| fancy | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. fancy, fantasy, illusion, phantasy | something many people believe that is false.; "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy" |
| ~ misconception | an incorrect conception. |
| ~ bubble | an impracticable and illusory idea.; "he didn't want to burst the newcomer's bubble" |
| ~ ignis fatuus, will-o'-the-wisp | an illusion that misleads. |
| ~ wishful thinking | the illusion that what you wish for is actually true. |
| n. (cognition) | 2. fancy | a kind of imagination that was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination. |
| ~ imagination, imaginativeness, vision | the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses.; "popular imagination created a world of demons"; "imagination reveals what the world could be" |
| n. (feeling) | 3. fancy, fondness, partiality | a predisposition to like something.; "he had a fondness for whiskey" |
| ~ liking | a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment.; "I've always had a liking for reading"; "she developed a liking for gin" |
| v. (creation) | 4. envision, fancy, figure, image, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize | 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" |
| ~ realize, see, understand, realise | perceive (an idea or situation) mentally.; "Now I see!"; "I just can't see your point"; "Does she realize how important this decision is?"; "I don't understand the idea" |
| ~ visualise, visualize | form a mental picture of something that is invisible or abstract.; "Mathematicians often visualize" |
| ~ conceive of, envisage, ideate, imagine | form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case.; "Can you conceive of him as the president?" |
| v. (emotion) | 5. fancy, go for, take to | have a fancy or particular liking or desire for.; "She fancied a necklace that she had seen in the jeweler's window" |
| ~ like | find enjoyable or agreeable.; "I like jogging"; "She likes to read Russian novels" |
| ~ desire, want | feel or have a desire for; want strongly.; "I want to go home now"; "I want my own room" |
| adj. | 6. fancy | not plain; decorative or ornamented.; "fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes" |
| ~ adorned, decorated | provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction. |
| ~ aureate, florid, flamboyant | elaborately or excessively ornamented.; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech" |
| ~ baroque, churrigueresco, churrigueresque | having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation.; "the building...frantically baroque" |
| ~ busy, fussy | overcrowded or cluttered with detail.; "a busy painting"; "a fussy design" |
| ~ dressy | in fancy clothing. |
| ~ crackle | having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware.; "a crackle glaze" |
| ~ damascene | (of metals) decorated or inlaid with a wavy pattern of different (especially precious) metals.; "a damascened sword" |
| ~ damask | having a woven pattern.; "damask table linens" |
| ~ elaborate, luxuriant | marked by complexity and richness of detail.; "an elaborate lace pattern" |
| ~ castellated, castled, battlemented, embattled | having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement.; "a crenelated molding" |
| ~ fanciful | having a curiously intricate quality.; "a fanciful pattern with intertwined vines and flowers" |
| ~ fantastic | extravagantly fanciful in design, construction, appearance.; "Gaudi's fantastic architecture" |
| ~ lacelike, lacy | made of or resembling lace.; "a lacy gown"; "a lacy leaf" |
| ~ puff, puffed | gathered for protruding fullness.; "puff sleeves" |
| ~ rococo | having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation.; "an exquisite gilded rococo mirror" |
| ~ vermicular, vermiculated, vermiculate | decorated with wormlike tracery or markings.; "vermicular (or vermiculated) stonework" |
| ~ rhetorical | given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought.; "mere rhetorical frippery" |
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