Meaning of fancy

Definition of fancy

(adj) not plain; decorative or ornamented; "fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes"

(noun) something many people believe that is false; "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy"

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"

a predisposition to like something; "he had a fondness for whiskey"; "she had dismissed him quite brutally, relegating him to the status of a passing fancy, or less"

(verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind; "I can't see him on horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk in this strategy"

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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