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fancy
adj. decorative; elegant, ornate; imaginative; overpriced; created to please
 
v. create imaginary images, imagine; have an idea; think; be fond of, like
 
n. imagination; imaginary image; idea; illusion; fad; taste; fondness; tendency


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Fancy
Fancy may refer to: In biology:Fancy (animal breeding), hobby involving the appreciation, promotion and/or breeding of animalsFancy mouse, domesticated version of the common or house mouseFancy rat, domesticated breed of the Brown Rat or of the Black RatFancy-Leafed Caladium, plantIn geography:Fancy Farm, Kentucky, United StatesFancy Gap, Virginia, United StatesFancy, Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesIn literature:Cat Fancy, popular monthly magazine dedicated to catsDog Fancy, monthly magazine dedicated to dogsFact and Fancy, collection of seventeen scientific essays by Isaac AsimovPirate Fancy, monthly internet magazine dedicated to pirates
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fancy
Noun
1. something many people believe that is false; "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy"
(synonym) illusion, fantasy, phantasy
(hypernym) misconception
(hyponym) bubble
(derivation) visualize, visualise, envision, project, see, figure, picture, image
2. fancy was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than imagination
(hypernym) imagination, imaginativeness, vision
(derivation) visualize, visualise, envision, project, see, figure, picture, image
3. a predisposition to like something; "he had a fondness for whiskey"
(synonym) fondness, partiality
(hypernym) liking
(derivation) go for, take to
Verb
1. 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"
(synonym) visualize, visualise, envision, project, see, figure, picture, image
(hypernym) imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisage
(verb-group) understand, realize, realise, see
(derivation) illusion, fantasy, phantasy
2. have a fancy or particular liking or desire for; "She fancied a necklace that she had seen in the jeweler's window"
(synonym) go for, take to
(hypernym) desire, want
(entail) like
(derivation) fondness, partiality
Adjective
1. not plain; decorative or ornamented; "fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes"
(antonym) plain
(similar) aureate, florid, flamboyant, showy
(see-also) adorned, decorated


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fancy
n.
1. the power
خيال, وہم, تصور, قياس, سوچ, بچار
Fancy may bolt bran and think it flour.
خيال بھوسي کا نام ميدا رکھ لے
2. conception
خيال, صورت, روپ, دھيان
3. caprice
امنگ, موج, لہر, وہم, تصور
4. inclination
چاٹ, شوق, ميل, ميلان, رغبت, ہوس, چاہ, محبت, عشق
Tell me where is fancy bred
Or in the heart or in the head?
(Shakespeare)
کہو عشق رہتا ہے دل ميں يا سر ميں
5. that which pleases
معشوق, پيارا, شوق, عشق
fancy-free
بے پروا
after one's fancy
اپنے خيال کے موافق
the fancy
شوقين لوگ, زندہ دل
to take a fancy to
دل دينا, چاہنا, ريجھنا, من بسنا, آنکھوں ميں چبھ جانا
fancy n. v.
سمجھنا, خيال کرنا, فرض کرنا, تصور کرنا, گمان کرنا, قياس کرنا
fancy v. a.
1. to form a conception of
تاڑنا, دھيان ميں لانا, سمجھنا, خيال کرنا, تصور کرنا, قياس کرنا
2. to have a fancy for
چاہنا, پسند کرنا, خواہش کرنا, آرزو کرنا
fancy dj. a
قابل پسند, خواہش کرنے کے قابل
fancy-ball
ايک قسم کا ناچ جس ميں عورت مرد دونوں سوانگ بھرتے ہيں
fancy-goods
رنگ برنگ کي چيزيں

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fancy
Synonyms and related words:
Amor, Babylonian, Byzantine, Christian love, Corinthian, Daedalian, Eros, Platonic love, a bit much, abandoned, account as, adept, admiration, adoration, adorned, adroit, affection, affinity, agape, aim at, ambitious, animus, apparition, appetence, appetency, appetite, apprehension, approve, apt, arabesque, ardency, ardor, artistic, assume, attachment, attraction, authoritative, automatic response, awe-inspiring, awful, bag, barbaric, baroque, be afraid, be desirous of, be fond of, be partial to, bee, befrilled, believe, bent, bias, blind impulse, bodily love, boundless, boutade, brain wave, brainchild, brainstorm, bravura, brilliant, brotherly love, bubble, burn with love, busy, capriccio, caprice, capricious, care for, caritas, charity, chichi, chimera, choice, choose, chosen kind, classy, clean, clever, coin, colored, command, complex, complicated, conation, conatus, conceit, conceive, concept, conception, conceptualize, conclude, concoct, concupiscence, conjecture, conjugal love, conjure up, consider, contrariness, coordinated, costly, crack, crackerjack, crank, crave, craving, craze, crazy idea, create, creation, creativeness, creativity, crotchet, cunning, cup of tea, curiosity, cute, cutthroat, daedal, daresay, daydream, dear, dear-bought, decision, decorated, decorative, deem, deft, delirium, delusion, delusive, deluxe, desiderate, desideration, desire, determination, devotion, dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, discretion, disposition, divine, dote on, dote upon, dream, dream up, drive, druthers, eagerness, egregious, eidolon, elaborate, elegant, embellished, embroidered, endorse, enormous, envisage, envisagement, envision, envisioning, esteem, estimate, exacting, exaggerated, excellent, excessive, exorbitant, expect, expensive, experience imaginatively, expert, extortionate, extravagant, extreme, fable, fabricate, fabrication, fabulous, fad, faithful love, fanciful, fantasize, fantasque, fantastic, fantastic notion, fantasticism, fantasy, fascination, favor, feel, fervor, festooned, fiction, fictionalize, figment, figurative, figured, fine, flamboyant, flame, flash, fleeting impulse, flight of fancy, flimflam, florid, flossy, flowery, fondness, fool notion, freak, freakish inspiration, free choice, free love, free will, free-lovism, frilly, fumes of fancy, fussy, gather, gigantic, gingerbread, glorious, gluttonous, go for, good, goodish, gouging, graceful, grand, grandiose, grant, grossly overpriced, guess, gut response, hallucination, handy, hankering, harebrained idea, hatch, have a hunch, have an idea, have an impression, have an inkling, have designs on, have eyes for, have it bad, have the idea, heart, hero worship, high, high-class, high-flown, high-flying, high-priced, high-toned, high-wrought, highfalutin, highfaluting, hold, hold as, hope, horme, humor, hunger for, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, idea, ideate, idle fancy, idolatry, idolism, idolization, illusion, illusory, image, imagery, imagination, imaginativeness, imagine, imagining, imago, immoderate, imposing, impression, impressive, impulse, inclination, incontinent, infer, inflated, inflationary, ingenious, inordinate, inspiration, instinct, insubstantial image, intellectual curiosity, intellectual object, intemperate, intention, intricate, invent, invention, inventiveness, involuntary impulse, irrationality, judge, kink, labored, lasciviousness, leaning, let, let be, libido, like, liking, lofty, long for, longing, look upon as, love, lovemaking, lush, lust, lust after, lust for learning, luxuriant, luxurious, luxury, maggot, magisterial, magnificent, maintain, majestic, make up, make-believe, married love, masterful, masterly, megrim, memory-trace, mental image, mental impression, mind, mirage, mold, monstrous, moresque, mutual affinity, mutual attraction, myth, natural impulse, neat, need, nightmare, no mean, noble, not affordable, notion, objectification, objective, observation, of great cost, opine, opinion, originate, ornamental, ornamented, ornate, ostentatious, out of bounds, out of sight, outrageous, overbig, overcharged, overdeveloped, overelaborate, overelegant, overgreat, overgrown, overlabored, overlarge, overloaded, overmuch, overpriced, overweening, overworked, overwrought, palatial, partiality, particular choice, passing fancy, passion, peculiarity, penchant, perception, personal choice, perverseness, phantasm, phantom, physical love, picture, picturesque, pine for, pleasure, pleasure principle, plush, politic, popular regard, popularity, posh, predilection, predisposition, prefer, preference, prefigure, prejudice, premium, prepossession, preposterous, presume, presuppose, presurmise, pretentious, pretty-pretty, pricey, prime, princely, proclivity, produce, professional, proficient, prohibitive, propensity, proud, provisionally accept, purple, quality, quick, quick hunch, quirk, quite some, ready, recept, reckon, reflection, reflex, regard, representation, repute, resolution, resourceful, rich, ritzy, rococo, romance, sanction, say, select, sentiment, set down as, sex, sexual desire, sexual love, shape, shine, sick fancy, skillful, skyrocketing, slick, some, special, spiraling, spiritual love, splendacious, splendid, splendiferous, stately, statesmanlike, steep, stiff, style, stylish, sudden thought, sumptuous, superb, superfancy, superfine, superior, suppose, supposition, surmise, suspect, swank, swanky, swell, sympathy, tactful, take, take for, take for granted, take it, take to, take to be, taste, tendency, tender feeling, tender passion, the compleat, the complete, theory, thick-coming fancies, thing, think, think up, thirst for knowledge, thought, tony, too much, top, toy, trip, trow, truelove, turn, type, unbridled, unconscionable, understand, undue, unpayable, unrealistic, unreality, unreasonable, unreasonableness, unrestrained, unwarranted, urge, usurious, uxoriousness, vagary, vapor, vaunting, velleity, view as, virtuoso, vision, visionary, visualize, volition, want, wanting, weakness, ween, well-done, whim, whim-wham, whimsical, whimsy, wildest dreams, will, will and pleasure, will power, wish, wish for, wish fulfillment, wish to goodness, wish very much, workmanlike, worship, would fain do, yearning
  

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