fancy -
a kind of imagination that was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination
imaginativeness,
imagination,
vision the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses; "popular imagination created a world of demons"; "imagination reveals what the world could be"
fancy -
something many people believe that is false; "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy"
conceive of,
envisage,
ideate,
imagine form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case; "Can you conceive of him as the president?"
Adjective
fancy -
not plain; decorative or ornamented; "fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes"
plain lacking embellishment or ornamentation; "a plain hair style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete"
adorned,
decorated provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction
rhetorical given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought; "mere rhetorical frippery"
aureate,
flamboyant,
florid having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet"
fanciful indulging in or influenced by fancy; "a fanciful mind"; "all the notional vagaries of childhood"
fantastic extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous collection of rare books"; "had a rattling conversation about politics"; "a tremendous achievement"
lacelike,
lacy made of or resembling lace; "a lacy gown"; "a lacy leaf"
puff,
puffed gathered for protruding fullness; "puff sleeves"
rococo having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation; "an exquisite gilded rococo mirror"
