| forbearing | (adjective) showing patient and unruffled self-control and restraint under adversity; slow to retaliate or express resentment | Synonyms: longanimous |
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| forbidden | (adjective) excluded from use or mention | Synonyms: out, prohibited, proscribed, taboo, tabu, verboten |
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| forbidding | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening |
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| (adjective) harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance | Synonyms: dour, grim |
| forced | (adjective) produced by or subjected to forcing | - |
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| (adjective) lacking spontaneity; not natural | Synonyms: constrained, strained |
| (adjective) forced or compelled | - |
| (adjective) made necessary by an unexpected situation or emergency | - |
| forceful | (adjective) characterized by or full of force or strength (often but not necessarily physical) | - |
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| (adjective) forceful and definite in expression or action | Synonyms: emphatic |
| forceless | (adjective) lacking force; feeble | Synonyms: unforceful |
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| forcible | (adjective) impelled by physical force especially against resistance | Synonyms: physical, strong-arm |
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| forcipate | (adjective) shaped like a forceps; deeply forked | - |
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| fordable | (adjective) shallow enough to be crossed by walking or riding on an animal or in a vehicle | - |
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| fore | (adjective) situated at or toward the bow of a vessel | - |
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| foreboding | (adjective) ominously prophetic | Synonyms: fateful, portentous |
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| foregoing | (adjective) especially of writing or speech; going before | - |
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| foregone | (adjective) well in the past; former | Synonyms: bygone, bypast, departed, gone |
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| forehand | (adjective) (of racket strokes) made with palm facing direction of stroke | Synonyms: forehanded |
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| forehanded | (adjective) (of racket strokes) made with palm facing direction of stroke | Synonyms: forehand |
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| (adjective) having provided for the future | - |
| foreign | (adjective) relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world | Synonyms: strange |
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| (adjective) of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own) | - |
| (adjective) not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source | Synonyms: extraneous |
| (adjective) not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something | Synonyms: alien |
| foremost | (adjective) ranking above all others | Synonyms: first, world-class |
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| (adjective) situated closest to the bow | - |
| (adjective) preceding all others in spatial position | Synonyms: frontmost |
| forensic | (adjective) used or applied in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law | - |
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| (adjective) of, relating to, or used in public debate or argument | - |
| foreordained | (adjective) established or prearranged unalterably | Synonyms: predestinate, predestined |
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| foreseeable | (adjective) capable of being anticipated | - |
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| foreshadowing | (adjective) indistinctly prophetic | Synonyms: adumbrative, prefigurative |
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| foresighted | (adjective) planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: farseeing, farsighted, foresightful, long, longsighted, prospicient |
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| foresightful | (adjective) planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, long, longsighted, prospicient |
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| forested | (adjective) covered with forest | - |
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| forethoughtful | (adjective) thoughtful of the future | - |
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| forfeit | (adjective) surrendered as a penalty | Synonyms: confiscate, forfeited |
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| forfeited | (adjective) surrendered as a penalty | Synonyms: confiscate, forfeit |
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| forficate | (adjective) resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches | Synonyms: bifurcate, biramous, branched, fork-like, forked, pronged, prongy |
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| forged | (adjective) reproduced fraudulently | Synonyms: bad |
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| forgetful | (adjective) (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range | Synonyms: short, unretentive |
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| (adjective) not mindful or attentive | Synonyms: mindless, unmindful |
| (adjective) failing to keep in mind | Synonyms: oblivious |
| forgettable | (adjective) easily forgotten | - |
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| forgivable | (adjective) easily excused or forgiven | Synonyms: excusable, venial |
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| forgiving | (adjective) inclined or able to forgive and show mercy | - |
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| (adjective) providing absolution | Synonyms: absolvitory, exonerative |
| forgotten | (adjective) not noticed inadvertently | Synonyms: disregarded |
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| forked | (adjective) resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches | Synonyms: bifurcate, biramous, branched, forficate, fork-like, pronged, prongy |
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| (adjective) having two meanings with intent to deceive | Synonyms: double |
| forlorn | (adjective) marked by or showing hopelessness | - |
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| formal | (adjective) being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress) | - |
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| (adjective) (of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms | - |
| (adjective) refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court | Synonyms: courtly, stately |
| (adjective) logically deductive | - |
| (adjective) represented in simplified or symbolic form | Synonyms: conventional, schematic |
| (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a person in authority | - |
| formalised | (adjective) concerned with or characterized by rigorous adherence to recognized forms (especially in religion or art) | Synonyms: formalistic, formalized |
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| (adjective) given formal standing or endorsement; made official or legitimate by the observance of proper procedures | Synonyms: formalized |
| formalistic | (adjective) concerned with or characterized by rigorous adherence to recognized forms (especially in religion or art) | Synonyms: formalised, formalized |
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| formalized | (adjective) concerned with or characterized by rigorous adherence to recognized forms (especially in religion or art) | Synonyms: formalised, formalistic |
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| (adjective) given formal standing or endorsement; made official or legitimate by the observance of proper procedures | Synonyms: formalised |
| formative | (adjective) forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning | Synonyms: plastic, shaping |
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| (adjective) capable of forming new cells and tissues | - |
| formed | (adjective) having or given a form or shape | - |
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| former | (adjective) referring to the first of two things or persons mentioned (or the earlier one or ones of several) | - |
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| (adjective) belonging to the distant past | Synonyms: early, other |
| (adjective) belonging to some prior time | Synonyms: erstwhile, old, one-time, onetime, quondam, sometime |
| (adjective) (used especially of persons) of the immediate past | Synonyms: late, previous |
| formic | (adjective) of or containing or derived from formic acid | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or derived from ants | - |
| formidable | (adjective) inspiring fear | Synonyms: redoubtable, unnerving |
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| (adjective) extremely impressive in strength or excellence | - |
| formless | (adjective) having no physical form | - |
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| (adjective) having no definite form or distinct shape | Synonyms: amorphous, shapeless |
| formulaic | (adjective) characterized by or in accordance with some formula | - |
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| formulary | (adjective) of or relating to or of the nature of a formula | - |
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| formulated | (adjective) devised; developed according to an orderly plan | - |
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| forte | (adjective) (used chiefly as a direction or description in music) indicating that said piece or segment should be played loudly | Synonyms: loud |
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| fortemente | (adjective) (chiefly a direction or description in music) loud and strong | - |
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| forthcoming | (adjective) available when required or as promised | - |
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| (adjective) of the relatively near future | Synonyms: approaching, coming, upcoming |
| (adjective) at ease in talking to others | Synonyms: extroverted, outgoing |
| forthright | (adjective) characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion | Synonyms: blunt, candid, frank, free-spoken, outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank, straight-from-the-shoulder |
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| fortieth | (adjective) the ordinal number of forty in counting order | Synonyms: 40th |
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| fortified | (adjective) secured with bastions or fortifications | Synonyms: bastioned |
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| (adjective) having something added to increase the strength | - |
| fortissimo | (adjective) (chiefly a direction or description in music) very loud and strong | - |
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| fortnightly | (adjective) occurring every two weeks | Synonyms: biweekly |
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| fortuitous | (adjective) occurring by happy chance | - |
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| (adjective) having no cause or apparent cause | Synonyms: causeless, uncaused |
| fortunate | (adjective) having unexpected good fortune | - |
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| (adjective) presaging good fortune | Synonyms: rosy |
| (adjective) supremely favored | Synonyms: golden |
| forty | (adjective) being ten more than thirty | Synonyms: 40, twoscore, xl |
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| forward | (adjective) at or near or directed toward the front | - |
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| (adjective) used of temperament or behavior; lacking restraint or modesty | - |
| (adjective) of the transmission gear causing forward movement in a motor vehicle | - |
| (adjective) moving forward | Synonyms: advancing, forward-moving |