Vocabulary
Fancy
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
sophisticated or expensive in a way that is intended to impress.
Urdu meaning
خوش اسلوب، تصور کرنا، گمان کرنا
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- WHEN you go out for a meal to a fancy restaurant, this is how matters proceed.
- For instance, you are alone on a street where a fancy car is parked.
- But it seems that such displays of martial pageantry have caught the fancy of the current occupant of the White House too.
- It does not matter whether the government has the money for such fancy projects or whether they are actually executed.
- The focus should be on upgrading the entire railway infrastructure and expanding the rail network under the Mainline project rather than creating islands for fancy trains.
Synonyms
elaborate, ornate, ornamented, ornamental, decorated, decorative, adorned,
Antonyms
plain, unobtrusive
Curator example
“fancy hotels and restaurants”
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These entries support close reading of Dawn editorials and opinion pieces: short definitions,
Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
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