Antonyms for fancy
ˈfæn sifan·cy

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1. fancyverb

   Decorative.

   The film rose from Stephen's fancy.

   Antonyms:
   simple, plain

   Synonyms:
   decorative, ornate

2. fancyverb

   would like

   I had a fancy to learn to play the flute.

   Synonyms:
   feel like

3. fancyadjective

   Executed with skill.

   He initiated the game winning play with a fancy, deked saucer pass to the winger.

   Synonyms:
   like

4. fancyadjective

   Unnecessarily complicated.

   I'm not keen on him and his fancy ideas.

   Synonyms:
   highfalutin

   Antonyms:
   simple

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1. fancy

   An intellectual fancy is a mental image or picture founded upon slight or whimsical association or resemblance; a conceit has less of the picturesque and more of the theoretic than a fancy; a conceit is somewhat aside from the common laws of reasoning, as a fancy is lighter and more airy than the common mode of thought. A conceit or fancy may be wholly unfounded, while a conception always has, or is believed to have, some answering reality. (Compare REASON.) An intellectual fancy or conceit may be pleasing or amusing, but is never worth serious discussion; we speak of a mere fancy, a droll or odd conceit. An emotional or personal fancy is a capricious liking formed with slight reason and no exercise of judgment, and liable to fade as lightly as it was formed. In a broader sense, the fancy signifies the faculty by which fancies or mental images are formed, associated, or combined. Compare synonyms for DREAM; IDEA; IMAGINATION.

   Antonyms:
   actuality, certainty, fact, reality, truth, verity

   Synonyms:
   belief, caprice, conceit, conception, desire, humor, idea, image, imagination, inclination, liking, mood, predilection, supposition, vagary, whim

   Preposition:
   To have a fancy for or take a fancy to a person or thing.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fancy

   Antonyms:
   object, subject, fact, reality, order, law, truth, system, verity, aversion, horror, fantastic

   Synonyms:
   thought, belief, idea, supposition, imagination, caprice, notion, conceit, vagary, inclination, whim, humor, predilection, desire

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1. illusion, fantasy, phantasy, fancynoun

   something many people believe that is false

   "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy"

   Antonyms:
   vanilla, chaste, featureless, dry, mere(a), stern, simple(a), austere, trim, severe, simple, stark, bare(a), inelaborate, literal, homely, unelaborate, plain, tailored

   Synonyms:
   deception, legerdemain, fantasy, trick, illusion, delusion, phantasy, magic trick, thaumaturgy, head game, conjuring trick, fondness, semblance, magic, conjuration, partiality

2. fancynoun

   a kind of imagination that was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination

   Antonyms:
   chaste, stark, mere(a), literal, simple(a), simple, vanilla, plain, inelaborate, dry, homely, trim, austere, stern, bare(a), featureless, tailored, unelaborate, severe

   Synonyms:
   phantasy, partiality, illusion, fantasy, fondness

3. fondness, fancy, partialityadjective

   a predisposition to like something

   "he had a fondness for whiskey"

   Antonyms:
   simple(a), vanilla, plain, mere(a), austere, bare(a), featureless, simple, trim, severe, homely, inelaborate, stern, dry, tailored, unelaborate, stark, chaste, literal

   Synonyms:
   tenderness, heart, warmheartedness, partisanship, philia, partiality, illusion, affectionateness, warmness, affection, warmth, lovingness, phantasy, fondness, fantasy

4. fancyverb

   not plain; decorative or ornamented

   "fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes"

   Antonyms:
   vanilla, stern, austere, unelaborate, severe, stark, mere(a), dry, bare(a), trim, literal, chaste, simple, plain, homely, simple(a), tailored, featureless, inelaborate

5. visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture, imageverb

   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"

   Antonyms:
   stern, trim, dry, austere, featureless, mere(a), simple, plain, unelaborate, chaste, vanilla, tailored, homely, stark, simple(a), bare(a), inelaborate, severe, literal

   Synonyms:
   ensure, project, interpret, examine, look, experience, get word, visualise, watch, assure, image, run across, go steady, protrude, learn, cast, run into, enter, discover, escort, jut, pick up, visit, reckon, jut out, consider, forecast, come across, cypher, get a line, externalize, get wind, contrive, take care, calculate, control, ascertain, insure, attend, compute, date, realize, see, check, stick out, foresee, meet, propose, witness, go for, count on, catch, construe, design, estimate, regard, visualize, picture, plan, find, work out, go through, take in, view, take to, throw, hear, render, externalise, go out, envision, determine, see to it, encounter, figure, find out, cipher, understand, depict, show, send off, realise

6. fancy, go for, take toverb

   have a fancy or particular liking or desire for

   "She fancied a necklace that she had seen in the jeweler's window"

   Antonyms:
   stark, unelaborate, featureless, severe, tailored, dry, austere, homely, simple, stern, inelaborate, plain, mere(a), trim, literal, chaste, vanilla, bare(a), simple(a)

   Synonyms:
   visualise, visualize, figure, take to, hold, image, project, consent, accept, hope, see, envision, go for, apply, picture, try for

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1. fancyadjective

   Synonyms:
   ornate, elaborate, ornamental, fanciful, exorbitant, fabulous, extravagant

2. fancynoun

   Synonyms:
   imagination, conception, conceit, idea, apprehension, impression, opinion, notion, caprice, whim, whimsey, fantasy, vagary, maggot, crotchet, inclination, liking, fondness, penchant, taste

3. fancyverb

   Synonyms:
   believe, imagine, apprehend, conjecture, conceive, like

How to use fancy in a sentence?

1. Xolani Mhlongo:

   Around 85% of our staff is from the three communities around the reserve, the trust also helps send kids to school and drills boreholes for drinking water. We also try to educate the children how important conservation is and how important the reserve is for helping the community. We want to show them that it’s not just fancy cars driving up and down watching the animals.

2. Claire McCaskill:

   I did n’t go to one of those fancy private schools, but the history I learned in public schools Mizzou taught me that the evidence of trafficking of women for sex goes back to before 2000 B.C. Senate Homeland Security did n’t begin with women’s rights and the birth control pill.

3. Trey Boggs:

   We somewhat cheated by learning from the bootleggers down by the river outrunning the revenuers, the recipe is tried and true, the only difference is we pay taxes ... We make the real thing and use mason jars, nothing fancy.

4. Bitch Flicks:

   Ideologically, 'Pretty Woman' is a love song to consumerism and capitalism, 'Pretty Woman' depicts a world where everyone is either a card-carrying member of the corporate caste or an obliging subordinate ... It is obsessed with things (hotel suites, private jets, fancy clothes) and encourages the audience to share its obsession with things.

5. Goethe:

   We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable.

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