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imagine, understand, believe, suspect, guess, conjecture,
presume, surmise, assume, take it, suppose, infer, reckon: From
his costume I fancy he must be Superman. Fancy Kim winning the
Nobel prize! 11 like, be attracted to, take (a liking) to,
desire, want, crave, long or pine for, have a yen or craving
for, have an eye for, wish for, hunger for, favour, prefer, lust
after: Terry has always fancied tall women. I wouldn't fancy
being 40 feet up a swaying ladder like that.
fanfare n. 1 flourish, fanfaron, fanfaronade, (trumpet-)blast or blare:
Following a loud fanfare, the toreador strutted into the ring.
2 hullabaloo, hubbub, brouhaha, commotion, stir, ado, show,
fuss, Colloq to-do, ballyhoo: Despite the enormous fanfare, the
film was a failure.
fantasize v. dream, imagine, day-dream, muse, mull (over), build castles
in the air or in Spain, speculate, envisage, star-gaze;
hallucinate, US envision: She often fantasized about the kind
of man she would marry.
fantastic adj. 1 fanciful, strange, weird, peculiar, odd, eccentric,
queer, bizarre, quaint, outlandish, exotic, extravagant,
grotesque, nightmarish, alien, remarkable: She wore the most
fantastic costume to the fancy-dress ball. 2 imaginary,
illusory, illusive, unreal, visionary, fanciful, unrealistic,
imagined, irrational: His books are inhabited by fantastic
creatures. 3 unbelievable, incredible, preposterous,
extraordinary, implausible, absurd, unlikely: At 85, he made
the fantastic decision to enter the marathon. 4 marvellous,
spectacular, splendid, wonderful, tremendous, overwhelming,
Colloq great, fabulous, terrific: The Picasso exhibition is
simply fantastic.
fantasy n. 1 imagination, fancy, creativity, inventiveness, creativity,
originality: We encourage the children to give free rein to
their fantasy. 2 vision, hallucination, illusion, mirage,
delusion, chimera, dream, day-dream, (flight of) fancy,
pipedream: Her fantasy is to become prime minister. 3
make-believe, invention, cabrication, fiction, masquerade,
fable, concoction, pretence: His story about being an orphan is
pure fantasy.
far adv. 1 afar, far-away or -off, a good or great or long way or