Definitions of fancy
British English : fancy If you describe something as fancy, you mean that it is special, unusual, or elaborate, for example because it has a lot of decoration. ADJECTIVEIt was packaged in a fancy plastic case with attractive graphics.
adjective
- not plain; ornamented or decorative ⇒ a fancy cake , fancy clothes
- requiring skill to perform; intricate ⇒ a fancy dance routine
- arising in the imagination; capricious or illusory
- (often used ironically) superior in quality or impressive ⇒ a fancy course in business administration
- higher than expected ⇒ fancy prices
- (of a domestic animal) bred for particular qualities
noun
- a sudden capricious idea; whim
- a sudden or irrational liking for a person or thing
- the power to conceive and represent decorative and novel imagery, esp in poetry. Fancy was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than imagination See imagination (sense 4)
- an idea or thing produced by this
- a mental image
- taste or judgment, as in art of dress
- Also called : fantasy , fantasia (music ) a composition for solo lute, keyboard, etc, current during the 16th and 17th centuries
- See the fancy
verb
- to picture in the imagination
- to suppose; imagine ⇒ I fancy it will rain
- (often used with a negative) to like ⇒ I don't fancy your chances!
- (reflexive) to have a high or ill-founded opinion of oneself ⇒ he fancied himself as a doctor
- (informal ) to have a wish for; desire ⇒ she fancied some chocolate
- (British , informal ) to be physically attracted to (another person)
- to breed (animals) for particular characteristics
exclamation
- Also : fancy that! . an exclamation of surprise or disbelief