What is another word for Fancy?
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fantasy
liking, dream
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imagination
fantasy, liking
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elaborate
property, detailed
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imagine
action, think
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image
mental condition, impulse
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like
love, attraction
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caprice
whim, feeling
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whim
impulse, feeling
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dream
activity, fantasy
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picture
liking, action
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visualize
imagine, thoughts
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illusion
liking, fantasy
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liking
like, favour
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ornate
elaborate, property
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vagary
impulse, feeling
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envision
imagine, action
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fondness
liking, preference
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fanciful
behaviour, elaborate
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notion
whim, idea
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whimsy
whim, caprice
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partiality
preference
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baroque
elaborate, extravagant
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intricate
elaborate, extravagant
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taste
characteristic, sensitivity
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love
preference
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inclination
impulse, whim
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conceive
imagine, action
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daydream
fantasy, delusion
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idea
mental condition, impulse
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take to
love, like
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think
imagine, suppose
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desire
wish for, be attracted to
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decorated
elaborate, property
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adorned
property, extravagant
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impulse
whim, caprice
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conceit
dialect, like
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see
thoughts
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freak
caprice, thoughts
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decorative
extravagant
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showy
expensive, extravagant
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adorned, affected, capricious, choice, custom, en.synonym.one, decorated, deluxe, detailed, distinctive, dressy, elaborate, elegant, embellished, extravagant, fanciful, fine, florid, flowery, irregular, lavish, luxurious, minute, ornamental, ornamented, ornate, en.synonym.one, poetic, refined, resplendent, rhetorical, rococo, sentimental, showy, whimsical, affection, aggrandisement, aggrandizement, antic, attachment, en.synonym.one, belief, caprice, caricature, colouring, conceit, conception, craving, crotchet, daydream, deception, delusion, desire, determination, disposition, dream, eccentricity, embellishment, error, escapade, exaggeration, en.synonym.one, extravagance, fable, fairy tale, fallacy, falsehood, fantasy, fiasco, fiction, flash, fondness, hallucination, humor, humour, idea, idol, illusion, image, imagination, impression, impulse, inclination, infatuation, judgment, lark, lie, en.synonym.one, liking, love, make-believe, mirage, mood, nightmare, notion, overstatement, partiality, passion, phantasm, phantasy, pleasure, prank, preference, purpose, quirk, romance, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sham, taste, temper, temperament, tendency, thought, trick, unreality, urge, vagary, whim, whimsy, will, adopt, allow, approve, be pleased with, choose, en.synonym.one, conceive, conjecture, conjure up, countenance, covet, crave, daydream, desire, dream, elect, embrace, encourage, enjoy, envision, espouse, fantasise, fantasise flash, fantasize, favor, favour, en.synonym.one, figure, flash, formulate, go for, imagine, invent, lack, like, liking, long, long for, need, pant, patronise, patronize, pick, pick out, picture, prefer, project, relish, require, sanction, see, take to, en.synonym.one, think up, visualise, visualize, want, wish.
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- decorative
- deluxe
- elegant
- frilly
- gaudy
- lavish
- ornate
- special
- sumptuous
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- gingerbread
- rich
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- froufrou
- intricate
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- unusual
- imagination
- inclination
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- conceit
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- contrariness
- creation
- desire
- druthers
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- humor
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- liking
- mind
- notion
- perverseness
- pleasure
- thing
- thought
- vagary
- velleity
- visualization
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- will
- cup of tea
- fool’s paradise
- weakness for
- fantasy
- imagination
- inclination
- chimera
- conception
- daydream
- delusion
- envisioning
- fabrication
- figment
- fondness
- hallucination
- hankering
- idea
- illusion
- imaginativeness
- invention
- itch
- mirage
- nightmare
- notion
- partiality
- penchant
- phantasm
- picture
- predilection
- preference
- relish
- reverie
- romancing
- vision
- yearning
- yen
- big eyes
- envisagement
- eyes for
- pie in the sky
- pipe dream
- sweet tooth
- visualize
- believe
- conceive
- conjecture
- envisage
- envision
- fantasize
- feature
- guess
- image
- infer
- phantom
- picture
- realize
- reckon
- spark
- spitball
- suppose
- surmise
- think
- vision
- be inclined to think
- dream up
- head trip
- make up
- make up off top of one’s head
- think likely
- think up
- trump up
- care for
- crave
- approve
- desire
- endorse
- favor
- like
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- relish
- sanction
- be attracted to
- be captivated by
- be enamored of
- be in love with
- crazy about
- dream of
- fall for
- long for
- lust after
- mad for
- set one’s heart on
- take a liking to
- take to
- wild for
- wish for
- yearn for
On this page you’ll find 407 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to fancy, such as: complicated, decorative, deluxe, elegant, frilly, and gaudy.
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- certainty
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- truth
- reality
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- actuality
- certainty
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- disapprove
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- oppose
- refuse
- reject
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A fancy came into my head that I would entertain the king and queen with an English tune upon this instrument.
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SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
WORDS RELATED TO FANCY
- acknowledge
- affirm
- approbate
- approve
- buy
- countenance
- fancy
- favor
- go for
- hold
- hold with
- like
- recognize
- relish
- swallow
- take as gospel truth
- take stock in
- trust
- affection
- amativeness
- enamoredness
- fancy
- fondness
- lovingness
- passion
- romance
- accept
- ascertain
- be afraid
- be inclined to think
- conclude
- conjecture
- consider
- count upon
- deduce
- deem
- divine
- estimate
- expect
- fall for
- fancy
- find
- gather
- get the idea
- guess
- have a hunch
- have sneaking suspicion
- hypothesize
- imagine
- infer
- judge
- posit
- postulate
- predicate
- presume
- presuppose
- speculate
- suppose
- surmise
- suspect
- theorize
- think
- understand
- accepts
- ascertains
- concludes
- conjectures
- considers
- counts upon
- deduces
- deems
- divines
- estimates
- expects
- falls for
- fancies
- finds
- gathers
- gets the idea
- guesses
- has a hunch
- have sneaks suspicion
- hypothesizes
- imagines
- infers
- is afraid
- is inclined to thinks
- judges
- posits
- postulates
- predicates
- presumes
- presupposes
- speculates
- supposes
- surmises
- suspects
- theorizes
- thinks
- understands
- acceptance
- accepting
- assuming
- belief
- conjecture
- expectation
- fancy
- guess
- hunch
- hypothesis
- inference
- posit
- postulate
- postulation
- premise
- presumption
- presupposition
- shot
- shot in the dark
- sneaking suspicion
- stab
- supposal
- supposition
- surmise
- suspicion
- theorization
- theory
- brasses
- chutzpah
- cockiness
- conceits
- imperiousness
- insolence
- nerves
- presumptions
- prides
- sasses
- self-importances
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vb
1 be inclined to think, believe, conceive, conjecture, guess (informal, chiefly U.S. & Canad.) imagine, infer, reckon, suppose, surmise, think, think likely
2 be attracted to, crave, desire, dream of, hanker after, have a yen for, hope for, long for, relish, thirst for, wish for, would like, yearn for
3 (informal) be attracted to, be captivated by, desire, favour, go for, have an eye for, like, lust after, prefer, take a liking to, take to
n
4 caprice, desire, humour, idea, impulse, inclination, notion, thought, urge, whim
5 fondness, hankering, inclination, liking, partiality, predilection, preference, relish, thirst
6 conception, image, imagination, impression
7 chimera, daydream, delusion, dream, fantasy, nightmare, phantasm, vision
adj
8 baroque, decorated, decorative, elaborate, elegant, embellished, extravagant, fanciful, intricate, ornamental, ornamented, ornate
9 capricious, chimerical, delusive, fanciful, fantastic, far-fetched, illusory, whimsical
Antonyms
5 aversion, disinclination, dislike
8 basic, cheap, common, inferior, ordinary, plain, simple, unadorned, undecorated, unfussy
English Collins Dictionary — English synonyms & Thesaurus 
fancy
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1] ( fancies plural & 3rd person present) ( fancying present participle) ( fancied past tense & past participle ) (WANTING, LIKING, OR THINKING)
1 verb If you fancy something, you want to have it or to do it.
(mainly BRIT)
INFORMAL What do you fancy doing, anyway?… V -ing
I just fancied a drink. V n
2 n-count A fancy is a liking or desire for someone or something, especially one that does not last long.
usu with supp
(=whim)
She did not suspect that his interest was just a passing fancy.
3 verb If you fancy someone, you feel attracted to them, especially in a sexual way.
INFORMAL I think he thinks I fancy him or something. V n
4 verb If you fancy yourself as a particular kind of person or fancy yourself doing a particular thing, you like the idea of being that kind of person or doing that thing.
So you fancy yourself as the boss someday?… V pron-refl as n
I didn’t fancy myself wearing a kilt. V pron-refl -ing
5 verb If you say that someone fanciesthemselves as a particular kind of person, you mean that they think, often wrongly, that they have the good qualities which that kind of person has.
She fancies herself a bohemian… V pron-refl n
…a flighty young woman who really fancies herself. V pron-refl
6 verb If you say that you fancy a particular competitor or team in a competition, you think they will win.
(BRIT)
You have to fancy Bath because they are the most consistent team in England… V n
I fancy England to win through. V n to-inf
7 exclam You say `fancy ‘ or `fancy that’ when you want to express surprise or disapproval. , (feelings)
It was very tasteless. Fancy talking like that so soon after his death…, `Fancy that!’ smiled Conti.
8 If you take a fancy to someone or something, you start liking them, usually for no understandable reason.
♦
take a fancy to sb/sth phrase V inflects, PHR n/-ing
Sylvia took quite a fancy to him…
9 If something takes your fancy or tickles your fancy , you like it a lot when you see it or think of it.
♦
take/tickle sb’s fancy phrase V inflects
She makes most of her own clothes, copying any fashion which takes her fancy.
Translation English Cobuild Collins Dictionary
fancy [2] ( fancier comparative) ( fanciest superlative ) (ELABORATE OR EXPENSIVE)
1 adj If you describe something as fancy , you mean that it is special, unusual, or elaborate, for example because it has a lot of decoration.
usu ADJ n
It was packaged in a fancy plastic case with attractive graphics., …fancy jewellery.
2 adj If you describe something as fancy , you mean that it is very expensive or of very high quality, and you often dislike it because of this.
INFORMAL usu ADJ n
They sent me to a fancy private school.
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How is the word fancy distinct from other similar verbs?
Some common synonyms of fancy are conceive, envisage, envision, imagine, realize, and think. While all these words mean «to form an idea of,» fancy suggests an imagining often unrestrained by reality but spurred by desires.
fancied himself a super athlete
When could conceive be used to replace fancy?
The words conceive and fancy are synonyms, but do differ in nuance. Specifically, conceive suggests the forming and bringing forth and usually developing of an idea, plan, or design.
conceived of a new marketing approach
How do envisage and envision relate to one another, in the sense of fancy?
Both envisage and envision imply a conceiving or imagining that is especially clear or detailed.
envisaged a totally computerized operation
envisioned a cure for the disease
Where would imagine be a reasonable alternative to fancy?
The meanings of imagine and fancy largely overlap; however, imagine stresses a visualization.
imagine you’re at the beach
When would realize be a good substitute for fancy?
While the synonyms realize and fancy are close in meaning, realize stresses a grasping of the significance of what is conceived or imagined.
realized the enormity of the task ahead
When can think be used instead of fancy?
In some situations, the words think and fancy are roughly equivalent. However, think implies the entrance of an idea into one’s mind with or without deliberate consideration or reflection.
I just thought of a good joke