Definitions

fancied

[fan-seed] / ˈfæn sid /

ADJECTIVE

fanciful

Synonyms

STRONGEST

absurd bizarre extravagant fantastic fantastical fictional imaginative offbeat preposterous unreal whimsical

WEAK

aerial blue-sky capricious castles in the air chimerical curious dreamlike fabulous fairy-tale fictitious fictive flaky floating ideal illusory imagined incredible kinky legendary mythical notional on cloud nine pie in the sky pipe dream poetic shadowy suppositious visionary wild

Antonyms

STRONGEST

normal reasonable sensible usual

WEAK

grave ordinary real serious sincere unfanciful unimaginative unromantic

ADJECTIVE

imaginary

Synonyms

STRONGEST

abstract fanciful fantastic fictional hypothetical imagined theoretical unreal whimsical

STRONG

ideal visionary

WEAK

apocryphal apparitional assumed chimerical deceptive delusive dreamed-up dreamlike dreamy fabulous figmental fool's paradise hallucinatory illusive illusory imaginative legendary made-up mythological nonexistent notional phantasmal phantasmic quixotic shadowy spectral supposed supposititious trumped-up unsubstantial

Antonyms

STRONGEST

factual ordinary proven real

STRONG

practical

WEAK

existing genuine physical substantial true

ADJECTIVE

imagined

Synonyms

STRONGEST

imaginary

WEAK

insubstantial thought up

ADJECTIVE

nonexistent

Synonyms

STRONGEST

absent negative tenuous vacant

WEAK

airy baseless blank chimerical dead defunct departed dreamlike dreamy empty ethereal extinct extinguished few and far between flimsy gone gossamery groundless hallucinatory hypothetical illusory imaginary imagined immaterial imponderable insubstantial legendary lost missing mythical null null and void passed away passed on perished shadowy ungrounded unreal unsubstantial vague vaporous void without foundation

Antonyms

WEAK

actual existent existing real true

ADJECTIVE

notional

Synonyms

WEAK

abstract apocryphal apparitional assumed chimeric chimerical conceptual deceptive delusive dreamed-up dreamlike dreamy fabulous fanciful fantastic fantastical fictional figmental fool's paradise hallucinatory hypothetical ideal illusive illusory imaginative imagined legendary made-up mythological nonexistent phantasmal phantasmic quixotic shadowy spectral supposed supposititious theoretical trumped-up unreal unsubstantial visionary whimsical

ADJECTIVE

preferred

Synonyms

STRONGEST

approved favored

STRONG

adopted culled elected endorsed liked named picked sanctioned selected taken

WEAK

decided upon handpicked popular set apart settled upon singled out well-liked

Antonyms

WEAK

ill-favored rejected undesirable

Example Sentences

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“Up in one of the windows, there was a girl I fancied called Jasmine,” he explained.

From Salon • May 12, 2026

He sent the link to his best mate Jo Diop to see if he fancied the challenge.

From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026

DeChambeau, one of the fancied picks before the tournament, suffered the ignominy of missing the cut when a disastrous finish pushed him to six over.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026

Instead, the Admiralty fed information about their system to a naval officer named Frederick Dreyer, who was a capable gunnery officer but not the great inventor he fancied himself to be.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

And that she had brought her servant and an orphaned baby she fancied to Baltimore to experience a more sophisticated way of living.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

fancied

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