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fancy

noun
  1. The power of the mind to form images: fantasy, imagination, imaginativeness. See real, thoughts
  2. An illusory mental image: daydream, dream, fantasy, fiction, figment, illusion, phantasm, phantasma, reverie, vision. See real
  3. An 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 thoughts
  4. A desire for a particular thing or activity: liking, mind, pleasure, will. See like
  5. The passionate affection and desire felt by lovers for each other: amorousness, love, passion, romance. See love, sex
adjective
  1. Appealing to fancy: fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, imaginative, whimsical. See plain
  2. Complexly detailed: complicated, elaborate, intricate. See plain
  3. Catering to, used by, or admitting only the wealthy or socially superior: exclusive, posh, swank, swanky. Informal: ritzy. See plain
verb
  1. To form mental images of: conceive, envisage, envision, fantasize, image, imagine, picture, see, think, vision, visualize. Informal: feature. See thoughts
  2. To find agreeable: like 1, take to. Chiefly British: conceit. See like

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