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fancy
adjective
noun
verb
not plain; decorative or ornamented
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Word Facts
- Word length
- 5
- Starts with
- F
- Ends with
- Y
- Contains
- ANC
- Scrabble score
- 13
- Database source
- OEWN 2025 Core
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adjective
not plain; decorative or ornamented
“fancy handwriting”
noun
imagination or fantasy; held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination
“never had the wildest flights of fancy imagined such magnificence”
noun
something many people believe that is false
“they have the illusion that I am very wealthy”
noun
a predisposition to like something
“he had a fondness for whiskey”
verb
imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
“I can't see him on horseback!”
verb
have a fancy or particular liking or desire for
“She fancied a necklace that she had seen in the jeweler's window”
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Example Sentences
fancy handwriting
fancy clothes
never had the wildest flights of fancy imagined such magnificence
they have the illusion that I am very wealthy
He fancies himself to be a local celebrity.
he had a fondness for whiskey
she had dismissed him quite brutally, relegating him to the status of a passing fancy, or less
I can't see him on horseback!
I can see what will happen
I can see a risk in this strategy
She fancied a necklace that she had seen in the jeweler's window
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