fandom | (noun) the fans of a sport or famous person | - |
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fanfare | (noun) a gaudy outward display | Synonyms: flash, ostentation |
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(noun) (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments | Synonyms: flourish, tucket |
fang | (noun) hollow or grooved tooth of a venomous snake; used to inject its poison | - |
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(noun) canine tooth of a carnivorous animal; used to seize and tear its prey | - |
(noun) an appendage of insects that is capable of injecting venom; usually evolved from the legs | - |
fanged | (adjective) having fangs | - |
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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 | - |
fanion | (noun) a small flag used by surveyors or soldiers to mark a position | - |
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fanjet | (noun) a jet engine in which a fan driven by a turbine provides extra air to the burner and gives extra thrust | Synonyms: fan-jet, fanjet engine, turbofan, turbofan engine, turbojet, turbojet engine |
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(noun) an airplane propelled by a fanjet engine | Synonyms: fan-jet, turbofan, turbojet |
fanlight | (noun) a semicircular window over a door or window; usually has sash bars like the ribs of a fan | - |
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(noun) a window above a door that is usually hinged to a horizontal crosspiece over the door | Synonyms: transom, transom window |
(noun) a window in a roof to admit daylight | Synonyms: skylight |
fanlike | (adjective) resembling a fan | - |
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fanned | (adjective) especially spread in a fan shape | Synonyms: spread-out |
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fanny | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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(noun) external female sex organs | Synonyms: female genital organ, female genitalia, female genitals |
fansign | (noun) a sign made by a fan, usually with the target's name on it | - |
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fantabulous | (adjective) very good; of the highest quality | Synonyms: excellent, first-class, mean, ripping, splendid |
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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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fantan | (noun) a Chinese gambling game; a random number of counters are placed under a bowl and you gamble on how many will be left (0, 1, 2, or 3 modulo 4) | Synonyms: fan tan |
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(noun) a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards | Synonyms: parliament, sevens |
fantasia | (noun) a musical composition of a free form usually incorporating several familiar themes | - |
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fantasise | (verb) indulge in fantasies | Synonyms: fantasize, fantasy |
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(verb) portray in the mind | Synonyms: fantasize |
fantasist | (noun) a creator of fantasies | - |
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fantasize | (verb) indulge in fantasies | Synonyms: fantasise, fantasy |
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(verb) portray in the mind | Synonyms: fantasise |
fantasm | (noun) something existing in perception only | Synonyms: apparition, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, shadow |
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(noun) a ghostly appearing figure | Synonyms: apparition, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, specter, spectre |
fantast | (noun) someone who predicts the future | Synonyms: futurist |
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fantastic | (adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: grand, howling, marvellous, marvelous, phenomenal, rattling, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous |
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(adjective) extravagantly fanciful in design, construction, appearance | - |
(adjective) ludicrously odd | Synonyms: antic, fantastical, grotesque |
(adjective) existing in fancy only | Synonyms: fantastical |
(adjective) fanciful and unrealistic; foolish | Synonyms: wild |
fantastical | (adjective) ludicrously odd | Synonyms: antic, fantastic, grotesque |
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(adjective) existing in fancy only | Synonyms: fantastic |
fantastically | (adverb) exceedingly; extremely | Synonyms: fabulously, incredibly |
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fantasticalness | (noun) The state or condition of pertaining to fantasy; of being fanciful or whimsical. | - |
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fantasy | (noun) imagination unrestricted by reality | Synonyms: phantasy |
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(noun) something many people believe that is false | Synonyms: fancy, illusion, phantasy |
(noun) fiction with a large amount of imagination in it | Synonyms: phantasy |
(verb) indulge in fantasies | Synonyms: fantasise, fantasize |
fantods | (noun) an ill-defined state of irritability and distress | - |
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fanweed | (noun) foetid Eurasian weed having round flat pods; naturalized throughout North America | Synonyms: field pennycress, French weed, mithridate mustard, penny grass, stinkweed, Thlaspi arvense |
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fanwort | (noun) common aquatic plant of eastern North America having floating and submerged leaves and white yellow-spotted flowers | Synonyms: Cabomba caroliniana, water-shield |
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faqir | (noun) a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man | Synonyms: fakeer, fakir, faquir |
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faquir | (noun) a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man | Synonyms: fakeer, fakir, faqir |
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far | (adjective) located at a great distance in time or space or degree | - |
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(adjective) beyond a norm in opinion or actions | - |
(adjective) being of a considerable distance or length | - |
(adjective) being the animal or vehicle on the right or being on the right side of an animal or vehicle | - |
(adverb) at or to or from a great distance in space | - |
(adverb) remote in time | - |
(adverb) to a considerable degree; very much | - |
(adverb) at or to a certain point or degree | - |
(adverb) to an advanced stage or point | - |
farad | (noun) the capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates | Synonyms: F |
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farandole | (noun) a lively dance from Provence; all the dancers join hands and execute various figures | - |
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faraway | (adjective) far removed mentally | - |
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(adjective) very far away in space or time | Synonyms: far-off |
farawayness | (noun) the property of being remote | Synonyms: farness, remoteness |
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farce | (noun) a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations | Synonyms: farce comedy, travesty |
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(noun) mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs | Synonyms: forcemeat |
(verb) fill with a stuffing while cooking | Synonyms: stuff |
farcical | (adjective) broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce | Synonyms: ludicrous, ridiculous |
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farcicality | (noun) The property of resembling a farce; of being ludicrous, absurd. | - |
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farcically | (adverb) in a farcical manner | - |
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fardel | (noun) a burden (figuratively in the form of a bundle) | - |
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fare | (noun) an agenda of things to do | Synonyms: menu |
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(noun) the food and drink that are regularly served or consumed | - |
(noun) a paying (taxi) passenger | - |
(noun) the sum charged for riding in a public conveyance | Synonyms: transportation |
(verb) eat well | - |
(verb) proceed or get along | Synonyms: come, do, get along, make out |
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 |
farfalle | (noun) pasta shaped with scalloped edges and pinched in the middle, suggestive of a bow tie | Synonyms: bowtie pasta |
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farfetched | (adjective) (of an idea or story) so exaggerated or ludicrous as to be improbable | Synonyms: far-fetched |
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(adjective) (of a theory or explanation) highly imaginative but unlikely and unconvincing | Synonyms: far-fetched |
farina | (noun) fine meal made from cereal grain especially wheat; often used as a cooked cereal or in puddings | - |
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farinaceous | (adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency | Synonyms: coarse-grained, grainy, granular, granulose, gritty, mealy |
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(adjective) resembling starch | Synonyms: amylaceous, amyloid, amyloidal, starchlike |
farkleberry | (noun) shrub or small tree of eastern United States having black inedible berries | Synonyms: sparkleberry, Vaccinium arboreum |
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farm | (noun) workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit | - |
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(verb) cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques | Synonyms: grow, produce, raise |
(verb) collect fees or profits | - |
(verb) be a farmer; work as a farmer | - |
farmer | (noun) a person who operates a farm | Synonyms: granger, husbandman, sodbuster |
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farmerette | (noun) a woman working on a farm | - |
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farmhand | (noun) a hired hand on a farm | Synonyms: farm worker, field hand, fieldhand |
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farmhouse | (noun) house for a farmer and family | - |
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farming | (adjective) relating to farming or agriculture | Synonyms: agrarian, agricultural |
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(noun) the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock | Synonyms: agriculture, husbandry |
(noun) agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life | Synonyms: land |
farmland | (noun) a rural area where farming is practiced | Synonyms: farming area |
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(noun) arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops | Synonyms: cultivated land, ploughland, plowland, tillage, tilled land, tilth |
farmplace | (noun) a farm together with its buildings | Synonyms: farm-place, farmstead |
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farmstead | (noun) a farm together with its buildings | Synonyms: farm-place, farmplace |
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(noun) the buildings and adjacent grounds of a farm | - |
farmyard | (noun) an area adjacent to farm buildings | - |
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farness | (noun) the property of being remote | Synonyms: farawayness, remoteness |
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faro | (noun) a card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box | - |
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farrago | (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: gallimaufry, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
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farrier | (noun) a person who shoes horses | Synonyms: horseshoer |
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farrow | (noun) the production of a litter of pigs | Synonyms: farrowing |
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(verb) give birth to (piglets) | Synonyms: pig |
farrowing | (noun) the production of a litter of pigs | Synonyms: farrow |
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farseeing | (adjective) capable of seeing to a great distance | Synonyms: eagle-eyed, keen-sighted, longsighted |
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(adjective) planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, long, longsighted, prospicient |
farsighted | (adjective) able to see distant objects clearly | Synonyms: presbyopic |
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(adjective) planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: farseeing, foresighted, foresightful, long, longsighted, prospicient |
farsightedness | (noun) seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing | Synonyms: foresight, prevision, prospicience |
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(noun) abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects | Synonyms: hypermetropia, hypermetropy, hyperopia, longsightedness |
(noun) a reduced ability to focus on near objects caused by loss of elasticity of the crystalline lens after age 45 | Synonyms: presbyopia |
fart | (noun) a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus | Synonyms: breaking wind, farting, flatus, wind |
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(verb) expel intestinal gases through the anus | Synonyms: break wind |
farther | (adjective) more distant in especially space or time | - |
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(adjective) more distant in especially degree | Synonyms: further |
(adverb) to or at a greater distance in time or space (`farther' is used more frequently than `further' in this physical sense) | Synonyms: further |
(adverb) to or at a greater extent or degree or a more advanced stage (`further' is used more often than `farther' in this abstract sense) | Synonyms: further |
farthermost | (adjective) (comparatives of `far') most remote in space or time or order | Synonyms: farthest, furthermost, furthest, utmost, uttermost |
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farthest | (adjective) (comparatives of `far') most remote in space or time or order | Synonyms: farthermost, furthermost, furthest, utmost, uttermost |
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(adverb) to the greatest distance in space or time (`farthest' is used more often than `furthest' in this physical sense) | Synonyms: furthest |
(adverb) to the greatest degree or extent or most advanced stage (`furthest' is used more often than `farthest' in this abstract sense) | Synonyms: furthest |
farthing | (noun) a former British bronze coin worth a quarter of a penny | - |
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farthingale | (noun) a hoop worn beneath a skirt to extend it horizontally; worn by European women in the 16th and 17th centuries | - |
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farting | (noun) a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus | Synonyms: breaking wind, fart, flatus, wind |
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fartlek | (noun) a method of athletic training (especially for runners) in which strenuous effort and normal effort alternate in a continuous exercise | - |
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fasces | (noun) bundle of rods containing an ax with the blade protruding; in ancient Rome it was a symbol of a magistrate's power; in modern Italy it is a symbol of fascism | - |
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fascia | (noun) instrument panel on an automobile or airplane containing dials and controls | Synonyms: dashboard |
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(noun) a sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc | Synonyms: facia |
fascicle | (noun) a bundle of fibers (especially nerve fibers) | Synonyms: fasciculus, fiber bundle, fibre bundle |
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(noun) an installment of a printed work | Synonyms: fascicule |
fasciculation | (noun) muscular twitching of contiguous groups of muscle fibers | - |
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fascicule | (noun) an installment of a printed work | Synonyms: fascicle |
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fasciculus | (noun) a bundle of fibers (especially nerve fibers) | Synonyms: fascicle, fiber bundle, fibre bundle |
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fascinate | (verb) to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe | Synonyms: grip, spellbind, transfix |
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(verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, trance |
(verb) cause to be interested or curious | Synonyms: intrigue |
fascinated | (adjective) having your attention fixated as though by a spell | Synonyms: hypnotised, hypnotized, mesmerised, mesmerized, spell-bound, spellbound, transfixed |
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fascinating | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: bewitching, captivating, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing |
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(adjective) capable of arousing and holding the attention | Synonyms: absorbing, engrossing, gripping, riveting |
fascinatingly | (adverb) in a fascinating manner | - |
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fascination | (noun) the capacity to attract intense interest | - |
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(noun) a feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual | Synonyms: captivation, enchantment, enthrallment |
(noun) the state of being intensely interested (as by awe or terror) | Synonyms: captivation |
fascioliasis | (noun) infestation with the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica; liver damage sometimes occurs; related to liver rot | Synonyms: fasciolosis |
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fasciolopsiasis | (noun) infestation with the large intestinal fluke Fasciolopsis buski; common in eastern Asia | - |
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fasciolosis | (noun) infestation with the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica; liver damage sometimes occurs; related to liver rot | Synonyms: fascioliasis |
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fascism | (noun) a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism) | - |
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fascist | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of fascism | Synonyms: fascistic |
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(noun) an adherent of fascism or other authoritarian views | - |
fascista | (noun) an Italian fascist under Mussolini | - |
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fascistic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of fascism | Synonyms: fascist |
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fashion | (noun) characteristic or habitual practice | - |
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(noun) consumer goods (especially clothing) in the current mode | - |
(noun) how something is done or how it happens | Synonyms: manner, mode, style, way |
(noun) the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior | - |
(verb) make out of components (often in an improvising manner) | Synonyms: forge |
fashionable | (adjective) being or in accordance with current social fashions | Synonyms: stylish |
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(adjective) having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress | Synonyms: stylish |
(adjective) popular and considered appealing or fashionable at the time | Synonyms: in fashion |
fashionableness | (noun) The state of being fashionable; stylishness; elegance. | - |
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fashionably | (adverb) in a fashionable manner | - |
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fashioned | (adjective) planned and made or fashioned artistically | - |
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fashioning | (noun) the act that results in something coming to be | Synonyms: devising, making |
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fashionmonger | (noun) someone who advises you about fashionable clothing | Synonyms: fashion consultant |
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