fancy vs desire
desire vs fancyfancy and desire both are nouns.
fancy is an adjective but desire is not an adjective.
fancy and desire both are verbs.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| fancy | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| desire | Yes | No | Yes | No |
As verbs,
desire is a hypernym of
fancy; that is, desire is a
word with a broader meaning than fancy:
- fancy: have a fancy or particular liking or desire for
- desire: feel or have a desire for; want strongly
Other hypernyms of fancy include
want.
| fancy (noun) | desire (noun) |
|---|---|
| imagination or fantasy; held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination | an inclination to want things |
| something many people believe that is false | the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state |
| a predisposition to like something | something that is desired |
| fancy (adjective) | desire (adjective) |
|---|---|
| not plain; decorative or ornamented |
| fancy (verb) | desire (verb) |
|---|---|
| imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | feel or have a desire for; want strongly |
| have a fancy or particular liking or desire for | express a desire for |
| expect and wish |
Words related to "fancy"
- adorned
- aureate
- baroque
- battlemented
- bubble
- busy
- castellated
- castled
- churrigueresco
- churrigueresque
- conceive of
- crackle
- crenelated
- damascene
- damask
- decorated
- desire
- dressy
- elaborate
- embattled
- envisage
- envision
- fancier
- fanciful
- fantastic
- fantasy
- figure
- flamboyant
- florid
- fondness
- fussy
- go for
- ideate
- ignis fatuus
- illusion
- image
- imagination
- imaginativeness
- imagine
- lacelike
- lacy
- like
- liking
- luxuriant
- misconception
- partiality
- phantasy
- picture
- plain
- project
- puff
- puffed
- realise
- realize
- rhetorical
- rococo
- see
- take to
- understand
- vermicular
- vermiculate
- vermiculated
- vision
- visualise
- visualize
- want
- will-o'-the-wisp
- wishful thinking
Words related to "desire"
- ambition
- arousal
- ask for
- aspiration
- begrudge
- bespeak
- bloodlust
- call for
- caprice
- care
- concupiscence
- crave
- craving
- desirous
- dream
- envy
- eros
- fancy
- feel like
- feeling
- go for
- greed
- hanker
- hope
- hunger
- hungriness
- impulse
- inclination
- itch
- lech after
- like
- long
- longing
- lust
- lust after
- materialism
- miss
- passion
- philistinism
- physical attraction
- quest
- rage
- request
- seek
- sex
- sex activity
- sexual activity
- sexual desire
- sexual practice
- spoil
- starve
- take to
- temptation
- tendency
- thirst
- thirstiness
- trust
- urge
- want
- whim
- wish
- wish well
- wishing
- yearn
- yearning
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