adj. 1 ornate, decorative, decorated, ornamental, ornamented, elaborate, embellished, embroidered, fanciful, extravagant, rococo, baroque, gingerbread, Byzantine, complicated, intricate, complex The modern trend has been away from fancy architecture 2 illusory, capricious, fanciful, extravagant, fantastic, far-fetched, delusive, whimsical, visionary, unrealistic, grandiose He has some fancy ideas about building an undersea city 3 de luxe, luxury, luxurious, choice, select, prime, special, elegant, superior, quality, high-class; posh They stock only fancy fruits and vegetables She has a fancy suite at the Cardigan Hotel. 4 high, exorbitant, inflated, outrageous One has to pay very fancy prices for haute couture
n. 5 imagination, creation, conception, inventiveness, creativeness, creativity These chimeras are entirely a product of his fancy 6 imagination, fantasy, hallucination, delusion, illusion, unreality, make-believe, dream, day-dream, pipedream, mirage, phantasm, phantom, figment (of the imagination), impression Our plans for the future must be based on fact, not fancy 7 liking, inclination, fondness, taste, penchant, attraction, preference, partiality, predilection, yearning, craving, hankering, wish, desire, longing Miss Crow's fancy for younger men often causes her some embarrassment 8 idea, whim, caprice, whimsy, urge, impulse, notion, vagary, quirk, crotchet, peculiarity His fancy today is that he invented electricity
v. 9 imagine, conceive, picture, visualize, envisage, think or make up, conjure up, US envision, Colloq dream up He fancies himself on a big yacht in the Mediterranean 10 think, imagine, understand, believe, suspect, guess, conjecture, presume, surmise, assume, take it, suppose, infer, reckon From his costume I fancy he must be Superman Fancy Kim winning the Nobel prize! 11 like, be attracted to, take (a liking) to, desire, want, crave, long or pine for, have a yen or craving for, have an eye for, wish for, hunger for, favour, prefer, lust after Terry has always fancied tall women I wouldn't fancy being 40 feet up a swaying ladder like that.