Definition of fancy

adjective (a)

• not plain; decorative or ornamented (adj.all)

  Antonym: plain
  

  Example:
  Fancy handwriting.
  Fancy clothes.
  

  source: wordnet30
• Adapted to please the fancy or taste; ornamental; as, fancy goods. (adjective)

  source: webster1913

noun (n)

• something many people believe that is false (noun.cognition)

  Synonym: fantasy, illusion, phantasy
  

  source: wordnet30
• a kind of imagination that was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination (noun.cognition)

  source: wordnet30
• a predisposition to like something (noun.feeling)

  Synonym: fondness, partiality
  

  source: wordnet30
• The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into new pictures or images; the power of readily and happily creating and recalling such objects for the purpose of amusement, wit, or embellishment; imagination. (noun)

  source: webster1913

verb (v)

• imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind (verb.creation)

  Synonym: envision, figure, image, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize
  

  source: wordnet30
• have a fancy or particular liking or desire for (verb.emotion)

  Synonym: go for, take to
  

  source: wordnet30
• To figure to one's self; to believe or imagine something without proof. (verb)

  source: webster1913
• To form a conception of; to portray in the mind; to imagine. (verb)

  source: webster1913

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