Fancy — Meaning, Definition & Synonyms

going beyond a normal or acceptable limit in degree or amount

"decided they would rather go without dinner than pay the hotel restaurant's fancy prices"

made or done with great care or with much detail

"we're having a little get-together after the concert—nothing fancy"

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

"a writer with a prodigious talent for creating fancies that captivate readers young and old"

a sudden impulsive and apparently unmotivated idea or action

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

positive regard for something

"now that he's rich he's taken a fancy to expensive sports cars"

the ability to form mental images of things that either are not physically present or have never been conceived or created by others

"to fans of Lewis Carroll, the animal creations of his fertile fancy are as real as any creature to be found at the zoo"

to form a mental picture of

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

to take pleasure in

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