dreadful | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
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(adjective) exceptionally bad or displeasing | Synonyms: abominable, atrocious, awful, painful, terrible, unspeakable |
(adjective) extremely disagreeable and unpleasant | - |
dreadfully | (adverb) of a dreadful kind | Synonyms: awfully, horribly |
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(adverb) in a dreadful manner | Synonyms: dismally |
dreadfulness | (noun) a quality of extreme unpleasantness | Synonyms: awfulness, horridness, terribleness |
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dreamfully | (adverb) in a dreamy manner | Synonyms: dreamily, moonily |
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dustpanful | (noun) the quantity that a dustpan will hold | Synonyms: dustpan |
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dutiful | (adjective) willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect | Synonyms: duteous |
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dutifully | (adverb) out of a sense of duty; in a dutiful manner | - |
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dutifulness | (noun) piety by virtue of devotion to duty | - |
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earful | (noun) a severe scolding | Synonyms: bawling out, castigation, chewing out, dressing down, going-over, upbraiding |
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(noun) an outpouring of gossip | - |
effortful | (adjective) requiring great physical effort | - |
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effortfulness | (noun) the quality of requiring deliberate effort | - |
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effulgence | (noun) the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light | Synonyms: radiance, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency, shine |
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effulgent | (adjective) radiating or as if radiating light | Synonyms: beaming, beamy, radiant, refulgent |
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eventful | (adjective) full of events or incidents | - |
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(adjective) having important issues or results | Synonyms: consequential |
eyeful | (noun) a full view; a good look | - |
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(noun) a strikingly beautiful woman | - |
faithful | (adjective) steadfast in affection or allegiance | - |
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(adjective) not having sexual relations with anyone except your husband or wife, or your boyfriend or girlfriend | - |
(adjective) marked by fidelity to an original | Synonyms: close |
(noun) a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church | Synonyms: congregation, fold |
(noun) any loyal and steadfast following | - |
faithfully | (adverb) in a faithful manner | Synonyms: dependably, reliably |
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faithfulness | (noun) the quality of being faithful | Synonyms: fidelity |
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fanciful | (adjective) indulging in or influenced by fancy | Synonyms: notional |
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(adjective) having a curiously intricate quality | - |
(adjective) not based on fact; existing only in the imagination | Synonyms: imaginary, notional |
fancifully | (adverb) in a fanciful manner | Synonyms: whimsically |
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fateful | (adjective) having momentous consequences; of decisive importance | Synonyms: fatal |
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(adjective) controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined | Synonyms: fatal |
(adjective) ominously prophetic | Synonyms: foreboding, portentous |
(adjective) (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin | Synonyms: black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal |
fatefully | (adverb) in a prophetically fateful manner | - |
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fearful | (adjective) lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted | Synonyms: cowardly |
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(adjective) experiencing or showing fear | - |
(adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
(adjective) extremely distressing | Synonyms: frightful |
(adjective) timid by nature or revealing timidity | Synonyms: timorous, trepid |
fearfully | (adverb) in fear | - |
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(adverb) in an alarming manner | - |
fearfulness | (noun) the trait of being afraid | - |
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(noun) an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight) | Synonyms: fear, fright |
fistful | (noun) the quantity that can be held in the hand | Synonyms: handful |
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fitful | (adjective) intermittently stopping and starting | Synonyms: interrupted, off-and-on |
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(adjective) occurring in spells and often abruptly | Synonyms: spasmodic |
fitfully | (adverb) in a fitful manner | - |
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fitfulness | (noun) the quality of being spasmodic and irregular | Synonyms: jerkiness |
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flaskful | (noun) the quantity a flask will hold | Synonyms: flask |
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flavorful | (adjective) full of flavor | Synonyms: flavorous, flavorsome, flavourful, flavourous, flavoursome, sapid, saporous |
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flavourful | (adjective) full of flavor | Synonyms: flavorful, flavorous, flavorsome, flavourous, flavoursome, sapid, saporous |
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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 |
forcefully | (adverb) with full force | - |
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forcefulness | (noun) physical energy or intensity | Synonyms: force, strength |
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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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forethoughtful | (adjective) thoughtful of the future | - |
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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 |
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 | - |
fretful | (adjective) habitually complaining | Synonyms: querulous, whiney, whiny |
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(adjective) nervous and unable to relax | Synonyms: antsy, fidgety, itchy, restless |
fretfully | (adverb) in a fretful manner | - |
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fretfulness | (noun) an irritable petulant feeling | Synonyms: choler, crossness, fussiness, irritability, peevishness, petulance |
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frightful | (adjective) provoking horror | Synonyms: atrocious, horrible, horrifying, ugly |
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(adjective) extremely distressing | Synonyms: fearful |
(adjective) extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact | Synonyms: awful, terrible, tremendous |
frightfully | (adverb) used as intensifiers | Synonyms: awful, awfully, terribly |
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frightfulness | (noun) the quality of being frightful | - |
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fruitful | (adjective) productive or conducive to producing in abundance | - |
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fruitfully | (adverb) in a productive way | Synonyms: productively, profitably |
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fruitfulness | (noun) the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth | Synonyms: fecundity |
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(noun) the intellectual productivity of a creative imagination | Synonyms: fecundity |
fulcrum | (noun) the pivot about which a lever turns | - |
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fulfil | (verb) fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction | Synonyms: conform to, fill, fit, fulfill, meet, satisfy |
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(verb) put in effect | Synonyms: accomplish, action, carry out, carry through, execute, fulfill |
(verb) meet the requirements or expectations of | Synonyms: fulfill, live up to, satisfy |
fulfill | (verb) fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction | Synonyms: conform to, fill, fit, fulfil, meet, satisfy |
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(verb) put in effect | Synonyms: accomplish, action, carry out, carry through, execute, fulfil |
(verb) meet the requirements or expectations of | Synonyms: fulfil, live up to, satisfy |
fulfilled | (adjective) completed to perfection | - |
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fulfillment | (noun) the act of consummating something (a desire or promise etc) | Synonyms: fulfilment |
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(noun) a feeling of satisfaction at having achieved your desires | Synonyms: fulfilment |
fulfilment | (noun) the act of consummating something (a desire or promise etc) | Synonyms: fulfillment |
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(noun) a feeling of satisfaction at having achieved your desires | Synonyms: fulfillment |
fulgent | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blazing, blinding, dazzling, glaring, glary |
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fulgid | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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fulgurant | (adjective) amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning | Synonyms: dazzling, eye-popping, fulgurous |
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fulgurating | (adjective) sharp and piercing | - |
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fulgurous | (adjective) amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning | Synonyms: dazzling, eye-popping, fulgurant |
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full | (adjective) containing as much or as many as is possible or normal | - |
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(adjective) (of sound) having marked deepness and body | - |
(adjective) having the normally expected amount | Synonyms: good |
(adjective) complete in extent or degree and in every particular | Synonyms: total |
(adjective) being at a peak or culminating point | Synonyms: broad |
(adjective) filled to satisfaction with food or drink | Synonyms: replete |
(adjective) constituting the full quantity or extent; complete | Synonyms: entire, total |
(adjective) having ample fabric | Synonyms: wide-cut, wide |
(noun) the time when the Moon is fully illuminated | Synonyms: full-of-the-moon, full moon, full phase of the moon |
(adverb) to the greatest degree or extent; completely or entirely; (`full' in this sense is used as a combining form) | Synonyms: fully, to the full |
(verb) increase in phase | Synonyms: wax |
(verb) make (a garment) fuller by pleating or gathering | - |
(verb) beat for the purpose of cleaning and thickening | - |
fullback | (noun) (American football) the position of a back on a football team, generally larger in size than halfbacks | - |
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(noun) (football) the running back who plays the fullback position on the offensive team | - |
(verb) play the fullback | - |
fuller | (noun) a workman who fulls (cleans and thickens) freshly woven cloth for a living | - |
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fullerene | (noun) a form of carbon having a large molecule consisting of an empty cage of sixty or more carbon atoms | - |
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fullness | (noun) greatness of volume | Synonyms: voluminosity, voluminousness |
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(noun) the property of a sensation that is rich and pleasing | Synonyms: mellowness, richness |
(noun) the condition of being filled to capacity | - |
(noun) completeness over a broad scope | Synonyms: comprehensiveness |
fully | (adverb) to the greatest degree or extent; completely or entirely; (`full' in this sense is used as a combining form) | Synonyms: full, to the full |
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(adverb) referring to a quantity | Synonyms: in full |
(adverb) sufficiently; more than adequately | Synonyms: amply |
fulmar | (noun) heavy short-tailed oceanic bird of polar regions | Synonyms: fulmar petrel, Fulmarus glacialis |
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fulminant | (adjective) sudden and severe | - |
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fulminate | (noun) a salt or ester of fulminic acid | - |
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(verb) cause to explode violently and with loud noise | - |
(verb) come on suddenly and intensely | - |
(verb) criticize severely | Synonyms: rail |
fulmination | (noun) the act of exploding with noise and violence | - |
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(noun) thunderous verbal attack | Synonyms: diatribe |
fulsome | (adjective) unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech | Synonyms: buttery, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous |
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fulsomely | (adverb) in an unctuous manner | Synonyms: smarmily, unctuously |
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fulsomeness | (noun) smug self-serving earnestness | Synonyms: oiliness, oleaginousness, smarminess, unction, unctuousness |
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(noun) excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm | Synonyms: smarm, unction |
gainful | (adjective) yielding a fair profit | Synonyms: paid, paying |
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gainfully | (adverb) in a gainful way | - |
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gainfulness | (noun) the quality of affording gain or benefit or profit | Synonyms: lucrativeness, profitability, profitableness |
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gladfulness | (noun) experiencing joy and pleasure | Synonyms: gladness, gladsomeness |
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glassful | (noun) the quantity a glass will hold | Synonyms: glass |
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gleeful | (adjective) full of high-spirited delight | Synonyms: elated, joyful, jubilant |
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gleefully | (adverb) in a joyous and gleeful manner | Synonyms: joyfully, joyously |
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gleefulness | (noun) great merriment | Synonyms: glee, hilarity, mirth, mirthfulness |
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gloomful | (adjective) depressingly dark | Synonyms: glooming, gloomy, sulky |
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graceful | (adjective) characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution | - |
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(adjective) suggesting taste, ease, and wealth | Synonyms: elegant, refined |
gracefully | (adverb) in a graceful manner | - |
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(adverb) in a gracious or graceful manner | Synonyms: graciously |
gracefulness | (noun) beautiful carriage | - |
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grateful | (adjective) feeling or showing gratitude | Synonyms: thankful |
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(adjective) affording comfort or pleasure | - |
gratefully | (adverb) in a thankful manner; with thanks | Synonyms: thankfully |
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(adverb) with appreciation; in a grateful manner | Synonyms: appreciatively |
gratefulness | (noun) warm friendly feelings of gratitude | Synonyms: appreciativeness, thankfulness |
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griseofulvin | (noun) a kind of penicillin (a fungicidal antibiotic with the trade name Fulvicin) produced by molds of the genus Penicillium | Synonyms: Fulvicin |
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guileful | (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily |
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handful | (noun) the quantity that can be held in the hand | Synonyms: fistful |
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(noun) a small number or amount | Synonyms: smattering |
harmful | (adjective) causing or capable of causing harm | - |
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harmfully | (adverb) in a detrimental manner | Synonyms: detrimentally, noxiously |
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harmfulness | (noun) destructiveness that causes harm or injury | Synonyms: injuriousness |
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(noun) the quality of being noxious | Synonyms: noisomeness, noxiousness |
hateful | (adjective) evoking or deserving hatred | - |
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(adjective) characterized by malice | Synonyms: mean |
hatefully | (adverb) in a hateful manner | - |
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hatefulness | (noun) the quality of being hateful | Synonyms: objectionableness, obnoxiousness |
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hatful | (noun) as many or as much as a hat will hold | - |
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(noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
headful | (noun) a covering over the surface of your head | - |
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(noun) the quantity of information that a head will hold | - |