fancy

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. imagination; idea, caprice, whim; preference, desire; reverie, daydream. —v. t. imagine; believe, suppose, assume; like, desire, take to. See belief, supposition. —adj. ornate, showy; superior, extravagant. See ornament, ostentation. Ant., simple, plain.

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(Roget's IV) modif.

1. [Special]

Syn. select, choice, deluxe; see excellent , superior , unusual 1 , 2 .

2. [Ornamental]

Syn. elaborate, decorated, elegant, ornate, embellished, decorative, rich, adorned, ostentatious, gaudy, showy, florid, intricate, rococo, baroque, gingerbread, resplendent, sumptuous, lavish; see also elaborate 1 , ornate 1 .

n.

1. [Artistic creative power]

Syn. conception, visualization, creation; see imagination 1 .

2. [The mind at play]

Syn. whimsy, fantasy, reverie, daydream, caprice, daydreaming, Romancing, flight of fancy, flight of imagination, fancifulness, whimsicality, invention, imagining, make-believe.

3. [The product of a playful mind]

Syn. caprice, whim, vagary, conceit, chimera, illusion, delusion, figment, fantasy, daydream, freak, freak of humor, notion, quirk, maggot, crotchet, passing fancy, humor, bubble, hallucination, fantastic notion; see also fantasy 2 .

4. [Inclination]

Syn. liking, partiality, wishes, preference; see deSire 1 , inclination 1 .

v.

1. [To imagine]

Syn. envision, conceive, conjecture, suppose; see assume 1 , imagine 1 .

2. [To have a liking for]

Syn. like, be fond of, favor; see like 1 , 2 , 3 .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus)

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n.

1. imagination fantasy, creation, illusion, visualization, whimsy, whim, conception, notion, vision, idea, picture, dream, daydream, figment, chimera, hallucination.

2. liking fondness, *yen, desire, partiality, hankering, penchant, taste.

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a.

fine, *done up, elegant, prime, extravagant, deluxe, ornate, embellished, frilly, special, showy, lavish, rich, elaborate, decorated.

ANT.: plain, ordinary, simple

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) I noun 1. The power of the mind to form images: fantasy, imagination, imaginativeness. See REAL, THOUGHTS. 2. An illusory mental image: daydream, dream, fantasy, fiction, figment, illusion, phantasm, phantasma, reverie, vision. See REAL. 3. An impulsive, often illogical turn of mind: bee, boutade, caprice, conceit, freak, humor, impulse, megrim, notion, vagary, whim, whimsy. Idiom: bee in one's bonnet. See THOUGHTS. 4. A desire for a particular thing or activity: liking, mind, pleasure, will. See LIKE. 5. The passionate affection and desire felt by lovers for each other: amorousness, love, passion, romance. See LOVE, SEX. II adjective 1. Appealing to fancy: fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, imaginative, whimsical. See PLAIN. 2. Complexly detailed: complicated, elaborate, intricate. See PLAIN. 3. Catering to, used by, or admitting only the wealthy or socially superior: exclusive, posh, swank, swanky. Informal: ritzy. See PLAIN. III verb 1. To form mental images of: conceive, envisage, envision, fantasize, image, imagine, picture, see, think, vision, visualize. Informal: feature. See THOUGHTS. 2. To find agreeable: like1, take to. Chiefly British: conceit. See LIKE.