Fancy meaning

What does “fancy” mean? Definitions, examples, synonyms and opposites.

“fancy” is a noun, verb and adjective with 6 meanings. Its most common meaning is: something many people believe that is false.

fancy

something many people believe that is false
“they have the illusion that I am very wealthy”
Synonymsillusion fantasy phantasy
imagination or fantasy; held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination
“never had the wildest flights of fancy imagined such magnificence”
a predisposition to like something
“he had a fondness for whiskey”
“she had dismissed him quite brutally, relegating him to the status of a passing fancy, or less”
Synonymsfondness partiality

imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
“I can't see him on horseback!”
“I can see what will happen”
Synonymsvisualize visualise envision project see figure picture image
have a fancy or particular liking or desire for
“She fancied a necklace that she had seen in the jeweler's window”
Synonymsgo for take to

not plain; decorative or ornamented
“fancy handwriting”
“fancy clothes”
Oppositesplain

Source: WordNet 3.1, Princeton University