Synonyms for fancy
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Special
select, choice, deluxe; see excellent, superior, unusual 1, 2.
Ornamental
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.
noun
Artistic creative power
conception, visualization, creation; see imagination 1.
The mind at play
whimsy, fantasy, reverie, daydream, caprice, daydreaming, romancing, flight of fancy, flight of imagination, fancifulness, whimsicality, invention, imagining, make-believe.
The product of a playful mind
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.
Inclination
liking, partiality, wishes, preference; see desire 1, inclination 1.
See fancy in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
noun
The power of the mind to form images:
fantasy, imagination, imaginativeness. See real, thoughtsAn illusory mental image:
daydream, dream, fantasy, fiction, figment, illusion, phantasm, phantasma, reverie, vision. See realAn 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 thoughtsA desire for a particular thing or activity:
liking, mind, pleasure, will. See likeThe passionate affection and desire felt by lovers for each other:
amorousness, love, passion, romance. See love, sex
adjective
Appealing to fancy:
fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, imaginative, whimsical. See plainComplexly detailed:
complicated, elaborate, intricate. See plainCatering to, used by, or admitting only the wealthy or socially superior:
exclusive, posh, swank, swanky. (Informal) ritzy. See plain
verb
To form mental images of:
conceive, envisage, envision, fantasize, image, imagine, picture, see, think, vision, visualize. (Informal) feature. See thoughtsTo find agreeable:
like1, take to. (Chiefly British) conceit. See like
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