fancy

nouns

something many people believe that is false

"they have the illusion that I am very wealthy"

fancy, fantasy, illusion, phantasy

a kind of imagination that was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination

fancy

is a type of (narrower)

the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses

"popular imagination created a world of demons"; "imagination reveals what the world could be"

imagination, imaginativeness, vision

a predisposition to like something

"he had a fondness for whiskey"

fancy, fondness, partiality

verbs

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"

envision, fancy, figure, image, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize

have a fancy or particular liking or desire for

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

fancy, go for, take to

is derived from

fancier

adjectives

not plain; decorative or ornamented

"fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes"

fancy

antonym

plain

is similar to

elaborately or excessively ornamented

"flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech"

aureate, flamboyant, florid

is similar to

having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation

"the building...frantically baroque"-William Dean Howells

baroque, churrigueresco, churrigueresque

is similar to

overcrowded or cluttered with detail

"a busy painting"; "a fussy design"

busy, fussy

is similar to

in fancy clothing

dressy

is similar to

having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware

"a crackle glaze"

crackle

is similar to

(of metals) decorated or inlaid with a wavy pattern of different (especially precious) metals

"a damascened sword"

damascene

is similar to

having a woven pattern

"damask table linens"

damask

is similar to

marked by complexity and richness of detail

"an elaborate lace pattern"

elaborate, luxuriant

is similar to

having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement

"a crenelated molding"

battlemented, castellated, castled, embattled

is similar to

having a curiously intricate quality

"a fanciful pattern with intertwined vines and flowers"

fanciful

is similar to

extravagantly fanciful in design, construction, appearance

"Gaudi's fantastic architecture"

fantastic

is similar to

made of or resembling lace

"a lacy gown"; "a lacy leaf"

lacelike, lacy

is similar to

gathered for protruding fullness

"puff sleeves"

puff, puffed

is similar to

having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation

"an exquisite gilded rococo mirror"

rococo

is similar to

decorated with wormlike tracery or markings

"vermicular (or vermiculated) stonework"

vermicular, vermiculate, vermiculated