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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fancied \Fan"cied\, adjective [From {Fancy}, verb (used with an object)] Formed or conceived by the fancy; unreal; as, a fancied wrong.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fancy \Fan"cy\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Fancied}, p. pr. & vb. n. {Fancying}.]
1. To figure to one's self; to believe or imagine something without proof.
If our search has reached no farther than simile and metaphor, we rather fancy than know. --Locke.
2. To love. [Obs.] --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
fancy
adjective: not plain; decorative or ornamented; "fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes" [ant: {plain}]
noun
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}]
verb
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
adjective: 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
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