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English

Alternative spellings

  • fant'sy, Phant'sy (both obsolete)


Etymology

Fancy arises in late Middle English as a contraction of fantasy. From Old French and Early French fantasie, itself from the Late Latin fantasia, which originated from the Greek Phantazein (phan. to render visible). Related words include diaphanous (transparent), epiphany (manifestation).

The noun Fancy can usually still be replaced with the older word fantasy without any change of meaning.

Pronunciation


Noun

  1. The imagination; an imagined image.
  2. :The film rose from Stephen's fancy.
  3. A whim.
  4. :I had a fancy to learn to play the flute.
  5. love|Love or amorous attachment.
  6. :He took a fancy to her.
  7. Any sport or hobby pursued by a group.
  8. :Trainspotting is the fancy of a special lot.
  9. The enthusiasts of such a pursuit.
  10. :He fell out of favor with the boxing fancy after the incident.


Translations

Adjective

  1. decorative|Decorative.
  2. :This is a fancy shawl.
  3. Of a superior grade.
  4. :This box contains bottles of the fancy grade of jelly.
  5. execute|Executed with skill.
  6. :He initiated the game winning play with a fancy, deked saucer pass to the winger.
  7. Unnecessarily complicated.
  8. :I'm not keen on him and his fancy ideas.


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Antonyms


Translations

Verb

{{en-verb|fanc|i|ed}}

  1. To appreciate without jealousy or greed.
  2. :I fancy your new car, but I like my old one just fine.
  3. would like to
  4. : I fancy a burger tonight for dinner
  5. : Do you fancy going to town this weekend?
  6. :Fancy that! I saw Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy kissing in the garden.
  7. To be sexually attracted to.
  8. :I fancy that girl over there.
  9. To imagine.
  10. :I fancy you'll want something to drink after your long journey


Synonyms


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See also


Category:English words with positive connotations

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Fancy \Fan"cy\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fancied, p. pr. & vb. n.
Fancying.]
1. To figure to one's self; to believe or imagine something
without proof.
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If our search has reached no farther than simile and
metaphor, we rather fancy than know. --Locke.
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2. To love. [Obs.] --Shak.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Fancy \Fan"cy\ (f[a^]n"s[y^]), n.; pl. Fancies. [Contr. fr.
fantasy, OF. fantasie, fantaisie, F. fantaisie, L. phantasia,
fr. Gr. ???????? appearance, imagination, the power of
perception and presentation in the mind, fr. ???????? to make
visible, to place before one's mind, fr. ??????? to show;
akin to ????, ???, light, Skr. bh[=a]to shine. Cf. Fantasy,
Fantasia, Epiphany, Phantom.]
1. The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a
representation of anything perceived before; the power of
combining and modifying such objects into new pictures or
images; the power of readily and happily creating and
recalling such objects for the purpose of amusement, wit,
or embellishment; imagination.
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In the soul
Are many lesser faculties, that serve
Reason as chief. Among these fancy next
Her office holds. --Milton.
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2. An image or representation of anything formed in the mind;
conception; thought; idea; conceit.
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How now, my lord ! why do you keep alone,
Of sorriest fancies your companoins making ? --Shak.
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3. An opinion or notion formed without much reflection;
caprice; whim; impression.
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I have always had a fancy that learning might be
made a play and recreation to children. --Locke.
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4. Inclination; liking, formed by caprice rather than reason;
as, to strike one's fancy; hence, the object of
inclination or liking.
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To fit your fancies to your father's will. --Shak.
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5. That which pleases or entertains the taste or caprice
without much use or value.
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London pride is a pretty fancy for borders.
--Mortimer.
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6. A sort of love song or light impromptu ballad. [Obs.]
--Shak.
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The fancy, all of a class who exhibit and cultivate any
peculiar taste or fancy; hence, especially, sporting
characters taken collectively, or any specific class of
them, as jockeys, gamblers, prize fighters, etc.
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At a great book sale in London, which had
congregated all the fancy. --De Quincey.

Syn: Imagination; conceit; taste; humor; inclination; whim;
liking. See Imagination.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Fancy \Fan"cy\, v. t.
1. To form a conception of; to portray in the mind; to
imagine.
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He whom I fancy, but can ne'er express. --Dryden.
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2. To have a fancy for; to like; to be pleased with,
particularly on account of external appearance or manners.
"We fancy not the cardinal." --Shak.
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3. To believe without sufficient evidence; to imagine
(something which is unreal).
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He fancied he was welcome, because those arounde him
were his kinsmen. --Thackeray.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Fancy \Fan"cy\, a.
1. Adapted to please the fancy or taste, especially when of
high quality or unusually appealing; ornamental; as, fancy
goods; fancy clothes.
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2. Extravagant; above real value.
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This anxiety never degenerated into a monomania,
like that which led his [Frederick the Great's]
father to pay fancy prices for giants. --Macaulay.
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Fancy ball, a ball in which porsons appear in fanciful
dresses in imitation of the costumes of different persons
and nations.

Fancy fair, a fair at which articles of fancy and ornament
are sold, generally for some charitable purpose.

Fancy goods, fabrics of various colors, patterns, etc., as
ribbons, silks, laces, etc., in distinction from those of
a simple or plain color or make.

Fancy line (Naut.), a line rove through a block at the jaws
of a gaff; -- used to haul it down.

Fancy roller (Carding Machine), a clothed cylinder (usually
having straight teeth) in front of the doffer.

Fancy stocks, a species of stocks which afford great
opportunity for stock gambling, since they have no
intrinsic value, and the fluctuations in their prices are
artificial.

Fancy store, one where articles of fancy and ornament are
sold.

Fancy woods, the more rare and expensive furniture woods,
as mahogany, satinwood, rosewood, etc.
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WordNet fancy
adj : not plain; decorative or ornamented; "fancy handwriting";
"fancy clothes" [ant: plain]
n 1: something many people believe that is false; "they have the
illusion that I am very wealthy" [syn: illusion, fantasy,
phantasy]
2: fancy was held by Coleridge to be more casual and
superficial than imagination
3: a predisposition to like something; "he had a fondness for
whiskey" [syn: fondness, partiality]
v 1: 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" [syn: visualize, visualise, envision,
project, see, figure, picture, image]
2: have a fancy or particular liking or desire for; "She
fancied a necklace that she had seen in the jeweler's
window" [syn: go for, take to]
[also: fancied, fanciest, fancier]
Moby Dictionary
Amor , Babylonian , Byzantine , Christian love , Corinthian , Daedalian ,
Eros , Platonic love , a bit much , abandoned , account as , adept ,
admiration , adoration , adorned , adroit , affection , affinity , agape ,
aim at , ambitious , animus , apparition , appetence , appetency ,
appetite , apprehension , approve , apt , arabesque , ardency , ardor ,
artistic , assume , attachment , attraction , authoritative ,
automatic response , awe-inspiring , awful , bag , barbaric , baroque ,
be afraid , be desirous of , be fond of , be partial to , bee ,
befrilled , believe , bent , bias , blind impulse , bodily love ,
boundless , boutade , brain wave , brainchild , brainstorm , bravura ,
brilliant , brotherly love , bubble , burn with love , busy , capriccio ,
caprice , capricious , care for , caritas , charity , chichi , chimera ,
choice , choose , chosen kind , classy , clean , clever , coin , colored ,
command , complex , complicated , conation , conatus , conceit ,
conceive , concept , conception , conceptualize , conclude , concoct ,
concupiscence , conjecture , conjugal love , conjure up , consider ,
contrariness , coordinated , costly , crack , crackerjack , crank ,
crave , craving , craze , crazy idea , create , creation , creativeness ,
creativity , crotchet , cunning , cup of tea , curiosity , cute ,
cutthroat , daedal , daresay , daydream , dear , dear-bought , decision ,
decorated , decorative , deem , deft , delirium , delusion , delusive ,
deluxe , desiderate , desideration , desire , determination , devotion ,
dexterous , dextrous , diplomatic , discretion , disposition , divine ,
dote on , dote upon , dream , dream up , drive , druthers , eagerness ,
egregious , eidolon , elaborate , elegant , embellished , embroidered ,
endorse , enormous , envisage , envisagement , envision , envisioning ,
esteem , estimate , exacting , exaggerated , excellent , excessive ,
exorbitant , expect , expensive , experience imaginatively , expert ,
extortionate , extravagant , extreme , fable , fabricate , fabrication ,
fabulous , fad , faithful love , fanciful , fantasize , fantasque ,
fantastic , fantastic notion , fantasticism , fantasy , fascination ,
favor , feel , fervor , festooned , fiction , fictionalize , figment ,
figurative , figured , fine , flamboyant , flame , flash ,
fleeting impulse , flight of fancy , flimflam , florid , flossy ,
flowery , fondness , fool notion , freak , freakish inspiration ,
free choice , free love , free will , free-lovism , frilly ,
fumes of fancy , fussy , gather , gigantic , gingerbread , glorious ,
gluttonous , go for , good , goodish , gouging , graceful , grand ,
grandiose , grant , grossly overpriced , guess , gut response ,
hallucination , handy , hankering , harebrained idea , hatch ,
have a hunch , have an idea , have an impression , have an inkling ,
have designs on , have eyes for , have it bad , have the idea , heart ,
hero worship , high , high-class , high-flown , high-flying ,
high-priced , high-toned , high-wrought , highfalutin , highfaluting ,
hold , hold as , hope , horme , humor , hunger for , hyperbolic ,
hypertrophied , idea , ideate , idle fancy , idolatry , idolism ,
idolization , illusion , illusory , image , imagery , imagination ,
imaginativeness , imagine , imagining , imago , immoderate , imposing ,
impression , impressive , impulse , inclination , incontinent , infer ,
inflated , inflationary , ingenious , inordinate , inspiration ,
instinct , insubstantial image , intellectual curiosity ,
intellectual object , intemperate , intention , intricate , invent ,
invention , inventiveness , involuntary impulse , irrationality ,
judge , kink , labored , lasciviousness , leaning , let , let be , libido ,
like , liking , lofty , long for , longing , look upon as , love ,
lovemaking , lush , lust , lust after , lust for learning , luxuriant ,
luxurious , luxury , maggot , magisterial , magnificent , maintain ,
majestic , make up , make-believe , married love , masterful , masterly ,
megrim , memory-trace , mental image , mental impression , mind ,
mirage , mold , monstrous , moresque , mutual affinity ,
mutual attraction , myth , natural impulse , neat , need , nightmare ,
no mean , noble , not affordable , notion , objectification , objective ,
observation , of great cost , opine , opinion , originate , ornamental ,
ornamented , ornate , ostentatious , out of bounds , out of sight ,
outrageous , overbig , overcharged , overdeveloped , overelaborate ,
overelegant , overgreat , overgrown , overlabored , overlarge ,
overloaded , overmuch , overpriced , overweening , overworked ,
overwrought , palatial , partiality , particular choice ,
passing fancy , passion , peculiarity , penchant , perception ,
personal choice , perverseness , phantasm , phantom , physical love ,
picture , picturesque , pine for , pleasure , pleasure principle ,
plush , politic , popular regard , popularity , posh , predilection ,
predisposition , prefer , preference , prefigure , prejudice , premium ,
prepossession , preposterous , presume , presuppose , presurmise ,
pretentious , pretty-pretty , pricey , prime , princely , proclivity ,
produce , professional , proficient , prohibitive , propensity , proud ,
provisionally accept , purple , quality , quick , quick hunch , quirk ,
quite some , ready , recept , reckon , reflection , reflex , regard ,
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