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adjective | noun | verb fancyfancy1 /ˈfænsi/ ●●● S2 adjective (comparative fancier, superlative fanciest) ► nothing fancy The restaurant’s food is nothing fancy (=it’s not special), but it’s good and cheap. THESAURUScosting a lot of money► expensivecosting a lot of money: Apartments in the city are very expensive. He took me to an expensive restaurant. ► high prices or costs that are high are more expensive than usual: Gas prices are very high right now. ► pricey informal expensive compared to other things of the same kind: The hotel was nice, but it was a little bit pricey. ► costly very expensive and often wasting money: They wanted to avoid a costly legal battle. ► overpriced too expensive and not worth the price: I’m not going into a tourist shop to buy an overpriced T-shirt. ► exorbitant exorbitant prices, costs, etc. are much too expensive: Housing prices in New York are exorbitant. ► astronomical astronomical prices, costs, etc. are so expensive that they are very hard to believe or imagine: The painting was sold for an astronomical price. ► exclusive exclusive restaurants, hotels, etc. have very high prices so that only very rich people can go to them: She spends two weeks every year at an exclusive spa in the Rockies. ► fancy fancy restaurants, cars, clothes, etc. are expensive and fashionable: They stayed at a fancy hotel in San Francisco. 1fancy hotels, restaurants, cars, etc. are expensive and fashionable: We stayed in this really fancy hotel in the mountains.► see thesaurus at expensive2made in a special or complicated way: fancy soaps in seashell shapes The restaurant’s food is nothing fancy (=it’s not special), but it’s good and cheap.3complicated and needing a lot of skill: fancy skiing4[only before noun] fancy food is very high quality: fancy butter adjective | noun | verb fancyfancy2 noun old-fashioned ETYMOLOGYfancy2Origin: 1400-1500 fantasy ► took a fancy to Cora took a fancy to John, and eventually married him. ► passing fancy The idea about going to Mexico was just a passing fancy (=an idea that does not last long). 1[singular] a feeling that you would like something or someone: Cora took a fancy to John, and eventually married him. The idea about going to Mexico was just a passing fancy (=an idea that does not last long).2[countable, uncountable] imagination or something that you imagine: the poet’s brilliant fancies → see also flight (7)3tickle somebody’s fancy to seem attractive or amusing to someone4something takes/strikes/catches your fancy used to say that you like something or want to have it adjective | noun | verb fancyfancy3 verb (, fancied, fancying) [transitive] old-fashioned VERB TABLEfancy |
| Present | I, you, we, they | fancy | | he, she, it | fancies | | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | fancied | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have fancied | | he, she, it | has fancied | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had fancied | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will fancy | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have fancied |
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| Present | I | am fancying | | he, she, it | is fancying | | you, we, they | are fancying | | Past | I, he, she, it | was fancying | | you, we, they | were fancying | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been fancying | | he, she, it | has been fancying | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been fancying | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be fancying | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been fancying |
► fancies herself She fancies herself an intellectual. 1to believe that something is true, even if it is not really SYN imagine: Archer fancied that she knew of his coming. She fancies herself an intellectual.2to like or want something, or want to do something SYN feel like: Do you fancy a walk in the park, Estelle? |