-adj. 8. choice, prime, select, quality, grade A, A number 1, the best; custom, special, deluxe, luxury, luxurious, sumptuous, elegant, posh, Sl. classy, Sl. snazzy, Sl. ritzy.
9. ornamental, decorative; decorated, adorned, embellished, embroidered; elaborate, rich, lavish, ornate, baroque, rococo, gingerbread; florid, showy, ostentatious, overdone.
10. whimsical, capricious, flightly, irregular, fanciful. See - fanciful (def. 1).
-v. 11. picture, visualize, envisage, envision, imagine, image, ideate, think, dream, daydream, fantasize; conceive, think up, Inf. dream up, make up, conjure up, Inf feature.
12. think, suppose, imagine, suspect, surmise, guess, conjecture, infer; presume, assume, take for granted.
13. take a liking to, like, go for, be attracted to; be inclined towards, be prone to, be disposed or predisposed toward, prefer; have a fancy for, have an eye for, have a desire for, have a yen for; hanker after, yearn for, long for, wish for, desire, want, covet; lust after, burn for, Inf. be wild or mad about, Sl. have the hots for, Inf. lech after.
fanfare, n. 1. flourish, fanfaron, trumpet blast, trumpet-call, sound of horn, horn blowing; din, blare, blast.
2. show, display, do, stir, commotion, hullabaloo, Inf. whop-de-do, Sl. hoopla, Sl. ballyhoo, Sl. hype; hubbub, brouhaha, ruckus, rumpus, tumult; bustle, fuss, Inf. to-do.
fanfaron, n. 1. braggart, swaggerer, gascon, braggadocio, trumpeter, blowhard, Inf. windbag, Sl. gasbag, hot air merchant, Fr. soi-disant, blatherskite.
2. See - fanfare (def. 1).
fanfaronade, n. bragging, braggadocio, swaggering, boasting; bravado, bluff, bluster, bombast, rant; nonsense, tommyrot, Inf. flapdoodle, balderdash, Inf. bosh, Inf. bunkum, Sl. bunk,
fantasize, v. dream, daydream, build castles in the air, ride a magic carpet, see things, have visions, hallucinate, Sl. trip; imagine, envision, speculate, consider, let the mind roam, give free rein to the imagination; star gaze, muse, mull, reflect, ponder, wonder about.
fantastic, adj. 1. imaginary, visionary, romantic; unreal, unsubstantial, illusive, illusory, farfetched, Inf. far out.
2. whimsical, capricious, absurd, ridiculous, ludicrous; odd, strange, queer, eccentric, peculiar, quaint, freakish; extravagant, rococo, baroque, showy, ostentatious; grotesque, bizarre, outlandish, fabulous; phantasmagoric, nightmarish, Kafkaesque; irrational, mad, wild, crazy,
fantasy, n. 1. imagination, originality, creativity, resourcefulness, inventiveness, fancy.
2. image, conception, conceptualization, perception, reflection; vision, dream, fancy, daydream; hallucination, illusion, phantasmagoria, mirage, vapor, delusion; phantasm, shadow, specter, chimera, hobgoblin, phantom; aberration, haunt, Archaic, maggot, fear, horror, haunting fear, nightmare.
3. whimsy, whim, caprice, figment, flight, flight of fancy, notion, vagary, conceit; drollery, craziness, crazy notion or idea, Inf. screwball or wacky idea; im-plausibility, unlikelihood, peculiar notion.
4. myth, legend, romance, mystery, adventure, fairy tale; horror story, ghost story, spooky tale, Inf. chiller,