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fancied adj. imaginary, unreal, fanciful, imagined, illusory,
make-believe, mythical, fairy-tale: They support their king in
the pursuit of his fancied rights.
fanciful adj. 1 whimsical, capricious, impulsive, inconstant, fickle,
changeable, variable: Those graffiti are products of a fanciful
mind. 2 extravagant, chimerical, fantastic, fabulous, mythical,
fairy-tale, imaginative, fancied, make-believe, unreal,
illusory, imagined, visionary, imaginary: Some of the more
fanciful ideas of science fiction have become realities. 3
curious, odd, peculiar, bizarre, unusual, original: The chalice
was decorated with fanciful curlicues.
fancy adj. 1 ornate, decorative, decorated, ornamental, ornamented,
elaborate, embellished, embroidered, fanciful, extravagant,
rococo, baroque, gingerbread, Byzantine, complicated, intricate,
complex: The modern trend has been away from fancy
architecture. 2 illusory, capricious, fanciful, extravagant,
fantastic, far-fetched, delusive, whimsical, visionary,
unrealistic, grandiose: He has some fancy ideas about building
an undersea city. 3 de luxe, luxury, luxurious, choice, select,
prime, special, elegant, superior, quality, high-class; posh:
They stock only fancy fruits and vegetables. She has a fancy
suite at the Cardigan Hotel. 4 high, exorbitant, inflated,
outrageous: One has to pay very fancy prices for haute couture.
--n. 5 imagination, creation, conception, inventiveness,
creativeness, creativity: These chimeras are entirely a product
of his fancy. 6 imagination, fantasy, hallucination, delusion,
illusion, unreality, make-believe, dream, day-dream, pipedream,
mirage, phantasm, phantom, figment (of the imagination),
impression: Our plans for the future must be based on fact, not
fancy. 7 liking, inclination, fondness, taste, penchant,
attraction, preference, partiality, predilection, yearning,
craving, hankering, wish, desire, longing: Miss Crow's fancy
for younger men often causes her some embarrassment. 8 idea,
whim, caprice, whimsy, urge, impulse, notion, vagary, quirk,
crotchet, peculiarity: His fancy today is that he invented
electricity.
--v. 9 imagine, conceive, picture, visualize, envisage, think
or make up, conjure up, US envision, Colloq dream up: He
fancies himself on a big yacht in the Mediterranean. 10 think,