fate, n. destiny, lot, doom; chance, fortune; Moira; karma; kismet; predestination.
fated, a. destined, doomed, predestined, foredoomed.
fateful, a. ominous.
Fates, n. pl. Destinies, Parcæ (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, n. provender, fodder.
feel, v. touch, handle; grope, grabble; experience, suffer.
feeler, n. antenna, tentaculum, tentacle, horn, palpus. pl. antennæ, 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. fête, 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. petechiæ.
fewness, n. paucity.
fiat, n. order, decree, mandate, edict, command.
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, mêlée, 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. 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, recherché, 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, æsthetic, æstheticism, æsthete.
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, Hephæstus.
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.