| fall | (noun) a sudden drop from an upright position | Synonyms: spill, tumble |
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| (noun) the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions) | Synonyms: capitulation, surrender |
| (noun) a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity | - |
| (noun) a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity | Synonyms: dip, drop, free fall |
| (noun) a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity | Synonyms: drop |
| (noun) a sudden decline in strength or number or importance | Synonyms: downfall |
| (noun) when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat | Synonyms: pin |
| (noun) a movement downward | - |
| (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, declination, decline, declivity, descent, downslope |
| (noun) the season when the leaves fall from the trees | Synonyms: autumn |
| (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight |
| (verb) occur at a specified time or place | - |
| (verb) decrease in size, extent, or range | Synonyms: decrease, diminish, lessen |
| (verb) pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind | - |
| (verb) be born, used chiefly of lambs | - |
| (verb) come out; issue | - |
| (verb) assume a disappointed or sad expression | - |
| (verb) begin vigorously | - |
| (verb) come as if by falling | Synonyms: descend, settle |
| (verb) be cast down | - |
| (verb) go as if by falling | - |
| (verb) fall or flow in a certain way | Synonyms: flow, hang |
| (verb) move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way | Synonyms: come down, descend, go down |
| (verb) move in a specified direction | - |
| (verb) descend in free fall under the influence of gravity | - |
| (verb) slope downward | - |
| (verb) drop oneself to a lower or less erect position | - |
| (verb) lose an upright position suddenly | Synonyms: fall down |
| (verb) to be given by assignment or distribution | - |
| (verb) be captured | - |
| (verb) fall to somebody by assignment or lot; passed | Synonyms: light |
| (verb) come into the possession of | Synonyms: accrue |
| (verb) to be given by right or inheritance | - |
| (verb) be inherited by | Synonyms: devolve, pass, return |
| (verb) lose office or power | - |
| (verb) yield to temptation or sin | - |
| (verb) suffer defeat, failure, or ruin | - |
| (verb) lose one's chastity | - |
| (verb) die, as in battle or in a hunt | - |
| (verb) be due | - |
| (verb) come under, be classified or included | Synonyms: come |
| (verb) touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly | Synonyms: shine, strike |
| (verb) fall from clouds | Synonyms: come down, precipitate |
| fallal | (noun) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing | Synonyms: bangle, bauble, gaud, gewgaw, novelty, trinket |
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| familial | (adjective) relating to or having the characteristics of a family | - |
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| (adjective) occurring among members of a family usually by heredity | Synonyms: genetic, hereditary, inherited, transmissible, transmitted |
| fanatical | (adjective) marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea | Synonyms: fanatic, overzealous, rabid |
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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 |
| fangirl | (noun) A female fan who is obsessive about a particular subject (especially, someone or something in popular entertainment media) | - |
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| (verb) to be a extreme female fan of something | - |
| fantail | (noun) an overhang consisting of the fan-shaped part of the deck extending aft of the sternpost of a ship | - |
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| fantastical | (adjective) ludicrously odd | Synonyms: antic, fantastic, grotesque |
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| (adjective) existing in fancy only | Synonyms: fantastic |
| farcical | (adjective) broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce | Synonyms: ludicrous, ridiculous |
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| fardel | (noun) a burden (figuratively in the form of a bundle) | - |
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| farewell | (noun) the act of departing politely | Synonyms: leave-taking, leave, parting |
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| (noun) an acknowledgment or expression of goodwill at parting | Synonyms: word of farewell |
| fastball | (noun) (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity | Synonyms: bullet, heater, hummer, smoke |
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| fatal | (adjective) bringing death | - |
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| (adjective) having momentous consequences; of decisive importance | Synonyms: fateful |
| (adjective) controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined | Synonyms: fateful |
| (adjective) (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin | Synonyms: black, calamitous, disastrous, fateful |
| 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 |
| faucal | (adjective) of or relating to the fauces | - |
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| fauteuil | (noun) an upholstered armchair | - |
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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 |
| featherfoil | (noun) a plant of the genus Hottonia | Synonyms: feather-foil |
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| fecal | (adjective) of or relating to feces | Synonyms: faecal |
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| federal | (adjective) characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is divided between one central and several regional authorities | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the central government of a federation | - |
| (adjective) national; especially in reference to the government of the United States as distinct from that of its member units | - |
| feel | (noun) manual stimulation of the genital area for sexual pleasure | - |
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| (noun) a property perceived by touch | Synonyms: tactile property |
| (noun) an intuitive awareness | - |
| (noun) the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people | Synonyms: feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell, spirit, tone |
| (verb) be conscious of a physical, mental, or emotional state | - |
| (verb) come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds | Synonyms: find |
| (verb) have a feeling or perception about oneself in reaction to someone's behavior or attitude | - |
| (verb) examine by touch | Synonyms: finger |
| (verb) examine (a body part) by palpation | Synonyms: palpate |
| (verb) pass one's hands over the sexual organs of | - |
| (verb) undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind | Synonyms: experience |
| (verb) perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles | Synonyms: sense |
| (verb) undergo passive experience of | - |
| (verb) produce a certain impression | - |
| (verb) grope or feel in search of something | - |
| (verb) find by testing or cautious exploration | - |
| (verb) be felt or perceived in a certain way | - |
| felafel | (noun) small croquette of mashed chick peas or fava beans seasoned with sesame seeds | Synonyms: falafel |
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| fell | (adjective) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering | Synonyms: barbarous, brutal, cruel, roughshod, savage, vicious |
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| (noun) the act of felling something (as a tree) | - |
| (noun) seam made by turning under or folding together and stitching the seamed materials to avoid rough edges | Synonyms: felled seam |
| (noun) the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal) | Synonyms: hide |
| (verb) cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow | Synonyms: cut down, drop, strike down |
| (verb) sew a seam by folding the edges | - |
| (verb) pass away rapidly | Synonyms: fly, vanish |
| femoral | (adjective) of or relating to or near the femur or thigh | - |
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| fenestral | (adjective) of or relating to windows | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or having a fenestra | - |
| fennel | (noun) fennel seeds are ground and used as a spice or as an ingredient of a spice mixture | - |
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| (noun) leaves used for seasoning | Synonyms: common fennel |
| (noun) aromatic bulbous stem base eaten cooked or raw in salads | Synonyms: finocchio, Florence fennel |
| (noun) any of several aromatic herbs having edible seeds and leaves and stems | - |
| feral | (adjective) wild and menacing | Synonyms: ferine, savage |
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| ferial | (adjective) of or relating to or being a feria | - |
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| festal | (adjective) offering fun and gaiety | Synonyms: festive, gay, merry |
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| festival | (noun) an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place) | Synonyms: fete |
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| (noun) a day or period of time set aside for feasting and celebration | - |
| fetal | (adjective) of or relating to a fetus | Synonyms: foetal |
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| feudal | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of feudalism | Synonyms: feudalistic |
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| fibril | (noun) a very slender natural or synthetic fiber | Synonyms: filament, strand |
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| fictional | (adjective) related to or involving literary fiction | - |
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| (adjective) formed or conceived by the imagination | Synonyms: fabricated, fancied, fictitious |
| 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 | - |
| figural | (adjective) consisting of or forming human or animal figures | Synonyms: figurative |
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| filarial | (adjective) related to or infested with or transmitting parasitic worms especially filaria | - |
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| filial | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or befitting an offspring | - |
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| (adjective) designating the generation or the sequence of generations following the parental generation | - |
| fill | (noun) a quantity sufficient to satisfy | - |
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| (noun) any material that fills a space or container | Synonyms: filling |
| (verb) become full | Synonyms: fill up |
| (verb) make full, also in a metaphorical sense | Synonyms: fill up, make full |
| (verb) plug with a substance | - |
| (verb) fill to satisfaction | Synonyms: replete, sate, satiate |
| (verb) eat until one is sated | Synonyms: fill up |
| (verb) fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction | Synonyms: conform to, fit, fulfil, fulfill, meet, satisfy |
| (verb) assume, as of positions or roles | Synonyms: occupy, take |
| (verb) appoint someone to (a position or a job) | - |
| (verb) occupy the whole of | Synonyms: occupy |
| final | (adjective) occurring at or forming an end or termination | Synonyms: concluding, last, terminal |
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| (adjective) conclusive in a process or progression | Synonyms: last, net |
| (adjective) not to be altered or undone | Synonyms: last |
| (noun) an examination administered at the end of an academic term | Synonyms: final exam, final examination |
| (noun) the final match between the winners of all previous matches in an elimination tournament | - |
| financial | (adjective) involving financial matters | Synonyms: fiscal |
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| fingernail | (noun) the nail at the end of a finger | - |
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| fingerspell | (verb) communicate by means of specific gestures, as an alternative to sign language | Synonyms: finger-spell |
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| fingerstall | (noun) a sheath worn to protect a finger | Synonyms: cot |
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| finial | (noun) an ornament at the top of a spire or gable; usually a foliated fleur-de-lis | - |
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| finical | (adjective) exacting especially about details | Synonyms: finicky, fussy, particular, picky |
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| fireball | (noun) the luminous center of a nuclear explosion | - |
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| (noun) a ball of fire (such as the sun or a ball-shaped discharge of lightning) | - |
| (noun) a highly energetic and indefatigable person | Synonyms: ball of fire, human dynamo, powerhouse |
| (noun) an especially luminous meteor (sometimes exploding) | Synonyms: bolide |
| firewall | (noun) (colloquial) the application of maximum thrust | - |
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| (noun) a fireproof (or fire-resistant) wall designed to prevent the spread of fire through a building or a vehicle | - |
| (noun) (computing) a security system consisting of a combination of hardware and software that limits the exposure of a computer or computer network to attack from crackers; commonly used on local area networks that are connected to the internet | - |
| firmamental | (adjective) relating to the firmament or upper regions | - |
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| fiscal | (adjective) involving financial matters | Synonyms: financial |
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| fishbowl | (noun) a transparent bowl in which small fish are kept | Synonyms: fish bowl, goldfish bowl |
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| (noun) a state of affairs in which you have no privacy | Synonyms: fish bowl, goldfish bowl |
| fishtail | (verb) slow down by moving the tail sideways | - |
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| 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 |
| flail | (noun) an implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end; used in manual threshing | - |
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| (verb) give a thrashing to; beat hard | Synonyms: lam, thrash, thresh |
| (verb) move like a flail; thresh about | Synonyms: thresh |
| flannel | (noun) a soft light woolen fabric; used for clothing | - |
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| (noun) bath linen consisting of a piece of cloth used to wash the face and body | Synonyms: face cloth, washcloth, washrag |
| (noun) (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth | Synonyms: gabardine, tweed, white |
| 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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| flickertail | (noun) of sagebrush and grassland areas of western United States and Canada | Synonyms: Citellus richardsoni, Richardson ground squirrel |
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| floral | (adjective) of or relating to the plant life in a particular region | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or associated with flowers | - |
| (adjective) resembling or made of or suggestive of flowers | Synonyms: flowered |
| floricultural | (adjective) of or relating to or involving floriculture | - |
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| fluorouracil | (noun) an antimetabolite used to treat certain cancers | - |
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| fluvial | (adjective) of or relating to or happening in a river | - |
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| flywheel | (noun) regulator consisting of a heavy wheel that stores kinetic energy and smooths the operation of a reciprocating engine | - |
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| foal | (noun) a young horse | - |
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| (verb) give birth to a foal | - |
| focal | (adjective) of or relating to a focus | - |
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| (adjective) having or localized centrally at a focus | - |
| foetal | (adjective) of or relating to a fetus | Synonyms: fetal |
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| fogsignal | (noun) a loud low warning signal that can be heard by fogbound ships | Synonyms: foghorn |
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| foil | (noun) a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button | - |
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| (noun) a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal | - |
| (noun) picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector | Synonyms: transparency |
| (noun) a device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through | Synonyms: hydrofoil |
| (noun) anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities | Synonyms: enhancer |
| (verb) cover or back with foil | - |
| (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart |
| (verb) enhance by contrast | - |
| folderal | (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, frill, gimcrack, gimcrackery, nonsense, trumpery |
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| folderol | (noun) nonsensical talk or writing | Synonyms: applesauce, codswallop, rubbish, trash, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash |
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| fontanel | (noun) any membranous gap between the bones of the cranium in an infant or fetus | Synonyms: fontanelle, soft spot |
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| fool | (noun) a person who lacks good judgment | Synonyms: muggins, sap, saphead, tomfool |
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| (noun) a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of | Synonyms: chump, fall guy, gull, mark, mug, patsy, soft touch, sucker |
| (noun) a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: jester, motley fool |
| (verb) indulge in horseplay | Synonyms: arse around, fool around, horse around |
| (verb) fool or hoax | Synonyms: befool, cod, dupe, gull, put on, put one across, put one over, slang, take in |
| (verb) spend frivolously and unwisely | Synonyms: dissipate, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, shoot |
| (verb) make a fool or dupe of | Synonyms: befool, gull |
| football | (noun) any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal | Synonyms: football game |
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| (noun) the inflated oblong ball used in playing American football | - |
| footfall | (noun) the sound of a step of someone walking | Synonyms: footstep, step |
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| foothill | (noun) a relatively low hill on the lower slope of a mountain | - |
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| footstall | (noun) an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue) | Synonyms: pedestal, plinth |
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| footstool | (noun) a low seat or a stool to rest the feet of a seated person | Synonyms: footrest, ottoman, tuffet |
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| footwall | (noun) the lower wall of an inclined fault | - |
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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 |
| foresail | (noun) the lowest sail on the foremast of a square-rigged vessel | - |
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| foresightful | (adjective) planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, long, longsighted, prospicient |
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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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| formol | (noun) a 10% solution of formaldehyde in water; used as a disinfectant or to preserve biological specimens | Synonyms: formalin |
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| foryml | (noun) (chemistry) the negative univalent acyl radical CHO that occurs in aldehydes | - |
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| fossil | (adjective) characteristic of a fossil | - |
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| (noun) the remains (or an impression) of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated from the soil | - |
| (noun) someone whose style is out of fashion | Synonyms: dodo, fogey, fogy |
| fossorial | (adjective) (of limbs and feet) adapted for digging | - |
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| foul | (adjective) (of a baseball) not hit between the foul lines | - |
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| (adjective) disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter | Synonyms: filthy, nasty |
| (adjective) characterized by obscenity | Synonyms: cruddy, filthy, nasty, smutty |
| (adjective) (of a manuscript) defaced with changes | Synonyms: dirty, marked-up |
| (adjective) offensively malodorous | Synonyms: fetid, foetid, foul-smelling, funky, ill-scented, noisome, smelly, stinking |
| (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
| (adjective) especially of a ship's lines etc | Synonyms: afoul, fouled |
| (adjective) violating accepted standards or rules | Synonyms: cheating, dirty, unsporting, unsportsmanlike |
| (noun) an act that violates the rules of a sport | - |
| (verb) become soiled and dirty | - |
| (verb) make unclean | - |
| (verb) spot, stain, or pollute | Synonyms: befoul, defile, maculate |
| (verb) make impure | Synonyms: contaminate, pollute |
| (verb) commit a foul; break the rules | - |
| (verb) hit a foul ball | - |
| (verb) become or cause to become obstructed | Synonyms: back up, choke, choke off, clog, clog up, congest, crap up |
| fowl | (noun) a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl | Synonyms: domestic fowl, poultry |
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| (noun) the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food | Synonyms: bird |
| (verb) hunt fowl in the forest | - |
| (verb) hunt fowl | - |
| foxtail | (noun) grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes | Synonyms: foxtail grass |
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| fractal | (noun) (mathematics) a geometric pattern that is repeated at every scale and so cannot be represented by classical geometry | - |
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| fractional | (adjective) constituting or comprising a part or fraction of a possible whole or entirety | Synonyms: partial |
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| (adjective) constituting a division or an aliquot part of the basic monetary unit | Synonyms: divisional |
| fragmental | (adjective) consisting of small disconnected parts | Synonyms: fragmentary |
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| frail | (adjective) physically weak | - |
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| (adjective) easily broken or damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: delicate, fragile |
| (adjective) wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings | Synonyms: fallible, imperfect, weak |
| (noun) a basket for holding dried fruit (especially raisins or figs) | - |
| (noun) the weight of a frail (basket) full of raisins or figs; between 50 and 75 pounds | - |
| fraternal | (adjective) (of twins) derived from two separate fertilized ova | Synonyms: biovular |
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| (adjective) like or characteristic of or befitting a brother | Synonyms: brotherlike, brotherly |
| (adjective) of or relating to a fraternity or society of usually men | - |