Synonyms: fancy
Definition: a kind of imagination that was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination
Similar words: vision, imagination, imaginativeness
Definition: the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses
Usage: popular imagination created a world of demons; imagination reveals what the world could be
Synonyms: phantasy, fancy, fantasy, illusion
Definition: something many people believe that is false
Usage: they have the illusion that I am very wealthy
Similar words: misconception
Definition: an incorrect conception
Synonyms: fancy, fondness, partiality
Definition: a predisposition to like something
Usage: he had a fondness for whiskey
Similar words: liking
Definition: a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment
Usage: I've always had a liking for reading; she developed a liking for gin
Synonyms: figure, envision, fancy, project, picture, see, image, visualise, visualize
Definition: imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
Usage: I can't see him on horseback!; I can see what will happen; I can see a risk in this strategy
Similar words: envisage, conceive of, ideate, imagine
Definition: form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case
Usage: Can you conceive of him as the president?
Synonyms: fancy, take to, go for
Definition: have a fancy or particular liking or desire for
Usage: She fancied a necklace that she had seen in the jeweler's window
Definition: feel or have a desire for; want strongly
Usage: I want to go home now; I want my own room
Synonyms: fancy
Definition: not plain; decorative or ornamented
Usage: fancy handwriting; fancy clothes
Similar words: florid, flamboyant, aureate
Definition: elaborately or excessively ornamented
Usage: flamboyant handwriting; the senator's florid speech
Similar words: baroque, churrigueresco, churrigueresque
Definition: having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation
Usage: the building...frantically baroque-William Dean Howells
Definition: overcrowded or cluttered with detail
Usage: a busy painting; a fussy design
Similar words: dressy
Definition: in fancy clothing
Similar words: crackle
Definition: having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware
Usage: a crackle glaze
Similar words: damascene
Definition: (of metals) decorated or inlaid with a wavy pattern of different (especially precious) metals
Usage: a damascened sword
Similar words: damask
Definition: having a woven pattern
Usage: damask table linens
Similar words: elaborate, luxuriant
Definition: marked by complexity and richness of detail
Usage: an elaborate lace pattern
Similar words: embattled, battlemented, castellated, castled
Definition: having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement
Usage: a crenelated molding
Similar words: fanciful
Definition: having a curiously intricate quality
Usage: a fanciful pattern with intertwined vines and flowers
Similar words: fantastic
Definition: extravagantly fanciful in design, construction, appearance
Usage: Gaudi's fantastic architecture
Definition: made of or resembling lace
Usage: a lacy gown; a lacy leaf
Definition: gathered for protruding fullness
Usage: puff sleeves
Similar words: rococo
Definition: having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation
Usage: an exquisite gilded rococo mirror
Similar words: vermicular, vermiculate, vermiculated
Definition: decorated with wormlike tracery or markings
Usage: vermicular (or vermiculated) stonework