FANCY
What does "FANCY" mean?
Elaborate or decorative rather than plain and ordinary.
Meanings
- Ornate, elaborate, or showily refined. They booked a fancy restaurant for the anniversary.
- A whim, a passing inclination, or the faculty of imagination. He bought the hat on a fancy and never wore it.
- To feel a desire or liking for; to be attracted to. Do you fancy a cup of tea? informal
- To imagine or suppose. Fancy meeting you here after all these years. informal
Did you know?
- 'Fancy' is literally a shrunken 'fantasy' - the same Greek root 'phantasia' that gives us imagination got squeezed down into a word now used for crystal glassware.
Word origin
A contraction of 'fantasy', from Greek 'phantasia' meaning 'appearance, imagination', via Latin and Old French; the long word collapsed into the short one in the 15th century.
Remember it
FANCY = FAN + CY: imagine a peacock's FAN, the fanciest thing it owns.
A little poem
Gold rim on the cup-
the same tea inside, warming
the same tired hands.
haiku
Wordplay
- Do you fancy this restaurant? It's so fancy even the imagination is à la carte.
What it teaches
Ornament can dress a thing up, but it can never change what the thing actually is.
Quick facts
What does FANCY mean?
Elaborate or decorative rather than plain and ordinary.
Is FANCY a valid word?
Yes — FANCY is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is FANCY?
FANCY has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does FANCY come from?
A contraction of 'fantasy', from Greek 'phantasia' meaning 'appearance, imagination', via Latin and Old French; the long word collapsed into the short one in the 15th century.
What can FANCY teach us?
Ornament can dress a thing up, but it can never change what the thing actually is.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.