ADJECTIVE | all | fancy | not plain |
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NOUN | cognition | fancy, illusion, fantasy, phantasy | something many people believe that is false / false |
cognition | fancy | a kind of imagination that was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination | |
feeling | fancy, fondness, partiality | a predisposition to like / like something | |
VERB | creation | fancy, visualize, visualise, envision, project, see, figure, picture, image | imagine |
emotion | fancy, go for, take to | have a fancy or particular liking or desire for |
Sounds | fae'nsiy | |
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Rhymes | absorbency ... Yangtze: 255 rhymes with siy... |
Meaning | Something many people believe that is false / false. | |
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Synonyms | illusion, fantasy, phantasy | |
Narrower | bubble | An impracticable and illusory idea |
will-o'-the-wisp, ignis fatuus | An illusion that misleads | |
wishful thinking | The illusion that what you wish for is actually true | |
Broader | misconception | An incorrect conception |
Spanish | fantasía, ilusión | |
Catalan | fantasia, il·lusió | |
Verbs | fancy | imagine |
Meaning | A kind of imagination that was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination. | |
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Broader | imagination, imaginativeness, vision | The formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses |
Catalan | fantasia | |
Verbs | fancy | imagine |
Meaning | A predisposition to like / like something. | |
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Synonyms | fondness, partiality | |
Broader | liking | A feeling of pleasure and enjoyment |
Spanish | afecto, afición, apego, cariño, estima, gusto, inclinación, parcialidad | |
Catalan | afició, inclinació | |
Verbs | fancy | have a fancy or particular liking or desire for |
Meaning | imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE | |
Synonyms | visualize, visualise, envision, project, see, figure, picture, image | |
Broader | imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisage | form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case |
Similar to | understand, realize, realise, see | perceive (an idea or situation) mentally |
visualize, visualise | form a mental picture of something that is invisible or abstract | |
Spanish | figurarse, imaginarse, imaginar, representarse, ver, visualizar | |
Catalan | figurar-se, imaginar-se, representar-se, veure | |
Nouns | fancy | a kind of imagination that was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination |
fancy | something many people believe that is false / false |
Meaning | Have a fancy or particular liking or desire for. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody | |
Model | They fancy more bread; Sam cannot fancy Sue | |
Synonyms | go for, take to | |
Entails | like | Find enjoyable or agreeable |
Broader | desire, want | Feel or have a desire for |
Spanish | apetecer | |
Catalan | apetir, venir de gust | |
Nouns | fancier | a person having a strong liking for something |
fancy | a predisposition to like / like something |
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