FANCIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fancied mean? 

• FANCIED (adjective)
  The adjective FANCIED has 1 sense:

1. formed or conceived by the imagination

  Familiarity information: FANCIED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FANCIED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Formed or conceived by the imagination

Synonyms:

fabricated; fancied; fictional; fictitious

Context example:

a fictional character

Similar:

unreal (lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria)

 Context examples 

Jo fancied he remembered and regretted the past, and she wished she had held her tongue.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I suppose he saw Isabella sitting down, and fancied she might wish for a partner; but he is quite mistaken, for she would not dance upon any account in the world.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The wonderful improvement which she still fancied in Mr. Crawford was the nearest to administering comfort of anything within the current of her thoughts.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Anne sometimes fancied she discerned him at a distance, but he never came.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I have watched you this half hour from the window; you must forgive my being such a spy, but for a long time I have fancied I hardly know what.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The maids were still breathing, but more restlessly, and I fancied that the narcotic was wearing off.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Sometimes, after that, I fancied that she tried to speak even to me, in intervals when we were left alone.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And whenever she had picked one, she fancied that she saw a still prettier one farther on, and ran after it, and so got deeper and deeper into the wood.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Of all the beggar-men that I had seen or fancied, he was the chief for raggedness.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Sir John Lade, standing just in front of me, was roaring out the odds against Jim, and laying them freely with those who fancied the appearance of the unknown.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)