fancy adj : not plain; decorative or ornamented; "fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes" [ant: plain]

1 something many people believe that is false; "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy" [syn: illusion, fantasy, phantasy]

2 fancy was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than imagination

3 a predisposition to like something; "he had a fondness for whiskey" [syn: fondness, partiality]

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" [syn: visualize, visualise, envision, project, see, figure, picture, image]

2 have a fancy or particular liking or desire for; "She fancied a necklace that she had seen in the jeweler's window" [syn: go for, take to] [also: fancied, fanciest, fancier]fancied adj : formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character"; "used fictitious names"; "a made-up story" [syn: fabricated, fictional, fictitious, invented, made-up]fancied See fancy

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fancied

1. past of fancy

concocted, cooked-up, fabricated, fabulous, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, fictional, fictitious, fictive, figmental, forged, hatched, illusory, imaginary, imaginational, imagined, invented, legendary, made-up, make-believe, manufactured, mythical, nonexistent, notional, put-up, shadowy, supposititious, trumped-up, unactual, unreal, visional