| Main Entry: | fancy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extravagant, ornamental |
Synonyms: |
adorned, baroque, beautifying, chichi*, complicated, cushy, custom, decorated, decorative, deluxe, elaborate, elegant, embellished, fanciful, florid, frilly, froufrou, garnished, gaudy, gingerbread, intricate, lavish, ornate, ostentatious, resplendent, rich, rococo, showy, special, spiffy, sumptuous, unusual |
Antonyms: |
plain, unfancy, unornamented |
| Main Entry: | fancier |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | admirer |
Synonyms: |
aficionado, buff, bug*, devotee, enthusiast, fan, lover |
| Main Entry: | fancy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun, verb |
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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: | admirer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who holds someone in high regard |
Synonyms: |
adherent, beau, believer, booster, boyfriend, buff, bug*, cat*, devotee, disciple, enthusiast, fan, fancier, fiend*, follower, freak*, girlfriend, groupie, hound, junkie, lover, nut*, partisan, patron, rooter, suitor, supporter, swain, sweetheart, wooer, worshiper |
Antonyms: |
critic, enemy, opponent |
| Main Entry: | complicated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult, complex |
Synonyms: |
Byzantine, Daedalean, Gordian, abstruse, arduous, can of worms, convoluted, difficult, elaborate, entangled, fancy, gasser, hard, hi-tech, interlaced, intricate, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, mega factor, mixed, perplexing, problematic, puzzling, recondite, sophisticated, troublesome, various, wheels within wheels |
| Notes: | something complex may be well-organized and logically constructed as well as subtle and intricate, while a thing that is complicated will have something irregular, perverse, asymmetrical in addition to fundamental intricacy; complex is more formal and technical (a problem in mathematics is complex) while something like personal life can be complicated |
Antonyms: |
easy, facile, simple |
| Main Entry: | costly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | expensive |
Synonyms: |
an arm and leg, cher, dear, excessive, executive, exorbitant, extortionate, extravagant, fancy, high, high-priced, highly priced, inordinate, precious, premium, pricey, steep, stiff*, top, valuable |
Antonyms: |
cheap, inexpensive, reasonable |
| Main Entry: | dear |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very expensive |
Synonyms: |
an arm and a leg, at a premium, cher, costly, fancy, high, high-priced, out of sight, overpriced, pretty penny, pricey, prized, steep, stiff*, valuable |
Antonyms: |
cheap, inexpensive, low-priced, valueless, worthless |
| Main Entry: | decorative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beautifying |
Synonyms: |
adorning, cosmetic, embellishing, enhancing, fancy, florid, nonfunctional, ornamental, prettifying, pretty |
Antonyms: |
ugly |
| Main Entry: | devotee |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ardent supporter; fan |
Synonyms: |
addict, adherent, admirer, aficionado, amateur, believer, booster, buff, disciple, enthusiast, fanatic, fancier, fiend, follower, groupie, habitué, junkie, lover, rooter, supporter, votarient, votary |
Antonyms: |
adversary, antagonist, enemy |
| Main Entry: | dressy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | formal, fashionable |
Synonyms: |
chic, classy, dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, dressed up, elaborate, elegant, fancy, in high feather, looking sharp, ornate, ritzy, smart, stylish |
Antonyms: |
casual, dowdy, inelegant, informal, unstylish |