Putnam's Word Book
by
Louis A. Flemming
Part 6 out of 17
factory, n. manufactory, shop, plant, mill.
facts, n. pl. data.
faculty, n. endowment, capability, talent, ability, knack, gift;
competency, dexterity, skill ingenuity, adroitness.
fade, v. decay, decline, droop, languish, evanesce, disappear.
fadeless, a. unfading, permanent, fast, perennial.
fading, a. fugitive, evanescent, declining.
faeces, n. pl. excrement, stools.
fail, v. default, lack; deteriorate, decline, retrograde; disappoint,
desert; miscarry, foil; become bankrupt.
failing, n. shortcoming, deficiency, imperfection, foible, fault,
infirmity, defect, errancy, fallibility, decline, deterioration.
failure, n. failing, deficiency, shortcoming, lack; omission,
pretermission, default, nonperformance, neglect, dereliction
nonfulfillment, nonobservance; nonsuccess, miscarriage, frustration,
abortion, foil, fizzle, fiasco; deterioration, decline, declension,
retrogression; bankruptcy, insolvency.
faint, a. weak, languid, exhausted, feeble; indistinct, dim, faded,
dull; timorous, faint-hearted.
faint, v. swoon.
faint-hearted, a. timorous, timid, diffident, fearful, cowardly.
faint-heartedness, n. timidity, diffidence.
fainting, n. swoon, syncope.
fair, a. impartial, equitable, unbiased, just, honorable,
unprejudiced, ingenuous; average, middling, tolerable, so-so, passable;
comely, attractive, pretty, handsome; blond, light; unsullied,
untarnished, spotless.
fair, adv. clear, openly, frankly, honestly, favorably, auspiciously,
impartially.
fair, n. bazaar; exposition.
fair and square. equitably, impartially, fairly, honestly.
fairly, adv. impartially, equitably, openly, favorably, auspiciously.
fair play. justice, equity.
fair-spoken, a. plausible, bland, civil, suave.
fairy, n. fay, elf, pigwidgeon, pixy, sprite, sylph, Puck, Robin
Goodfellow, Mab, Oberon, Titania.
faith, n. credence, belief, trust, dependence, credit, reliance,
confidence; dogma, tenet, creed, religion, persuasion; fidelity, loyalty,
faithfulness; promise, engagement, word. Antonyms: doubt, incredulity,
misgiving, unbelief. Associated Words: Fides, fiduciary, fiducial, bona
fide, pistiology.
faithful, a. true, constant, stanch, unwavering, devoted, loyal;
trustworthy, reliable, conscientious; exact, accurate, precise.
faithfulness, n. constancy, devotion, loyalty, fidelity,
true-heartedness, fealty, allegiance, trustworthiness; exactness,
accuracy.
faithless, a. unbelieving, skeptical, incredulous, doubting,
disloyal, false. See unfaithful.
faithlessness, n. unbelief, incredulity, doubt; disloyalty, perfidy.
See unfaithfulness.
fake, n. (Slang) trick, swindle, imposture, fraud, delusion,
humbug, imposition.
fake, v. (Slang) cheat, swindle, humbug, defraud, manipulate,
fraudulently.
faker, n. (Slang) trickster, swindler.
fall, v. descend, drop, gravitate; collapse, founder, slump, tumble,
topple; subside, decrease, decline, settle, moderate; sin, do wrong, go
astray; apostatize; empty, discharge, disembogue.
fall, n. descent, collapse, tumble, drop; decrease, decline,
depreciation, slump; cadence; declivity, slope; prostration, downfall,
subversion; autumn; disemboguement, discharge.
fallacious, a. sophistical, misleading, illusive, untenable,
inconsistent.
fallacy, n. deception, delusion, misconception; sophism, sophistry,
paralogism.
fallals, n. pl. (Colloq.) frippery, gewgaws, ornaments.
fall away. emaciate; renounce, desert, rebel; apostatize, backslide;
decline, languish.
fall back. recede, retreat, retire, withdraw.
fallen, a. dropped, prostrate, degraded, depreciated, debased.
fallibility, n. errancy. Antonym: infallibility.
fallible, a. errable, erring. Antonym: infallible.
fall in. collapse, cave in.
falling away. emaciation, pining; renunciation, desertion, revolt,
unfaithfulness; apostasy, defection, backsliding; decline, declension.
falling back. recession, retreat, retirement, withdrawal.
falling down. prostration, collapse.
falling in with. meeting; concurrence, agreement, compliance.
falling off. dropping; withdrawal, separation, detachment; apostasy,
defection, desertion; depreciation, deterioration.
falling out. See quarrel.
falling short. deficiency, inadequacy, deficit, shortcoming.
falling sickness. epilepsy.
falling star. meteor.
falling stone. meteorite, aerolite.
falling to pieces. disintegration, dilapidation.--a. ramshackle,
dilapidated, disintegrating.
fall off. drop; withdraw, separate; apostatize, backslide;
depreciate, deteriorate.
fall on. attack, assault, assail.
fall out. See quarrel.
fallow, a. uncultivated, untilled; dormant, inactive.
fall short. be deficient, be inadequate.
fall to pieces. disintegrate.
false, a. spurious, forged, counterfeit, sham, supposititious,
unauthentic, bogus, feigned, fallacious, make believe, hypocritical,
assumed, pseudo, sophistical, untenable; unveracious, dishonest,
erroneous, untruthful; disloyal, perfidious, traitorous, disingenuous,
insincere, recreant, faithless, unfaithful.
false friend. traitor, betrayer, Judas.
falsehood, n. inveracity, untruthfulness; lie, fiction, untruth,
mendacity, fabrication, canard.
false key. picklock.
false name. pseudonym, _nom de plume_. Associated words:
pseudonymous, pseudonymity, pseudepigraphous pseudepigraphy.
false swearing. perjury.
false writing. forgery, pseudography, pseudograph.
falsification, n. counterfeiting, forgery, falsifying;
misrepresentation, distortion.
falsify, v. misstate, misrepresent, garble, distort, pervert;
confute, refute, disprove.
falter, v. hesitate, tremble, waver, vacillate.
faltering, a. wavering, hesitating.
faltering, n. hesitation, indecision, wavering, vacillation.
fame, n. celebrity, note, eminence, renown, glory, reputation,
repute. Antonyms: obscurity, ingloriousness, oblivion, ignominy,
disrepute.
familiar, a. intimate, close, cordial, near, friendly, bosom;
informal, unreserved, unconstrained, easy, unceremonious; conversant,
well-known. Antonyms: unfamiliar, shy, ceremonious, distant.
familiarity, n. intimacy, conversance, acquaintance; informality,
freedom, unconstraint; disrespect, unreserve. Antonyms: unfamiliarity,
strangeness.
familiarize, v. habituate, accustom, inure, break in.
family, n. household; genealogy, lineage, ancestry. Associated
words: genealogist, _foris-familiate_, pedigree, nepotism, nepotic,
cadency, gens.
family way. pregnancy. Associated Words: pregnant, gravid,
enceinte.
famous, a. renowned, famed, noted, celebrated, eminent, illustrious,
distinguished, far-famed. Antonyms: obscure, inglorious, unknown,
notorious.
fan, n. flabellum (Eccl.), Associated Words: brin, panache,
plicate, plicated.
fan, v. winnow; cool, ventilate; stimulate, rouse, foment, provoke,
encourage.
fanatic, n. extremist, visionary, zealot.
fanatical, a. fanatic, rabid, uncompromising, over-zealous.
fancied, a. imaginary.
fanciful, a. whimsical, capricious, visionary, imaginative,
unpractical; chimerical, fantastic, illusive, phantasmic, quixotic,
bizarre, erratic.
fancy, n. imagination, conception, conceit, idea, apprehension,
impression, opinion, notion; caprice, whim, whimsey, fantasy, vagary,
maggot, crotchet; inclination, liking, fondness, penchant, taste.
fancy, a. ornate, elaborate, ornamental; fanciful, exorbitant,
fabulous, extravagant.
fancy, v. believe, imagine, apprehend, conjecture, conceive, like.
fandangle, a. fantastic, highfaluting, ornamental.
fang, n. tusk.
fan-shaped, a. plicate, flabelliform, flabellate.
fantastic, a. fanciful, imaginary; unreal, phantasmal, spectral,
illusive; whimsical, capricious, erratic; grotesque, irregular, odd,
rococo, baroque, bizarre.
fantod, n. (Slang) worry, excitement, fuss, fidget; indisposition,
sulks.
far, a. distant, remote; alienated, estranged, unfriendly.
farce, n. burlesque, travesty, caricature, sham, take-off.
farcical, a. burlesque, ludicrous, ridiculous, absurd.
farewell, n. adieu, leave-taking, good-bye, valediction, conge,
valedictory.
farewell, a. parting, valedictory, final.
far-fetched, a. forced, strained, catachrestic.
farm, n. grange; plantation; croft; hacienda.
farmer, n. agriculturist, husbandman, granger.
farming, n. agriculture, husbandry.--a. agricultural.
far-off, a. remote, distant, far-away.
far-sighted, a. hypermetropic, presbyopic; long-sighted, sagacious.
far-sightedness, n. hypennetropia, presbyopia, hyperopia;
long-sightedness, sagacity.
far-sighted person. presbyope.
fascinate, v. bewitch, enchant, charm, captivate, enamor, infatuate,
entrance, enrapture, enravish. Antonyms: disillusionize, decharm, repel.
fascinating, a. charming, captivating, bewitching, siren, witching,
entrancing.
fascination, n. enchantment, witchcraft, bewitchery, sorcery, magic,
witchery, captivation, charm, enravishment Antonyms: disenchantment,
disillusionment.
fashion, n. vogue, style, mode.
fashionable, a. stylish, in vogue, smart, modish.
fast, a. immovable, firm, rigid; impregnable, strong, invincible,
invulnerable, fortified; steadfast, faithful, true; permanent, durable;
rapid, swift, fleet, quick, expeditious, speedy; unrestrained, dissolute,
dissipated, rakish, wanton, profligate, immoral.
fast, adv. swiftly, rapidly, quickly, with celerity, post-haste,
speedily, expeditiously; fixedly, firmly, immovably.
fast and loose. inconstant.
fasten, v. secure, fix, barricade, lock, bind, tie, attach, tether,
rivet, moor, cement, affix, annex, clinch, clamp, append.
fastidious, a. critical, squeamish, punctilious. Antonyms: careless,
indiscriminate, slovenly.
fastness, n. fixedness, immovability, firmness, security,
impregnability; fortress, stronghold, citadel; swiftness, celerity,
rapidity, expedition, quickness, haste.
fat, a. fleshy, plump, corpulent, obese, portly, pursy, burly,
chubby, pampered, gross, squab, stout, pudgy; adipose; fertile,
productive; lucrative, remunerative, profitable.
fatal, a. mortal, deadly.
fatality, n. fatalness, fate, destiny; mortality; disaster, calamity.
fate, n. destiny, lot, doom; chance, fortune; Moira; karma; kismet;
predestination.
fated, a. destined, doomed, predestined, foredoomed.
fateful, a. ominous.
Fates, n. pl. Destinies, Parcae (Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos).
father, n. pater familias, procreator, sire, patriarch; founder,
originator, author. Associated Words: affiliate, affiliation, filiation,
patricide, patricidal, paternalism, parricide, agnate, agnation,
patrimony.
father, v. beget, engender, procreate.
fatherhood n. paternity.
fatherly, a. paternal.
fatigue, n. weariness, lassitude, languor, exhaustion.
fatigue, v. weary, tire, jade, exhaust, fag, bore.
fatness, n. corpulency, obesity, _embonpoint_, plumpness, fleshiness,
stoutness, portliness, pudginess; adiposity; fertility, richness.
fatten, v. batten.
fatty, a. adipose, greasy, unctuous, oleaginous, sebaceous.
fatty tumor. lipoma.
fault, n. defect, imperfection, failing, foible, shortcoming,
blemish, flaw; demerit, dereliction, offense, indiscretion, lapse,
delinquency. Antonyms: merit, perfection, beauty, impeccability.
fault-finder, n. caviler, critic, grumbler, carper, repiner,
censurer, censor, complainer.
fault-finding, a. captious, caviling, critical, derogatory,
dissatisfied, grumbling, censorious, discontented, querulous, carping.
fault-finding, n. carping, criticism, grumbling, murmuring,
captiousness, cavil, reprehension, dissatisfaction, animadversion,
stricture, repining.
faultiness, n. defectiveness, imperfection, culpability, peccability.
faultless, a. perfect, blameless, impeccable, inerrable, unblemished.
faulty, a. imperfect, defective; blamable, culpable, peccable,
erring.
faun, n. satyr, sylvan.
favor, n. countenance, regard, good-will, kindness; support,
promotion, befriending, championship, espousal, countenancing. Antonyms:
disfavor, opposition.
favor, v. support, countenance, encourage; resemble.
favorable, a. propitious, auspicious, conducive, beneficial, partial,
helpful. Antonyms: unfavorable, unpropitious, inauspicious.
favoring, a. partial, approving, helpful.
favoritism, n. partiality; nepotism. Antonym: impartiality
fawn, v. truckle, curry favor, court.
fawner, n. sycophant, bootlicker, footlicker.
fawning, a. sycophantic, obsequious, servile, truckling.
fear, n. apprehension, anxiety, solicitude, alarm, dread,
trepidation, consternation, panic, dismay, terror, fright, cowardliness,
timidity, pusillanimity; reverence, awe, veneration.
fear, v. apprehend, dread, be afraid of; reverence, venerate, stand
in awe of.
fearful, a. apprehensive, alarmed, afraid, frightened; timid,
timorous, faint-hearted, cowardly, craven, pusillanimous, meticulous;
terrible, frightful, dreadful, grim, awful, dire, fell, atrocious,
ghastly, terrifying, alarming, appalling.
fearless, a. intrepid, courageous, bold, valorous, undaunted,
unafraid, unflinching.
feasibility, n. practicability.
feasible, a. practicable.
feast, n. banquet, repast, regale, Junket, festivity. Associated
words: convivial, conviviality.
feast, v. banquet, junket; delight, gratify.
feastful, a. festive, festal.
feat, n. exploit, achievement, stunt, act, deed.
feather, n. plume, quill, pinion.
feather, v. fledge.
feathered, a. fledged.
feathering, n. endysis.
feather in the cap. (Colloq.) honor, trophy.
featherless, a. unfledged, desplumate, callow.
feathers, n. pl. plumage; aigret; panache, remiges (quill
feathers); down (soft under feathers); coverts; rectrices. Associated
words: plumassier, pterylography, endysis, ecdysis, moult, moulting, mew,
desplumation, preen, barb, midrib, shaft, barbule, pompon, plumassary.
feathery, a. plumy, pennaceous.
feature, n. aspect, appearance; lineament; trait, characteristic,
peculiarity.
federation, n. confederation, league, confederacy, union.
fee, n. retainer, tip, honorarium, perquisite.
feeble, a. infirm, doddering. See weak.
feeble-minded, a. half-witted, defective, imbecile.
feeble-minded person, defective, imbecile.
feed, v. bait, regale.
feed, n. provender, fodder.
feel, v. touch, handle; grope, grabble; experience, suffer.
feeler, n. antenna, tentaculum, tentacle, horn, palpus. pl.
antennae, tentacula, palpi.
feeling, a. susceptible, sensitive, sentient, sympathetic.
Antonyms: insentient, unfeeling, stoic, impassive.
feeling, n. sensibility, sensation, sentiency; emotion. Antonyms:
insensibility, impassivity, numbness.
feign v. pretend, dissemble, simulate, affect, counterfeit, assume.
feigned, a. pretended, simulate, simulated, counterfeit, dissembled,
assumed. Antonyms: real, sincere, unfeigned.
feigning, n. simulation, dissembling.
feint, n. pretense, blind, stratagem.
felicitate, v. congratulate.
felicitation, n. congratulation.
fellow-countryman, n. compatriot.
fellowship, n. companionship, communion, converse, association.
felon, n. criminal, convict; whitlow.
felonious, a. heinous, atrocious, nefarious, flagitious, infamous.
female, a. feminine; pistillate (Bot.).
female warrior. Amazon.
fence, n. pale, palings, palisade, stockade, hurdle, raddle, defense,
protection, enclosure.
fence, v. defend, fortify, protect; equivocate, evade, parry, shift,
prevaricate.
fencing, n. swordsmanship, gladiature, swordplay, gladiatorism.
fend, v. ward off, avoid, parry.
fender, n. protection, defense, screen, guard; dashboard,
splashboard.
ferment, n. harm, leaven, yeast; enzyme, histozyme, zyme, zymophite.
fern, n. brake, bracken, maiden hair, Venus hair, poly-pody.
ferns, n. pl. Filices, Pteridophyta. Associated Words: pteridology,
filicology, pteridologist, filical, filicic, filici-form, filicoid, frond,
spore, filicite, cryptogamous.
ferocious, a. rapacious, ravenous, truculent, fell, savage.
ferocity, n. rapacity, fierceness.
ferrotype, n. tintype.
fertile, a. fruitful, fecund; pistillate. Antonyms: infertile
infecund, barren.
fertility, n. fruitfulness, fecundity, richness. Antonyms:
infertility, infecundity, barrenness.
fertilization, n. enriching; fecundation, impregnation.
fertilize, v. enrich, manure; fecundate, impregnate.
fertilizer, n. manure, guano, phosphate of lime, compost.
fervency, n. See ardor.
fervent, a. See ardent.
fervid, a. See ardent.
fervor, n. See ardor.
fester, v. suppurate, maturate, ulcerate; rankle.
fester, n. sore, pustule, festering, abscess, imposthume, rankling.
festering, n. suppuration, maturation, ulceration; fester, rankling.
festering, a. suppurating, maturating; rankling.
festival, n. fete, banquet, feast, holiday.
festive, a. festal, convivial, festival.
festoon, n. garland.
fetid, a. malodorous, stinking, noisome.
fetter, n. shackle, bond, hamper, restraint.
fetter, v. shackle, manacle, hamper; restrain, impede.
fever, n. Associated Words: febrifacient, febrific, febrierous,
febrifuge, febrifugal, pyretology, pyretic.
feverish, a. febrile.
fever spots. petechiae.
fewness, n. paucity.
fiat, n. order, decree, mandate, edict, command.
fib, n. falsehood, untruth.
fiber, n. staple, thread, filament, pile.
fickle, a. vacillating, volatile, mercurial, irresolute, fitful,
capricious, unstable, inconstant, variable, wavering. Antonyms:
constant, unwavering, steadfast, resolute.
fickleness, n. vacillation, irresolution, inconstancy, volatility,
tergiversation, capriciousness.
fiddle, n. violin; kit.
fiddler, n. violinist.
fidelity, n. loyalty, fealty, faithfulness; truth, integrity.
Antonyms: infidelity, faithlessness.
fidgets, n. pl. restlessness; dysphoria.
field, n. meadow, lea; campaign, savanna, croft; scope, range, room,
province, domain, region, realm, rowen (stubble field).
fiend, n. demon.
fiendish, a. diabolical, atrocious, infernal.
fierce, a. violent, unrestrained, furious, immoderate, impetuous,
vehement, passionate, ferocious, fiery, mettlesome. Antonyms: tame,
gentle, docile.
fiery, a. igneous; vehement, impetuous, passionate, irascible,
irritable.
fifteen-sided figure. quindecagon.
fifteenth day of March, May, July, and October. ides.
fig, n. fico, snap, fillip.
fig, n. Associated Words: caprification, caricous.
fight, n. combat, battle, engagement, struggle, encounter, fray,
affray, melee, scrimmage (Colloq.); pugnacity, belligerence. Associated
words: militant, combative, combativeness, bellicose, belligerent,
pugnacious.
fight, v. battle, combat, militate, struggle, cope with.
fighter, n. warrior, champion, combatant, vindicator, gladiator,
belligerent.
fight shy. avoid, elude.
figment, n. fabrication.
figurative, a. typical, representative, emblematical; metaphorical,
tropical.
figure, n. shape, form, outline, _tournure_, conformation, image,
effigy, statue, bust, figurehead, likeness; numeral, digit, number; type,
emblem, symbol; caryatid; atlantes, telamones; figurine; diagram, drawing;
dash, conspicuousness, show.
figure, v. compute, cipher, calculate; contrive, scheme, plan;
symbolize, typify, represent.
figure of speech. trope, metaphor.
file, n. line, row; rasp, quannet.
filing, n. limature, limation.
fill, n. thill, shaft.
fill, n. sufficiency, plenty.
fill, v. satisfy, cloy, satiate, sate, glut, stuff; occupy, hold;
replenish; expand, dilate, distend, inflate, bloat; pervade.
fill out. extend, inflate, complete, amplify.
film, n. pellicle.
filter, v. strain, clarify, filtrate; percolate, exude, ooze, seep,
transude, infiltrate.
filtering, n. filtration; percolation, exudation, transudation,
infiltration.
filth, n. squalor, foulness, corruption, Augean stable, muck, dirt.
filthy, a. nasty, dirty, squalid, foul; smutty, obscene, indecent,
ribald, lewd.
finally, adv. ultimately, eventually, lastly.
find fault. object, disapprove, demur, cavil, except, criticize,
carp, repine, complain, grumble.
finding, n. discovery; verdict.
finding out. detection, discovery.
find out. discover, detect, ascertain, solve, unriddle.
fine, n. amercement, mulet, penalty.--v. mulet, amerce.
fine, a. refined, nice, exquisite, excellent, _recherche_, elegant,
splendid, admirable, choice, select, attractive, delicate, subtle, minute,
capillary, tenuous, thin, subtile, ethereal, attenuated, filmy, flimsy,
gossamery, slender; comminuted, bolted, pulverized, impalpable, powdered.
Antonyms: coarse, crude, unbolted, stout, crass, thick.
fine arts. Associated Words: esthetics, aesthetic, aestheticism,
aesthete.
finedrawn, a. subtle.
finery, n. ornaments, decorations, frippery, clothes, gewgaws.
finespun, a. subtle, attenuated.
finesse, n. artifice, stratagem, maneuvering, ruses.
finger, n. digit; medius (middle finger); minimus (Little
finger); index (fore or index finger). Associated Words: digital,
digitation, interdigital.
finger, v. touch, handle; thrum, strum.
finger bone. phalanx, internode; pl. phalanges.
finger-shaped, a. digitiform.
finical, a. over-particular, fastidious.
finicky, a. (Colloq.) finical, fastidious, squeamish, dainty.
finish, v. complete, elaborate.
finish, n. completion, elaboration.
fire, v. ignite, kindle; (Slang) discharge, dismiss; inflame,
irritate, arouse, excite, incite; animate, quicken, vitalize, enthuse,
inspirit; stoke; bake, burn, torrefy.
fire, n. combustion, ignition, burning; phlogiston; conflagration,
holocaust, deflagration; flame, blaze; bonfire, balefire, _feu de joie_,
beacon. Associated Words: pyrology, pyrography, pyromania, pyrophobia,
incendiary, incendiarism, arson, lurid, Moloch, fuel, combustible,
pyroleter, smolder, _ignis fatuus_, Vulcan, Hephaestus.
fire-arm, n. See gun.
fire-arms, n. pl. guns, gunnery, artillery.
firebug, n. incendiary, pyromaniac.
fire-damp, n. carbureted hydrogen.
firedog, n. andiron.
fireman, n. fire-tender, stoker.
fireproof, a. incombustible, asbestic.
fireside, n. hearth, ingleside.
fireworks, n. pl. Associated Words: pyrotechnics, pyrotechnist,
pyrotechnician, pyrotechnic, pyrotechny.
fire-worship, n. pyrolatry, Parseeism, Mazdeism, Magianism,
Zoroastrianism.
fire-worshiper, n. pyrolater, Gheber, Parsee, Magian, Zoroastrian.
firm, a. fast, immovable, secure; compact, solid, dense, compressed;
fixed, resolute, constant, unwavering, unshaken, steadfast, stanch,
determined, invincible, inflexible, incompliant. Antonyms: flaccid,
soft, vacillating, irresolute, lax, yielding, facile, inconstant.
first, a. earliest; foremost, leading, chief, premier; primary,
primal, primordial, primitive, primeval, pristine, original, aboriginal,
primogenial; elementary, rudimentary, initial.
first, adv. primarily, originally.
firstborn, n. Associated Words: primogeniture, primogenial,
primogenitureship.
first-formed, a. original, protoplastic.
first installment. earnest, handsel.
first principles. rudiments, principia.
first produce or offspring. firstling.
first-rate, a. excellent, first-class.
fish, n. fry, alevin (young fish); ichthyolite, monilife, (fossil
fish). See fishes.
fish, v. angle, trawl, troll; poach (fish unlawfully).
fish eggs. spawn, roe.
fisherman, n. fisher, piscator, angler.
fishes, n. pl. Pisces; Piscifauna (fishes of a region), Associated
words: ichthyology, ichthyologist, ichthyophagy, ichthyophagist,
ichthyography, ichthyolatry, piscatology, pisciculturist, piscary,
piscine, shoal, kench, minnow, aquarium, piscivorous, piscatorial, warren,
spawn, cauf, creel, kibblings, bait, pisciform, piscinal.
fish culture. pisciculture.
fish glue. isinglass, ichthyocoll; carlock.
fish hawk, n. osprey.
fishing, n. angling, trawling, trolling, whiffing, spillet fishing,
bultow fishing.
fishlike, a. pisciform, ichthyic.
fish line. Associated Words: snell, snood, leader, sinker, bob,
float, boulter.
fishskin, n. ichthyosis.
fish soup. chowder.
fishy, a. fishlike; (Colloq.) extravagant, exaggerated, improbable.
fistic, a. pugilistic.
fisticuffs, n. pl. boxing, pugilism.
fit, n. spasm, paroxysm, convulsion; access, outburst, attack;
epilepsy, catalepsy; humor, whim, caprice, fancy.
fit, a. meet, becoming, suitable, proper, appropriate, congruous,
adequate, expedient, congruent, apposite, qualified, eligible, competent,
befitting, apt, convenient.
fit, v. adapt, qualify, prepare, equip, accommodate, shape, adjust,
trim.
fitful, a. variable, capricious, unstable, inconstant, spasmodic,
changeable.
fitness, n. becomingness, appropriateness, competency, qualification,
congruity, eligibility.
fitting, a. suitable, proper, fit, befitting.
five, n. cinque, quintuplet, quintette; quintuplets. Associated
words: quinary, quintuple, quintuplicate, quincunx.
five-angled, a. pentagonal.
five-angled figure. pentagon, pentahedron.
five cents. nickel.
fivefold, a. quintuple.
five languages. Associated Word: pentaglot.
five-sided, a. pentagonal, pentahedral.
five years. quinquennium, lustrum. Associated Words: quinquennial,
quinquennially.
fir, v. mend, repair, restore, adjust; rivet, fasten; settle, fasten,
establish, implant, define.
fix, n. (Colloq.) dilemma, predicament, plight, quandary.
Antonyms: extrication, release.
fixed, a. immovable, established, stable, firm, unchangeable
steadfast, stereotyped.
fixings, n. pl. (Colloq.) embellishments, trimmings.
fizzle, n. (Colloq.) failure, fiasco.
flabbergast, v. (Jocular) astonish, amaze, surprise, dumfound.
flabbergastation, n. (Jocular) astonishment, amazement.
flabbiness, n. flaccidity, limpness.
flabby, a. yielding, limp, soft, flaccid. Antonyms: firm, stiff,
rigid.
flag, n. colors, standard, banner, gonfalon, pennon, pennant, ensign,
guidon, streamer, banderole; iris, _fleur-de-luce_. Associated words:
furl, unfurl.
flagrant, a. glowing, flaming, ardent; atrocious, heinous, wicked.
flake, n. film, flock, lamina, scale.
flame, n. blaze, fire; love, sweetheart. Associated Words: lambent,
flamineous, flammiferous, flammivomous, flambage.
flame, v. blaze. Antonym: smolder.
flameless a. aphlogistic.
flaming, a. blazing, afire, flagrant; dazzling, brilliant; ardent,
passionate.
flare, v. flicker, flutter; dazzle, blaze, glare; flaunt.
flare, n. glare, flicker.
flare-up, n. (Colloq.) passion, anger, outburst.
flash, n. gleam, glare, coruscation.
flash, v. glitter, gleam, glisten, coruscate, sparkle.
flash, n. instant, moment.
flashy, a. dazzling, coruscant; gaudy, tawdry, meretricious showy.
flask, n. betty, matrass, bolthead.
flat, a. level, even, plane, smooth; prostrate, prone; stale,
insipid, vapid, tasteless, unsavory, unpalatable, mawkish; peremptory,
unqualified, positive; spatulous, spatulate; sonant, vocal. Antonyms:
convex, concave, warped, cambered, undulating, protuberant, projecting.
flat, n. lowland, champaign; floor, suite.
flatboat, n. punt.
flatfoot, n. splayfoot.
flatfooted, a. splayfooted; (Slang) determined, resolute,
unwavering, firmfooted.
flatiron, n. sadiron.
flatnosed, a. simous.
flatter, v. blandish, cajole, wheedle, compliment.
flatterer, n. wheedler, sycophant, toady, pickthank, flunky, Jenkins,
adulator, blandisher.
flattering, a. wheedling, adulatory, alluring, blandiloquent,
sycophantic, obsequious.
flattery, n. adulation, blandishment, wheedling, flummery,
blandiloquence, cajolery.
flaunting, a. ostentatious, showy.
flavor, n. savor, taste, relish, zest, gusto, race, tang, sapidity.
flavorless, a. insipid, vapid, unpalatable, savorless, tasteless.
flavorous, a. sapid, palatable, savory, gustable.
flaw, n. defect, fault, blemish, imperfection.
flawless, a. faultless, perfect.
flawy, a. defective, faulty.
flay, v. skin, excoriate.
fleece, v. plunder, swindle, despoil, strip.
fleet, n. squadron, navy, flotilla, armada.
fleeting, a. impermanent, transient, transitory, evanescent,
ephemeral, fugitive, temporary.
flesh, n. meat, carnage; pulp (of fruit); carnality, sensual
appetites; carrion (decaying flesh). Associated words: incarnate,
incarnation, excarnate, excarnation, carnate, carneous, trichina,
trichinosis, carnassial, carnification, carnify.
flesh-eaters, n. pl. Carnivora.
flesh-eating, a. carnivorous, sarcophagous.--n. sarcophagy.
flesh-eating animal. carnivore, sarcophagan, sarcophile.
fleshiness, n. corpulence, obesity, plumpness, _embonpoint._ See
fatness.
fleshliness n. carnality, sensuality.
fleshly, a. carnal, sensual, sensuous.
fleshy, a. corpulent, fat, portly, obese, plump.
flexibility, n. pliability, pliancy, suppleness, litheness,
ductility, compliance.
flexible, a. pliable, supple, flexile, pliant, lithe, limber;
compliant, yielding. Antonyms: inflexible, incompliant.
flight, n. flying; exodus, hegira; fleeing, absconding.
flighty, a. volatile, capricious, mercurial, giddy, fickle.
flimflam, n. trick, deception, lie.--v. trick, deceive.
flimsy, a. superficial, unsubstantial, weak, feeble, shallow,
frivolous.
flinch, v. shrink, wince, recoil, blench, withdraw.
flinders, n. pl. splinters, fragments.
flinty, a. unimpressible, impenetrable, adamantine, unyielding.
flippant, a. voluble, glib, fluent; pert, malapert, forward.
flirt, n. coquette, jilt, jill.--v. coquet, philander.
flirtation, n. coquetry.
flirtatious, a. coquettish.
float, n. raft; buoy.
floating, n. flotation, flotage, supernatation.--a. supernatant.
flock, n. covey, herd, bevy, drove, pack, lot, group, brood, litter.
Associated Words: gregarious, gregal, gregariously, gregariousness.
flog, v. See whip.
flood, n. deluge, inundation, overflow, cataclysm, freshet.
Associated Words: antediluvial, antediluvian, diluvial, diluvian,
alluvium, alluvial, alluvion.
flood, v. inundate, deluge, overflow, submerge.
flood-gate, n. sluice-gate.
floor, v. prostrate, fell, overthrow; embarrass, nonplus.
floor, n. planching, pavement; story, loft.
floor timber. joist.
floral ornament. anthemion, boughpot, palmette.
florid, a. flushed, rubicund. See red.
florist, n. floriculturist.
flounce, n. ruffle, furbelow, frill.--v. flounder.
flour, n. Associated Words: farinaceous, farina, gluten, meal,
aleurometer, aleuromancy, stive, dredge, bolt.
flour box. dredging box.
flourish, v. thrive; wave, brandish.
flourish, n. embellishment; curlycue, paraph; fanfare, call; parade,
show, display; brandishing, waving.
flout, v. mock, jeer, gibe, sneer, deride.
flow, v. circulate; proceed, emanate, issue. Antonyms: stagnate,
ebb.
flower, n. blossom, bloom; floret, floweret (little flower).
Associated Words: floral, floricultural, floriculture, florist,
floriculturist, florilege, florification, floriferous, botany, botanical,
botanist, botanize, inflorescence, estivation, anther, petal, calyx,
corolla, sepal, anthesis, anthography, anthoid, antholite, anthology,
anthomania, anthophagous, anthophilous, anthotaxy, bouquet, bract, corona,
corymb, cyme, chloranthy, efflorescence, Flora, perianth, pistil,
pistillate, staminate, pollen, prefloration raceme, reflorescence,
pollinate, pollination, stamen, stigma, umbel, verticil, verticillate,
whorl, spadix, spathe, floriated, floriation.
flower beds. Associated Words: parterre, platband, terrace.
flowering, a. phaenogamous, phaenogamian.--n. inflorescence
flowering plants. Phaenogamia.
flowerless, a. cryptogamous.
flowerless plants. Cryptogamia.
flower pot. Associated Words: cachepot, girandole.
flowery, a. florid, ornate, figurative.
flowing, a. running, gliding, fluent, cursive. Antonym: stagnant.
flowing back. refluent, ebbing.--n. refluence, ebb.
flowing in. influx.--a. influent, incurrent.
flowing out. efflux, effluxion, effluence.--a. effluent,
excurrent.
flowing round. circumfluent.
fluctuate, v. vacillate, waver, oscillate, whiffle, swerve.
Antonyms: continue, persist, adhere, abide, remain, stand fast.
fluctuation, n. vacillation, wavering, oscillation, instability.
fluent, a. flowing, gliding; voluble.
fluid, n. liquid, liquor, solution.
flunk, v. (Colloq.) fail, back out.--n. failure.
flunky, n. lackey, footman, servant; snob, toady, sycophant.
flunkyism, n. toadyism, sycophancy.
flurried, a. agitated, excited, perturbed, confused.
flurry, n. squall, breeze, wind; agitation, excitement, commotion.
flush, n. blush, glow; thrill; rosiness, redness.
flush, a. liberal, prodigal, free, lavish; even, plane, level, flat;
prolific, fecund, exuberant; affluent.
fluster, v. perturb, discompose, confuse, disconcert, embarrass,
agitate.
fluster, n. perturbation, discompose, confusion, agitation.
flustrate, v. (Colloq.) fluster, agitate.
flustration, n. (Colloq.) agitation, fluster, perturbation,
confusion.
fluted, a. chamfered, channeled, grooved.
flutter, v. tremble, palpitate; hover; oscillate, fluctuate,
vacillate, waver.
flutter, n. tremor, agitation, palpitation; confusion, disorder,
commotion.
fly, a. (Slang) wide-awake, knowing.
fly, v. wing, soar, flit, mount, hover; decamp, abscond, flee.
flyaway, a. flighty, giddy, unrestrained, volatile.
flying, a. awing, volant, volitant, soaring.
flying, n. aviation, flight.
flying machine. aeroplane, aerodrome, biplane, monoplane. Associated
words: hangar, aviator, aerodynamics, aviatrix.
foam, n. froth, spume, spumescence.--v. froth, spume.
foamy, a. frothy, spumy.
fodder, n. provender, forage, stover; ensilage. Associated Words:
silo, ensile.
foe, n. antagonist, enemy, adversary, opponent.
fog, n. haze, mist, vapor, brume; confusion (of the mind).
fog, v. befog, obscure, confuse.
foggy, a. misty, hazy, brumous, vaporous; beclouded, confused,
obscure.
fogy, n. (Colloq.) fogram, mossback.
foil, v. baffle, frustrate, thwart, circumvent.
foist, v. interpolate.
fold, n. doubling, plait, convolution; sheep-pen, cote; embrace.
fold, v. double; embrace, infold, clasp.
folding stool. faldstool.
foliage, n. leafage, leaves.
folks, n. pl. (Collog.) people, persons.
follow, v. succeed, chase, pursue, tag; dodge; result, proceed, flow,
ensue, spring, issue; pursue, practice, engage in; trace, track, trail.
follower, n. pursuer; attendant, retainer, henchman; disciple,
partisan, advocate, adherent, votary; imitator, copier.
following, n. pursuance, pursuing, pursuit; sequence, consecution,
succession; adherents, dependents, retinue; vocation, trade, profession,
business.
following, a. succeeding, ensuing, consecutive, pursuant.
folly, n. foolishness, fatuity, indiscretion, unwisdom, absurdity,
imprudence.
foment, v. encourage, instigate, nurse; stupe.
fond, a. indulgent, over-affectionate, doting; affectionate, loving;
baseless, vain, unfounded.
fondle, v. caress, pet, coddle, cosset, indulge, humor.
fondness, n. indulgence, doting; affection, devotion, love;
partiality, liking, preference, predilection, propensity, appetite.
food, n. aliment, nutriment, nourishment, pabulum, nutrition, fare,
diet, bread, meat, rations, victuals, subsistence, commons, provisions,
viands, regimen, finding, sustenance, eatables, refreshments, comestibles,
trencher, ambrosia, broma, manna. Associated Words: bromatology,
bromatologist, alimental, alimentary, pabular, appetite, alimentation,
nutrition, superalimentation, pantophagist, pantophagous, pantophagy,
polyphagous, polyphagy, bromography, dietary, regimen, dietarian,
dietetics, dieter, dietist, asitia, cater, caterer, sitology, chyle,
chyme, victualer, steward, cibation, sitophobia, omnivorous, delicatessen,
proteid, nitrogen, protein, commissariat, commissary.
food for cattle. feed, fodder, provender, forage, pasturage.
food room. larder, buttery, pantry, spence.
fool, n. idiot, imbecile, natural; simpleton, dolt, dunce, defective,
witling, dotterel, driveler, blockhead, beetlehead, ninny, ignoramus,
numskull, booby, clodpate, nincompoop, ass, wiseacre, dunderhead, halfwit,
oaf, dullard, coot, mooncalf; zany, harlequin, buffoon, jester,
merry-andrew, droll, clown, scaramouch. Associated Words: stultify,
stultification.
fool, v. dupe, gull, delude, hoodwink, deceive, hoax, trick, beguile,
victimize, cully; trifle, toy, dawdle.
fooling, n. foolishness, folly; zanyism, mummery, buffoonery,
monkey-tricks, harlequinism.
foolhardy, a. daredevil, reckless, rash.
foolish, a. idiotic, senseless, irrational, silly, imbecile, witless,
insensate, weak-minded, half-witted, brainless, fatuous, fatuitous,
insagacious, unintelligent; indiscreet, imprudent, ridiculous, absurd,
asinine, inept, nonsensical, puerile.
foolishness, n. idiocy, imbecility, fatuity, silliness,
irrationality, insagacity; imprudence, indiscretion, unwisdom, folly,
absurdity, ineptitude, puerility.
fool's bauble. marotte.
foot, n. paw; hoof; base, bottom, extremity. Associated Words:
chiropody, chiropodist, pedicure, orthopedy, orthopedic, orthopedist,
pedal, plantigrade, bastinado, taligrade, palmigrade, cloven, ball,
instep, phalanges.
foot-bath, n. pediluvium, pedilavium (Eccl.).
footboy, n. page, lackey.
footing, n. foothold; rank, status, standing, grade; amount, total;
tread, step.
footlicker, n. sycophant, fawner, toady, lickspittle.
footman, n. infantryman (foot-soldier); lackey.
footpad, n. highwayman, brigand, robber, thug.
footprint, n. footmark, track, footstep; spoor.
foot-shaped, a. pediform.
foot-soldiers, n. pl. infantry.
footstep, n. footmark, footprint, track, trace, vestige; spoor;
footfall, tread, step.
footstool, n. cricket, hassock.
foozle, v. bungle.--n. foozling, bungle, bungler.
fop, n. coxcomb, dude, dandy, exquisite, popinjay, blade, jackadandy.
Antonyms: sloven, guy.
foppish, a. coxcombical, dandified, finical, exquisite. Antonyms:
slovenly, seedy.
foppishness, n. foppery, dandyism, coxcombry, dudishness.
for all that. nevertheless.
forasmuch as. in as much as, since, whereas, seeing that.
foray, n. See raid.
forbear, v. refrain, stop, pause, withhold, abstain; endure,
tolerate.
forbearance, n. withholding, refraining; long-suffering, patience,
indulgence, toleration.
forbearing, a. long-suffering, patient, indulgent, tolerant, lenient.
forbears, n. pl. ancestors, forefathers.
forbid, v. prohibit, interdict, inhibit, restrain, taboo, preclude,
proscribe.
forbidden, a. prohibited, proscribed, interdicted, contraband,
inhibited, illicit, taboo.
forbidding, a. repellent, repulsive, offensive, abhorrent, odious,
repelling, grim.
forbidding, n. prohibition, interdiction, proscription, restraint,
inhibition, taboo.
force, v. compel, coerce, necessitate, constrain, oblige, make;
impel, obtrude, extort, wrest; capture, storm; rape, ravish. Antonyms:
induce, inveigle, seduce, persuade.
force, n. strength, energy, power, vigor, might, potency, cogency,
validity, efficacy, efficiency; compulsion, coercion, violence,
constraint, tension, impetus; armament, troops, army, legion, battalion,
phalanx. Associated Words: dynamics, dyne, statics, perforce, dynamic,
mechanics, brunt, kinit.
forced, a. involuntary, compulsory, strained, far-fetched.
Antonyms: spontaneous, voluntary, discretional, optional, elective.
forcible, a. energetic, potent, effective, compulsory, coercive,
drastic, vigorous.
forcing, n. compelling, compulsion, coercion, extortion,
necessitation, constraint; rape, ravishment. Antonyms: discretion,
option, election, free-will.
forearm, n. antibrachium.
forebode, v. portend, presage, foreshadow, augur betoken, foretell.
foreboding, n. premonition, presentiment, augury, prescience,
foreknowledge.
forecast, n. predetermination, premeditation, forethought.
foredoom, v. predestine, preordain.
forefather, n. ancestor, progenitor, forbear; pl. ancestry,
lineage, progenitors, forbears.
forego, v. quit, relinquish, surrender, yield, do without; precede.
foregoer, n. predecessor, forefather; forerunner, herald, harbinger,
precursor, avant-courier.
foregoing, a. previous, anterior, preceding, fore, prior, antecedent,
aforesaid.
forehead, n. brow, sinciput. Antonym: occiput.
foreign, a. alien, extraneous, exotic, peregrine; remote,
adventitious, inappropriate.
foreigner, n. alien; emigrant, immigrant. Antonyms: native,
indigene, citizen.
foreign word, plant, or custom. exoticism, exotic.
foreknowledge, n. prescience.
foremilk, n. colostrum.
foreordain, v. preordain, predestinate, foredoom, predetermine.
foreordination, n. predestination, predetermination.
forerun, v. precede, herald.
forerunner, n. precursor, harbinger, herald, avant-courier.
foreshadow, v. presage, presignify, prognosticate, prefigure, augur.
foresight, n. prescience, foreknowledge, prudence.
foreskin, n. prepuce. Associated Words: circumcise, circumcision,
preputial.
forest, n. wood, woodland, timber-land, woods, wold, wildwood.
Associated Words: sylvan, sylviculture, nemophilist, nemophily, nemoral,
afforest, afforestation, Silenus, hamadryad, glade, reforestize,
reforestation, reboise, reafforest, forestry, forester, disboscation,
disforest disforestation, hag, assart, camass, cruise, cruiser.
forestall, v. anticipate; preoccupy, monopolize.
foretell, v. predict, prophesy, prognosticate, augur, presage,
portend, forebode, bode, divine, foreshadow, presignify.
foreteller, a. See prophet.
foretelling, a. prophetic, prognostic, portentous, predictive,
oracular, augurial, divinatory.
foretelling, n. prediction, prophecy, foreshowing, prognostication,
augury, presage, foreboding, presignification, divination, oracle.
forethought, a. aforethought, prepense, deliberate.
forethought, n. premeditation, prescience, forecast, precaution,
prudence, providence.
foretoken, n. omen, prognostic, premonition, sign, augury.
forever, adv. eternally, continually, perpetually, everlastingly.
forewarning, n. premonition.--a. premonitory.
forfeit, n. forfeiture, philopena; fine, mulct, penalty, amercement.
forge, n. smithy, stithy, smithery.
forger, n. fabricator, falsifier, counterfeiter.
forgery, n. counterfeiting, falsification, counterfeit, pseudograph,
pseudography; (Civ. Law) _falsi crimen_.
forgetfulness, n. amnesty, amnesia, oblivion, Lethe; ecmnesia.
forget-me-not, n. myosotis.
forgivable, a. pardonable, venial.
forgive, v. pardon, excuse, absolve, condone, exculpate, connive,
acquit.
forgiveness, n. pardon, remission, absolution, condonation,
acquittal, indulgence.
forgiving, a. compassionate, indulgent, placable, remissive.
Antonyms: unforgiving, implacable.
forgo, v. omit, relinquish, let slip.
fork, n. fourchette; divarication, branch, crotch; prong, tine; pew,
grain.
fork, v. ramify, branch, divaricate.
forked, a. furcated, bifurcated, crotched, zigzag.
forked support. crotchet.
forlorn, a. deserted, forsaken, lorn, disconsolate, lonesome.
form, n. shape, structure, configuration, figure, conformation, cast,
mould, _tournure_; formula, ritual; formality, ceremonial,
conventionality; symmetry; image, phantom; mould, pattern, model.
form, v. shape, fashion, mould.
formal, a. ceremonial, express, explicit, punctilious, methodical,
prim, ceremonious, conventional.
formality, n. ceremoniousness, precision, punctiliousness, ceremony;
conventionality.
formative, a. plastic, creative.
former, a. antecedent, preceding, previous, prior, foregoing, bygone,
quondam, _ci-devant_.
formerly, adv. heretofore, aforetime.
formless, a. shapeless, amorphous, chaotic.
formula, n. ritual, ceremony, ceremonial; rule, principle; recipe.
formulary, n. ritual, ceremonial, rule, formula.
forsake, v. quit, abandon, leave; renounce, reject, relinquish,
forswear.
forsaken, a. abandoned, deserted, derelict, lorn.
forsaking, n. desertion, abandonment.
forswear, v. renounce, abjure, disavow.
fort, n. fortress, fortification, citadel, fastness, stronghold,
bulwark, redoubt.
forthwith, adv. immediately, directly, instantly.
fortification, n. See fort.
fortress, n. See fort.
fortunate, a. lucky, favored; auspicious, favorable. Antonyms: See
unfortunate.
fortune-teller, n. chiromancer, palmist, chirosophist, fatiloquist,
sibyl.
fortune-telling, n. chiromancy, palmistry.
forty-niner, n. Argonaut.
forum, n. tribunal.
forward, a. anterior, fore; overready, presumptuous, brazen,
impertinent, obtrusive, intrusive; premature, precocious.
forward, v. advance, promote, accelerate, expedite, further;
transmit, send, ship.
forwarding, n. transmission.
fossil, n. Associated Words: paleontology, paleontography,
ichnology, fossiliferous, _in situ_.
fossilist, n. paleontologist.
fossilization, n. fossilification, lapidification.
fossilize, v. petrify, lapidify; mummify.
fossilized, a. petrified; antiquated, old-fashioned.
foster, v. nourish, nurse, support; promote, encourage, advance.
foul, a. filthy, squalid, dirty, polluted; scurrilous, abusive,
obscene, insulting, blasphemous, vituperative, vulgar; shameful,
detestable, odious, abominable, loathsome, disgusting, repulsive,
offensive; unpropitious, unfavorable; feculent, roily, turbid, dreggy,
dreggish.
foul, v. defile, soil, dirty, pollute.
foul-mouthed, a. scurrilous, opprobrious, abusive; blasphemous,
profane, obscene, smutty.
found, v. establish, plant, institute; cast, form, mould.
foundation, n. substructure, base, groundwork; founding
establishment; endowment; grillage. Antonym: superstructure. Associated
words: fundamental, basic, caisson.
founder, n. establisher, institutor, father, planter, originator,
moulder; closh.
founder, v. fall, stumble; fail, miscarry.
fount, n. spring, fountain.
fountain, n. fount, spring, _jet d'eau_; source, fountainhead,
origin; Castalia.
four, n. quaternion, quaternary, tetrad, quadruplet, quartette;
quadruplets. Associated Words: quadrisection quadripartite,
quadripartition, quadruplication, quarter, quadruply, quadruple.
four cities. tetrapolis.
fourfold, a. quadruple, quadruples, quadruplicate.
four-footed, a. quadruped.
four-handed, a. quadrumanous.
four-handed animals. Quadrumana.
four hundred. Associated Word: quadrigenarious.
four-sided, a. quadrangular, square, quadrilateral, tetragonal,
tetrahedral.
four-sided figure. square, tetragon, quadrangle, rhombus.
foursquare, a. quadrangular.
fourth, n. quarter.
four years, quadrennium. Associated Words: quadrennial,
quadrennially.
fox, n. Reynard, Renard, tod, Charlie. Associated Words: vulpine,
vulpicide, skulk.
foxglove, n. digitalis.
foxy, a. cunning, sly, wily, crafty.
foyer, n. greenroom.
fracas, n. brawl, uproar, disturbance, quarrel.
fractious, a. unruly, perverse, irritable, ugly, waspish.
fracture, n. rupture, breach, breaking.
fragile, a. brittle, frangible, frail, delicate.
fragility, n. brittleness, frangibility, frailty.
fragment, n. remnant, chip, scrap, flinder, piece, flitter.
fragmentary, a. disconnected, fractional, incomplete.
fragrance, n. perfume, aroma, redolence. Antonyms: fetor, stench,
inodorousness.
fragrant, a. sweet-smelling, redolent, aromatic, balmy,
sweet-scented. Antonyms: inodorous, scentless, fetid.
frail, a. fragile, brittle, frangible; feeble, weak, infirm.
frailty, n. fragility, frangibility, brittleness; imperfection,
fault, defect.
frame, v. devise, plan, contrive, compose; invent, fabricate; adjust,
fit, conform.
framework, n. frame, skeleton.
frank, a. candid, unreserved, outspoken, ingenuous, undisguised.
frankness, n. candor, unreserve, ingenuousness.
frantic, a. distracted, frenzied, crazed, raving.
fraternal, a. brotherly.
fraternity, n. brotherhood, brotherliness.
fraud, n. imposture, deceit, humbug, duplicity, imposition,
chicanery, wile, circumvention, guile, hypocrisy, malversation, graft,
surreption. Associated Words: collude, collusion, collusive, connivance.
fraudulent, a. deceptive, wily, crafty, subtle, surreptitious,
knavish.
fraught, a. laden, freighted, charged, pregnant.
fray, n. fight, battle, combat, broil, affray; fret, chafe.
frazzle, v. fray, tatter.
frazzle, n. tag end, tatter.
freak, n. whim, vagary, caprice, whimsey, humor, crotchet, fancy.
freakish, a. whimsical, capricious, fanciful, erratic, crotchety,
vagarious.
freckle, n. lentigo, lenticula.
freckled, a. spotted, lentiginous.
free, v. liberate, manumit, disinthrall, deliver, emancipate,
release, enfranchise, disengage, exonerate, acquit, extricate,
disentangle.
free, a. exempt, immune, independent, unrestrained; liberated, freed,
released, emancipated, delivered; unconstrained, unreserved, informal,
familiar, frank, ingenuous, communicative, artless, candid; gratuitous,
spontaneous, voluntary, optional; liberal, open-handed, generous,
bountiful, lavish, flush, munificent, hospitable; unrestrained,
immoderate, prodigal, dissolute, lax; ready, eager, prompt, willing.
Antonyms: subject, reserved, formal, coercive, arbitrary, restrained,
bound.
free and easy. (Colloq.) informal, unceremonious, unrestrained.
freebooter, n. buccaneer, pillager, pirate, sea robber.
freebooting, n. plunder, pillaging, robbery.
freedom, n. exemption, immunity; liberty, independence,
self-government, autonomy; privileges, immunities, franchises; ease,
facility, unconstraint, laxity; candor, frankness, informality;
latitudinarianism. Antonyms: subjection, liability, dependence,
heteronomy, reserve, constraint, subordination, repression.
free-handed, a. liberal, open-handed, lavish.
freeing, n. emancipation, manumission, liberation, release,
disinthrallment, enfranchisement, extrication, disengagement, discharge,
exoneration.
free-liver, n. epicure, epicurean, voluptuary, _bon vivant_.
free-living, n. epicurism.
freely, adv. bounteously, readily, abundantly, gratuitously,
voluntarily, liberally, copiously, spontaneously, unreservedly.
free-thinker, n. infidel, unbeliever, skeptic.
free-will, a. voluntary.
freezable, a. congealable.
freeze, v. congeal.
freezing, n. congelation, congealment.
freight, n. cargo, lading, load; freightage.
Frenchism, n. Gallicism.
French policeman. gendarme.
French Protestant. Huguenot.
frenzied, a. distracted, frantic.
frenzy, n. distraction, rage, fury, delirium.
frequenter, n. habitue.
freshen, v. refresh, revive, renovate, renew.
fresh-water, a. fresh, unsalted; unskilled, raw, inexperienced,
untrained.
fret, v. chafe, abrade, fray, rub; gnaw, corrode; roughen, ruffle,
agitate; worry, harass, tease, irritate, vex, fume, rankle.
fret, n. vexation, agitation, irritation; herpes, tetter, ringworm;
whelk, wale, ridge.
fretful, a. irritable, petulant, querulous, peevish, captious,
spleeny.
fribbling, a. frivolous, trifling.
friction, n. abrasion, attrition, confrication, rubbing; clashing,
disagreement.
friend, n. wellwisher, intimate, confidante, chum, associate; patron,
advocate, adherent, supporter; ally, confrere; Quaker.
friendliness, n. comity, amity, good will, amicability.
friendly, a. amicable, favorable, kind; fraternal, hospitable,
neighborly, cordial; favorable, propitious, salutary, advantageous.
Antonyms: See unfriendly.
friendship, n. amity, intimacy, amicability, friendliness.
Antonyms: enmity, estrangement, alienation, disaffection, hostility,
aloofness.
fright, n. alarm, fear, consternation, terror, dismay; ogre,
scarecrow, guy, dowdy.
frighten, v. terrify, alarm, scare, intimidate, dismay, affright,
daunt, appall, terrorize.
frightful, a. terrible, dreadful, hideous, ogreish, fearful,
alarming, grewsome, grim, dire, direful, awful, Gorgonian, horrible.
frill, n. ruffle, gathering, furbelow.
fringe, n. edging, margin, confine, border, fimbriation.
fringed, a. fimbriate, fimbriated, fimbricate.
frisk, n. frolic, gambol.--v. leap, skip, gambol, frolic, play.
frisky, a. frolicsome, sportive, coltish, playful, gay.
frivolous, a. trivial, trifling, petty, puerile, insignificant.
friz, v. curl, crisp, frizzle.--n. curl, frizzle.
frizzle, n. curl, friz.--v. curl, crisp, frizz.
frock, n. gown; smock-frock; soutane, cassock.
frog-eating, a. ranivorous, batrachophagous.
frogs, n. pl. Associated Words: Batrachomyomachy, ranarium,
amphibious, batrachoid, batrachian, ranine.
frolic, n. prank, lark, gambol, escapade, fun.
frolicsome, a. playful, prankish, sportive, frisky.
from head to foot. throughout, completely, cap-a-pie.
front, n. facade; obverse, face; van, fore-rank, front rank.--a.
anterior, foremost.
frost, n. rime, hoarfrost; uncordiality, unsociability, reserve.
frosting, n. icing.
frosty, a. cold, icy; uncordial, distant, aloof, unsociable;
pruinose.
froth, n. spume, foam.
frothing, n. rant.
frothy, a. spumy, foamy, spumous; trivial, frivolous, unsubstantial.
froward, a. refractory, unyielding, disobedient, insubmissive,
untoward.
frown, n. scowl, lower, glower.
frowning, a. scowling, lowering, glowering, stern.
frowzy, a. strong-smelling, fetid, rank, musty, rancid, malodorous;
slatternly, disordered, untidy, disheveled, dowdy.
frugal, a. economical, saving, sparing, thrifty, provident.
frugality, n. economy, parsimony, thriftiness, thrift.
fruit, n. produce, harvest, crop; offspring, consequence, result,
outcome, fruitage.
fruit, n. fruitage, fruitery. Associated Words: pomology, Pomona,
pomologist, carpology, carpologist, carpophagous, drupe, carpomania,
raceme, fructiferous, fructify, fructification, bletting, pulp, rind,
orchard, nursery, pepinnery, fruitchafer, pomiculture, sarcocarp.
fruit-eating, a. frugivorous, fructivorous, carpophagous.
fruiterer, n. fruit-dealer, costermonger, coster.
fruitful, a. prolific, productive, fertile, frugiferous, fecund,
bountiful.
fruitless, a. unfruitful, infertile, infecund, acarpous, barren;
unavailing, useless, vain.
fruit-seller, n. fruiterer, coster, costermonger (peddler).
fruit sugar. levulose.
frump, n. (Colloq.) gossip.
frustrate, v. baffle, defeat, disappoint, foil, balk, thwart,
circumvent, nullify.
frustration, n. defeat, disappointment, balking, foiling,
nullification.
frying-pan, n. spider, skillet.
fuddled, a. muddled, tipsy, drunk, intoxicated, boozy, groggy.
fudge, n. See balderdash.
fuel, n. combustibles.
fugitive, a. fleeing; evanescent, short-lived, fugacious, volatile,
ephemeral, impermanent, transient.
fugitive, n. runaway, runagate, renegade, deserter.
fulfill, v. accomplish, complete, consummate, realize, satisfy, fill,
answer, meet; discharge, perform.
fulfillment, n. consummation, accomplishment, fruition, realization;
discharge, performance.
full, a. filled up, replete; copious, ample, plethoric, plenteous,
bountiful, abundant, liberal; complete, plenary; sated, surfeited, cloyed,
glutted, gorged, saturated; engrossed with.
full swing. _carte blanche_, liberty, unrestraint.
fulsome, a. offensive, nauseous, disgusting, excessive, gross,
immoderate.
fume, n. exhalation, reek, smoke, steam, vapor.
fume, v. smoke, reek; storm, rage, bluster.
fun, n. merriment, mirth, gayety, frolic, jest, pleasantry,
drollery, waggery, waggishness, facetiousness, divertisement amusement,
relaxation, jocularity.
function, n. duty, province, office, business, part; discharge,
performance, execution; party, entertainment, festivity, reception.
fundament, n. buttocks.
fundamental, a. basal, elementary, original, essential, radical.
fundamentally, adv. primarily, essentially, radically.
funeral, n. obsequies.
funeral director. undertaker.
funeral oration. eloge.
funeral pile. pyre.
funeral song. dirge, elegy, requiem.
funereal, a. exequial, mournful, solemn, sad.
Fungi, n. pl. Thallophytes (toadstools_, _mushrooms_, _etc.).
Associated Words: spawn, spore, mycophagy, fungivorous, mycetophagous,
amanitine, mycelium, fungic, fungicide, fungoid, fungiform, fungous,
mycologist.
fungology, n. mycology.
fungus, n. thallogen, thallophyte; granulation, proud flesh.
funk, v. stink; (Colloq.) flinch, recoil, shrink back.
funk, n. (Colloq.) recoiling, flinching; shirk, coward.
funnel, n. tunnel.
funnel-shaped, a. infundibular, infundibulate, infundibuliform.
funny, a. comic, comical, amusing, droll, laughable, farcical, witty,
jocular, jocose, ludicrous, burlesque, facetious, risible, absurd,
waggish, humorous, jesting.
fur, n. peltry, pelage. Associated Words: furrier, furriery,
tippet, pelisse.
furbelow, n. flounce, frill, ruffle.
furbish, v.polish, burnish, scour, clean.
Furies, n. pl. Erinyes, Eumenides (Tisiphone, Alecto Megaera).
furious, a. infuriated, angry, raging, violent, frenzied, turbulent,
fierce.
furnish, v. supply, provide, contribute, bestow, purvey, cater.
furniture, n. goods, movables. Associated Words: cabinet-maker,
cabinet-making, upholstering, shook.
furthermore, adv. moreover, besides.
fury, n. wrath, rage, indignation, ire, frenzy; virago, termagant,
shrew, vixen, beldame, Xantippe; agitation, excitement, turbulence.
fuse, v. melt, liquefy, dissolve, smelt; commingle, blend,
amalgamate, intermix.
fusion, n. melting, fluidity; intermingling, amalgamation, coalition,
blending, intermixture.
fuss, n. ado, bustle, to-do, pother, agitation, excitement.
fuss, v. pother, fume, fret; disturb, annoy, bother.
fussy, a. fidgety, fastidious, finical, particular, scrupulous,
overnice, pernickety.
fustian, n. bombast, rant, rodomontade; twaddle, nonsense,
balderdash.
futile, a. vain, bootless, ineffectual, unavailing, abortive,
useless.
fuzz, n. down, pubescence.
fuzzy, a. downy, pubescent.
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Gabble, n. gibberish, babble, prate, prating, chatter, jargon.
gabble, v. gibber, jabber, babble, prate, chatter.
gable, n. Associated Word: pediment.
gad, n. goad.
gag, v. silence, muzzle, muffle, hush, suppress; retch.
gag, n. muffler, muzzler, silencer.
gain, n. increase, profit, advantage, increment, acquisition,
accumulation, accretion, store, hoarding; emolument, lucre.
gain, v. get, acquire, achieve, win, obtain, attain; conciliate,
persuade, induce.
gainsay, v. contradict, dispute, deny, controvert, impugn.
gaiters, n. pl. spats, spatterdashes, leggings, gramashes, puttee.
gale, n. wind, tempest; excitement, confusion, flurry.
gall, n. bile; bitterness, rancor, spite, malignity.
gall, n. (Slang) impudence, audacity, effrontery, insolence.
gall, v. chafe, fret; vex, annoy, harass, worry, exasperate.
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