Fancy
verb'fænsi
Adjective
not plain; decorative or ornamented
“fancy handwriting”
“fancy clothes”
See also:AdornedDecoratedRhetorical
Noun
a predisposition to like something
“she had dismissed him quite brutally, relegating him to the status of a passing fancy, or less”
Similar:FondnessPartialityType of:Likingimagination or fantasy; held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination
“never had the wildest flights of fancy imagined such magnificence”
Type of:ImaginationImaginativenessVisionsomething many people believe that is false
Verb
have a fancy or particular liking or desire for
Type of:DesireWantimagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
Dictionary Validity
- Tournament Word List (TWL)
- Scrabble US
- Collins Scrabble Words (CSW21)
- Scrabble UK
- ENABLE Dictionary
- Words With Friends
- Combined US/UK Scrabble Dictionary
- SOWPODS
- North American Scrabble (NWL2020)
- NASPA