fancy - Meaning in Punjabi

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fancy - Meaning in Punjabi

fancy Word Forms & Inflections

Definitions and Meaning of fancy in English

fancy adjective

1. not plain; decorative or ornamented

   Examples

   • "fancy clothes"
   • "fancy handwriting"

fancy noun

1. imagination or fantasy; held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination

   Example

   • "never had the wildest flights of fancy imagined such magnificence"
2. something many people believe that is false

   Synonyms

   fantasy, fantasy, illusion, phantasy

   Example

   • "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy"
3. a predisposition to like something

   Synonyms

   fondness, partiality

   Examples

   • "he had a fondness for whiskey"
   • "she had dismissed him quite brutally, relegating him to the status of a passing fancy, or less"

fancy verb

1. imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind

   Synonyms

   envision, figure, image, picture, picture, project, see, see, visualise, visualize

   Examples

   • "I can see a risk in this strategy"
   • "I can see what will happen"
   • "I can't see him on horseback!"
2. have a fancy or particular liking or desire for

   Synonyms

   go for, take to

   Example

   • "She fancied a necklace that she had seen in the jeweler's window"

Synonyms of fancy

• fantasy, illusion, phantasy
• fondness, partiality
• envision, figure, image, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize
• go for, take to

Antonyms of fancy

plain

More matches for fancy

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