fancies

Noun

• something many people believe that is false
• a kind of imagination that was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination
• a predisposition to like something
• plural of fancy
• plural of fancie

Verb

Verb Forms: fancy, fancied, fancying, fancies

• Imagines or conceives of; takes a liking to.
• imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
• have a fancy or particular liking or desire for
• third-person singular simple present indicative of fancy

Examples

• He FANCIES himself a Scrabble champion, even when losing by a hundred points.

Synonyms

envision, fancy, fantasy, figure, fondness, go for, illusion, image, partiality, phantasy, picture, project, see, take to, visualise, visualize