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Fable, n. apologue (moral fable); fiction, fabrication, myth, untruth.
fabler, n. fabulist.
fabulous, a. fictitious, feigned, unverified; exorbitant, inordinate, excessive.
face, n. countenance, visage, physiognomy, features; front, exterior; obverse; facet; effrontery, confidence, assurance, audacity, impudence. Associated words: facial, domino, complexion, multifaced, rouge, cosmetic, grimace, Janus-faced, lineament, profile, silhouette, maskoid, smirk, physiognomist.
face, v. confront, meet; bully, bluff; veneer; plane, dress, smooth.
face ague. tic douloureux.
face guard. mask, beaver.
face to face. vis-à-vis, tête-à-tête.
facsimile, n. duplicate, copy, reproduction, likeness, counterpart.
fact, n. reality, actuality, truth.
faction, n. dissension, sedition, rebellion, insurgency, division.
factious, a. turbulent, seditious, rebellious, refractory, insubordinate.
factor, n. broker, middleman, consignee, commission merchant, agent; constituent, element.
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.
fæces, 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, aërolite.
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, congé, 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.