Fancy \Fan"cy\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fancied, p. pr. & vb. n.
Fancying.]
1. To figure to one's self; to believe or imagine something
without proof.
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If our search has reached no farther than simile and
metaphor, we rather fancy than know. --Locke.
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2. To love. [Obs.] --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Fancied \Fan"cied\, a. [From Fancy, v. t.]
Formed or conceived by the fancy; unreal; as, a fancied
wrong.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
fancy
adj : not plain; decorative or ornamented; "fancy handwriting";
"fancy clothes" [ant: plain]
n 1: something many people believe that is false; "they have the
illusion that I am very wealthy" [syn: illusion, fantasy,
phantasy]
2: fancy was held by Coleridge to be more casual and
superficial than imagination
3: a predisposition to like something; "he had a fondness for
whiskey" [syn: fondness, partiality]
v 1: imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind; "I can't see him on
horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a
risk in this strategy" [syn: visualize, visualise, envision,
project, see, figure, picture, image]
2: have a fancy or particular liking or desire for; "She
fancied a necklace that she had seen in the jeweler's
window" [syn: go for, take to]
[also: fancied, fanciest, fancier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
fancied
adj : formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse
for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional
character"; "used fictitious names"; "a made-up story"
[syn: fabricated, fictional, fictitious, invented,
made-up]
WordNet (r) 2.0
fancied
See fancy
WordNet (r) 2.0
32 Moby Thesaurus words for "fancied":
concocted, cooked-up, fabricated, fabulous, fanciful, fantasied,
fantastic, fictional, fictitious, fictive, figmental, forged,
hatched, illusory, imaginary, imaginational, imagined, invented,
legendary, made-up, make-believe, manufactured, mythical,
nonexistent, notional, put-up, shadowy, supposititious, trumped-up,
unactual, unreal, visional
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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