fancy vs want
want vs fancyfancy and want both are nouns.
fancy is an adjective but want is not an adjective.
fancy and want both are verbs.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| fancy | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| want | Yes | No | Yes | No |
As verbs,
want is a hypernym of
fancy; that is, want is a
word with a broader meaning than fancy:
- fancy: have a fancy or particular liking or desire for
- want: feel or have a desire for; want strongly
Other hypernyms of fancy include
desire.
| fancy (noun) | want (noun) |
|---|---|
| imagination or fantasy; held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination | a specific feeling of desire |
| something many people believe that is false | anything that is necessary but lacking |
| a predisposition to like something | a state of extreme poverty |
| the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable |
| fancy (adjective) | want (adjective) |
|---|---|
| not plain; decorative or ornamented |
| fancy (verb) | want (verb) |
|---|---|
| imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | wish or demand the presence of |
| have a fancy or particular liking or desire for | have need of |
| hunt or look for; want for a particular reason | |
| feel or have a desire for; want strongly | |
| be without, lack; be deficient in |
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 "want"
- absence
- ambition
- be
- begrudge
- care
- crave
- cry
- dearth
- deficiency
- deficit
- demand
- deprivation
- desire
- envy
- essential
- famine
- fancy
- feel like
- go for
- hanker
- hope
- hunger
- impoverishment
- itch
- lack
- lech after
- like
- long
- look for
- lust
- lust after
- mineral deficiency
- miss
- necessary
- necessity
- need
- neediness
- poorness
- poverty
- privation
- require
- requirement
- requisite
- search
- seek
- shortage
- shortness
- spoil
- starve
- stringency
- take to
- thirst
- tightness
- velleity
- want
- wanter
- wish
- wish well
- wishing
- yearn
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