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List of meaning for fancy

to want to do something

illusion, fantasy, phantasy, fancy(noun)

something many people believe that is false

"they have the illusion that I am very wealthy"

fancy(noun)

a kind of imagination that was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination

fondness, fancy, partiality(adj)

a predisposition to like something

"he had a fondness for whiskey"

fancy(verb)

not plain; decorative or ornamented

"fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes"

visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture, image(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"

fancy, go for, take to(verb)

have a fancy or particular liking or desire for

"She fancied a necklace that she had seen in the jeweler's window"

made or done with great care or with much detail

we're having a little get-together after the concert—nothing fancy

going beyond a normal or acceptable limit in degree or amount

decided they would rather go without dinner than pay the hotel restaurant's fancy prices

a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality

a writer with a prodigious talent for creating fancies that captivate readers young and old

a sudden impulsive and apparently unmotivated idea or action

is this a serious interest in music, or just your latest fancy that will be forgotten after a week?

positive regard for something

now that he's rich he's taken a fancy to expensive sports cars

the ability to form mental images of things that either are not physically present or have never been conceived or created by others

to fans of Lewis Carroll, the animal creations of his fertile fancy are as real as any creature to be found at the zoo

to form a mental picture of

try to fancy, if you can, our mother on an elephant when she was touring India

to take pleasure in

the teacher didn't fancy the idea of failing the student, even if he was the class clown

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