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fancy

/'fænsi/

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verb
have a fancy or particular liking or desire for
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go for take to

type of:
desire want
noun
something many people believe that is false
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fantasy illusion phantasy

type of:
misconception
noun
a predisposition to like something
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"she had dismissed him quite brutally, relegating him to the status of a passing fancy, or less"

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fondness partiality

type of:
liking
verb
imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
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envision figure image picture project see visualise visualize

type of:
imagine envisage ideate conceive of
noun
imagination or fantasy; held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination
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"never had the wildest flights of fancy imagined such magnificence"

type of:
imagination imaginativeness vision
adjective
not plain; decorative or ornamented
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"fancy handwriting" "fancy clothes"

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vermiculated puff puffed rococo vermicular vermiculate aureate baroque battlemented busy castellated castled churrigueresco churrigueresque crackle damascene damask dressy elaborate embattled fanciful fantastic flamboyant florid fussy lacelike lacy luxuriant

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plain

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