Word Type

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Verb

Adjective

Proper Noun

Adverb

Adjective

The word "fancy" can be used as noun, verb, adjective, proper noun, adverb and adjective.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

plain plain simple

Dbpedia Genre

italo disco

Dbpedia Occupation

record producer singing songwriter

Defined As

same as liking

Derived Terms

Fancy Dutch I don't fancy yours blood-red fancy border fancy catch someone's fancy disfancy fanciable fancible fancier fanciful fancify fanciless fanciness fancy Dan fancy ball fancy bread fancy dress fancy fair fancy girl fancy goods fancy house fancy is as fancy does fancy ketchup fancy line fancy maid fancy man fancy meat fancy mouse fancy one's chances fancy pants fancy rat fancy roller fancy sauce fancy seeing you here fancy shop fancy stitch fancy stock fancy that fancy trade fancy up fancy work fancy-free fancy-pants fancy-schmancy fancy-sick fancymonger fancywork flight of fancy footloose and fancy free hyperfancy nonfancy overfancy schmancy strike someone's fancy superfancy take a fancy to take someone's fancy tickle someone's fancy unfancy

Distinct From

dull plain simple

Entails

like

Context

british formal nonstandard

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

conceive of desire envisage ideate imagination imaginativeness imagine liking misconception vision want

Type Of (IsA)

imagination musical artist racehorse

Manner Of

desire

Related Terms

fancy is as fancy does fancy man fancy woman fancypants fantasy

Related Terms

adjective adorned amorous antsy appreciate attachment attract beautifully beautifully rich cake class complicated dance dandified decorated decorative decorative luxurious diamond dress dress party dressed dressed up dressy elaborate elegant enthusiast execute extravagant fancily fancy man fancy woman fancypants fantasy flash frills frilly grade greed group gussy high high class hobby imagination imagine jacks jealousy ketchup look love luxurious market ornamental ornate ornate gussy party plainsies posh pretty pursuit rhetorical rich ritzy see sexually shiny skill slang slang elaborate sophisticated sport style superior suppose up up market very very flash very ornate whim would like

Similar Terms

adorned aureate baroque battlemented battlemented busy castellated castled churrigueresco churrigueresque churrigueresque crackle crackle crenelated damascene damascene damask damask decorated dressy dressy elaborate embattled fanciful fanciful fantastic fantastic flamboyant flamboyant florid fussy fussy lacelike lacelike lacy luxuriant luxuriant puff puffed puffed realise realize rhetorical rococo rococo see understand vermicular vermiculate vermiculated vermiculated visualise visualize

Synonym Network

decorative fancible fantasy feel like fondness high end highfalutin illusion like visualize

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