affidavit | (noun) written declaration made under oath; a written statement sworn to be true before someone legally authorized to administer an oath | - |
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bifid | (adjective) divided into two lobes | - |
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bipinnatifid | (adjective) pinnatifid with the segments also pinnatifid | - |
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confidant | (noun) someone to whom private matters are confided | Synonyms: intimate |
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confidante | (noun) a female confidant | - |
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confide | (verb) reveal in private; tell confidentially | - |
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(verb) confer a trust upon | Synonyms: commit, entrust, intrust, trust |
confidence | (noun) freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities | Synonyms: assurance, authority, self-assurance, self-confidence, sureness |
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(noun) a secret that is confided or entrusted to another | - |
(noun) a feeling of trust (in someone or something) | - |
(noun) a state of confident hopefulness that events will be favorable | - |
(noun) a trustful relationship | Synonyms: trust |
confident | (adjective) having or marked by confidence or assurance | - |
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(adjective) not liable to error in judgment or action | Synonyms: sure-footed, surefooted |
(adjective) persuaded of; very sure | Synonyms: convinced, positive |
confidential | (adjective) the level of official classification for documents next above restricted and below secret; available only to persons authorized to see documents so classified | - |
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(adjective) denoting confidence or intimacy | - |
(adjective) entrusted with private information and the confidence of another | - |
(adjective) (of information) given in confidence or in secret | Synonyms: secret |
confidentiality | (noun) discretion in keeping secret information | - |
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(noun) the state of being secret | - |
confidentially | (adverb) in a confidential manner | - |
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confidently | (adverb) with confidence; in a confident manner | - |
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confiding | (adjective) willing to entrust personal matters | - |
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confidingly | (adverb) with trust; in a trusting manner | Synonyms: trustfully, trustingly |
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diffidence | (noun) lack of self-confidence | Synonyms: self-distrust, self-doubt |
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diffident | (adjective) lacking self-confidence | Synonyms: shy, timid, unsure |
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(adjective) showing modest reserve | - |
diffidently | (adverb) in a diffident manner | - |
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fiddle | (noun) bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow | Synonyms: violin |
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(verb) try to fix or mend | Synonyms: tinker |
(verb) manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination | Synonyms: diddle, play, toy |
(verb) play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly | Synonyms: monkey, tamper |
(verb) play the violin or fiddle | - |
(verb) play on a violin | - |
(verb) commit fraud and steal from one's employer | - |
(verb) avoid (one's assigned duties) | Synonyms: goldbrick, shirk, shrink from |
fiddlehead | (noun) New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds; the early uncurling fronds are edible | Synonyms: cinnamon fern, fiddlehead fern, Osmunda cinnamonea |
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(noun) tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes | Synonyms: Matteuccia struthiopteris, Onoclea struthiopteris, ostrich fern, Pteretis struthiopteris, shuttlecock fern |
fiddleneck | (noun) hairy annual of California to Mexico with crowded cymes of small blue to lilac or mauve flowers | Synonyms: Phacelia tanacetifolia |
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fiddler | (noun) a musician who plays the violin | Synonyms: violinist |
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(noun) an unskilled person who tries to fix or mend | Synonyms: tinkerer |
(noun) someone who manipulates in a nervous or unconscious manner | Synonyms: twiddler |
fiddlestick | (noun) a bow used in playing the violin | Synonyms: violin bow |
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fiddling | (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial |
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fidelity | (noun) the quality of being faithful | Synonyms: faithfulness |
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(noun) accuracy with which an electronic system reproduces the sound or image of its input signal | - |
fidget | (noun) a feeling of agitation expressed in continual motion | Synonyms: fidgetiness, restlessness |
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(verb) move restlessly | - |
fidgetiness | (noun) a feeling of agitation expressed in continual motion | Synonyms: fidget, restlessness |
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fidgety | (adjective) nervous and unable to relax | Synonyms: antsy, fretful, itchy, restless |
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fiducial | (adjective) relating to or of the nature of a legal trust (i.e. the holding of something in trust for another) | Synonyms: fiduciary |
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(adjective) used as a fixed standard of reference for comparison or measurement | - |
(adjective) based on trust | - |
fiduciary | (adjective) relating to or of the nature of a legal trust (i.e. the holding of something in trust for another) | Synonyms: fiducial |
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(noun) a person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary | - |
infidel | (noun) a person who does not acknowledge your god | Synonyms: gentile, heathen, pagan |
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infidelity | (noun) the quality of being unfaithful | Synonyms: unfaithfulness |
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overconfidence | (noun) total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant | Synonyms: certitude, cocksureness |
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overconfident | (adjective) marked by excessive confidence | Synonyms: cocksure, positive |
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palmatifid | (adjective) of a leaf shape; palmately cleft rather than lobed | - |
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perfidious | (adjective) tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans | Synonyms: punic, treacherous |
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perfidiously | (adverb) in a perfidious manner | - |
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perfidiousness | (noun) betrayal of a trust | Synonyms: perfidy, treachery |
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perfidy | (noun) an act of deliberate betrayal | Synonyms: betrayal, treachery, treason |
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(noun) betrayal of a trust | Synonyms: perfidiousness, treachery |
pinnatifid | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) cleft nearly to the midrib in broad divisions not separated into distinct leaflets | - |
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sulfide | (noun) a compound of sulphur and some other element that is more electropositive | Synonyms: sulphide |
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trifid | (adjective) divided into three lobes | - |
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tripinnatifid | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) bipinnatifid with segments pinnatifid | - |
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