| 单词 | fancy |
| 释义 | Word Frequency fancy(ˈfænsɪ) adjectiveWord forms: -cier or -ciest 1. not plain; ornamented or decorative a fancy cake fancy clothes 2. requiring skill to perform; intricate a fancy dance routine 3. arising in the imagination; capricious or illusory 4. (often used ironically) superior in quality or impressive a fancy course in business administration 5. higher than expected fancy prices 6. (of a domestic animal) bred for particular qualities nounWord forms: plural -cies 7. a sudden capricious idea; whim 8. a sudden or irrational liking for a person or thing 9. 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 imagination (sense 4) 10. an idea or thing produced by this 11. a mental image 12. taste or judgment, as in art of dress 13. Also called: fantasy, fantasia music a composition for solo lute, keyboard, etc, current during the 16th and 17th centuries 14. the fancy verbWord forms: -cies, -cying or -cied (transitive) 15. to picture in the imagination 16. to suppose; imagine I fancy it will rain 17. (often used with a negative) to like I don't fancy your chances! 18. (reflexive) to have a high or ill-founded opinion of oneself he fancied himself as a doctor 19. informal to have a wish for; desire she fancied some chocolate 20. British informal to be physically attracted to (another person) 21. to breed (animals) for particular characteristics exclamation 22. Also: fancy that! an exclamation of surprise or disbelief Derived forms fancily (ˈfancily) adverb fanciness (ˈfanciness) noun Word origin C15 fantsy, shortened from fantasie; see fantasy |
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