Synonyms for fancy
ˈfæn sifan·cy

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1. fancyverb

   Decorative.

   The film rose from Stephen's fancy.

   Synonyms:
   decorative, ornate

   Antonyms:
   simple, plain

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.

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

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

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

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1. fancy

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

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

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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"

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

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

2. fancynoun

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

   Synonyms:
   phantasy, partiality, illusion, fantasy, fondness

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

3. fondness, fancy, partialityadjective

   a predisposition to like something

   "he had a fondness for whiskey"

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

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

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"

   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

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

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"

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

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

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1. fancynoun

   Synonyms:
   IMAGINATION

2. fancynoun

   Synonyms:
   notion, idea, thought, conception, conceit, impression, apprehension

3. fancynoun

   Synonyms:
   liking, fondness, inclination, PENCHANT, taste

4. fancynoun

   Synonyms:
   caprice, humor, whim, crotchet, quirk, freak, vagary, whimsey, maggot, fantasy, odd fancy

5. fancyverb

   Synonyms:
   imagine, think, suppose, believe, take it into one's head

6. fancyverb

   Synonyms:
   conceive, imagine, form a conception of, figure to one's self

7. fancyverb

   Synonyms:
   like, be pleased with, have a fancy for

8. fancyadjective

   Synonyms:
   imaginative, of the fancy

9. fancyadjective

   Synonyms:
   ornamental (rather than useful), elegant, fine, nice

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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

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1. List of paraphrases for "fancy":

   chic, fantasy, fanciful, classy, novelty, luxurious, whim, caprice, elegant, knack, swell, imitation, imagination, costume, nice

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1. List of known nicknames for "Fancy":

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1. Frederick Bastiat:

   It must be admitted that the tendency of the human race toward liberty is largely thwarted, especially in France. This is greatly due to a fatal desire -- learned from the teachings of antiquity -- that our writers on public affairs have in common: They desire to set themselves above mankind in order to arrange, organize, and regulate it according to their fancy.

2. Graeme McDowell:

   Anything can happen on this golf course over the weekend, you dont have to do anything fancy tomorrow.

3. Chip Roy:

   We had 18 Republicans, who joined with Democrats in the Senate, get on their fancy planes and go home, and we’re sitting here trying to do the work of the people, not spend money we don’t have, not drive up more inflation, not have 7,500 earmarks for $16 billion for pet leftist projects across this country.

4. Ian Ling-Stuckey:

   At that time, we were in the midst of the APEC extravaganza with our new APEC Haus, red carpet, fancy new roads all focused in Port Moresby, and Maseratis, now, we have a new prime minister that travels economy class.

5. President Obama:

   Russia trying to influence or elections dates back to the Soviet Union, what they did here, hacking some emails and releasing them, is not a particularly fancy brand of espionage or propaganda. We were, frankly, more concerned in the run-up to the election to the possibilities of vote tampering, which we did not see evidence of and were confident that we could guard against. In the same interview, President Obama took the Russian hacking idea even further by alleging that Donald Trump in any way has direct ties to Russia.