English > fancy: 6 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | not plain; decorative or ornamented. |
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| Examples | - "fancy handwriting"
- "fancy clothes"
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| Narrower | aureate, florid, flamboyant | elaborately or excessively ornamented |
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| baroque, churrigueresque, churrigueresco | Having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation |
| busy, fussy | overcrowded or cluttered with detail |
| crackle | Having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware |
| damascene | (of metals) decorated or inlaid with a wavy pattern of different (especially precious) metals |
| damask | Having a woven pattern |
| dressy | In fancy clothing |
| elaborate, luxuriant | marked by complexity and richness of detail |
| embattled, battlemented, castled, castellated | Having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement |
| fanciful | Having a curiously intricate quality |
| fantastic | Extravagantly fanciful in design, construction, appearance |
| lacy, lacelike | made of or resembling lace |
| puff, puffed | Gathered for protruding fullness |
| rococo | Having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation |
| vermicular, vermiculate, vermiculated | decorated with wormlike tracery or markings |
| See also | adorned, decorated | Provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction |
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| rhetorical | Given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought |
| Opposite | plain | not elaborate or elaborated |
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| Spanish | elaborado, producido, sofisticado |
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English > fancy: 6 senses > verb 1, creation| Meaning | imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE |
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| Synonyms | visualize, visualise, envision, project, see, figure, picture, image |
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| Broader | imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisage | form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case |
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| Similar to | understand, realize, realise, see | perceive (an idea or situation) mentally |
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| visualize, visualise | form a mental picture of something that is invisible or abstract |
| Spanish | figurarse, imaginarse, imaginar, representarse, ver, visualizar |
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| Catalan | figurar-se, imaginar-se, representar-se, veure |
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| Nouns | fancy | a kind of imagination that was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination |
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| fancy | something many people believe that is false / false |
