| Main Entry: | fancy |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | imagine, create |
Synonyms: |
be inclined to think, believe, conceive, conjecture, dream up, envisage, envision, fantasize, feature*, guess, head trip, image, infer, make up, make up off top of one's head, phantom, picture, realize, reckon, spark, spitball, suppose, surmise, think, think likely, think up, trump up, vision, visualize |
| Main Entry: | fancy |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | love, desire |
Synonyms: |
approve, be attracted to, be captivated by, be enamored of, be in love with, care for, crave, crazy about, desire, dream of, endorse, fall for, favor, like, long for, lust after, mad for, prefer, relish, sanction, set one's heart on, take a liking to, take to, wild for, wish for, yearn for |
Antonyms: |
dislike, hate |
| Main Entry: | fancy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun, verb |
Related
Adjectives: |
fancy, air-built, air-drawn, bucolic, chimerical, chthonic, commentitious, creative, demiurgic, enthusiastic, excogitous, extravagant, fabulous, fairy, fairylike, fanatic, fanciful, fantastical, fertile, fictive, flighty, haptic, high-flown, ideal, illusory, imaginary, imaginative, imagined, imagining, implicit, in the clouds, inventive, legendary, mythic, mythological, notional, oneiric, oneirotic, original, pastoral, pretend, quixotic, romantic, supermundane, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, visile, visionary, whimsical
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| Main Entry: | accept |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | believe the goodness, realness of something |
Synonyms: |
acknowledge, affirm, approbate, approve, buy*, countenance, fancy, favor, go for, hold, hold with, like, recognize, relish, swallow*, take as gospel truth, take stock in, trust |
| Notes: | accept is 'take or agree to' and except means 'exclude, leave out' |
Antonyms: |
disagree, dispute, reject, renounce, repudiate |
| Main Entry: | assume |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | believe, take for granted |
Synonyms: |
accept, ascertain, be afraid, be inclined to think, conclude, conjecture, consider, count upon, deduce, deem, divine, estimate, expect, fall for, fancy, find, gather, get the idea, guess, have a hunch, have sneaking suspicion, hypothesize, imagine, infer, judge, posit, postulate, predicate, presume, presuppose, speculate, suppose, surmise, suspect, theorize, think, understand |
Antonyms: |
doubt, not believe |
| Main Entry: | cherish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | care about deeply |
Synonyms: |
admire, adore, appreciate, apprize, care for, clasp, cleave to, cling to, coddle, comfort, cosset, cultivate, defend, dote on, embrace, encourage, enshrine, entertain, fancy, fondle, foster, guard, harbor, hold dear, hold in high esteem, honor, hug, idolize, like, love, nourish, nurse, nurture, pet, preserve, prize, revere, reverence, safeguard, shelter, shield, support, sustain, treasure, value, venerate, worship |
Antonyms: |
abandon, denounce, forsake, not care, renounce |
| Main Entry: | choose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pick, select |
Synonyms: |
accept, adopt, appoint, call for, cast, co-opt, commit oneself, crave, cull, decide on, designate, desire, determine, discriminate between, draw lots, elect, embrace, espouse, excerpt, extract, fancy, favor, feel disposed to, finger, fix on, glean, judge, love, make choice, make decision, make up one's mind, name, opt for, predestine, prefer, see fit, separate, set aside, settle upon, sift out, single out, slot, sort, tab, tag, take, take up, tap, want, weigh, will, winnow, wish, wish for |
| Main Entry: | conceive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | understand |
Synonyms: |
accept, appreciate, apprehend, assume, believe, catch, compass, comprehend, deem, dig, envisage, expect, fancy, feel, follow, gather, get, grasp, imagine, judge, perceive, realize, reckon, suppose, suspect, take, twig |
Antonyms: |
misunderstand, not believe |
| Main Entry: | conceive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | create |
Synonyms: |
become pregnant, brainstorm, cogitate, consider, contrive, cook up, depicture, design, develop, devise, dream up, envisage, envision, fancy, feature, form, formulate, head trip, image, imagine, make up, meditate, originate, ponder, produce, project, purpose, realize, ruminate, spark, speculate, spitball, think up, trump up, visualize |
Antonyms: |
abort, destroy |
| Main Entry: | conjecture |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | speculate |
Synonyms: |
assume, believe, conceive, conclude, deem, estimate, expect, fancy, feel*, figure, gather, glean, guess, guesstimate, hazard a guess, hypothesize, imagine, infer, judge, presume, pretend, suppose, surmise, suspect, take a shot, take a stab, take for granted, theorize, think |
Antonyms: |
prove |