fancies

The word “fancies” has 2 syllables: fan-cies

It's pronounced as /ˈfæn.siːz/


What is synonym and antonym for fancies?

In the thesaurus, “fancies” has 253 synonyms and 47 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for fancies along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for fancies

  • Shangri-las
  • admires
  • adores
  • appetites
  • appreciates
  • approve
  • be attracted to
  • be captivated by
  • be enamored of
  • be in love with
  • be inclined to think
  • bees
  • believe
  • bents
  • biases
  • big eyes
  • brainchildren
  • brainstorms
  • caprice
  • caprices
  • care for
  • castles in Spain
  • castles in the air
  • cherishes
  • chimera
  • chimeras
  • cloud-cuckoo-lands
  • cloudlands
  • conceit
  • conceits
  • conceive
  • conceives
  • conception
  • conceptions
  • concepts
  • concoctions
  • concocts
  • conjecture
  • contemplates
  • contrariness
  • cranks
  • crave
  • cravings
  • crazy about
  • creation
  • cup of tea
  • daydream
  • daydreams
  • daymares
  • delusion
  • delusions
  • desire
  • desires
  • devours
  • digs
  • dream of
  • dream up
  • dreams
  • druthers
  • endorse
  • enjoys
  • enthusiasms
  • envisage
  • envisagement
  • envisages
  • envision
  • envisioning
  • envisions
  • eyes for
  • fables
  • fabricates
  • fabrication
  • fabrications
  • fall for
  • fantasies
  • fantasize
  • fantasizes
  • fantasms
  • fantasy
  • favor
  • favors
  • feature
  • features
  • fictions
  • figment
  • figments
  • flash
  • fondness
  • foresees
  • freaks
  • gets a charge out of
  • gets a kick out of
  • goes for
  • groove
  • guess
  • gustoes
  • hallucinates
  • hallucination
  • hallucinations
  • hankering
  • has a soft spot for
  • head trip
  • humor
  • humors
  • idea
  • ideas
  • ideates
  • idolizes
  • ignes fatui
  • illusion
  • illusions
  • image
  • images
  • imagination
  • imaginativeness
  • imagines
  • impetuosities
  • impression
  • impressions
  • inclination
  • inclinations
  • infer
  • inspirations
  • interests
  • invention
  • inventions
  • invents
  • irrationality
  • is partial to
  • itch
  • kinks
  • leanings
  • like
  • likes
  • liking
  • likings
  • long for
  • longings
  • love affairs
  • loves
  • lust after
  • mad for
  • maggots
  • make up
  • makes up
  • manufactures
  • meditates
  • megrims
  • mind
  • mirage
  • mirages
  • muses
  • nightmare
  • nightmares
  • nonentities
  • notion
  • notions
  • palates
  • partialities
  • partiality
  • passions
  • penchant
  • perverseness
  • phantasies
  • phantasm
  • phantasms
  • phantom
  • picture
  • pictures
  • pie in the sky
  • pipe dream
  • pipe dreams
  • plans
  • pleasure
  • ponders
  • predilection
  • prefer
  • preference
  • preferences
  • prefers
  • prefigures
  • prejudices
  • prizes
  • projects
  • propensities
  • re-creates
  • realize
  • reckon
  • reflects
  • relish
  • relishes
  • relives
  • reminisces
  • reveres
  • reverie
  • romancing
  • ruminates
  • sanction
  • savors
  • savours
  • sees
  • shines
  • spark
  • spitball
  • stargazes
  • suppose
  • surmise
  • sweet tooth
  • take a liking to
  • take to
  • takes to
  • tastes
  • teeth
  • tendencies
  • thing
  • think
  • think likely
  • think up
  • thirsts
  • thought
  • thoughts
  • treasures
  • trump up
  • unrealities
  • uses
  • utopias
  • vagaries
  • vagary
  • vagrancies
  • values
  • velleity
  • venerates
  • vision
  • visions
  • visualization
  • visualizations
  • visualize
  • visualizes
  • weakness for
  • weaknesses
  • whim
  • whims
  • whimseys
  • whimsicalities
  • whimsies
  • wild for
  • will
  • wish for
  • worships
  • yearn for
  • yearning
  • yen
  • yens

Antonyms for fancies

  • abhors
  • abominates
  • actualities
  • actuality
  • apathies
  • aversions
  • calculate
  • certainty
  • concrete
  • condemns
  • death
  • despises
  • detests
  • disapprove
  • disbelieve
  • disfavors
  • disgusts
  • disinclinations
  • disinterest
  • dislike
  • dislikes
  • disregard
  • distastes
  • fact
  • facts
  • hate
  • hates
  • hatred
  • hatreds
  • ignore
  • indifferences
  • loathes
  • loathings
  • measure
  • mislikes
  • misunderstand
  • neglect
  • oppose
  • physicality
  • realities
  • reality
  • refuse
  • reject
  • sadness
  • scorns
  • truth
  • unhappiness

Meanings of fancies

  • noun
    1. The imagination.
    2. An image or representation of anything formed in the mind.
    3. An opinion or notion formed without much reflection.
    4. A whim.
    5. Love or amorous attachment.
    6. The object of inclination or liking.
    7. Any sport or hobby pursued by a group.
    8. The enthusiasts of such a pursuit.
    9. A diamond with a distinctive colour.
    10. That which pleases or entertains the taste or caprice without much use or value.
    11. A sort of love song or light impromptu ballad.
    12. In the game of jacks, a style of play involving additional actions (contrasted with plainsies).
  • verb
    1. To appreciate without jealousy or greed.
    2. Would like.
    3. To be sexually attracted to.
    4. To imagine, suppose.
    5. To form a conception of; to portray in the mind.
    6. To have a fancy for; to like; to be pleased with, particularly on account of external appearance or manners.
    7. To breed (animals) as a hobby.

Example Sentences

  • She has a lot of fancies when it comes to interior design.
  • The artist's work is full of whimsical fancies and vibrant colors.
  • He always fancies himself as a great chef, even though he's just starting out.
  • The children’s book is filled with magical fancies and adventurous tales.
  • She has several fancies about traveling the world one day.

On this page you'll find 300 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to fancies, such as: Shangri-las, abhors, abominates, actualities, actuality, admires, adores.

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Related Words

abstractions

  • apprehensions
  • assumptions
  • beliefs
  • brain waves
  • brainchildren
  • brainstorms
  • caprices
  • chimeras
  • cogitations
  • cognitions
  • conceits
  • conceptions
  • concepts
  • conclusions
  • conjectures
  • convictions
  • delusions
  • fancies
  • fantasms
  • freaks
  • guesses
  • hallucinations
  • hunches
  • hypotheses
  • ideas
  • illusions
  • images
  • impressions
  • inspirations
  • intellections
  • kinks
  • notions
  • observations
  • perceptions
  • phantasms
  • pictures
  • preconceptions
  • prejudices
  • premonitions
  • prepossessions
  • presentiments
  • reflections
  • speculations
  • suppositions
  • surmises
  • theories
  • thoughts
  • vagaries
  • whims

accessorizes

  • adorns
  • arrays
  • beautifies
  • bedecks
  • bedizens
  • blazons
  • bosses
  • braids
  • brightens
  • caparisons
  • chases
  • decks
  • decorates
  • diamonds
  • does
  • does up
  • dolls up
  • drapes
  • dresses
  • dresses up
  • embellishes
  • emblazes
  • embosses
  • embroiders
  • enriches
  • fancies up
  • fancifies
  • feathers
  • festoons
  • figures
  • filigrees
  • fillets
  • flounces
  • freshens
  • frills
  • fringes
  • furbelows
  • garlands
  • garnishes
  • gems
  • gilds
  • graces
  • gussies up
  • hangs
  • impearls
  • jewels
  • laces
  • ornaments
  • paints
  • pearls
  • redecorates
  • redoes
  • ribbons
  • smartens
  • swags
  • traps
  • trims
  • wreathes

accounts

  • acclamations
  • account
  • accountings
  • adaptations
  • admirations
  • adorations
  • adulations
  • advisements
  • affections
  • alibis
  • amazements
  • amount due
  • anecdota
  • anecdotes
  • annals
  • antecedents
  • apologiae
  • apologias
  • apologies
  • appeals
  • appetites
  • appreciations
  • approbations
  • arguments
  • arrears
  • assets
  • attachments
  • authorities
  • awes
  • banking
  • bankrolls
  • bargainers
  • believes
  • biases
  • bills
  • blogs
  • browsers
  • budgets
  • business
  • buyers
  • caches
  • calls
  • case histories
  • case studies
  • cases
  • causes
  • charge
  • charges
  • checks
  • chests
  • chronicles
  • chronologies
  • clients
  • coffers
  • cogitations
  • collectible
  • collections
  • commentaries
  • commerce
  • conceives
  • considerations
  • considers
  • consumers
  • contemplations
  • correspondents
  • costs
  • counts
  • cushions
  • customers
  • debates
  • debt
  • deems
  • defenses
  • deferences
  • deficit
  • deliberations
  • delights
  • depositions
  • deposits
  • devotions
  • diaries
  • documentations
  • documents
  • economics
  • end users
  • enjoyments
  • enthusiasms
  • epics
  • esteems
  • estimations
  • excuses
  • expenses
  • explanations
  • fancies
  • favors
  • feels
  • fees
  • financial affairs
  • funds
  • gestes
  • gests
  • grounds
  • guests
  • guises
  • hagglers
  • hero worships
  • hesitations
  • histories
  • hoards
  • holds
  • homages
  • honors
  • idolatries
  • imagines
  • impetuses
  • incentives
  • indebtedness
  • indecisions
  • infatuations
  • inspirations
  • instigations
  • interests
  • interpretations
  • introspections
  • investment
  • invoices
  • journals
  • justifications
  • kitties
  • ledgers
  • liability
  • likes
  • lionizations
  • logbooks
  • logs
  • loves
  • meditations
  • memoirs
  • minutes
  • money
  • money management
  • motives
  • narrations
  • narratives
  • nest eggs
  • obligation
  • occasions
  • partialities
  • passions
  • patrons
  • performances
  • petty cashes
  • pin money
  • pleas
  • pocket moneys
  • pocketbooks
  • pools
  • praises
  • preferences
  • prejudices
  • premeditations
  • pretences
  • pretenses
  • pretexts
  • prices
  • props
  • prospects
  • punters
  • purchasers
  • rates
  • rationales
  • rationalizations
  • readings
  • reasons
  • receipts
  • recitals
  • recitations
  • reckonings
  • reckons
  • records
  • reflections
  • regards
  • regulars
  • relishes
  • renditions
  • reports
  • reserves
  • respects
  • reverences
  • romances
  • ruminations
  • sagas
  • savings
  • savings accounts
  • scores
  • senses
  • sets down
  • shines
  • shoppers
  • spending moneys
  • statements
  • stimuli
  • stories
  • studies
  • subjects
  • tabs
  • takes for
  • tales
  • tallies
  • tastes
  • testaments
  • testimonials
  • testimonies
  • thinks
  • thoughts
  • tolls
  • treasures
  • users
  • uses
  • variations
  • vendees
  • venerations
  • versions
  • views
  • vindications
  • wherefores
  • whys
  • window-shoppers
  • witnesses
  • wonderments
  • wonders
  • worships
  • yarns

babyhoods

  • adolescences
  • blooms
  • boyhoods
  • flushes
  • girlhoods
  • heydays
  • infancies
  • majorities
  • manhoods
  • maturities
  • minorities
  • nonages
  • preadolescences
  • primes
  • womanhoods
  • youths

calls

  • abandons
  • aborts
  • abrogates
  • accounts
  • adjudications
  • alerts
  • amasses
  • announces
  • annuls
  • anticipates
  • asks
  • assembles
  • augurs
  • awards
  • baptizes
  • barks
  • bawls
  • bays
  • bear markets
  • beckons
  • beeps
  • behests
  • beliefs
  • believes
  • bellows
  • bids
  • birthrights
  • blats
  • bleats
  • bodes
  • brands
  • brays
  • breaks off
  • bull markets
  • buzzes
  • cackles
  • calculates
  • callbacks
  • callings
  • calls for
  • calls in
  • calls off
  • calls out
  • calls up
  • cancels
  • caterwauls
  • cautions
  • caws
  • charges
  • cheeps
  • chirps
  • choices
  • christens
  • cites
  • claims
  • clepes
  • clucks
  • code-names
  • cold calls
  • cold-calls
  • collects
  • comes by
  • comes over
  • commandments
  • commands
  • conceives
  • concludes
  • conclusions
  • conference calls
  • conjectures
  • consensuses
  • considers
  • convenes
  • convictions
  • convokes
  • coos
  • countermands
  • counts
  • crakes
  • cries
  • cries off
  • croaks
  • crows
  • decisions
  • declares
  • decrees
  • deduces
  • deems
  • deliverances
  • demands
  • denominates
  • denotes
  • designates
  • determinations
  • diagnoses
  • dials
  • dibs
  • dictates
  • directives
  • directs
  • discontinues
  • dispositions
  • divines
  • dooms
  • drop-ins
  • drops
  • drops by
  • drops in
  • dubs
  • edicts
  • ends
  • entitles
  • esteems
  • estimates
  • examinations
  • explorations
  • extrapolates
  • eyes
  • fancies
  • favors
  • feelings
  • feels
  • figures
  • findings
  • forbodes
  • forebodes
  • forecasts
  • foreknows
  • foresees
  • foretells
  • forewarns
  • frequents
  • gages
  • gathers
  • gauges
  • get-togethers
  • gives up
  • groups
  • grunts
  • guesses
  • hails
  • halloos
  • halts
  • haunts
  • heralds
  • holds
  • holds back
  • hollers
  • hollos
  • honks
  • hoots
  • howls
  • imagines
  • infers
  • inquests
  • inquiries
  • inquisitions
  • instructions
  • interrogations
  • interrogatories
  • interrupts
  • invalidates
  • investigations
  • invites
  • invokes
  • judgements
  • judges
  • judgments
  • knells
  • labels
  • last words
  • looks up
  • lows
  • makes
  • mandates
  • markets
  • meetings
  • meows
  • messages
  • mews
  • miaows
  • minds
  • miscalls
  • misnames
  • mistitles
  • moos
  • musters
  • names
  • neighs
  • nicknames
  • nominates
  • notes
  • notions
  • nullifies
  • oinks
  • opinions
  • options
  • ordains
  • orders
  • pages
  • peeps
  • persuasions
  • petitions
  • phones
  • places
  • polls
  • portends
  • predicts
  • prerogatives
  • presages
  • pretences
  • pretenses
  • pretensions
  • privileges
  • probes
  • probings
  • proclaims
  • prognosticates
  • promises
  • prophesies
  • puts
  • quacks
  • queries
  • questionings
  • questionnaires
  • questions
  • rallies
  • rates
  • reads
  • reasons
  • reassembles
  • recalls
  • recants
  • rechristens
  • reckons
  • reconvenes
  • refusals
  • regards
  • relabels
  • relinquishes
  • renames
  • rendezvous
  • repeals
  • requests
  • requires
  • requisitions
  • rescinds
  • researches
  • resolutions
  • retracts
  • reverses
  • revokes
  • rights
  • rings
  • roars
  • rolls back
  • rounds up
  • rulings
  • runs in
  • say-sos
  • scraps
  • screams
  • screeches
  • scrubs
  • sees
  • selections
  • sends for
  • senses
  • sentences
  • sentiments
  • sets down
  • shouts
  • shrieks
  • shrills
  • sings
  • sounds off
  • speaks out
  • speaks up
  • specifies
  • squalls
  • squawks
  • squeaks
  • squeals
  • steps in
  • stigmatizes
  • stopovers
  • stops
  • studies
  • styles
  • subpoenas
  • summons
  • supposes
  • surnames
  • surrenders
  • surveys
  • suspends
  • tags
  • takes back
  • takes for
  • telephones
  • terminates
  • terms
  • thinks
  • thunders
  • titles
  • toll calls
  • trumpets
  • trysts
  • tu-whit tu-whoos
  • twitters
  • ululates
  • understands
  • vaticinates
  • verdicts
  • views
  • visitations
  • visits
  • vociferates
  • voice mails
  • voids
  • wails
  • warns
  • whinnies
  • whistles
  • whoops
  • withdraws
  • words
  • writes off
  • yaps
  • yaups
  • yawps
  • yells
  • yelps
  • yips
  • yowls

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