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fancy::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | fantasy, illusion, phantasy |
| Type of | misconception |
| Has types | wishful thinking, will-o'-the-wisp, bubble, ignis fatuus |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | fondness, partiality |
| Type of | liking |
she had dismissed him quite brutally, relegating him to the status of a passing fancy, or less.
fancy::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | imagination, imaginativeness, vision |
never had the wildest flights of fancy imagined such magnificence.
fancy::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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fancy handwriting.
fancy clothes.
Examples of fancy
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There's always going to be some little area that catches the fancy of investors.
From the forbes.com
The stylishly crafted and briskly paced pilot episode is a real flight of fancy.
From the freep.com
Take buses 767, 769 or 756 from Britomart and get off wherever takes your fancy.
From the nzherald.co.nz
I don't mean the latest fad to tickle the fancy of the novelty-hungry fooderati.
From the telegraph.co.uk
If you don't fancy bread, tomatoes and melted cheese, meat and fish also figure.
From the thisislondon.co.uk
Does this explain all the deals and coupons available even at fancy restaurants?
From the ocregister.com
We fancy a car touring holiday in Europe but are worried about the cost of fuel.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Send all this fancy equipment back at once, to Harrods or wherever it came from.
From the iwcp.co.uk
Some participants were in fancy dress and all others wore Kemp Hospice T-shirts.
From the kidderminstershuttle.co.uk
- Illusion: something many people believe that is false; "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy"
- Not plain; decorative or ornamented; "fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes"
- Visualize: 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"
- A kind of imagination that was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination
- Have a fancy or particular liking or desire for; "She fancied a necklace that she had seen in the jeweler's window"
- Fondness: a predisposition to like something; "he had a fondness for whiskey"
- Fancy is the third and final studio album by the United States band Idiot Flesh.
- Animal fancy is a hobby involving the appreciation, promotion, and/or breeding of pet or domestic animals.
- Fancy were an early-mid 1970s pop group. The band was made up of session musicians produced by Mike Hurst. They had a surprise U.S. hit single in 1974 with a version of the classic "Wild Thing" and a second U.S. hit with "Touch Me" (March 1974). ...
