| 单词 | fancy |
| 释义 | fancy (once / 58 pages) 1adj 2vn 3nv Fancy can be an adjective, noun, or a verb. As an adjective, it’s the opposite of plain. The noun names something that isn’t real. When someone likes or wants something, the verb can be used: “I fancy a cup of tea.” Doesn’t that sound fancy? Fancy is an old contraction of the word fantasy. You’ll often see this word used in the phrase “flights of fancy.” This phrase refers to an unrealistic goal or idea such as, “He has flights of fancy about running off to Hollywood and becoming a movie star.” Fancy can also be used as an expression of affection. If you have a crush on someone, for instance, you could say that you “took a fancy” to him or her. WORD FAMILYfancy: fancied, fancier, fancies, fanciest, fanciful, fancily, fancying+/fancied: fanciedly/fancier: fanciers/fanciful: fancifully USAGE EXAMPLESNot a fancy car, mind you—a fifteen-year old Civic with 170,000 miles on it—but a car nonetheless. Salon(Jan 02, 2017) Rookie Tyreek Hill showed some fancy footwork in returning a punt 95 yards for a touchdown in the final minute of the third quarter. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) Rookie Tyreek Hill showed some fancy footwork in returning a punt 95 yards for a touchdown in the final minute of the third quarter. Los Angeles Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1 adj not plain; decorative or ornamented 2fancy handwriting fancy clothes Syn|Ant adorned, decorated provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction aureate, flamboyant, floridelaborately or excessively ornamented baroque, churrigueresco, churrigueresquehaving elaborate symmetrical ornamentation busy, fussyovercrowded or cluttered with detail dressyin fancy clothing cracklehaving the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware damascene(of metals) decorated or inlaid with a wavy pattern of different (especially precious) metals damaskhaving a woven pattern elaborate, luxuriantmarked by complexity and richness of detail battlemented, castellated, castled, embattledhaving or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement fancifulhaving a curiously intricate quality fantasticextravagantly fanciful in design, construction, appearance lacelike, lacymade of or resembling lace puff, puffedgathered for protruding fullness rococohaving excessive asymmetrical ornamentation vermicular, vermiculate, vermiculateddecorated with wormlike tracery or markings rhetoricalgiven to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought plain not elaborate or elaborated; simple unadorned, undecoratednot decorated with something to increase its beauty or distinction austere, severe, stark, sternseverely simple bare, mere, simpleapart from anything else; without additions or modifications chastepure and simple in design or style dry(of food) eaten without a spread or sauce or other garnish dryhaving no adornment or coloration featurelesslacking distinguishing characteristics or features homelyplain and unpretentious inelaborate, unelaboratenot elaborate; lacking rich or complex detail literalavoiding embellishment or exaggeration (used for emphasis) simpleunornamented tailored, trimseverely simple in line or design vanillaplain and without any extras or adornments unpretentiouslacking pretension or affectation unrhetoricalnot rhetorical simplehaving few parts; not complex or complicated or involved 1v imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind Syn|Hyper envision, figure, image, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize realise, realize, see, understand perceive (an idea or situation) mentally visualise, visualizeform a mental picture of something that is invisible or abstract conceive of, envisage, ideate, imagine form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case 2n something many people believe that is false Syn|Hypo|Hyper fantasy, illusion, phantasy bubble an impracticable and illusory idea ignis fatuus, will-o'-the-wispan illusion that misleads wishful thinkingthe illusion that what you wish for is actually true misconception an incorrect conception 3n a kind of imagination that was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination 3Hyper imagination, imaginativeness, vision the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses 1n a predisposition to like something Syn|Hyper fondness, partiality liking a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment 2v have a fancy or particular liking or desire for She fancied a necklace that she had seen in the jeweler's window Syn|Hyper go for, take to desire, want feel or have a desire for; want strongly |
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