Fancy and Plain

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Fancy

Fancy adjective - Made or done with great care or with much detail.
Usage example: we're having a little get-together after the concert—nothing fancy
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Plain is an antonym for fancy in topics: elaborate, extravagant.
Nearby Words: fanciful, fancied, fancying, fancier, fancifully

Plain

Plain adjective - Free from all additions or embellishment.
Usage example: just give us the plain facts and none of your snide comments
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Fancy is an antonym for plain in unadorned topic.
Nearby Words: plainly, plainness, plaint
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How words are described

big big fancy big plain
little little fancy little plain
quite quite fancy quite plain

Both words in one sentence

  • Film / The More The Merrier Tokyo Baby Carriage Corporation - plain and fancy baby carriages for carrying babies to Tokyo.Benjamin Dingle: Oh.
    Source: Film / The More The Merrier
  • Shoehorned First Letter The musical Plain and Fancy brings on a little girl in the middle of "Plenty of Pennsylvania" to list something growing in Pennsylvania for every letter of the alphabet.
    Source: Shoehorned First Letter
  • Rejection Ritual The first act of Plain And Fancy ends with the shunning of Peter.
    Source: Rejection Ritual
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Plain and Fancy. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/fancy/plain
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