1. 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
    
2. Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
   "I can't fancy him on horseback!";
   - visualize, visualise [Brit], envision, project, see, figure, picture, image
    
3. [Brit, informal] Find sexually attractive
   "he definitely fancies her"

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

1. A predisposition to like something
   "she had dismissed him quite brutally, relegating him to the status of a passing fancy, or less";
   - fondness, partiality
    
2. Imagination or fantasy; held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination
   "never had the wildest flights of fancy imagined such magnificence"
    
3. Something that many people believe but is false
   "He fancies himself to be a local celebrity";
   - illusion, fantasy, phantasy [archaic]

1. Used to express surprise;
   "fancy, it was half the price last time I was here!"";
   - bejeezus [N. Amer, informal], Christ [informal], Christmas [informal], crikey [Brit, informal], cripes [informal], cor [Brit, informal], crumbs [Brit, informal], gosh [informal], golly [informal], by George [informal], by Jove [informal], blimey [Brit, informal], gorblimey [Brit, informal], cor blimey [Brit, informal], my [informal], holy cow [informal], holy mackerel [informal], holy smoke [informal], holy moley [informal], holy moly [informal], good grief [informal], goodness [informal], goodness me [informal], Gordon Bennett [informal], gracious [informal], gracious me [informal], fancy that [informal], gawd [informal], god, my word, oh, O, ah, oh boy [informal], jeez [informal], geez [informal], strewth [Brit, informal], struth [Brit, informal], yikes [informal], I'll be blowed [Brit, informal], blow me [Brit, informal], heck [informal], blooming heck [Brit, informal], jeepers [informal], jeepers creepers [informal], Lord [informal], Lordy [informal], marry [archaic], well I never [informal], heavens [informal], good heavens [informal], my goodness [informal], Jesus [informal], bejesus [N. Amer, informal], od [archaic]

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

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

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

Antonym: plain

Encyclopedia: Fancy, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines