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).
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. phænogamous, phænogamian.--n. inflorescence
flowering plants. Phænogamia.
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. aëroplane, aërodrome, biplane, monoplane. Associated words: hangar, aviator, aërodynamics, 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.