FANCY UP Synonyms: 81 Similar and Opposite Words

fancy up

verb

as in to adorn

to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming had fancied up his van so much that it was virtually a palace on wheels

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Recent Examples of fancy up Here's another opportunity to fancy up a box of cake mix. —

Patricia S York, Southern Living, 16 Feb. 2026 The Toronto International Film Festival was also a font of high-end timepieces, with celebrities fancying up their wrists for the red carpet. —

Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 13 Sep. 2025 The heightened vision of her in the supermarket, not quite lost but incongruously fancied up, hints at some of the more surreal moments ahead from Lin and cinematographer Zhang Jiahao. —

Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2024

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The bandshell, seating 4,000, was adorned with minarets and the park and Biscayne Boulevard dressed with statues and Sphinx representations.

— Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2026
Later in the evening, the star switched things up, changing into a butter-yellow matching set adorned with sparkles and floral appliqués.

— Essence, Essence, 27 Mar. 2026