(n.) The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into new pictures or images; the power of readily and happily creating and recalling such objects for the purpose of amusement, wit, or embellishment; imagination.
(n.) An image or representation of anything formed in the mind; conception; thought; idea; conceit.
(n.) An opinion or notion formed without much reflection; caprice; whim; impression.
(n.) Inclination; liking, formed by caprice rather than reason; as, to strike one's fancy; hence, the object of inclination or liking.
(n.) That which pleases or entertains the taste or caprice without much use or value.
(n.) A sort of love song or light impromptu ballad.
(v. i.) To figure to one's self; to believe or imagine something without proof.
(v. i.) To love.
(v. t.) To form a conception of; to portray in the mind; to imagine.
(v. t.) To have a fancy for; to like; to be pleased with, particularly on account of external appearance or manners.
(v. t.) To believe without sufficient evidence; to imagine (something which is unreal).
(a.) Adapted to please the fancy or taste; ornamental; as, fancy goods.
(a.) Extravagant; above real value.
Example Sentences:
(1) Quite a lot of the downtown action in The Catcher in the Rye (a night out in a fancy hotel; a date with an old girlfriend; an encounter with a prostitute, and a mugging by her pimp) might almost as well describe a young soldier’s nightmare experience of R&R.
(2) The plot departs from the good book in big ways, small ways, in fact any way the makers (evangelical husband and wife Mark Burnett and Roma Downey) fancy.
(3) The Normandie Design is plum in the middle of the amiable chaos of South American city life, in Santa Efigênia, where the streets are thronged with tiny electronics stores – great if you fancy a fake Chinese iPhone.
(4) Small business gets clobbered by taxes and business rates, while big business turns around and says to the state: "This is how much tax I fancy paying this year, take it or leave it".
(5) So really, it could be anyone.” US intelligence believes the Democratic party’s servers were hacked by a group known alternatively as Fancy Bear, APT 29 or Sofacy, which they say was working for the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence .
(6) Glitzy online lectures, or fancy learning technologies, are difficult to reconcile with this fundamental scepticism.
(7) BSkyB believes the modelling is flawed and that conclusions such as that it could benefit by up to £600m over five years is "fanciful".
(8) The first fanciful bit of the Biden 4 Prez story came out this past weekend, when the veep sat down with Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts for a two-hour meeting .
(9) Treatments were 0, 2, 4, or 6% (DM basis) bleachable fancy tallow (BT) fed with 0 or 7.5% (DM basis) forage.
(10) The court heard how all of these areas and more are gambled on in the unregulated Asian markets, in so-called "fancy bets".
(11) I require my coffee to taste like coffee, not like fancy warm milk.
(12) "They sit in their fancy hotels, in safety, talking and talking.
(13) Protest is what you do when those you elect are not listening, and it can, on occasion, be powerful to dress up in fancy dress and sing.
(14) It's actually very taboo to stop and say, "OK, I'm in a band and I'm really successful and my boyfriend's a pop star and he's really handsome and lots of girls fancy him, but I don't want to be with him."
(15) Founder and executive deputy chairman Mike Ashley didn't need a salary or a fancy bonus plan because he would gain from the improvement in the company's value.
(16) Good luck telling your manager you fancy a day off.
(17) I'm not even asking for a handout or asking to be able to keep up a fancy lifestyle and have someone else pay for the boring stuff, I work hard, I save and I pay my taxes and my standard of living gets worse and worse every year.
(18) "My use of the word 'fancy' was not meant as a proper insult.
(19) The Mr Benn approach also opens up lots of fancy dress options for TV sponsorship bumpers and blipverts.
(20) Does he fancy winning the league again & knock Liverpool right off their perch?"
Ornate
Definition:
(a.) Adorned; decorated; beautiful.
(a.) Finely finished, as a style of composition.
(v. t.) To adorn; to honor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Narrow paths weave among moss-covered ornate arches and towers on the 80-acre site, and huge abstract sculptures and staircases lead nowhere, but up to the sky.
(2) At the famed Winter Palace , formerly the home of the Egyptian royal family, ornate gold-and-glass chandeliers hang over empty brocade sofas, awaiting visitors.
(3) Next to an ornate Renaissance gate, the hall where the "English comedians" first acted still stands.
(4) The booming Bollywood music beckoned a stream of families, wearing ornate saris and sharp kurtas, fragrant plates of samosa chaat in hand, toward the stage, replete with an extravagant display of lights and visuals.
(5) Parts of the city already feel like a war zone: its ritziest hotel is eerily deserted though many rooms are being used as offices by international agencies drawn by the deepening crisis – blue helmets and flak jackets piled up on Persian carpets in an ornate reception room, white UN vehicles parked behind the blast barriers outside.
(6) It remains unclear how the attacker made his way past the armed guards protecting the building, but he got as far as the ornate Hall of Honour.
(7) These features are characteristic of sea urchin (Echinoderm) spines which are composed of ornately formed calcite crystals covered by an epithelium.
(8) What makes it such a strange breed is how it transcends those ornate, gothic novel trappings to explore, you know, real themes.
(9) The salmon-pink house, three storeys high with ornate balustrades, sits behind a large metal gate.
(10) He also bowed out of Carrier's in Camden Passage in 1984, retreating to Marrakesh and his ornately restored mansion there.
(11) Resembling an ornate garden maze from above, suqakollos – or waru-warus – are a patterned system of raised cropland and water-filled trenches.
(12) No phone line, no bathroom generally, coal heating only from huge tiled heaters in the corner of each room (and the yucky shitty yellow ones, not the lovely ornate versions you see in palaces).
(13) Had the Elysée's salles des fêtes been packed to the ornate rafters and chandeliers with French media, the sleight of hand might have worked.
(14) Interesting results regarding the polymorphic state of one or more pairs of macro-chromosomes in three species of colubrid snakes viz., Ahaetulla nasutus, Chrysopelea ornate and Acrochordus granulatus were obtained.
(15) There are so many empty buildings like this one in central London.” The building dates back to the 1820s and has numerous listed features including many ornate, hand-carved fireplaces.
(16) The spines of sea mice, on the other hand, are chitinous in nature; they are also much finer and lack the ornate symmetry of sea urchin spines.
(17) It sat in front of the ornate gold cross, immediately facing the Dean of Westminster as he prayed before the altar, and unambiguous in what it signified.
(18) In 1953, West German children began to be taught "lateinische Ausgangschrift", an ornate but more legible joined-up script, which roughly translates as "model Latin script".
(19) Standing beneath an ornate 17th-century chandelier, a self-assured Khan declared: “My name is Sadiq Khan and I’m the mayor of London.”He said he wanted the ceremony to take place in the cathedral as a reflection of his intent to represent “every single community” as a “mayor for all Londoners”.
(20) Sitting in an ornate meeting room across the street from the former army headquarters still in ruins from the Nato bombing, Vučić said such criticisms failed to take account of how he had changed.