fealty | (noun) the loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign) | Synonyms: allegiance |
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fear | (noun) an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight) | Synonyms: fearfulness, fright |
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(noun) an anxious feeling | Synonyms: care, concern |
(noun) a feeling of profound respect for someone or something | Synonyms: awe, reverence, veneration |
(verb) be afraid or scared of; be frightened of | Synonyms: dread |
(verb) regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of | Synonyms: revere, reverence, venerate |
(verb) be sorry; used to introduce an unpleasant statement | - |
(verb) be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event | - |
(verb) be uneasy or apprehensive about | - |
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 |
fearless | (adjective) oblivious of dangers or perils or calmly resolute in facing them | Synonyms: unafraid |
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(adjective) invulnerable to fear or intimidation | Synonyms: audacious, brave, dauntless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing |
fearlessly | (adverb) without fear | Synonyms: dauntlessly, intrepidly |
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fearlessness | (noun) the trait of feeling no fear | - |
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(noun) feeling no fear | Synonyms: bravery |
fearsome | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
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fearsomely | (adverb) in a fearsome manner | - |
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feasibility | (noun) the quality of being doable | Synonyms: feasibleness |
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feasible | (adjective) capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are | Synonyms: executable, practicable, viable, workable |
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feasibleness | (noun) the quality of being doable | Synonyms: feasibility |
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feasibly | (adverb) in a practicable manner; so as to be feasible | Synonyms: practicably |
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feast | (noun) something experienced with great delight | - |
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(noun) an elaborate party (often outdoors) | Synonyms: fete, fiesta |
(noun) a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed | Synonyms: banquet, spread |
(noun) a ceremonial dinner party for many people | Synonyms: banquet |
(verb) partake in a feast or banquet | Synonyms: banquet, junket |
(verb) provide a feast or banquet for | Synonyms: banquet, junket |
(verb) gratify | Synonyms: feed |
feasting | (noun) eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment) | Synonyms: banqueting |
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feat | (noun) a notable achievement | Synonyms: effort, exploit |
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feather | (noun) turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls | Synonyms: feathering |
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(noun) branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds | - |
(verb) grow feathers | Synonyms: fledge |
(verb) turn the oar, while rowing | Synonyms: square |
(verb) turn the paddle; in canoeing | Synonyms: square |
(verb) cover or fit with feathers | - |
(verb) join tongue and groove, in carpentry | - |
featherbed | (noun) a mattress stuffed with feathers | Synonyms: feather bed |
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(verb) hire more workers than are necessary | - |
(verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
featherbedding | (noun) the practice (usually by a labor union) of requiring an employer to hire more workers than are required | - |
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featherbrained | (adjective) lacking seriousness; given to frivolity | Synonyms: airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, giddy, light-headed, lightheaded, silly |
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feathered | (adjective) having or covered with feathers | - |
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(adjective) adorned with feathers or plumes | Synonyms: feathery, plumy |
featheredge | (noun) a thin tapering edge | - |
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featheredged | (adjective) having a rough edge; used of handmade paper or paper resembling handmade | Synonyms: deckle-edged, deckled |
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featherfoil | (noun) a plant of the genus Hottonia | Synonyms: feather-foil |
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featheriness | (noun) a light softness | Synonyms: downiness, fluffiness |
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feathering | (noun) turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls | Synonyms: feather |
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featherless | (adjective) having no feathers | Synonyms: unfeathered |
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featherlike | (adjective) resembling or suggesting a feather or feathers | Synonyms: feathery |
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feathertop | (noun) northeastern tropical African plant having feathery panicles | Synonyms: feathertop grass, Pennistum villosum |
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(noun) a variety of reed grass | Synonyms: Calamagrostis acutiflora, feather reed grass |
featherweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the bantamweight division and lighter than those in the lightweight division. | - |
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(noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 123 and 126 pounds | - |
(noun) weighs 126-139 pounds | - |
(noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 126 pounds | - |
feathery | (adjective) adorned with feathers or plumes | Synonyms: feathered, plumy |
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(adjective) characterized by a covering of feathers | - |
(adjective) resembling or suggesting a feather or feathers | Synonyms: featherlike |
feature | (noun) an article of merchandise that is displayed or advertised more than other articles | - |
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(noun) the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin | Synonyms: lineament |
(noun) a prominent attribute or aspect of something | Synonyms: characteristic |
(noun) (linguistics) a distinctive characteristic of a linguistic unit that serves to distinguish it from other units of the same kind | Synonyms: feature of speech |
(noun) the principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater | Synonyms: feature film |
(noun) a special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine | Synonyms: feature article |
(verb) have as a feature | Synonyms: have |
(verb) wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner | Synonyms: boast, sport |
featured | (adjective) made a feature or highlight; given prominence | - |
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(adjective) having facial features as specified; usually used in combination | - |
featureless | (adjective) lacking distinguishing characteristics or features | - |
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featurelessness | (noun) The state or condition of being without distinguishing features. | - |
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febricity | (noun) a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection | Synonyms: febrility, fever, feverishness, pyrexia |
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febrifuge | (noun) any medicine that lowers body temperature to prevent or alleviate fever | Synonyms: antipyretic |
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febrile | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by fever | Synonyms: feverish |
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febrility | (noun) a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection | Synonyms: febricity, fever, feverishness, pyrexia |
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fecal | (adjective) of or relating to feces | Synonyms: faecal |
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fecalith | (noun) a hard mass of fecal matter | Synonyms: coprolith, faecalith, stercolith |
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feces | (noun) solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels | Synonyms: BM, dejection, faecal matter, faeces, fecal matter, ordure, stool |
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feckless | (adjective) generally incompetent and ineffectual | Synonyms: inept |
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(adjective) not fit to assume responsibility | - |
fecklessly | (adverb) with ineptitude; in an incompetent manner | Synonyms: ineptly |
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(adverb) in a feckless manner; irresponsibly and incompetently | - |
fecklessness | (noun) worthlessness due to being feeble and ineffectual | - |
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fecula | (noun) excreta (especially of insects) | - |
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feculence | (noun) something that is feculent | - |
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feculent | (adjective) foul with waste matter | - |
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fecund | (adjective) capable of producing offspring or vegetation | - |
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(adjective) intellectually productive | Synonyms: fertile, prolific |
fecundate | (verb) introduce semen into (a female) | Synonyms: fertilise, fertilize, inseminate |
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(verb) make fertile or productive | Synonyms: fertilise, fertilize |
fecundation | (noun) creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant | Synonyms: fertilisation, fertilization, impregnation |
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(noun) making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure | Synonyms: dressing, fertilisation, fertilization |
fecundity | (noun) the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth | Synonyms: fruitfulness |
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(noun) the intellectual productivity of a creative imagination | Synonyms: fruitfulness |
(noun) the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring | Synonyms: fertility |
fedayeen | (noun) (plural) Arab guerrillas who operate mainly against Israel | - |
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fedelline | (noun) extremely fine pasta thinner than vermicelli | - |
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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 | - |
federalisation | (noun) the act of being put under federal control | Synonyms: federalization |
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(noun) the state of being under federal control | Synonyms: federalization |
federalise | (verb) unite on a federal basis or band together as a league | Synonyms: federalize, federate |
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(verb) put under the control and authority of a federal government | Synonyms: federalize |
(verb) enter into a league for a common purpose | Synonyms: federalize, federate |
federalism | (noun) the idea of a federal organization of more or less self-governing units | - |
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federalist | (noun) an advocate of federalism | - |
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federalization | (noun) the act of being put under federal control | Synonyms: federalisation |
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(noun) the state of being under federal control | Synonyms: federalisation |
federalize | (verb) unite on a federal basis or band together as a league | Synonyms: federalise, federate |
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(verb) put under the control and authority of a federal government | Synonyms: federalise |
(verb) enter into a league for a common purpose | Synonyms: federalise, federate |
federally | (adverb) by federal government | - |
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federate | (adjective) united under a central government | Synonyms: federated |
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(verb) unite on a federal basis or band together as a league | Synonyms: federalise, federalize |
(verb) enter into a league for a common purpose | Synonyms: federalise, federalize |
federated | (adjective) united under a central government | Synonyms: federate |
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federation | (noun) the act of constituting a political unity out of a number of separate states or colonies or provinces so that each member retains the management of its internal affairs | - |
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(noun) a union of political organizations | Synonyms: confederacy, confederation |
(noun) an organization formed by merging several groups or parties | - |
federita | (noun) a Sudanese sorghum having exceptionally large soft white grains | Synonyms: feterita, Sorghum vulgare caudatum |
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fedora | (noun) a hat made of felt with a creased crown | Synonyms: felt hat, homburg, Stetson, trilby |
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fee | (noun) a fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services | - |
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(noun) an interest in land capable of being inherited | - |
(verb) give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on | Synonyms: bung, tip |
feeble | (adjective) lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality | Synonyms: debile, decrepit, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly |
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(adjective) lacking strength | Synonyms: nerveless |
(adjective) lacking strength or vigor | Synonyms: faint |
(adjective) pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness | Synonyms: lame |
feebleminded | (adjective) retarded in intellectual development | Synonyms: backward, half-witted, slow-witted |
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feeblemindedness | (noun) severe mental deficiency | - |
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feebleness | (noun) the quality of lacking intensity or substance | Synonyms: tenuity |
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(noun) the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age) | Synonyms: debility, frailness, frailty, infirmity, valetudinarianism |
feebly | (adverb) in a halting and feeble manner | - |
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(adverb) in a faint and feeble manner | - |
feed | (noun) food for domestic livestock | Synonyms: provender |
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(verb) provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to | Synonyms: fertilise, fertilize |
(verb) introduce continuously | Synonyms: feed in |
(verb) take in food; used of animals only | Synonyms: eat |
(verb) give food to | Synonyms: give |
(verb) serve as food for; be the food for | - |
(verb) feed into; supply | - |
(verb) provide as food | - |
(verb) gratify | Synonyms: feast |
(verb) profit from in an exploitatory manner | Synonyms: prey |
(verb) move along, of liquids | Synonyms: course, flow, run |
(verb) support or promote | - |
feedback | (noun) response to an inquiry or experiment | - |
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(noun) the process in which part of the output of a system is returned to its input in order to regulate its further output | - |
feedbag | (noun) a canvas bag that is used to feed an animal (such as a horse); covers the muzzle and fastens at the top of the head | Synonyms: nosebag |
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feeder | (noun) an animal being fattened or suitable for fattening | - |
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(noun) an animal that feeds on a particular source of food | - |
(noun) a machine that automatically provides a supply of some material | Synonyms: self-feeder |
(noun) an outdoor device that supplies food for wild birds | Synonyms: bird feeder, birdfeeder |
(noun) a branch that flows into the main stream | Synonyms: affluent, confluent, tributary |
(noun) someone who consumes food for nourishment | Synonyms: eater |
feeding | (noun) the act of consuming food | Synonyms: eating |
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(noun) the act of supplying food and nourishment | Synonyms: alimentation |
feedlot | (noun) a building where livestock are fattened for market | - |
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feedstock | (noun) the raw material that is required for some industrial process | - |
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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 | - |
feeler | (noun) one of a pair of mobile appendages on the head of e.g. insects and crustaceans; typically sensitive to touch and taste | Synonyms: antenna |
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(noun) slender tactile process on the jaws of a fish | Synonyms: barbel |
(noun) sensitivity similar to that of a receptor organ | Synonyms: antenna |
(noun) a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others | Synonyms: advance, approach, overture |
feeling | (noun) the experiencing of affective and emotional states | - |
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(noun) an intuitive understanding of something | Synonyms: intuitive feeling |
(noun) a physical sensation that you experience | - |
(noun) the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin | Synonyms: tactile sensation, tactual sensation, touch, touch sensation |
(noun) a vague idea in which some confidence is placed | Synonyms: belief, impression, notion, opinion |
(noun) the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people | Synonyms: feel, flavor, flavour, look, smell, spirit, tone |
feelingly | (adverb) with great feeling | - |
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feelings | (noun) emotional or moral sensitivity (especially in relation to personal principles or dignity) | - |
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feetfirst | (adverb) with the feet foremost | - |
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feign | (verb) make believe with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: affect, dissemble, pretend, sham |
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(verb) make a pretence of | Synonyms: assume, sham, simulate |
feigned | (adjective) not genuine | - |
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feigning | (noun) the act of giving a false appearance | Synonyms: pretence, pretending, pretense, simulation |
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(noun) pretending with intention to deceive | Synonyms: dissembling, pretence, pretense |
feijoa | (noun) dark-green kiwi-sized tropical fruit with white flesh; used chiefly for jellies and preserves | Synonyms: pineapple guava |
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(noun) South American shrub having edible greenish plumlike fruit | Synonyms: feijoa bush |
feint | (noun) any distracting or deceptive maneuver (as a mock attack) | - |
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(verb) deceive by a mock action | - |
feist | (noun) a nervous belligerent little mongrel dog | Synonyms: fice |
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feistiness | (noun) The quality or state of being tenacious, energetic, spunky. | Synonyms: scrappiness |
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feisty | (adjective) quick to take offense | Synonyms: huffy, thin-skinned, touchy |
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(adjective) showing courage | Synonyms: plucky, spunky |
felafel | (noun) small croquette of mashed chick peas or fava beans seasoned with sesame seeds | Synonyms: falafel |
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feldspar | (noun) any of a group of hard crystalline minerals that consist of aluminum silicates of potassium or sodium or calcium or barium | Synonyms: felspar |
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felicitate | (verb) express congratulations | Synonyms: congratulate |
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felicitation | (noun) the act of acknowledging that someone has an occasion for celebration | Synonyms: congratulation |
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(noun) (usually plural) an expression of pleasure at the success or good fortune of another | Synonyms: congratulation |
felicitous | (adjective) exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style | - |
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(adjective) marked by good fortune | Synonyms: happy |