all of a class who exhibit and cultivate any peculiar taste or fancy; hence, especially, sporting characters taken collectively, or any specific class of them, as jockeys, gamblers, prize fighters, etc. [1913 Webster]
- At a great book sale in London, which had congregated all the fancy. --De Quincey.
- Syn: Imagination; conceit; taste; humor; inclination; whim; liking. See Imagination. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fancy'
From: GCIDE
- Fancy \Fan"cy\, a.
- 1. Adapted to please the fancy or taste, especially when of high quality or unusually appealing; ornamental; as, fancy goods; fancy clothes. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Extravagant; above real value. [1913 Webster]
- This anxiety never degenerated into a monomania, like that which led his [Frederick the Great's] father to pay fancy prices for giants. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- Fancy ball, a ball in which porsons appear in fanciful dresses in imitation of the costumes of different persons and nations.
- Fancy fair, a fair at which articles of fancy and ornament are sold, generally for some charitable purpose.
- Fancy goods, fabrics of various colors, patterns, etc., as ribbons, silks, laces, etc., in distinction from those of a simple or plain color or make.
- Fancy line (Naut.), a line rove through a block at the jaws of a gaff; -- used to haul it down.
- Fancy roller (Carding Machine), a clothed cylinder (usually having straight teeth) in front of the doffer.
- Fancy stocks, a species of stocks which afford great opportunity for stock gambling, since they have no intrinsic value, and the fluctuations in their prices are artificial.
- Fancy store, one where articles of fancy and ornament are sold.
- Fancy woods, the more rare and expensive furniture woods, as mahogany, satinwood, rosewood, etc. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fancy'
From: GCIDE
- Fancy \Fan"cy\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fancied, p. pr. & vb. n. Fancying.]
- 1. To figure to one's self; to believe or imagine something without proof. [1913 Webster]
- If our search has reached no farther than simile and metaphor, we rather fancy than know. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To love. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fancy'
From: GCIDE
- Fancy \Fan"cy\, v. t.
- 1. To form a conception of; to portray in the mind; to imagine. [1913 Webster]
- He whom I fancy, but can ne'er express. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To have a fancy for; to like; to be pleased with, particularly on account of external appearance or manners. "We fancy not the cardinal." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To believe without sufficient evidence; to imagine (something which is unreal). [1913 Webster]
- He fancied he was welcome, because those arounde him were his kinsmen. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fancy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a bit much,
- abandoned,
- account as,
- adept,
- admiration,
- adoration,
- adorned,
- adroit,
- affection,
- affinity,
- agape,
- aim at,
- ambitious,
- Amor,
- animus,
- apparition,
- appetence,
- appetency,
- appetite,
- apprehension,
- approve,
- apt,
- arabesque,
- ardency,
- ardor,
- artistic,
- assume,
- attachment,
- attraction,
- authoritative,
- automatic response,
- awe-inspiring,
- awful,
- Babylonian,
- bag,
- barbaric,
- baroque,
- be afraid,
- be desirous of,
- be fond of,
- be partial to,
- bee,
- befrilled,
- believe,
- bent,
- bias,
- blind impulse,
- bodily love,
- boundless,
- boutade,
- brain wave,
- brainchild,
- brainstorm,
- bravura,
- brilliant,
- brotherly love,
- bubble,
- burn with love,
- busy,
- Byzantine,
- capriccio,
- caprice,
- capricious,
- care for,
- caritas,
- charity,
- chichi,
- chimera,
- choice,
- choose,
- chosen kind,
- Christian love,
- classy,
- clean,
- clever,
- coin,
- colored,
- command,
- complex,
- complicated,
- conation,
- conatus,
- conceit,
- conceive,
- concept,
- conception,
- conceptualize,
- conclude,
- concoct,
- concupiscence,
- conjecture,
- conjugal love,
- conjure up,
- consider,
- contrariness,
- coordinated,
- Corinthian,
- costly,
- crack,
- crackerjack,
- crank,
- crave,
- craving,
- craze,
- crazy idea,
- create,
- creation,
- creativeness,
- creativity,
- crotchet,
- cunning,
- cup of tea,
- curiosity,
- cute,
- cutthroat,
- daedal,
- Daedalian,
- daresay,
- daydream,
- dear,
- dear-bought,
- decision,
- decorated,
- decorative,
- deem,
- deft,
- delirium,
- delusion,
- delusive,
- deluxe,
- desiderate,
- desideration,
- desire,
- determination,
- devotion,
- dexterous,
- dextrous,
- diplomatic,
- discretion,
- disposition,
- divine,
- dote on,
- dote upon,
- dream,
- dream up,
- drive,
- druthers,
- eagerness,
- egregious,
- eidolon,
- elaborate,
- elegant,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- endorse,
- enormous,
- envisage,
- envisagement,
- envision,
- envisioning,
- Eros,
- esteem,
- estimate,
- exacting,
- exaggerated,
- excellent,
- excessive,
- exorbitant,
- expect,
- expensive,
- experience imaginatively,
- expert,
- extortionate,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- fable,
- fabricate,
- fabrication,
- fabulous,
- fad,
- faithful love,
- fanciful,
- fantasize,
- fantasque,
- fantastic,
- fantastic notion,
- fantasticism,
- fantasy,
- fascination,
- favor,
- feel,
- fervor,
- festooned,
- fiction,
- fictionalize,
- figment,
- figurative,
- figured,
- fine,
- flamboyant,
- flame,
- flash,
- fleeting impulse,
- flight of fancy,
- flimflam,
- florid,
- flossy,
- flowery,
- fondness,
- fool notion,
- freak,
- freakish inspiration,
- free choice,
- free love,
- free will,
- free-lovism,
- frilly,
- fumes of fancy,
- fussy,
- gather,
- gigantic,
- gingerbread,
- glorious,
- gluttonous,
- go for,
- good,
- goodish,
- gouging,
- graceful,
- grand,
- grandiose,
- grant,
- grossly overpriced,
- guess,
- gut response,
- hallucination,
- handy,
- hankering,
- harebrained idea,
- hatch,
- have a hunch,
- have an idea,
- have an impression,
- have an inkling,
- have designs on,
- have eyes for,
- have it bad,
- have the idea,
- heart,
- hero worship,
- high,
- high-class,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-priced,
- high-toned,
- high-wrought,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- hold,
- hold as,
- hope,
- horme,
- humor,
- hunger for,
- hyperbolic,
- hypertrophied,
- idea,
- ideate,
- idle fancy,
- idolatry,
- idolism,
- idolization,
- illusion,
- illusory,
- image,
- imagery,
- imagination,
- imaginativeness,
- imagine,
- imagining,
- imago,
- immoderate,
- imposing,
- impression,
- impressive,
- impulse,
- inclination,
- incontinent,
- infer,
- inflated,
- inflationary,
- ingenious,
- inordinate,
- inspiration,
- instinct,
- insubstantial image,
- intellectual curiosity,
- intellectual object,
- intemperate,
- intention,
- intricate,
- invent,
- invention,
- inventiveness,
- involuntary impulse,
- irrationality,
- judge,
- kink,
- labored,
- lasciviousness,
- leaning,
- let,
- let be,
- libido,
- like,
- liking,
- lofty,
- long for,
- longing,
- look upon as,
- love,
- lovemaking,
- lush,
- lust,
- lust after,
- lust for learning,
- luxuriant,
- luxurious,
- luxury,
- maggot,
- magisterial,
- magnificent,
- maintain,
- majestic,
- make up,
- make-believe,
- married love,
- masterful,
- masterly,
- megrim,
- memory-trace,
- mental image,
- mental impression,
- mind,
- mirage,
- mold,
- monstrous,
- moresque,
- mutual affinity,
- mutual attraction,
- myth,
- natural impulse,
- neat,
- need,
- nightmare,
- no mean,
- noble,
- not affordable,
- notion,
- objectification,
- objective,
- observation,
- of great cost,
- opine,
- opinion,
- originate,
- ornamental,
- ornamented,
- ornate,
- ostentatious,
- out of bounds,
- out of sight,
- outrageous,
- overbig,
- overcharged,
- overdeveloped,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overgreat,
- overgrown,
- overlabored,
- overlarge,
- overloaded,
- overmuch,
- overpriced,
- overweening,
- overworked,
- overwrought,
- palatial,
- partiality,
- particular choice,
- passing fancy,
- passion,
- peculiarity,
- penchant,
- perception,
- personal choice,
- perverseness,
- phantasm,
- phantom,
- physical love,
- picture,
- picturesque,
- pine for,
- Platonic love,
- pleasure,
- pleasure principle,
- plush,
- politic,
- popular regard,
- popularity,
- posh,
- predilection,
- predisposition,
- prefer,
- preference,
- prefigure,
- prejudice,
- premium,
- prepossession,
- preposterous,
- presume,
- presuppose,
- presurmise,
- pretentious,
- pretty-pretty,
- pricey,
- prime,
- princely,
- proclivity,
- produce,
- professional,
- proficient,
- prohibitive,
- propensity,
- proud,
- provisionally accept,
- purple,
- quality,
- quick,
- quick hunch,
- quirk,
- quite some,
- ready,
- recept,
- reckon,
- reflection,
- reflex,
- regard,
- representation,
- repute,
- resolution,
- resourceful,
- rich,
- ritzy,
- rococo,
- romance,
- sanction,
- say,
- select,
- sentiment,
- set down as,
- sex,
- sexual desire,
- sexual love,
- shape,
- shine,
- sick fancy,
- skillful,
- skyrocketing,
- slick,
- some,
- special,
- spiraling,
- spiritual love,
- splendacious,
- splendid,
- splendiferous,
- stately,
- statesmanlike,
- steep,
- stiff,
- style,
- stylish,
- sudden thought,
- sumptuous,
- superb,
- superfancy,
- superfine,
- superior,
- suppose,
- supposition,
- surmise,
- suspect,
- swank,
- swanky,
- swell,
- sympathy,
- tactful,
- take,
- take for,
- take for granted,
- take it,
- take to,
- take to be,
- taste,
- tendency,
- tender feeling,
- tender passion,
- the compleat,
- the complete,
- theory,
- thick-coming fancies,
- thing,
- think,
- think up,
- thirst for knowledge,
- thought,
- tony,
- too much,
- top,
- toy,
- trip,
- trow,
- truelove,
- turn,
- type,
- unbridled,
- unconscionable,
- understand,
- undue,
- unpayable,
- unrealistic,
- unreality,
- unreasonable,
- unreasonableness,
- unrestrained,
- unwarranted,
- urge,
- usurious,
- uxoriousness,
- vagary,
- vapor,
- vaunting,
- velleity,
- view as,
- virtuoso,
- vision,
- visionary,
- visualize,
- volition,
- want,
- wanting,
- weakness,
- ween,
- well-done,
- whim,
- whim-wham,
- whimsical,
- whimsy,
- wildest dreams,
- will,
- will and pleasure,
- will power,
- wish,
- wish for,
- wish fulfillment,
- wish to goodness,
- wish very much,
- workmanlike,
- worship,
- would fain do,
- yearning
Words containing 'Fancy'
- Fancied,
- Fancies,
- Fanciful,
- Fancifully,
- Fancifulness,
- Fancying,
- The fancy,
- fancy up,
- Fancy Gap,
- Fancy ball,
- Fancy fair,
- Fancy goods,
- Fancy line,
- Fancy roller,
- Fancy stocks,
- Fancy store,
- Fancy woods,
- fancy dress,
- fancy man,
- fancy woman,
- flight of fancy,
- passing fancy,
- Fancy Gap, VA,
- Fancy-free,
- Fancy-sick,
- fancied up gussied gussied up tricked out,
- fancy-dress ball,
- footloose and fancy-free