" fancy "

1: made or done with great care or with much detail;

  * e.g., " ... we're having a little get-together after the concert—nothing fancy "

•  Synonyms : 

•  complex,

•  complicated,

•  detailed,

•  elaborate,

•  intricate,

•  involved,

•  sophisticated

•  Antonyms : 

•  no-frills,

•  simple,

•  unfancy,

•  unsophisticated

2: going beyond a normal or acceptable limit in degree or amount;

  * e.g., " ... decided they would rather go without dinner than pay the hotel restaurant's fancy prices "

•  Synonyms : 

•  baroque,

•  devilish,

•  excessive,

•  exorbitant,

•  extravagant,

•  extreme,

•  immoderate,

•  inordinate,

•  insane,

•  intolerable,

•  lavish,

•  over-the-top,

•  overdue,

•  overextravagant,

•  overmuch,

•  overweening,

•  plethoric,

•  steep,

•  stiff,

•  towering,

•  unconscionable,

•  undue,

•  unmerciful

•  Antonyms : 

•  middling,

•  moderate,

•  modest,

•  reasonable,

•  temperate

1: as in pretentious, pompous;

•  Synonyms : 

•  affected,

•  bloated,

•  grandiose,

•  inflated,

•  pompous,

•  pretentious,

•  stilted,

•  aureate,

•  florid,

•  flowery,

•  grandiloquent,

•  highfalutin,

•  high-flown,

•  high-sounding,

•  magnific,

•  ornate,

•  purple,

•  rhetorical,

•  excessive,

•  flattering,

•  fulsome,

•  boastful,

•  bombastic,

•  elevated,

•  eloquent,

•  lofty,

•  bookish,

•  inkhorn,

•  learned

•  Antonyms : 

•  prosaic,

•  unpoetic,

•  bald,

•  direct,

•  lean,

•  matter-of-fact,

•  plain,

•  plainspoken,

•  simple,

•  spare,

•  stark,

•  straightforward,

•  unadorned,

•  natural,

•  unaffected,

•  unpretentious

1: as in footloose;

•  Synonyms : 

•  footloose,

•  single,

•  unattached,

•  unmarried,

•  unwed,

•  marriageable,

•  unpaired,

•  divorced,

•  separated

•  Antonyms : 

•  attached,

•  espoused,

•  hitched,

•  married,

•  wedded,

•  mated,

•  paired,

•  affianced,

•  betrothed,

•  committed,

•  engaged,

•  pledged,

•  promised,

•  remarried

1: a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality;

  * e.g., " ... a writer with a prodigious talent for creating fancies that captivate readers young and old "

•  Synonyms : 

•  chimera,

•  conceit,

•  daydream,

•  delusion,

•  dream,

•  fantasy,

•  figment,

•  hallucination,

•  illusion,

•  nonentity,

•  phantasm,

•  pipe dream,

•  unreality,

•  vision

•  Antonyms : 

•  aversion,

•  disfavor,

•  disgust,

•  dislike,

•  distaste,

•  hatred,

•  loathing,

•  mislike

2: a sudden impulsive and apparently unmotivated idea or action;

  * e.g., " ... is this a serious interest in music, or just your latest fancy that will be forgotten after a week? "

•  Synonyms : 

•  bee,

•  caprice,

•  crank,

•  freak,

•  humor,

•  kink,

•  maggot,

•  megrim,

•  notion,

•  vagary,

•  vagrancy,

•  whim,

•  whimsy

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

3: positive regard for something;

  * e.g., " ... now that he's rich he's taken a fancy to expensive sports cars "

•  Synonyms : 

•  appetite,

•  favor,

•  fondness,

•  like,

•  liking,

•  love,

•  love affair,

•  partiality,

•  preference,

•  relish,

•  shine,

•  taste,

•  use

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

1: as in popinjays, coxcombs;

•  Synonyms : 

•  coxcombs,

•  popinjays,

•  Beau Brummells,

•  beaux,

•  bucks,

•  dandies,

•  dudes,

•  fops,

•  gallants,

•  jays,

•  lounge lizards,

•  macaronis,

•  pretty boys,

•  blades,

•  cavaliers,

•  dashers,

•  clotheshorses,

•  exquisites,

•  swells

•  Antonyms : 

•  slobs,

•  slovens

1: as in popinjay, coxcomb;

•  Synonyms : 

•  coxcomb,

•  popinjay,

•  beau,

•  Beau Brummell,

•  buck,

•  dandy,

•  dude,

•  fop,

•  gallant,

•  jay,

•  lounge lizard,

•  macaroni,

•  pretty boy,

•  blade,

•  cavalier,

•  dasher,

•  clotheshorse,

•  exquisite,

•  swell

•  Antonyms : 

•  slob,

•  sloven

1: a man who solicits clients for a woman who is willing to engage in sexual activities for money;

  * e.g., " ... coppers arresting both the prostitute and her fancy man "

•  Synonyms : 

•  cadet,

•  pander,

•  pimp,

•  procurer

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

1: a boldly flirtatious or sexually promiscuous woman;

  * e.g., " ... in those days a woman who acted on stage was often thought of as a fancy woman "

•  Synonyms : 

•  chippie,

•  doxy,

•  floozy,

•  hoochie,

•  hussy,

•  Jezebel,

•  minx,

•  quean,

•  tramp,

•  trollop,

•  wench

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

1: to form a mental picture of;

  * e.g., " ... try to fancy, if you can, our mother on an elephant when she was touring India "

•  Synonyms : 

•  conceit,

•  conceive,

•  conjure (up),

•  dream,

•  envisage,

•  envision,

•  fantasize,

•  fantasy,

•  feature,

•  ideate,

•  image,

•  imagine,

•  picture,

•  see,

•  vision,

•  visualize

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

2: to take pleasure in;

  * e.g., " ... the teacher didn't fancy the idea of failing the student, even if he was the class clown "

•  Synonyms : 

•  adore,

•  delight (in),

•  dig,

•  enjoy,

•  get off (on),

•  groove (on),

•  like,

•  love,

•  rejoice (in),

•  relish,

•  revel (in),

•  savor

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

1: to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming;

  * e.g., " ... had fancied up his van so much that it was virtually a palace on wheels "

•  Synonyms : 

•  adorn,

•  array,

•  beautify,

•  bedeck,

•  bedizen,

•  blazon,

•  caparison,

•  deck,

•  decorate,

•  do,

•  do up,

•  doll up,

•  drape,

•  dress,

•  embellish,

•  emblaze,

•  emboss,

•  enrich,

•  fancify,

•  festoon,

•  garnish,

•  glitz (up),

•  grace,

•  gussy up,

•  ornament,

•  pretty (up),

•  trim

•  Antonyms : 

•  blemish,

•  deface,

•  disfigure,

•  mar,

•  scar,

•  spoil