fancy
adjective
[ ˈfansi ]
• elaborate in structure or decoration.
• "the furniture was very fancy"
• (of a drawing, painting, or sculpture) created from the imagination rather than from life.
• "I used to take a seat and busy myself in sketching fancy vignettes"
fancy
verb
• feel a desire or liking for.
• "do you fancy a drink?"
Similar:
wish for,
want,
desire,
long for,
yearn for,
crave,
have a yearning/craving for,
hanker after,
hunger for,
thirst for,
sigh for,
pine for,
dream of,
covet,
have a yen for,
itch for,
be desirous of,
desiderate,
• regard (a horse, team, or player) as a likely winner.
• "I fancy him to win the tournament"
• imagine; think.
• "he fancied he could smell the perfume of roses"
Similar:
think,
imagine,
guess,
believe,
have an idea,
suppose,
gather,
surmise,
suspect,
conjecture,
be of the opinion,
be of the view,
be under the impression,
think it likely/conceivable,
reckon,
fancy
noun
• a superficial or transient feeling of liking or attraction.
• "this was no passing fancy, but a feeling he would live by"
Similar:
desire,
urge,
wish,
want,
inclination,
bent,
whim,
impulse,
caprice,
notion,
whimsy,
eccentricity,
peculiarity,
quirk,
kink,
preference,
fondness,
liking,
partiality,
predilection,
predisposition,
taste,
relish,
love,
humour,
penchant,
yearning,
longing,
hankering,
craving,
pining,
ache,
hunger,
thirst,
need,
yen,
itch,
• the faculty of imagination.
• "he is prone to flights of fancy"
Similar:
imagination,
imaginative faculty/power,
creativity,
creative faculty/power,
conception,
fancifulness,
inventiveness,
invention,
originality,
ingenuity,
cleverness,
wit,
artistry,
images,
mental images,
visualizations,
• a small iced cake.
• "chocolate fancies"
• (in 16th and 17th century music) a composition for keyboard or strings in free or variation form.
Origin:
late Middle English: contraction of fantasy.
