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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
fancy
1. something many people believe that is false (Freq. 1) - they have the illusion that I am very wealthy • Syn: illusion, fantasy, phantasy • Derivationally related forms: fantasy (for: fantasy), fantasize (for: fantasy), illusory (for: illusion), illusional (for: illusion) • Hypernyms: misconception • Hyponyms: bubble, will-o'-the-wisp, ignis fatuus, wishful thinking 2. a kind of imagination that was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination (Freq. 1) • Hypernyms: imagination, imaginativeness, vision 3. a predisposition to like something - he had a fondness for whiskey • Syn: fondness, partiality • Derivationally related forms: fond (for: fondness) • Hypernyms: liking
1. imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind (Freq. 3) - I can't see him on horseback! - I can see what will happen - I can see a risk in this strategy • Syn: visualize, visualise, envision, project, see, figure, picture, image • Derivationally related forms: image (for: image), imaging (for: image), imagery (for: image), picture (for: picture), picturing (for: picture), figuration (for: figure), seer (for: see), envisioning (for: envision), visualization (for: visualize), visualizer (for: visualize) • Hypernyms: imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisage • Verb Group: understand, realize, realise, see, visualize, visualise • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s something - Somebody ----s that CLAUSE 2. have a fancy or particular liking or desire for (Freq. 1) - She fancied a necklace that she had seen in the jeweler's window • Syn: go for, take to • Derivationally related forms: fancier • Hypernyms: desire, want • Entailment: like • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s something - Somebody ----s somebody - They fancy more bread - Sam cannot fancy Sue
not plain; decorative or ornamented (Freq. 3) - fancy handwriting - fancy clothes • Ant: plain • Similar to: aureate, florid, flamboyant, baroque, churrigueresque, churrigueresco, busy, fussy, dressy, crackle, damascene, damask, elaborate, luxuriant, embattled, battlemented, castled, castellated, fanciful, fantastic, lacy, lacelike, puff, puffed, rococo, vermicular, vermiculate, vermiculated • See Also: adorned, decorated, rhetorical
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