| f
|
(noun) the 6th letter of the Roman alphabet |
Synonyms:
F |
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| fa
|
(noun) the syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization |
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| fab
|
(adjective) extremely pleasing |
Synonyms:
fabulous |
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| fabian
|
(adjective) using cautious slow strategy to wear down opposition; avoiding direct confrontation |
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| fable
|
(noun) a deliberately false or improbable account |
Synonyms:
fabrication,
fiction |
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| (noun) a short moral story (often with animal characters) |
Synonyms:
parable,
allegory,
apologue |
| (noun) a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events |
Synonyms:
legend |
| fabled
|
(adjective) celebrated in fable or legend |
Synonyms:
legendary |
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| fabric
|
(noun) artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers |
Synonyms:
material,
cloth,
textile |
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| (noun) the underlying structure |
Synonyms:
framework |
| fabricate
|
(verb) put together out of artificial or natural components or parts |
Synonyms:
construct,
manufacture |
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| (verb) concoct something artificial or untrue |
Synonyms:
make up,
invent,
manufacture,
cook up |
| fabricated
|
(adjective) formed or conceived by the imagination |
Synonyms:
fancied,
fictional,
fictitious |
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| fabrication
|
(noun) a deliberately false or improbable account |
Synonyms:
fable,
fiction |
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| (noun) writing in a fictional form |
Synonyms:
fictionalisation,
fictionalization |
| (noun) the act of making something (a product) from raw materials |
Synonyms:
manufacture,
manufacturing |
| (noun) the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery) |
Synonyms:
assembly |
| (noun) the deliberate act of deviating from the truth |
Synonyms:
prevarication,
lying |
| fabricator
|
(noun) someone who tells lies |
Synonyms:
storyteller,
fibber |
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| fabulist
|
(noun) a person who tells or invents fables |
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| fabulous
|
(adjective) extremely pleasing |
Synonyms:
fab |
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| (adjective) based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity |
Synonyms:
mythic,
mythical,
mythologic,
mythological |
| (adjective) barely credible |
- |
| fabulously
|
(adverb) exceedingly; extremely |
Synonyms:
incredibly,
fantastically |
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| facade
|
(noun) the face or front of a building |
Synonyms:
frontage,
frontal |
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| (noun) a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant |
Synonyms:
window dressing |
| face
|
(noun) the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear |
Synonyms:
human face |
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| (noun) the feelings expressed on a person's face |
Synonyms:
expression,
look,
aspect,
facial expression |
| (noun) the general outward appearance of something |
- |
| (noun) the striking or working surface of an implement |
- |
| (noun) a part of a person that is used to refer to a person |
- |
| (noun) a surface forming part of the outside of an object |
Synonyms:
side |
| (noun) the part of an animal corresponding to the human face |
- |
| (noun) the side upon which the use of a thing depends (usually the most prominent surface of an object) |
- |
| (noun) a contorted facial expression |
Synonyms:
grimace |
| (noun) a specific size and style of type within a type family |
Synonyms:
case,
font,
fount,
typeface |
| (noun) status in the eyes of others |
- |
| (noun) impudent aggressiveness |
Synonyms:
brass,
nerve,
cheek,
boldness |
| (noun) a vertical surface of a building or cliff |
- |
| (verb) deal with (something unpleasant) head on |
Synonyms:
confront,
face up |
| (verb) oppose, as in hostility or a competition |
Synonyms:
confront |
| (verb) be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to |
Synonyms:
look,
front |
| (verb) be opposite |
- |
| (verb) turn so as to face; turn the face in a certain direction |
- |
| (verb) present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize |
Synonyms:
confront,
present |
| (verb) turn so as to expose the face |
- |
| (verb) line the edge (of a garment) with a different material |
- |
| (verb) cover the front or surface of |
- |
| faced
|
(adjective) having a face or facing especially of a specified kind or number; often used in combination |
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| faceless
|
(adjective) without a face or identity |
- |
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| facelift
|
(noun) plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised |
Synonyms:
lift,
rhytidectomy,
rhytidoplasty,
nip and tuck,
cosmetic surgery,
face lift,
face lifting |
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| (noun) a renovation that improves the outward appearance (as of a building) but usually does not involve major changes |
Synonyms:
face lift,
face lifting |
| facepalm
|
(noun) the act of putting your hand to cover your face to show disappointment or despair |
- |
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| faceplate
|
(noun) a protective covering for the front of a machine or device (as a door lock or computer component) |
- |
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| facer
|
(noun) (a dated Briticism) a serious difficulty with which one is suddenly faced |
- |
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| facet
|
(noun) a distinct feature or element in a problem |
Synonyms:
aspect |
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| (noun) a smooth surface (as of a bone or cut gemstone) |
- |
| faceted
|
(adjective) having facets |
- |
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| facetious
|
(adjective) cleverly amusing in tone |
Synonyms:
bantering,
tongue-in-cheek |
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| facetiously
|
(adverb) not seriously |
Synonyms:
jokingly,
tongue-in-cheek |
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| facetiousness
|
(noun) playful humor |
- |
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| facia
|
(noun) a sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc |
Synonyms:
fascia |
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| facial
|
(noun) cranial nerve that supplies facial muscles |
Synonyms:
nervus facialis,
seventh cranial nerve,
facial nerve |
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| (noun) care for the face that usually involves cleansing and massage and the application of cosmetic creams |
- |
| (adjective) of or concerning the face |
- |
| (adjective) of or pertaining to the outside surface of an object |
- |
| facially
|
(adverb) with respect to the face |
- |
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| facile
|
(adjective) superficially impressive, but lacking depth and attention to the true complexities of a subject |
Synonyms:
neat,
slick |
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| (adjective) performing adroitly and without effort |
- |
| (adjective) expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively |
Synonyms:
eloquent,
silver,
silver-tongued,
smooth-spoken,
fluent |
| facilitate
|
(verb) make easier |
Synonyms:
ease,
alleviate |
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| (verb) be of use |
Synonyms:
help |
| (verb) increase the likelihood of (a response) |
- |
| facilitation
|
(noun) the condition of being made easy (or easier) |
- |
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| (noun) (neurophysiology) phenomenon that occurs when two or more neural impulses that alone are not enough to trigger a response in a neuron combine to trigger an action potential |
- |
| (noun) act of assisting or making easier the progress or improvement of something |
- |
| facilitative
|
(adjective) freeing from difficulty or impediment |
- |
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| facilitator
|
(noun) someone who makes progress easier |
- |
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| facilitatory
|
(adjective) inducing or aiding in facilitating neural activity |
- |
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| facility
|
(noun) a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry |
Synonyms:
installation |
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| (noun) skillful performance or ability without difficulty |
Synonyms:
deftness,
quickness,
adeptness,
adroitness |
| (noun) a natural effortlessness |
Synonyms:
readiness |
| (noun) something designed and created to serve a particular function and to afford a particular convenience or service |
- |
| (noun) a service that an organization or a piece of equipment offers you |
- |
| facing
|
(noun) a lining applied to the edge of a garment for ornamentation or strengthening |
- |
|---|
| (noun) an ornamental coating to a building |
Synonyms:
veneer |
| (noun) a protective covering that protects the outside of a building |
Synonyms:
cladding |
| (noun) providing something with a surface of a different material |
Synonyms:
lining |
| facsimile
|
(verb) send something via a facsimile machine |
Synonyms:
fax,
telefax |
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| (noun) an exact copy or reproduction |
Synonyms:
autotype |
| (noun) duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio |
Synonyms:
facsimile machine,
fax |
| fact
|
(noun) a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred |
- |
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| (noun) a statement or assertion of verified information about something that is the case or has happened |
- |
| (noun) an event known to have happened or something known to have existed |
- |
| (noun) a concept whose truth can be proved |
- |
| faction
|
(noun) a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue |
Synonyms:
cabal,
junto,
camarilla |
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| (noun) a dissenting clique |
Synonyms:
sect |
| factious
|
(adjective) dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion) |
Synonyms:
dissentious,
divisive |
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| factitious
|
(adjective) not produced by natural forces |
- |
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| factoid
|
(noun) something resembling a fact; unverified (often invented) information that is given credibility because it appeared in print |
- |
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| (noun) a brief (usually one sentence and usually trivial) news item |
- |
| factor
|
(verb) resolve into factors |
Synonyms:
factor in,
factor out |
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| (verb) be a contributing factor |
- |
| (verb) consider as relevant when making a decision |
Synonyms:
factor in,
factor out |
| (noun) anything that contributes causally to a result |
- |
| (noun) an abstract part of something |
Synonyms:
element,
ingredient,
component,
constituent |
| (noun) one of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer |
Synonyms:
divisor |
| (noun) a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission |
Synonyms:
agent,
broker |
| (noun) any of the numbers (or symbols) that form a product when multiplied together |
- |
| (noun) an independent variable in statistics |
- |
| (noun) (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity |
Synonyms:
gene,
cistron |
| factorial
|
(noun) the product of all the integers up to and including a given integer |
- |
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| (adjective) of or relating to factorials |
- |
| factoring
|
(noun) (mathematics) the resolution of an expression into factors such that when multiplied together they give the original expression |
Synonyms:
factorisation,
factorization |
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| factorisation
|
(noun) (mathematics) the resolution of an expression into factors such that when multiplied together they give the original expression |
Synonyms:
factoring,
factorization |
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| factorise
|
(verb) resolve (a polynomial) into factors |
Synonyms:
factorize |
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| factorization
|
(noun) (mathematics) the resolution of an expression into factors such that when multiplied together they give the original expression |
Synonyms:
factoring,
factorisation |
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| factorize
|
(verb) resolve (a polynomial) into factors |
Synonyms:
factorise |
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| factory
|
(noun) a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing |
Synonyms:
mill,
manufactory,
manufacturing plant |
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| factotum
|
(noun) a servant employed to do a variety of jobs |
- |
|---|
| factual
|
(adjective) existing in act or fact |
Synonyms:
actual |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by facts |
- |
| factuality
|
(noun) the quality of being actual or based on fact |
Synonyms:
factualness |
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| factually
|
(adverb) as a fact or based on fact |
- |
|---|
| factualness
|
(noun) the quality of being actual or based on fact |
Synonyms:
factuality |
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| facula
|
(noun) a bright spot on a planet |
- |
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| (noun) a large bright spot on the sun's photosphere occurring most frequently in the vicinity of sunspots |
Synonyms:
solar facula |
| facultative
|
(adjective) of or relating to the mental faculties |
- |
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| (adjective) able to exist under more than one set of conditions |
- |
| (adjective) granting a privilege or permission or power to do or not do something |
- |
| (adjective) optional |
Synonyms:
elective |
| faculty
|
(noun) one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind |
Synonyms:
mental faculty,
module |
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| (noun) the body of teachers and administrators at a school |
Synonyms:
staff |
| fad
|
(noun) an interest followed with exaggerated zeal |
Synonyms:
furor,
furore,
rage,
craze,
cult |
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| faddily
|
(adverb) in a faddish manner |
Synonyms:
faddishly |
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| faddish
|
(adjective) intensely fashionable for a short time |
Synonyms:
faddy |
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| faddishly
|
(adverb) in a faddish manner |
Synonyms:
faddily |
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| faddist
|
(noun) a person who subscribes to a variety of fads |
- |
|---|
| faddy
|
(adjective) intensely fashionable for a short time |
Synonyms:
faddish |
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| fade
|
(noun) a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer |
Synonyms:
slice,
slicing |
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| (noun) gradually ceasing to be visible |
Synonyms:
disappearance |
| (verb) become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly |
Synonyms:
melt |
| (verb) lose freshness, vigor, or vitality |
Synonyms:
wither |
| (verb) disappear gradually |
Synonyms:
pass,
pass off,
fleet,
evanesce,
blow over |
| (verb) become feeble |
Synonyms:
languish |
| faded
|
(adjective) having lost freshness or brilliance of color |
Synonyms:
washed-out,
washy,
bleached |
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| (adjective) reduced in strength |
Synonyms:
weakened,
attenuate,
attenuated |
| fadedness
|
(noun) The quality of having lost some of a former colour or intensity. |
- |
|---|
| fadeout
|
(noun) a slow or gradual disappearance |
Synonyms:
receding |
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| (noun) a gradual temporary loss of a transmitted signal due to electrical disturbances |
- |
| fading
|
(noun) weakening in force or intensity |
Synonyms:
attenuation |
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| fado
|
(noun) a sad Portuguese folksong |
- |
|---|
| faecal
|
(adjective) of or relating to feces |
Synonyms:
fecal |
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| faecalith
|
(noun) a hard mass of fecal matter |
Synonyms:
stercolith,
coprolith,
fecalith |
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| faeces
|
(noun) solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels |
Synonyms:
dejection,
ordure,
stool,
BM,
faecal matter,
fecal matter,
feces |
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| faerie
|
(noun) a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers |
Synonyms:
faery,
sprite,
fairy,
fay |
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| (noun) the enchanted realm of fairies |
Synonyms:
faery,
fairyland |
| faery
|
(noun) a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers |
Synonyms:
faerie,
sprite,
fairy,
fay |
|---|
| (noun) the enchanted realm of fairies |
Synonyms:
faerie,
fairyland |
| fag
|
(verb) act as a servant for older boys, in British public schools |
- |
|---|
| (verb) work hard |
Synonyms:
dig,
moil,
grind,
drudge,
toil,
travail,
labor,
labour |
| (verb) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress |
Synonyms:
tire,
wear,
wear down,
wear out,
outwear,
jade,
wear upon,
weary,
fag out,
fatigue,
tire out |
| (noun) offensive term for a homosexual man |
Synonyms:
pouf,
queen,
faggot,
fagot,
pansy,
nance,
poof,
poove,
queer,
fairy |
| (noun) finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking |
Synonyms:
cigaret,
cigarette,
coffin nail,
butt |
| fagged
|
(adjective) drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted |
Synonyms:
dog-tired,
played out,
gone,
exhausted,
washed-out,
worn out,
worn-out,
spent,
fatigued |
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| faggot
|
(noun) offensive term for a homosexual man |
Synonyms:
pouf,
queen,
fag,
fagot,
pansy,
nance,
poof,
poove,
queer,
fairy |
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| (noun) a bundle of sticks and branches bound together |
Synonyms:
fagot |
| (verb) ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch |
Synonyms:
fagot |
| (verb) fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them |
Synonyms:
fagot |
| (verb) bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot |
Synonyms:
faggot up,
fagot |
| faggoting
|
(noun) embroidery in which groups of parallel threads are tied together with fagot stitches |
Synonyms:
fagoting |
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| fagot
|
(noun) offensive term for a homosexual man |
Synonyms:
pouf,
queen,
fag,
faggot,
pansy,
nance,
poof,
poove,
queer,
fairy |
|---|
| (noun) a bundle of sticks and branches bound together |
Synonyms:
faggot |
| (verb) ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch |
Synonyms:
faggot |
| (verb) fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them |
Synonyms:
faggot |
| (verb) bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot |
Synonyms:
faggot,
faggot up |
| fagoting
|
(noun) embroidery in which groups of parallel threads are tied together with fagot stitches |
Synonyms:
faggoting |
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| faience
|
(noun) glazed earthenware decorated with opaque colors |
- |
|---|
| fail
|
(verb) fail to do something; leave something undone |
Synonyms:
neglect |
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| (verb) be unsuccessful |
Synonyms:
miscarry,
go wrong |
| (verb) disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake |
Synonyms:
betray |
| (verb) stop operating or functioning |
Synonyms:
go,
break,
break down,
give way,
die,
give out,
go bad,
conk out |
| (verb) be unable |
- |
| (verb) judge unacceptable |
- |
| (verb) fail to get a passing grade |
Synonyms:
bomb,
flunk,
flush it |
| (verb) fall short in what is expected |
- |
| (verb) become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close |
- |
| (verb) prove insufficient |
Synonyms:
run out,
give out |
| (verb) deteriorate |
- |
| failing
|
(noun) a flaw or weak point |
Synonyms:
weakness |
|---|
| (noun) failure to reach a minimum required performance |
Synonyms:
flunk |
| (adjective) below acceptable in performance |
- |
| faille
|
(noun) a ribbed woven fabric of silk or rayon or cotton |
- |
|---|
| failure
|
(noun) an act that fails |
- |
|---|
| (noun) an event that does not accomplish its intended purpose |
- |
| (noun) lack of success |
- |
| (noun) a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently |
Synonyms:
nonstarter,
unsuccessful person,
loser |
| (noun) an unexpected omission |
- |
| (noun) inability to discharge all your debts as they come due |
Synonyms:
bankruptcy |
| (noun) loss of ability to function normally |
- |
| fain
|
(adverb) with pleasure |
Synonyms:
gladly,
lief |
|---|
| (adjective) having made preparations |
Synonyms:
inclined,
disposed,
prepared |
| faineance
|
(noun) the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work |
Synonyms:
idleness |
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| faineant
|
(adjective) disinclined to work or exertion |
Synonyms:
indolent,
otiose,
work-shy,
slothful,
lazy |
|---|
| faint
|
(verb) pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain |
Synonyms:
conk,
pass out,
swoon |
|---|
| (adjective) deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc |
Synonyms:
weak |
| (adjective) lacking clarity or distinctness |
Synonyms:
dim,
wispy,
shadowy,
vague |
| (adjective) lacking strength or vigor |
Synonyms:
feeble |
| (adjective) weak and likely to lose consciousness |
Synonyms:
swooning,
light,
light-headed,
lightheaded |
| (adjective) indistinctly understood or felt or perceived |
- |
| (adjective) lacking conviction or boldness or courage |
Synonyms:
faint-hearted,
fainthearted,
timid |
| (noun) a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain |
Synonyms:
deliquium,
swoon,
syncope |
| fainthearted
|
(adjective) lacking conviction or boldness or courage |
Synonyms:
faint,
faint-hearted,
timid |
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| faintheartedness
|
(noun) the trait of lacking boldness and courage |
Synonyms:
faintness |
|---|
| faintly
|
(adverb) to a faint degree or weakly perceived |
- |
|---|
| faintness
|
(noun) a feeling of faintness and of being ready to swoon |
- |
|---|
| (noun) the property of being without strength |
- |
| (noun) barely audible |
- |
| (noun) the trait of lacking boldness and courage |
Synonyms:
faintheartedness |
| (noun) the quality of being dim or lacking contrast |
Synonyms:
dimness |
| fair
|
(noun) a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc. |
Synonyms:
funfair,
carnival |
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| (noun) gathering of producers to promote business |
- |
| (noun) a competitive exhibition of farm products |
- |
| (noun) a sale of miscellany; often for charity |
Synonyms:
bazaar |
| (adverb) in conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating |
Synonyms:
clean,
fairly |
| (adverb) without favoring one party, in a fair evenhanded manner |
Synonyms:
evenhandedly,
fairly |
| (adjective) free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; conforming with established standards or rules |
Synonyms:
just |
| (adjective) (of a baseball) hit between the foul lines |
- |
| (adjective) not excessive or extreme |
Synonyms:
reasonable,
fairish |
| (adjective) very pleasing to the eye |
Synonyms:
sightly,
comely,
bonnie,
bonny |
| (adjective) lacking exceptional quality or ability |
Synonyms:
mediocre,
middling,
average |
| (adjective) attractively feminine |
- |
| (adjective) (of a manuscript) having few alterations or corrections |
Synonyms:
clean |
| (adjective) gained or earned without cheating or stealing |
Synonyms:
honest |
| (adjective) free of clouds or rain |
- |
| (adjective) (used of hair or skin) pale or light-colored |
Synonyms:
fairish |
| (verb) join so that the external surfaces blend smoothly |
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| fairground
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(noun) an open area for holding fairs or exhibitions or circuses |
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| fairish
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(adjective) not excessive or extreme |
Synonyms:
reasonable,
fair |
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| (adjective) (used of hair or skin) pale or light-colored |
Synonyms:
fair |
| fairlead
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(noun) a pulley-block used to guide a rope forming part of a ship's rigging to avoid chafing |
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