FANCY


Meaning of FANCY in English

I. noun

1.

Synonyms: will 1, inclination, liking, mind, pleasure, velleity

2.

Synonyms: caprice , bee, boutade, conceit, crotchet, freak, humor, megrim, vagary, whim

Related Word: idea; irrationality, unreasonableness; contrariness, perverseness

3.

Synonyms: imagination , fantasy ( or phantasy), imaginativeness

Related Word: envisagement, envisioning, objectification

Idioms: flight of fancy

Contrasted words: awareness, experience, perception

4.

an idea or image present in the mind but having no concrete or objective reality

unable to tell fact from fancy

Synonyms: daydream, dream, fantasy ( or phantasy), nightmare, phantasm, vision

Related Word: fable, fabrication, fiction, figment, invention; concept, conception, idea, notion; chimera, delusion, illusion; fata morgana, hallucination, mirage

Idioms: figment of the imagination

Contrasted words: actuality, fact, reality

II. verb

1.

Synonyms: like

Related Word: approve, endorse, sanction

Idioms: have a fancy ( or hankering) for; have one's heart set on

Contrasted words: deprecate, disapprove; abhor, abominate, detest, dislike, hate, loathe

2.

Synonyms: think 1, conceive, envisage, envision, feature, image, imagine, realize, vision, visualize

Contrasted words: demonstrate, prove, test, try

III. adjective

Synonyms: elaborate 2, complicated, intricate

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