forensics | (noun) scientific tests or techniques used in the investigation of crimes | - |
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foreordain | (verb) foreordain or determine beforehand | Synonyms: predestine, preordain |
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(verb) foreordain by divine will or decree | Synonyms: predestinate, predestine |
foreordained | (adjective) established or prearranged unalterably | Synonyms: predestinate, predestined |
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foreordination | (noun) (theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind) | Synonyms: predestination, predetermination, preordination |
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forepart | (noun) the side that is forward or prominent | Synonyms: front, front end |
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forepaw | (noun) front paw; analogous to the human hand | - |
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foreperson | (noun) the presiding member of the jury and the one who speaks on their behalf | - |
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foreplay | (noun) mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse | Synonyms: arousal, stimulation |
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forequarter | (noun) the front half of a side of meat | - |
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forerunner | (noun) something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone | Synonyms: harbinger, herald, precursor, predecessor |
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(noun) a person who goes before or announces the coming of another | Synonyms: precursor |
(noun) anything that precedes something similar in time | Synonyms: antecedent |
foresail | (noun) the lowest sail on the foremast of a square-rigged vessel | - |
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foresee | (verb) realize beforehand | Synonyms: anticipate, foreknow, previse |
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(verb) picture to oneself; imagine possible | Synonyms: envision |
(verb) act in advance of; deal with ahead of time | Synonyms: anticipate, counter, forestall |
foreseeable | (adjective) capable of being anticipated | - |
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foreshadow | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
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foreshadowing | (adjective) indistinctly prophetic | Synonyms: adumbrative, prefigurative |
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(noun) the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand | Synonyms: adumbration, prefiguration |
foreshank | (noun) a cut of meat from the upper part of a front leg | - |
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foreshock | (noun) a tremor preceding an earthquake | - |
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foreshore | (noun) the part of the seashore between the highwater mark and the low-water mark | - |
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foreshorten | (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, reduce, shorten |
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(verb) shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth | - |
foreshow | (verb) foretell by divine inspiration | - |
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foresight | (noun) providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: foresightedness, foresightfulness |
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(noun) seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing | Synonyms: farsightedness, prevision, prospicience |
foresighted | (adjective) planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: farseeing, farsighted, foresightful, long, longsighted, prospicient |
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foresightedness | (noun) providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: foresight, foresightfulness |
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foresightful | (adjective) planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, long, longsighted, prospicient |
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foresightfulness | (noun) providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: foresight, foresightedness |
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foreskin | (noun) a fold of skin covering the tip of the penis | Synonyms: prepuce |
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(noun) a fold of skin covering the tip of the clitoris | Synonyms: prepuce |
forest | (noun) the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area | Synonyms: wood, woods |
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(noun) land that is covered with trees and shrubs | Synonyms: timber, timberland, woodland |
(verb) establish a forest on previously unforested land | Synonyms: afforest |
forestage | (noun) the part of a modern theater stage between the curtain and the orchestra (i.e., in front of the curtain) | Synonyms: apron, proscenium |
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forestall | (verb) act in advance of; deal with ahead of time | Synonyms: anticipate, counter, foresee |
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(verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: forbid, foreclose, preclude, prevent |
forestalling | (noun) the act of preventing something by anticipating and disposing of it effectively | Synonyms: obviation, preclusion |
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forestay | (noun) an adjustable stay from the foremast to the deck or bowsprit; controls the bending of the mast | - |
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forested | (adjective) covered with forest | - |
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forester | (noun) someone trained in forestry | Synonyms: arboriculturist, tree farmer |
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forestiera | (noun) any plant of the genus Forestiera | - |
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forestry | (noun) the science of planting and caring for forests and the management of growing timber | - |
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foreswear | (verb) turn away from; give up | Synonyms: quit, relinquish, renounce |
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(verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, forego, forgo, relinquish, waive |
foretaste | (noun) an early limited awareness of something yet to occur | - |
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foretell | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, predict, prognosticate, promise |
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(verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
(verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, annunciate, harbinger, herald |
foretelling | (noun) the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means | Synonyms: divination, fortune telling, soothsaying |
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(noun) a statement made about the future | Synonyms: forecasting, prediction, prognostication |
forethought | (noun) judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger | Synonyms: care, caution, precaution |
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(noun) planning or plotting in advance of acting | Synonyms: premeditation |
forethoughtful | (adjective) thoughtful of the future | - |
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foretoken | (noun) an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come | Synonyms: augury, preindication, sign |
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foretop | (noun) a lock of a horse's mane that grows forward between the ears | Synonyms: forelock |
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(noun) a platform at the head of a foremast | - |
forever | (adverb) for a limitless time | Synonyms: eternally, everlastingly, evermore |
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(adverb) for a very long or seemingly endless time | Synonyms: forever and a day |
(adverb) invariably | Synonyms: always, constantly, incessantly, perpetually |
forevermore | (adverb) at any future time; in the future | Synonyms: evermore |
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forewarn | (verb) warn in advance or beforehand; give an early warning | Synonyms: previse |
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forewarning | (noun) an early warning about a future event | Synonyms: premonition |
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forewing | (noun) either of the anterior pair of wings on an insect that has four wings | Synonyms: fore-wing, fore wing |
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forewoman | (noun) a woman in charge of a group of workers | - |
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(noun) a woman who is foreperson of a jury | Synonyms: forelady |
foreword | (noun) a short introductory essay preceding the text of a book | Synonyms: preface, prolusion |
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foreyard | (noun) a yard on the lower mast of a square-rigged foremast of a ship used to support the foresail. | Synonyms: fore-yard |
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forfeit | (adjective) surrendered as a penalty | Synonyms: confiscate, forfeited |
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(noun) the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc. | Synonyms: forfeiture, sacrifice |
(noun) a penalty for a fault or mistake that involves losing or giving up something | Synonyms: forfeiture |
(noun) something that is lost or surrendered as a penalty | Synonyms: forfeiture |
(verb) lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime | Synonyms: forego, forgo, give up, throw overboard, waive |
forfeited | (adjective) surrendered as a penalty | Synonyms: confiscate, forfeit |
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forfeiture | (noun) the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc. | Synonyms: forfeit, sacrifice |
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(noun) a penalty for a fault or mistake that involves losing or giving up something | Synonyms: forfeit |
(noun) something that is lost or surrendered as a penalty | Synonyms: forfeit |
forfend | (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avert, avoid, debar, deflect, fend off, forefend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
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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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forgather | (verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: assemble, foregather, gather, meet |
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forge | (noun) a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering | Synonyms: smithy |
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(noun) furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping | - |
(verb) create by hammering | Synonyms: hammer |
(verb) make a copy of with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: counterfeit, fake |
(verb) make out of components (often in an improvising manner) | Synonyms: fashion |
(verb) make something, usually for a specific function | Synonyms: form, mold, mould, shape, work |
(verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, invent |
(verb) move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy | Synonyms: spirt, spurt |
(verb) move ahead steadily | - |
forged | (adjective) reproduced fraudulently | Synonyms: bad |
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forger | (noun) someone who operates a forge | - |
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(noun) someone who makes copies illegally | Synonyms: counterfeiter |
forgery | (noun) criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud | - |
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(noun) a copy that is represented as the original | Synonyms: counterfeit |
forget | (verb) be unable to remember | Synonyms: blank out, block, draw a blank |
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(verb) dismiss from the mind; stop remembering | Synonyms: bury |
(verb) leave behind unintentionally | Synonyms: leave |
(verb) forget to do something | - |
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 |
forgetfully | (adverb) in a forgetful manner | - |
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forgetfulness | (noun) tendency to forget | - |
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(noun) unawareness caused by neglectful or heedless failure to remember | - |
forgettable | (adjective) easily forgotten | - |
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forging | (noun) shaping metal by heating and hammering | - |
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forgivable | (adjective) easily excused or forgiven | Synonyms: excusable, venial |
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forgivably | (adverb) in an excusable manner or to an excusable degree | Synonyms: excusably, pardonably |
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forgive | (verb) stop blaming or grant forgiveness | - |
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(verb) absolve from payment | - |
forgiveness | (noun) the act of excusing a mistake or offense | Synonyms: pardon |
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(noun) compassionate feelings that support a willingness to forgive | - |
forgiver | (noun) a person who pardons or forgives or excuses a fault or offense | Synonyms: excuser, pardoner |
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forgiving | (adjective) inclined or able to forgive and show mercy | - |
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(adjective) providing absolution | Synonyms: absolvitory, exonerative |
forgivingly | (adverb) with forgiveness; in a forgiving manner | - |
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forgivingness | (noun) tendency to be kind and forgiving | Synonyms: kindness |
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forgo | (verb) lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime | Synonyms: forego, forfeit, give up, throw overboard, waive |
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(verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, forego, foreswear, relinquish, waive |
(verb) be earlier in time; go back further | Synonyms: antecede, antedate, forego, precede, predate |
forgoing | (noun) the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.) | Synonyms: forswearing, renunciation |
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forgotten | (adjective) not noticed inadvertently | Synonyms: disregarded |
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forint | (noun) the basic unit of money in Hungary | - |
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fork | (noun) the act of branching out or dividing into branches | Synonyms: branching, forking, ramification |
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(noun) a utensil with two or more prongs, used for serving or eating food | - |
(noun) an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs | - |
(noun) the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk | Synonyms: crotch |
(noun) the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches | Synonyms: crotch |
(verb) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork | Synonyms: branch, furcate, ramify, separate |
(verb) shape like a fork | - |
(verb) place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces | - |
(verb) lift with a pitchfork | Synonyms: pitchfork |
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 |
forking | (noun) the act of branching out or dividing into branches | Synonyms: branching, fork, ramification |
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(noun) the place where something divides into branches | Synonyms: furcation |
forklift | (noun) a small industrial vehicle with a power operated forked platform in front that can be inserted under loads to lift and move them | - |
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forlorn | (adjective) marked by or showing hopelessness | - |
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forlornly | (adverb) in a forlorn manner | - |
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forlornness | (noun) sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned | Synonyms: desolation, loneliness |
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form | (noun) the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance | Synonyms: shape |
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(noun) a life-size dummy used to display clothes | Synonyms: manakin, manikin, mannequin, mannikin |
(noun) a mold for setting concrete | - |
(noun) the visual appearance of something or someone | Synonyms: cast, shape |
(noun) any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline) | Synonyms: configuration, conformation, contour, shape |
(noun) an ability to perform well | - |
(noun) a particular mode in which something is manifested | - |
(noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, bod, build, chassis, figure, flesh, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
(noun) a perceptual structure | Synonyms: pattern, shape |
(noun) a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality | Synonyms: kind, sort, variety |
(noun) the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something | Synonyms: descriptor, signifier, word form |
(noun) a printed document with spaces in which to write | - |
(noun) an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse | - |
(noun) a body of students who are taught together | Synonyms: class, course, grade |
(noun) (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups | Synonyms: strain, var., variant |
(noun) (physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary | Synonyms: phase |
(verb) give shape or form to | Synonyms: shape |
(verb) assume a form or shape | - |
(verb) make something, usually for a specific function | Synonyms: forge, mold, mould, shape, work |
(verb) create (as an entity) | Synonyms: organise, organize |
(verb) establish or impress firmly in the mind | Synonyms: imprint |
(verb) to compose or represent | Synonyms: constitute, make |
(verb) develop into a distinctive entity | Synonyms: spring, take form, take shape |
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 | - |
(noun) a gown for evening wear | Synonyms: dinner dress, dinner gown, evening gown |
(noun) a lavish dance requiring formal attire | Synonyms: ball |
formaldehyde | (noun) a colorless poisonous gas; made by the oxidation of methanol | Synonyms: methanal |
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formalin | (noun) a 10% solution of formaldehyde in water; used as a disinfectant or to preserve biological specimens | Synonyms: formol |
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formalisation | (noun) the act of making formal (as by stating formal rules governing classes of expressions) | Synonyms: formalization |
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formalise | (verb) make formal or official | Synonyms: formalize |
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(verb) declare or make legally valid | Synonyms: formalize, validate |
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 |
formalism | (noun) the practice of scrupulous adherence to prescribed or external forms | - |
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(noun) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that formal (logical or mathematical) statements have no meaning but that its symbols (regarded as physical entities) exhibit a form that has useful applications | - |
(noun) the doctrine that formal structure rather than content is what should be represented | - |
formalistic | (adjective) concerned with or characterized by rigorous adherence to recognized forms (especially in religion or art) | Synonyms: formalised, formalized |
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formalities | (noun) a requirement of etiquette or custom | Synonyms: formality |
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formality | (noun) compliance with formal rules | - |
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(noun) a manner that strictly observes all forms and ceremonies | Synonyms: formalness |
(noun) a requirement of etiquette or custom | Synonyms: formalities |
formalization | (noun) the act of making formal (as by stating formal rules governing classes of expressions) | Synonyms: formalisation |
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formalize | (verb) make formal or official | Synonyms: formalise |
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(verb) declare or make legally valid | Synonyms: formalise, validate |
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 |