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1. Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
   "I can't fancy him on horseback!"
   - visualize, visualise [Brit], 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 jeweller's window"
   - go for, take to
    
3. [Brit] (informal) find sexually attractive
   "he definitely fancies her"

1. Not plain; decorative or ornamented
   "fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes"

1. Something many people believe that is false
   - illusion, fantasy, phantasy [archaic]
    
2. A kind of imagination that was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination
    
3. A predisposition to like something
   "he had a fancy for whiskey"
   - fondness, partiality

1. Used to express surprise
   "I should fancy that crime was to them what art is to us"; "Strewth! Didn't fancy stopping with those chaps"
   - Christ, crikey [Brit], cripes, cor [Brit], crumbs [Brit], gosh, golly, by George, by Jove, blimey [Brit], gorblimey [Brit], cor blimey [Brit], my, holy cow, holy mackerel, holy smoke, holy moley, holy moly, good grief, goodness, goodness me, Gordon Bennett, gracious, gracious me, fancy that, god, my word, oh, O, ah, oh boy, jeez, geez, strewth [Brit], struth [Brit], yikes, I'll be blowed [Brit], blow me [Brit], Holy-dooly [Austral], heck, blooming heck [Brit], jeepers, jeepers creepers, marry [archaic], well I never, heavens, good heavens, my goodness, Jesus, bejesus [N. Amer]

Derived forms: fancied, fancying, fanciest, fancier, fancies

See also: adorned, aureate, baroque, battlemented, busy, castellated, castled, churrigueresco, churrigueresque, crackle, damascene, damask, decorated, dressy, elaborate, embattled, fancier, fanciful, fantastic, flamboyant, florid, fussy, lacelike, lacy, luxuriant, puff, puffed, rhetorical, rococo, vermicular, vermiculate, vermiculated

Type of: conceive of, desire, envisage, ideate, imagination, imaginativeness, imagine, liking, misconception, vision, want

Antonym: plain

Encyclopedia: Fancy Fancy, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines