fancy

1. Not plain;
   Decorative or ornamented (synset 301798849)
   "fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes"
   also:

   • adorned, decorated - provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction
   • rhetorical - given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought
   similar to:

   • aureate, flamboyant, florid - elaborately or excessively ornamented
   • baroque, churrigueresco, churrigueresque - having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation
   • busy, fussy - overcrowded or cluttered with detail
   • dressy - in fancy clothing
   • 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
   • elaborate, luxuriant - marked by complexity and richness of detail
   • battlemented, castellated, castled, embattled - having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement
   • fanciful - having a curiously intricate quality
   • fantastic - extravagantly fanciful in design, construction, appearance
   • lacelike, lacy - 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

1. Something many people believe that is false (synset 105904666)
   "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy"
   is a type of: misconception - an incorrect conception
   subtypes:

   • bubble - an impracticable and illusory idea
   • ignis fatuus, will-o'-the-wisp - an illusion that misleads
   • wishful thinking - the illusion that what you wish for is actually true
   same as: fantasy, illusion, phantasy
2. Imagination or fantasy;
   Held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination (synset 105640055)
   "never had the wildest flights of fancy imagined such magnificence"
   is a type of: imagination, imaginativeness, vision - the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses
3. A predisposition to like something (synset 107512937)
   "he had a fondness for whiskey"; "she had dismissed him quite brutally, relegating him to the status of a passing fancy, or less"
   is a type of: liking - a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment
   same as: fondness, partiality

1. Imagine;
   Conceive of;
   See in one's mind (synset 201638974)
   "I can't see him on horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk in this strategy"
   is a type of: conceive of, envisage, ideate, imagine - form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case
   same as: envision, figure, image, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize
   verb group:

   • realise, realize, see, understand - perceive (an idea or situation) mentally
   • visualise, visualize - form a mental picture of something that is invisible or abstract
2. Have a fancy or particular liking or desire for (synset 201780389)
   "She fancied a necklace that she had seen in the jeweler's window"
   entail: like - find enjoyable or agreeable
   is a type of: desire, want - feel or have a desire for; want strongly
   same as: go for, take to

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