Fancied

Definition: Fancied

Fancied

Adjective

1. Formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character"; "used fictitious names"; "a made-up story".

Date "fancied" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Fancied

Synonyms: fabricated (adj), fictional (adj), fictitious (adj), invented (adj), made-up (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Fancied

English words defined with "fancied": Abdominal ring, attire, Avernian ♦ Crania ♦ deck out, deck up, dress up ♦ fabricated, fancied up, fancy, fancy up, fictional, fictitious, fig out, fig up ♦ get up, go for, gussy up ♦ heron's bill ♦ invented ♦ justice of the peace ♦ Lion's tail ♦ made-up, Monarcho ♦ overdress ♦ Passion flower, prink ♦ rig out, Rose color ♦ Squamous ♦ take to, Tiger shell, tog out, tog up, trick out, trick up, Tripestone, Turban-shell, Turtle cowrie. (references)

Specialty definitions using "fancied": Babel quartz ♦ Deal-fish ♦ Handkerchiefs. (references)

Etymologies containing "fancied": Columbella ♦ Monarcho, Myricin ♦ sheepshead. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Thank you. I always fancied myself a singer. (The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland; writing credit: Mitchell Kriegman)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	He fancied he could discern the person lolling in the shadows --.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Title	Author	Quote
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	On the lines which he had fancied the moorings of an ark a few lanterns swung in the night breeze, flickering cheerlessly.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Papua New Guinea	The term "New Guinea" was applied to the island in 1545 by a Spaniard, Ynigo Ortis de Retez, because of a fancied resemblance between the islands' inhabitants and those found on the African Guinea coast. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Fancied" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 75.40% of the time. "Fancied" is used about 439 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)	75.4%	331	15,783
Lexical Verb (past participle)	17.77%	78	37,656
Adjective (general or positive)	6.83%	30	63,341
Total	100.00%	439	N/A

Expressions using "fancied": fancied up ♦ fancied up gussied gussied up tricked out. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "fancied": much-fancied, strongly-fancied.
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Language		Translations for "fancied"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		imagjinar (fabulous, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, fictional, fictitious, fictive, imaginary, imaginative, unreal, visional, visionary), i imagjinuar (feigned, make believe, mythical, notional), i fantazuar. (various references)

Arabic		‏خيالي (aerial, chimerical, conceptual, fanciful, fancy, fantast, fantastic, fictional, fictitious, fictive, figment, ideal, ideational, imaginary, imaginative, impracticable, mythical, notional, quixotic, romantic, unreal, utopian, visionary). (various references)

Chinese		想象 (Envisage, Envisaged, Envisaging, Fancying, imagine, imagined, imaging, Imagining). (various references)

Czech		domnìlý (alleged, assumed, imaginary, presumptive, supposed). (various references)

Finnish		luuloteltu (imaginary), kuviteltu (fictitious, imaginary). (various references)

French		imaginaire (airy fairy, fairy, fanciful, fancy, fantast). (various references)

German		wähnte, gewähnt. (various references)

Greek		φανταστικόσ (fancy, fantastic, fantastical, fictitious, imaginary, notional, unreal, vaporous, visionary). (various references)

Hebrew		�"מיו� י (airy fairy, fabulous, fairy, fanciful, fantasy, fictitious, illusory, imaginary, imaginative, phantom, romantic, unreal, utopian, visionary). (various references)

Hungarian		szeretett (beloved, darling), képzelt (fantastic, fictional, fictitious, imaginary, mythical). (various references)

Italian		fantastico (chimeric, crazy, eerie, fabled, fabulous, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, imaginary, imaginative, incredible, marvellous, marvelous, wonderful). (various references)

Korean		공상하�". (various references)

Pig Latin		anciedfay

Romanian		imaginar (aerial, fairy, fanciful, imaginary, notional, subjective, unreal, visional, visionary, would be), închipuit (conceited, false, fictitious, imaginary, notional, overweening, unreal, visional). (various references)

Russian		воображаемый (fictitious, fictive, imaginable, imaginary, make believe, notional, visional), любимый (beloved, darling, dear, fair haired, favorite, favourite, pet, precious, turtle-dove). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		imaginaran (imaginary). (various references)

Spanish		favorito (favorite, favourite, minion, odds-on, particular), selecto (choice, picked, select), imaginario (fanciful, imaginary, notional, unreal, untrue), imaginado (digested). (various references)

Swedish		inbillad (chimerical, fanciful, ideal, imaginary, insubstantial, phantom, would be). (various references)

Thai		ซึ่งนึกฝัน. (various references)

Turkish		sanılan (reputed, suppositional, supposititious, thought). (various references)

Ukranian		уявний (fairy, fictitious, imaginary, notional, putative, virtual, visionary), уявлюваний (visional), улюблений (beloved, favorite, favourite, minion, pet, white). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Fancied" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fanced, fancye, Fanica, Fanshel, lancied, Panacide. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "fancied" (pronounced fa"nsēd)
3	-s ē d	autopsied, gussied, taxied.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: faciend.
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-f-i-n"
	-1 letter: fadein, fiance.
	-2 letters: acned, caned, canid, dance, decaf, faced, fiend, fined, nicad.
	-3 letters: aced, acid, acne, aide, cade, cadi, cafe, caid, cain, cane, cedi, cine, dace, deaf, dean, defi, deni, dice, dine, face, fade, fain, fane, fend, fice, find, fine, iced, idea, naif, neif, nice, nide.
	-4 letters: ace, aid, ain, and, ane, ani, cad, can, den, die, din, end, fad, fan, fed, fen, fid, fie, fin, ice, nae.
	-5 letters: ad, ae, ai, an, de, ed, ef, en, fa, id, if, in, na, ne.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-f-i-n"
	+1 letter: canfield, defacing, defiance, faciends, financed.
	+2 letters: affianced, archfiend, canfields, carnified, defiances, fancified, infarcted, infracted.
	+3 letters: archfiends, candlefish, chiffonade, cofinanced, confidante, defecating, defecation, fascinated, fornicated, fractioned, franchised, fricandeau, fricandoes, interfaced, jackknifed, refinanced, sanctified.
	+4 letters: affectioned, caffeinated, chiffonades, confidantes, confiscated, defalcating, defalcation, defecations, deification, edification, fanaticized, fecundating, fecundation, forbiddance, fricandeaus, fricandeaux, infanticide, prefinanced, uncalcified, unclarified.
	+5 letters: beneficiated, candlefishes, confidential, deacidifying, decaffeinate, decalcifying, defalcations, deifications, disaffecting, disaffection, disfranchise, disinfectant, edifications, enfranchised, fecundations, ferricyanide, ferrocyanide, fianchettoed, forbiddances, fractionated, handicrafter, handkerchief, infanticides, pontificated, unclassified.
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