Fancied

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fancy \Fan"cy\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fancied}, p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Fancying}.]
     1. To figure to one's self; to believe or imagine something
        without proof.
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              If our search has reached no farther than simile and
              metaphor, we rather fancy than know.  --Locke.
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     2. To love. [Obs.] --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fancied \Fan"cied\, a. [From {Fancy}, v. t.]
     Formed or conceived by the fancy; unreal; as, a fancied
     wrong.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fancy
       adj : not plain; decorative or ornamented; "fancy handwriting";
             "fancy clothes" [ant: {plain}]
       n 1: something many people believe that is false; "they have the
            illusion that I am very wealthy" [syn: {illusion}, {fantasy},
             {phantasy}]
       2: fancy was held by Coleridge to be more casual and
          superficial than imagination
       3: a predisposition to like something; "he had a fondness for
          whiskey" [syn: {fondness}, {partiality}]
       v 1: imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind; "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}]
       2: have a fancy or particular liking or desire for; "She
          fancied a necklace that she had seen in the jeweler's
          window" [syn: {go for}, {take to}]
       [also: {fancied}, {fanciest}, {fancier}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fancied
       adj : formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse
             for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional
             character"; "used fictitious names"; "a made-up story"
             [syn: {fabricated}, {fictional}, {fictitious}, {invented},
              {made-up}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fancied
       See {fancy}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  32 Moby Thesaurus words for "fancied":
     concocted, cooked-up, fabricated, fabulous, fanciful, fantasied,
     fantastic, fictional, fictitious, fictive, figmental, forged,
     hatched, illusory, imaginary, imaginational, imagined, invented,
     legendary, made-up, make-believe, manufactured, mythical,
     nonexistent, notional, put-up, shadowy, supposititious, trumped-up,
     unactual, unreal, visional