Synonyms and Antonyms of fancy

synonym (synonym of fancy)

  • (noun)
    belief, desire, imagination, predilection, caprice, humor, inclination, supposition, conceit, idea, liking, vagary, conception, image, mood, whim
    An intellectual fancy is a mental image or picture founded upon slight or whimsical association or resemblance; a conceit has less of the picturesque more.. (noun)
     
  • (noun.cognition)
    fantasy, illusion, phantasy
    something many people believe that is false (noun.cognition)
     
  • (noun.feeling)
    fondness, partiality
    a predisposition to like something (noun.feeling)
     
  • (verb.creation)
    envision, figure, image, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize
    imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind (verb.creation)
     
  • (verb.emotion)
    go for, take to
    have a fancy or particular liking or desire for (verb.emotion)
     

antonym (antonym of fancy)

also (also)

  • (adj.all)
    adorned, decorated
    provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction (adj.all)
     
  • (adj.all)
    rhetorical
    given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought (adj.all)
     

similar (similar with fancy)

  • (adj.all)
    aureate, flamboyant, florid
    elaborately or excessively ornamented (adj.all)
     
  • (adj.all)
    baroque, churrigueresco, churrigueresque
    having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation (adj.all)
     
  • (adj.all)
    busy, fussy
    overcrowded or cluttered with detail (adj.all)
     
  • (adj.all)
    dressy
    in fancy clothing (adj.all)
     
  • (adj.all)
    crackle
    having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware (adj.all)
     
  • (adj.all)
    damascene
    (of metals) decorated or inlaid with a wavy pattern of different (especially precious) metals (adj.all)
     
  • (adj.all)
    damask
    having a woven pattern (adj.all)
     
  • (adj.all)
    elaborate, luxuriant
    marked by complexity and richness of detail (adj.all)
     
  • (adj.all)
    battlemented, castellated, castled, embattled
    having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement (adj.all)
     
  • (adj.all)
    fanciful
    having a curiously intricate quality (adj.all)
     
  • (adj.all)
    fantastic
    extravagantly fanciful in design, construction, appearance (adj.all)
     
  • (adj.all)
    lacelike, lacy
    made of or resembling lace (adj.all)
     
  • (adj.all)
    puff, puffed
    gathered for protruding fullness (adj.all)
     
  • (adj.all)
    rococo
    having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation (adj.all)
     
  • (adj.all)
    vermicular, vermiculate, vermiculated
    decorated with wormlike tracery or markings (adj.all)
     

hypernym (fancy IS A KIND OF .... relation)

  • a kind of imagination that was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination (noun.cognition)
    imagination, imaginativeness, vision
    the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses (noun.cognition)
     
  • a predisposition to like something (noun.feeling)
    liking
    a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment (noun.feeling)
     
  • have a fancy or particular liking or desire for (verb.emotion)
    desire, want
    feel or have a desire for; want strongly (verb.emotion)
     
  • imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind (verb.creation)
    conceive of, envisage, ideate, imagine
    form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case (verb.creation)
     
  • something many people believe that is false (noun.cognition)
    misconception
    an incorrect conception (noun.cognition)
     

hyponym (.... IS A KIND OF fancy relation)

  • (noun.cognition)
    bubble
    an impracticable and illusory idea (noun.cognition)
     
  • (noun.cognition)
    ignis fatuus, will-o'-the-wisp
    an illusion that misleads (noun.cognition)
     
  • (noun.cognition)
    wishful thinking
    the illusion that what you wish for is actually true (noun.cognition)
     

entail (entailment relations of fancy)

  • have a fancy or particular liking or desire for (verb.emotion)
    like
    find enjoyable or agreeable (verb.emotion)
     

verb group (fancy is verb group of ....)

  • imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind (verb.creation)
    realise, realize, see, understand
    perceive (an idea or situation) mentally (verb.cognition)
     
  • (verb.creation)
    visualise, visualize
    form a mental picture of something that is invisible or abstract (verb.creation)
     

derivation (.... is derived from fancy)

synonym antonym also similar hypernym hyponym entail belief desire fantasy illusion fondness partiality actuality certainty fact reality plain adorned decorated rhetorical aureate flamboyant baroque churrigueresco busy fussy imagination imaginativeness misconception liking conceive of envisage bubble ignis fatuus will-o'-the-wisp wishful thinking like
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