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What is the adjective for fancy?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs fancy and fancify which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

fancy
  1. Decorative.
  2. Of a superior grade.
  3. Executed with skill.
  4. (colloquial) Unnecessarily complicated.
  5. (obsolete) Extravagant; above real value.
  6. Synonyms:
      7. elaborate, intricate, decorative, decorated, embellished, ornamental, ornamented, ornate, ostentatious, showy, adorned, baroque, gaudy, rococo, busy, classy, deluxe, flamboyant, fussy, sumptuous, swish, elegant, flashy, luxurious, posh, resplendent, devilish, extreme, glitzy, quality, ritzy, select, snazzy, sophisticated, spiffy, superior, swanky, towering, fanciful, flash, jazzy, prime, rich, special, beautifying, chichi, cushy, custom, fancible, florid … more
  7. Examples:
      8. “She carried with her a fancy handbag made with Italian leather.”
      “Carla decided to splash out on their vacation by getting a fancy hotel room.”
      “You didn't have to come up with such a fancy solution for a simple problem such as this.”
fanciful
  1. imaginative or fantastic; unreal or imagined
  2. Synonyms:
      3. imaginary, unreal, fictitious, fantastic, chimerical, imagined, mythical, fictional, fabulous, visionary, mythic, fantastical, chimeric, illusory, ideal, pretend, phantasmal, imaginal, phantasmic, phantom, fantasied, notional, legendary, whimsical, fictive, dreamlike, fancied, suppositious, quixotic, romantic, impractical, shadowy, wild, poetic, ridiculous, capricious, crackpot, flaky, flakey, offbeat, vaporous, fairy-tale, fairy tale, blue sky, pipe dream, on cloud nine, castles in the air, out of this world, pie in the sky, invented … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “But he got along with almost no one, and he was intent on using the office of commanding general to advance his fanciful ambitions for the White House.”
      “For even the book that is read through and closed, to a fanciful boy, will still furnish new entertainment.”
      “I also wrote a fanciful story about aliens taking over the university and programming the administration to start calling things by names that didn't make any sense.”
fanciless
  1. Having no fancy; without ideas or imagination.
fancifull
  1. Archaic form of fanciful.
fancie
  1. Obsolete spelling of fancy
fancible
  1. Synonym of fancy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. fancy, elaborate, intricate, decorative, decorated, embellished, ornamental, ornamented, ornate, ostentatious, showy, adorned, baroque, gaudy, rococo, busy, classy, deluxe, flamboyant, fussy, sumptuous, swish, elegant, flashy, luxurious, posh, resplendent, devilish, extreme, glitzy, quality, ritzy, select, snazzy, sophisticated, spiffy, superior, swanky, towering, fanciful, flash, jazzy, prime, rich, special, beautifying, chichi, cushy, custom, florid … more
fancified
  1. (colloquial) Made fancy.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. overrated, glorified, hyped, overestimated, exaggerated, overvalued, overpromoted, overpaid, hyped-up, puffed up, pumped up … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Indeed, one could claim that her vast business empire has been built on the memories of her days as a fancified bootlegger.”
      “Top chefs dabble in fancified sandwich shops and pop-up restaurants.”
      “Fancified darts with flanges deliver extra goo, and elongated sperm-receiving organs diminish the goo's power by requiring it to act on a greater area of tissue.”
fanciest
  1. superlative form of fancy: most fancy; most fancy.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. showiest, gaudiest, busiest, classiest, fussiest, swishest, flashiest, poshest, extremest, glitziest, ritziest, snazziest, spiffiest, swankiest, jazziest, richest, cushiest, frilliest, highest-quality, most elaborate, most intricate, most decorative, most decorated, most embellished, most ornamental, most ornate, most ostentatious, most adorned, most baroque, most deluxe, most flamboyant, most sumptuous, most elegant, most luxurious, most resplendent, most devilish, most quality, most select, most sophisticated, most towering, most fanciful, most flash, most special, most chichi, most fancible, most florid, most highfalutin, most unusual, most high-class, most fancy-pants … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “We'll dine at the fanciest and snootiest drive-thru restaurants and waffle houses.”
      “He can walk into the chicest and fanciest restaurant wearing his favorite old ratty T-shirt and jeans and nobody bats an eye.”
      “The worst slums tend to vote overwhelmingly Democratic, and the fanciest suburbs tend to be Republican strongholds.”
fancied
  1. simple past tense and past participle of fancy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. seen, envisaged, envisioned, imagined, pictured, visualized, anticipated, conceived, predicted, foreseen, foretold, visualised, conceived of, divined, forecast, forecasted, augured, figured, prophesied, apprehended, foreshown, presaged, prevised, prognosticated, viewed, visioned, believed, seen in one's mind's eye, foresaw, saw, foreshowed, saw in one's mind's eye, read, expected, vaticinated, called, portended, soothsaid, projected, foreknown, forewarned, readen, speculated, adumbrated, foreshadowed, reckoned, foreboded, estimated, auspicated, seen something coming … more
fancying
  1. present participle of fancy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. caring, wanting, considering, liking, wishing, loving, craving, desiring, feeling like, preferring, favoring, enjoying, relishing, favouring, desiderating, coveting, savouring, savoring, digging, adoring, wishing for, yearning for, pining for, delighting in, approving of, sighing for, rejoicing in, caring for, having a craving for, reveling in, having a yen for, dreaming of, hungering for, endorsing, itching for, falling for, hankering after, getting off on, having a yearning for, taking to, sanctioning, setting one's heart on, taking a liking to, longing for, thirsting for, feeling in need of, yenning for, having a fancy for, hankering for, hoping for … more
fancifying
  1. present participle of fancify
  2. Synonyms:
      3. adorning, decorating, beautifying, embellishing, enriching, ornamenting, arraying, festooning, garnishing, gracing, trimming, bedizening, decking, bedecking, blazoning, caparisoning, dressing, draping, emblazing, embossing, doing, doing up, dolling up, fancying up, prettying up, gussying up, prettifying, enhancing, furbelowing, dressing up, tricking out, decking out, furnishing, garlanding, wreathing, gilding, engarlanding, doing out, bejeweling, bejewelling, getting up, sprucing up, tarting up, emblazoning, setting off, swathing, fixing up, embroidering, bespangling, titivating … more
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