Definition of fancy

Scrabble & Words with friends points

• fancy is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 13
• fancy is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 13
• fancy is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 14

Definition of fancy

• have a fancy or particular liking or desire for (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. go for
  2. take to
• something many people believe that is false (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. fantasy
  2. illusion
  3. phantasy
• a predisposition to like something (noun)

  Examples

  1. she had dismissed him quite brutally, relegating him to the status of a passing fancy, or less

  Synonyms

  1. fondness
  2. partiality
• imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. envision
  2. figure
  3. image
  4. picture
  5. project
  6. see
  7. visualise
  8. visualize
• imagination or fantasy; held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination (noun)

  Examples

  1. never had the wildest flights of fancy imagined such magnificence
• not plain; decorative or ornamented (adjective)

  Examples

  1. fancy handwriting
  2. fancy clothes

See definition of fancy in Merriam Webster