fancying

The word “fancying” has 3 syllables: fan-cy-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈfæn.si.ɪŋ/

What is synonym and antonym for fancying?

In the thesaurus, “fancying” has 164 synonyms and 26 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for fancying along with examples of usage in sentences.

Synonyms for fancying

Atlantis
admiring
adoring
air castle
apparition
appearance
apperception
appreciating
appreciation
apprehension
authoring
being partial to
bubble
building
castle in the air
causation
cherishing
chimera
clue
cogitating
cognition
communing
composition
comprehension
conceit
conceiting
conceiving
concentrating
concept
conception
concocting
consideration
considering
constituting
construction
contemplating
contriving
creativity
daydream
daydreaming
deliberating
delusion
design
designing
devising
devouring
digging
dream
dreaming
enjoying
envisaging
envisioning
explanation
exposition
externalizing
fabricating
fabrication
fairyland
fancy
fantasia
fantasizing
fantasying
fashioning
favoring
featuring
figment
figment of imagination
flight
flight of imagination
fond hope
foreseeing
forging
formulation
getting a charge out of
getting a kick out of
going for
hallucinating
hallucination
having a soft spot for
head trip
ideating
idolizing
illusion
image
imagination
imaginativeness
imaging
imagining
impression
in a zone
inkling
intellection
interpretation
inventing
invention
liking
loving
making up
manufacturing
meditating
meditation
mental grasp
mind trip
mirage
musing
nightmare
notion
objectifying
occasioning
originality
origination
perception
performing
phantasm
phantasy
philosophizing
picture
picturing
pie in the sky
pipe dream
plan
planning
pondering
preferring
prefiguring
prizing
producing
production
projecting
rainbow
re-creating
realization
recreating
reflecting
relishing
reliving
reminiscing
representation
reverie
revering
ruminating
savoring
savouring
seeing
shaping
speculating
speculation
stargazing
taking to
thought
treasuring
trip
utopia
vagary
valuing
venerating
version
vision
visioning
visualizing
wish
woolgathering
worshiping
worshipping

Antonyms for fancying

abhorring
abominating
abortion
actuality
being
certainty
concrete
condemning
death
despising
destruction
detesting
dislike
disliking
existence
fact
hate
hating
ignorance
loathing
misunderstanding
reality
ruin
scorning
substance
truth

Meanings of fancying

verb
1. To appreciate without jealousy or greed.
2. Would like.
3. To be sexually attracted to.
4. To imagine, suppose.
5. To form a conception of; to portray in the mind.
6. To have a fancy for; to like; to be pleased with, particularly on account of external appearance or manners.
7. To breed (animals) as a hobby.
noun
1. Something fancied or imagined.

Example Sentences

She’s been fancying a new hairstyle for months now.
Fancying a quiet weekend, he decided to stay home and read.
They were fancying a trip to the mountains for their summer vacation.
He’s been fancying the idea of starting his own business for a long time.
Fancying a challenge, she signed up for the marathon.

On this page you'll find 190 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to fancying, such as: Atlantis, abhorring, abominating, abortion, actuality, admiring, adoring.

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