Sự tưởng tượng

Sự võ đoán

Tính đồng bóng

Ý muốn nhất thời

Sở thích, thị hiếu

the fancy

những người hâm mộ (một môn thể thao gì); những người thích (một thú riêng gì); những người hâm mộ quyền Anh

Có trang hoàng, có trang trí

fancy dress

quần áo cải trang

fancy goods

hàng hoá có trang trí đẹp

Nhiều màu (hoa)

Lạ lùng, vô lý

at a fancy price

với giá đắt lạ lùng

Đồng bóng

Tưởng tượng

a fancy picture

bức tranh tưởng tượng

Để làm cảnh, để trang hoàng

fancy pigeon

chim bồ câu nuôi làm cảnh

Tưởng tượng, cho rằng, nghĩ rằng

never fancy yourself as a king

mày đừng bao giờ tự cho mình là ông vua

Mến, thích

Nuôi (súc vật) làm cảnh, trồng (cây) làm cảnh

fancy!

ồ!

fancy his believing it!

hắn lại tin cái đó mới lạ chứ

to catch someone's fancy

làm cho ai thích thú

a flight of fancy

ý nghĩ viễn vông

to take a fancy to somebody/something

yêu thích, chuộng

khác thường

Ornate, decorative, decorated, ornamental, ornamented,elaborate, embellished, embroidered, fanciful, extravagant,rococo, baroque, gingerbread, Byzantine, complicated, intricate,complex: The modern trend has been away from fancyarchitecture.

Illusory, capricious, fanciful, extravagant,fantastic, far-fetched, delusive, whimsical, visionary,unrealistic, grandiose: He has some fancy ideas about buildingan undersea city.

De luxe, luxury, luxurious, choice, select,prime, special, elegant, superior, quality, high-class; posh:They stock only fancy fruits and vegetables. She has a fancysuite at the Cardigan Hotel. 4 high, exorbitant, inflated,outrageous: One has to pay very fancy prices for haute couture.

N.

Imagination, creation, conception, inventiveness,creativeness, creativity: These chimeras are entirely a productof his fancy.

Imagination, fantasy, hallucination, delusion,illusion, unreality, make-believe, dream, day-dream, pipedream,mirage, phantasm, phantom, figment (of the imagination),impression: Our plans for the future must be based on fact, notfancy.

Liking, inclination, fondness, taste, penchant,attraction, preference, partiality, predilection, yearning,craving, hankering, wish, desire, longing: Miss Crow's fancyfor younger men often causes her some embarrassment.

Idea,whim, caprice, whimsy, urge, impulse, notion, vagary, quirk,crotchet, peculiarity: His fancy today is that he inventedelectricity.

V.

Imagine, conceive, picture, visualize, envisage, thinkor make up, conjure up, US envision, Colloq dream up: Hefancies himself on a big yacht in the Mediterranean.

Think,imagine, understand, believe, suspect, guess, conjecture,presume, surmise, assume, take it, suppose, infer, reckon: Fromhis costume I fancy he must be Superman. Fancy Kim winning theNobel prize! 11 like, be attracted to, take (a liking) to,desire, want, crave, long or pine for, have a yen or cravingfor, have an eye for, wish for, hunger for, favour, prefer, lustafter: Terry has always fancied tall women. I wouldn't fancybeing 40 feet up a swaying ladder like that.

N. (pl. -ies) 1 an individual taste orinclination (take a fancy to).

A caprice or whim.

A thingfavoured, e.g. a horse to win a race.

An arbitrarysupposition.

A the faculty of using imagination or ofinventing imagery. b a mental image.

Delusion; unfoundedbelief.

(prec. by the) those who have a certain hobby;fanciers, esp. patrons of boxing.

Adj. (usu. attrib.)(fancier, fanciest) 1 ornamental; not plain.

Capricious,whimsical, extravagant (at a fancy price).

Based onimagination, not fact.

US (of foods etc.) above averagequality.

(of flowers etc.) particoloured.

(of an animal)bred for particular points of beauty etc.

V.tr. (-ies, -ied)1 (foll. by that + clause) be inclined to suppose; rather think.2 Brit. colloq. feel a desire for (do you fancy a drink?).

Brit. colloq. find sexually attractive.

Colloq. have anunduly high opinion of (oneself, one's ability, etc.).

(inimper.) an exclamation of surprise (fancy their doing that!).

Picture to oneself; conceive, imagine.

Awoman's lover.

A pimp. fancy woman sl. derog. a mistress.fancy-work ornamental sewing etc.

Fanciable adj. (in sense 3of v.). fancily adv. fanciness n. [contr. of FANTASY]