fancy

1. 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”

   Synonymsvisualizevisualiseenvisionprojectseefigurepictureimage

   Broaderimagine
2. 2.

   have a fancy or particular liking or desire for

   “She fancied a necklace that she had seen in the jeweler's window”

   Synonymsgo fortake to

   Broaderdesire

1. 1.

   not plain; decorative or ornamented

   “fancy handwriting”

   “fancy clothes”

   Antonymsplain

   Similaraureatebaroquebusydressycrackledamascenedamaskelaborate

Other forms of fancy

plural

fancies·

past tense or participle

fancied

present participle

fancying·

comparative or superlative

fancier

comparative or superlative

fanciest

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fancy

What does fancy mean?

fancy means "something many people believe that is false". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fancy?

fancy has 2 syllables: fan-cy. The stress falls on "fan". In IPA it is /ˈfænsi/.

What is another word for fancy?

Close synonyms include illusion, fantasy, phantasy, fondness, partiality. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of fancy?

The recorded antonyms are plain.

Is fancy a common word?

fancy is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.