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specially, completely, individually, selectly, particularly, totally, especially, wholly; (adj, adv) only. ANTONYMS: (adv) openly, partly, partially

excuse: (n, v) pardon, palliate; (v) absolve, exculpate, condone, acquit, justify, forgive; (n) alibi, pretext, evasion. ANTONYMS: (v) blame, accuse, chide, discipline, include, reprimand, castigate; (n) accusation excusing: (n) defense; (adj) exculpatory, lenient, extenuating, easy, tolerant

exercised: (adj) applied, distressed, proficient, veteran

exhaust: (v) spend, drain, empty, sap, expend, deplete, use, tire out; (adj, v) tire, waste, dissipate. ANTONYMS: (v) refresh, invigorate, replenish, restore, revive, energize, save, renew, increase, fortify

exhausted: (adj) fatigued, tired, spent, dry, empty, depleted, jaded, enervated, faint; (adj, v) gone, weak. ANTONYMS: (adj) fresh, refreshed, strong, restored, vigorous, unexhausted, replenished, remaining, energized, invigorated, restocked

exhibit: (adj, n, v) display; (v) evince, evidence, expose, demonstrate, disclose, flaunt, announce, present, show, produce. ANTONYMS: (v) hide, cover; (n) concealment, hiding exhibited: (adj) ostensible, avowed, apparent, declared

exile: (n, v) expatriate; (v) banish, deport, drive out, expel, proscribe;

(n) expulsion, deportation, refugee, deportee, outcast. ANTONYMS: (v) restore, welcome, appoint

exotic: (adj) alien, foreign, strange, outlandish, unusual, extraneous, different, odd, curious, extrinsic, unknown. ANTONYMS: (adj) familiar, ordinary, usual, native expectation: (n) expectancy, belief, hope, possibility, outlook, trust, confidence, arithmetic mean, thought, suspense; (n, v) prospect. ANTONYMS: (n) despair, hopelessness, discouragement, distrust

expel: (v) evict, banish, exclude, exile, eliminate, discharge, deport, excrete, dispossess, dislodge; (adj, v) dismiss. ANTONYMS: (v) welcome, retain, invite, appoint, admit, allow,

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expense: (n) disbursement, expenditure, price, outlay, amount, toll, fee, payment, costs; (n, v) charge, detriment. ANTONYM: (n) income

experiences: (n) life, biography, journal, personal narrative, fortunes experiment: (n, v) attempt, try, taste, venture; (n) essay, trial, tentative, examination, probation, experience;

(v) examine

experimental: (adj) tentative, empiric, scientific, observational, pilot, test, trial, experiential, probative, try, experiment. ANTONYMS: (adj) tried, theoretical, proven, accepted, established

experiments: (n) data

expound: (v) explicate, elucidate, annotate, elaborate, define, read, clarify, illustrate, interpret; (adj, v) explain, expand

expressions: (n) vocabulary, terms, language

exquisite: (adj) beautiful, delicate, excellent, dainty, gorgeous, admirable, acute, heavenly, choice, wonderful; (adj, v) delightful. ANTONYMS: (adj) dull, inferior, ugly, subdued, rough, poor, coarse, mild, imperfect, horrible, flawed exquisitely: (adv) excellently, finely, magnificently, perfectly, beautifully, gorgeously, superbly, keenly, subtlely; (adj, adv) intensely, exceedingly

extending: (adj) expanding extraordinarily: (adv) singularly, rarely, unusually, exceptionally, extremely, peculiarly, remarkably, phenomenally, uncommonly, exceedingly, especially. ANTONYMS: (adv) slightly, unremarkably, ordinarily extraordinary: (adj) odd, exceptional, curious, rare, special, phenomenal, amazing, astonishing, unusual, strange, abnormal. ANTONYMS: (adj) ordinary, normal, everyday, usual, common, mundane, regular, undistinguished, unremarkable, insignificant, natural

extravagant: (adj) wasteful, luxurious, prodigal, exaggerated, profligate, costly, expensive, lavish, immoderate, profuse, undue. ANTONYMS: (adj) restrained, frugal, parsimonious, plain, stingy, understated, thrifty, reasonable, moderate, cautious, tasteful facade: (n) appearance, outside, face,

front, veneer, pretense, disguise, surface, guise, semblance, frontispiece. ANTONYMS: (n) interior, substance, rear, genuine facile: (adj, v) easy, comfortable; (adj) effortless, cushy, dexterous, fluent, expert, indulgent, light, deft, glib. ANTONYMS: (adj) laborious, complicated, hard, difficult, original faculty: (adj, n) capacity, cleverness;

(n) aptitude, capability, bent, power, staff, facility; (adj, n, v) talent; (n, v) endowment, gift. ANTONYMS: (n) students, pupils, ineptness, incompetence, incapacity

fade: (adj, v) vanish, drop; (v) dissolve, decline, evaporate, discolor, droop, die, languish, expire; (n, v) wither. ANTONYMS:

(v) increase, grow, flourish, enhance, surge, sharpen, brighten, color, wax, stay, rally

faded: (adj) pale, bleached, dull, exhausted, faint, washy, withered, colorless, discoloured, attenuate; (adj, v) dilapidated. ANTONYMS: (adj) vivid, Colored, colorful, fresh, vigorous, strong, bright

fading: (n) attenuation, bleaching, discoloration, disappearance, evaporation, colour fading, decay; (adj) disappearing, paling, weakening, decaying. ANTONYMS: (adj) thriving, increasing, growing fail: (adj, v) fade, decline, cease; (v) abort, die, break, bust, want, disappoint, deteriorate, default. ANTONYMS: (v) succeed, triumph, win, thrive, procure, accomplish, achieve, attain, boom, complete, continue

failing: (adj, n) deficiency, blemish, imperfection; (n) fault, shortcoming, failure, weakness, flaw, inadequacy, foible; (adj) declining. ANTONYMS: (adj) thriving, flourishing, well, strong, growing, healthy; (n) strength, virtue, specialty, capability, passing

fain: (adj) willing, prepared, ready, favorable, heart and soul, prone; (adv) gladly, lief, readily, willingly;

(v) optative

faint: (adj, n, v) swoon; (adj) dim, feeble, dizzy, indistinct, vague, soft, dull; (adj, v) weak; (v) languish, pass out. ANTONYMS: (adj) distinct, clear, obvious, loud, considerable, pungent, invigorated, hearty, energetic, defined; (v) revive fairness: (adj, n) candor, comeliness, honesty; (n) beauty, justice, candour,

equality, reasonableness, frankness, veracity, neutrality. ANTONYMS:

(n) unfairness, prejudice, bias, inequity, partiality, pettiness, inequality

faithful: (adj, n) accurate, correct, exact, true; (adj) close, unfailing, dependable, devoted, sound, devout; (adj, v) constant. ANTONYMS: (adj) unreliable, false, inaccurate, unfaithful, unrealistic, faithless, perfidious, backstabbing, cheating, inexact, loose

faithfully: (adv) exactly, accurately, sincerely, staunchly, precisely, truly, authentically, dutifully, literally, steadfastly, truely. ANTONYMS: (adv) unfaithfully, approximately, falsely, insincerely, carelessly, inaccurately

faithfulness: (n) devotion, constancy, allegiance, truth, accuracy, loyalty, dedication, faith, exactness, adherence; (adj, n) honesty. ANTONYMS: (n) disloyalty, unfaithfulness, inaccuracy, dishonesty, disobedience, wickedness, indifference

faithless: (adj) dishonest, false, traitorous, treacherous, unfaithful, deceitful, untrustworthy, untrue, truthless, mendacious, perfidious. ANTONYMS: (adj) loyal, steadfast, true, honest

falls: (n) cataract, waterfall, chute, angel, torrent, Victoria, twin, force, body of water, Guaira, Niagara false: (adj, n) bastard; (adj, adv) counterfeit, deceitful; (adj) untrue, dishonest, erroneous, sham, assumed, artificial, fictitious, deceptive. ANTONYMS: (adj) real, genuine, faithful, factual, correct, natural, truthful, honest, valid, just, loyal

faltering: (n) falter, pause, vacillation; (adj) tentative, vacillating, doubtful, irresolute, hesitant, uncertain, unsure; (adv) falteringly. ANTONYMS: (adj) decided, firm, eloquent, decisive, sure

fame: (n, v) credit, celebrity, report, reputation, renown, cry; (n) distinction, bruit, honor, prestige, buzz. ANTONYMS: (n) infamy, obscurity, anonymity, ignominy, dishonor, commonness, oblivion, criticism

fancied: (adj) unreal, chimerical, fictional, fanciful, fictitious, fabricated, preferred, assumed, illusory, imagined, ideal

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fancies: (n) stock

fanciful: (adj) mythical, fantastic, capricious, unreal, arbitrary, romantic, ideal, chimerical, notional, visionary; (adj, v) fancy. ANTONYMS: (adj) prosaic, real, realistic, plausible, normal

fancy: (n, v) desire, fantasy, caprice, dream, wish, daydream; (v) imagine, consider; (adj, v) conceive;

(n) conception, conceit. ANTONYMS: (n) reality, certainty, actuality, conviction; (adj) unadorned, common; (v) hate, demonstrate, detest, disapprove, test fanlike: (adj) broad

fantastic: (adj) bizarre, extraordinary, antic, marvelous, fantastical, grotesque, wonderful, extravagant, terrific, strange, illusory. ANTONYMS: (adj) awful, ordinary, real, unpleasant, tiny, plausible, normal, lousy, little, Lilliputian, poor

fantastically: (adv) wonderfully, fabulously, tremendously, marvelously, extraordinarily, strangely, queerly, magnificently, grotesquely, whimsically, peculiarly. ANTONYMS: (adv) plausibly, abysmally

farce: (n) comedy, travesty, joke, mockery, sham, play, charade, caricature, dressing, forcemeat, buffoonery. ANTONYMS: (n) tragedy, drama

fare: (n, v) do; (n) food, aliment, board, table, charge, chow, menu, traveller; (v) come, eat. ANTONYM:

(v) stop

farthest: (adj) ultimate, extreme, farthermost, utmost, uttermost, last, furthermost, endmost, greatest, most distant; (adj, adv) remotest. ANTONYMS: (adv) closest, nearest fascinate: (adj, n, v) charm; (n, v) allure, enchant, entice; (adj, v) attract; (v) bewitch, enthrall, enrapture, enthral, entrance, capture. ANTONYMS: (v) bore, tire, repel, disenchant, disinterest, appall fascinated: (adj) captivated, absorbed, gripped, engrossed, interested, attentive, preoccupied, entranced, attracted, enchanted, enthralled. ANTONYMS: (adj) indifferent, disinterested, disenchanted, detached fascinating: (adj, v) captivating, charming, engaging, interesting; (adj) engrossing, absorbing, attractive, delightful, alluring,

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bewitching, seductive. ANTONYMS: (adj) boring, dull, repellent, unappealing, repulsive fascination: (n) charm, glamor, bewitchment, glamour, enchantment, enthrallment, charisma, magnetism, allure, magic, captivation. ANTONYMS: (n) disinterest, boredom, disenchantment, disenthrallment, repulsion

fashionable: (adj) popular, current, classy, trendy, chic, up to date, stylish, dressy, modern, swanky, swell. ANTONYMS: (adj) unpopular, styleless, dated, out, outmoded, tacky, inclusive, old, plain

fashioned: (adj) formed, featured, fictitious, intentional, bent, wrought faster: (adv) sooner, fleet, swift, quick, express, earlier

fasting: (n) abstinence, white sheet, shrift, sackcloth and ashes, maceration, lustration, flagellation, watching one's weight, hunger strike, penance; (v) calorie counting fatal: (adj) deadly, pestilent, lethal, disastrous, destructive, dangerous, deathly, fateful, murderous, critical; (adj, v) mortal. ANTONYMS: (adj) harmless, nourishing, healthful, benign, uncritical, mild

fatality: (n) disaster, calamity, death, mishap, demise, misadventure, lethality, adversity, loss, decease, dead

fate: (n, v) doom; (n) chance, luck, fatality, fortune, kismet, allotment, portion, lot; (v) destine, designate. ANTONYMS: (n) will, design, choice, accident, chance

fateful: (adj) decisive, fatal, disastrous, crucial, foreboding, ominous, black, conclusive, calamitous, inauspicious, momentous. ANTONYMS: (adj) healthy, trivial, unimportant, auspicious, fortunate, lucky, favorable

fault: (adj, n, v) deficiency; (n) error, blot, delinquency, flaw, break, blunder; (adj, n) failing, blemish; (n, v) blame, crime. ANTONYMS: (n) strength, virtue, capability, innocence, perfection, credit, ease;

(v) praise, absolve

faun: (n) Faunus; (adj) sylvan favour: (n) relief, goodness, assistance, office, favoritism, benignity; (v) choose, prefer, privilege, facilitate, approve

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fawn: (v) crawl, creep, grovel, cringe, cower, crouch, bootlick, kowtow, blandish, flatter; (n) deer. ANTONYMS: (v) insult, despise, ignore, domineer

fearful: (adj, n) afraid; (adj, v) dreadful, cowardly; (adj) terrible, apprehensive, awful, timid, anxious, craven, frightful, eerie. ANTONYMS: (adj) rational, calm, confident, bold, unimpressed, charming, fearless, courageous, reassuring, unafraid, wonderful fears: (n) worries, uncertainties, doubts, qualms, misgivings

feast: (n, v) junket, fete; (n) entertainment, dinner, binge, spread, celebration, jamboree, carousal; (v) feed, eat. ANTONYMS:

(v) abstain, starve; (n) snack feather: (n) pen, feathering, pinion, nib, plumage, quill, kind, spline; (n, v) plume; (adj, n, v) fringe; (v) fledge feed: (v) eat, dine, browse, encourage, board, diet, nourish, fatten; (n, v) nurture, provender; (n) aliment. ANTONYMS: (v) thwart, crave, desire, sap

feeding: (n) alimentation, eating, nourishment, grazing, dining, browsing, feed supply, banqueting, supplying, ingestion, intake feigned: (adj) false, affected, assumed, dummy, unnatural, fictitious; (adj, v) sham, counterfeit, spurious, mock, pretended. ANTONYMS: (adj) sincere, genuine, natural, wholehearted, heartfelt, real felicity: (n) happiness, bliss, blessedness, beatitude, luck, felicitousness, joy, fortune, ecstasy, enjoyment, appropriateness. ANTONYM: (n) infelicity

fellow: (adj, n) comrade, associate;

(n) boy, equal, brother, peer, chap, colleague, compeer, buddy; (adj, n, v) concomitant. ANTONYMS: (n) female, woman, girl, foe, enemy, antagonist, competitor

fellows: (n) fellow, membership, faculty

fetid: (adj) foul, putrid, malodorous, noisome, stinking, rank, mephitic, rotten, disgusting, rancid, foetid. ANTONYMS: (adj) fragrant, fresh, clean, sweet, aromatic

fever: (n) malaria, delirium, pyrexia, heat, frenzy, feverishness, febricity, Bilious typhoid fever, Levant fever, Hectic infantile fever, Typhoid fever feverishly: (adv) excitedly, hotly, febrilely, hecticly, feverously,

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hysterically, passionately, frantically, fanatically, heatedly, frenziedly. ANTONYMS: (adv) indifferently, peacefully, sluggishly fewer: (n) not as much as, negative amount, deficiency, defect, lesser amount

fiasco: (n) disaster, failure, flop, disappointment, catastrophe, washout, breakdown, abortion, farce; (adj, n) mess; (v) fizzle. ANTONYMS: (n) success, hit fibre: (n) fiber, character, string, fibril, filament, strand, coir, byssus, bristle, bassine, beard

fiction: (n) falsehood, fable, invention, story, lie, fantasy, romance, falsity, figment, novel, sham. ANTONYMS: (adj) factual;

(n) fact

fidelity: (n) constancy, devotion, faithfulness, adherence, allegiance, loyalty, faith, dedication, exactness; (adj, n) honesty, truth. ANTONYMS: (n) infidelity, unfaithfulness, disloyalty, inaccuracy, faithlessness, dishonesty, unreliability

fiend: (n) monster, devil, fanatic, brute, deuce, incubus, goblin, ogre, enthusiast, daemon, addict. ANTONYM: (n) angel

fierce: (adj) bitter, acute, cruel, ferocious, brutal, grim, nasty, intense, ardent; (adj, v) savage, furious. ANTONYMS: (adj) gentle, mild, calm, quiet, tame, docile, weak, peaceful, pleasant

fiery: (adj, n) burning, passionate, glowing; (adj) fervent, ablaze, hot, fervid, impassioned, peppery; (adj, v) fierce, violent. ANTONYMS: (adj) calm, passionless, dispassionate, indifferent, placid, gentle, cool; (adv) easygoing

figured: (adj) figurative, glyptic, conjectural, implied

figurine: (n) doll, figure, model, waxwork, mammet, manikin, dummy, marionette, fantoccini, bust, image

filled: (adj) replete, packed, fraught, teeming, laden, abundant, congested, charged, stuffed; (adj, adv) crowded; (n) fuller. ANTONYMS: (adj) lacking, clear finely: (adv) delicately, beautifully, magnificently, splendidly, exquisitely, rarely, excellently, lovely, slightly, nicely, bravely. ANTONYMS: (adv) roughly, coarsely, intensely, poorly

finer: (adj) superior, advanced, bigger, higher, more, greater finest: (adj, n) elite; (adj) top, select, excellent, most favorable, most excellent, most advantageous, exclusive, classic, best possible; (n) cream

finger: (v) feel, handle, touch, thumb, indicate, point; (n) digit, dactyl, forefinger, pointer; (n, v) hand. ANTONYM: (v) clear

fired: (adj) discharged, unemployed, passionate, interested, heated, enthusiastic, ablaze, zealous

firing: (n, v) discharge, explosion; (n) dismissal, fire, combustion, sack, lighting, dismission, release; (adj) combustible; (v) burst

fist: (n, v) hand; (n) duke, clenched fist, feist, manus, grip, index; (v) finger, paw, neif, neaf

fits: (v) epilepsy, bustle, racket, fuss, hubbub, megrims, rout, subsultus, staggers

flaccid: (adj) limp, soft, loose, lax, weak, slack, languid, baggy, downy, drooping; (v) weakly. ANTONYMS: (adj) stiff, taut, upright, proactive flake: (n) bit, splinter, scale, fleck, snowflake, slice, scrap, piece; (v) peel, fragment, flake off

flame: (adj, n) fire, sweetheart; (adj, v) burn, glow; (n, v) flash; (n) ardour, burning, fervor, enthusiasm, combustion, sheen

flamelike: (adj) blazing, flamy flapping: (adj) loose, detached, baggy, streaming, flying, slack; (n) fluttering, flutter, flaps, dither, disturbance

flared: (adj) aflare, increasing flaring: (adj) flared, flaming, burning, blazing, tawdry, ablaze, garish, fiery; (v) glaring; (n) flare; (adv) flaringly

flash: (n, v) flicker, blaze, shimmer, glitter, gleam, glimmer, blink, flame; (adj, n, v) twinkle; (n) instant; (v) coruscate. ANTONYMS: (adj) tasteful; (n) age; (v) dawdle flashing: (adj) bright, sparkling, blinking, meteoric, scintillating, light, brilliant, dazzling, gleaming;

(n) flare, flashes

flattened: (adj) planate, packed down, trodden, unconscious, depressed, compressed

flatter: (v) fawn, adulate, wheedle, cajole, soap, kowtow, blandish, grovel, butter up; (n, v) court; (n) caress. ANTONYMS: (v) insult, disparage, criticize, discourage

flattered: (adj) pleased

flaunt: (v) display, flash, show off, show, boast, swank, wave, strut, brandish; (n, v) flourish; (n) glitter. ANTONYMS: (v) conceal, understate

flawless: (adj) faultless, ideal, complete, consummate, finished, good, impeccable, blameless, unimpeachable, correct, unflawed. ANTONYMS: (adj) faulty, blameworthy, corrupt, fallible, imperfect, shameful

fleck: (n, v) dot, speckle, blot, mark;

(n) speck, stigma, dapple, splotch, flake, bit; (v) tarnish

fleet: (adj) fast, expeditious, quick, agile, brisk, rapid, speedy; (n) armada, float, navy; (v) flit flemish: (n) Flemish dialect

flesh: (adj) carnality, concupiscence;

(n) mortality, beef, form, figure, frame, person, mankind, humanity, meat

fleshly: (adj) animal, bodily, sensual, physical, corporeal, voluptuous, lustful, lascivious; (adv) carnally, sensually; (adj, adv) worldly. ANTONYM: (adv) spiritual flicker: (n, v) waver, flare, blaze, sparkle, glimmer, shine, flash; (v) shake, blink, flick, shimmer flickering: (adj) sparkling, aflicker, desultory, capricious, glistening, shimmering, glittering; (n) twinkling, flicker, fluttering; (adv) flickeringly

fling: (n, v) toss, throw, pitch, slam, hurl; (v) chuck, shoot, dash, rush, discard; (n) crack. ANTONYM: (v) collect

flinging: (n) casting, cast

flirt: (n, v) coquette; (v) dally, coquet, toy, romance, trifle, spoon; (n) dalliance, vamp, tease, flirting flirtation: (n) flirt, coquetry, flirting, romp, trifling, tease, play, frolic, gambol, amour, gallantry

flirting: (n) flirtation, dalliance, flirt, coquetry, flirtingly, dawdling, coquette, toying, caper, frivolity floating: (adv) afloat; (adj, v) buoyant; (adj, adv) aimless; (adj) current, loose, moving, fluid, in circulation, going about, flying, light flooded: (adj) swamped, inundated, engulfed, afloat, submerged, waterlogged, soaked, busy, weak, teeming, swarming. ANTONYMS: (adj) idle, clear

florence: (n) Firenze

florid: (adj) flamboyant, fancy,

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flowery, aureate, flashy, fresh, figurative, gorgeous; (adj, v) ornate, gaudy; (adj, n) ruddy. ANTONYMS: (adj) pale, plain

flower: (n, v) blossom, blow; (v) effloresce, flourish; (adj, n) prime;

(n) efflorescence, elite, cream, bouquet, floret, florescence. ANTONYMS: (n) residue; (v) wither flowered: (adj) flowering, flowery fluid: (adj) flowing, unsettled, changeable, smooth, fluent, mobile, runny, versatile, juicy, uncertain, unstable. ANTONYMS: (adj) unchangeable, ugly, fixed, defined, set, constant, stilted, jerky

flush: (adj, n, v) blush, glow; (adj) flat, affluent, rich; (adj, v) even, smooth, level; (n) bloom; (n, v) color;

(v) redden. ANTONYMS: (n) pallor;

(v) blanch, blench; (adj) empty, low, poor

flushed: (adj, n) red, sanguine; (adj) feverish, glowing, aroused, aflame, burning, exultant, exulting; (n) flush, elated. ANTONYM: (adj) cool flushing: (n) rinsing, blush, flashing, Flushing process, Flushing system, histamine flush, hushing, water Flushing

flute: (n) wineglass, furrow, groove, fluting, tooth gap, champagne flute, corrugation, plow, wood, woodwind; (v) channel

fluted: (adj) corrugated, grooved, gadrooned, canaliculated; (v) ribbed, sulcated

flutter: (adj, n, v) bustle, flurry; (n, v) beat, palpitate, flap, wave, waver, quiver; (v) flit, flitter; (n) excitement fluttering: (adj) flying, palpitating, flittering, flaring, aflare, waving; (n) flutter, flapping, flicker, flitting; (adv) flutteringly

flying: (adj) fast, quick, rapid, swift, moving, flaring, aflare; (n) fly, flight, aviation, ballooning

foam: (n, v) froth, bubble, spume; (adj, v) boil, seethe; (v) effervesce, suds, fizz, ferment; (n) lather, bubbles

foggy: (adj) hazy, misty, brumous, murky, blurred, bleary, fuzzy, opaque, thick, indefinite, nebulous. ANTONYMS: (adj) precise, sunny folded: (adj) plaited, pleated, doubled, artful, braided, corrugated, doubled over, fluted

folds: (n) laps

folk: (n) family, common people, nationality, nation, country, clan, tribe, race, persons, man; (adj)

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folly: (n) fatuity, foolishness, silliness, tomfoolery, nonsense, stupidity, craziness, density, freak; (adj, n) irrationality, trifling. ANTONYM:

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fond: (adj) affectionate, caring, devoted, tender, loving, amorous, delicate, adoring, doting, ardent, attached. ANTONYMS: (adj) aversion, cold, rough

fool: (n) blockhead, dunce, clown, idiot, ass, booby, buffoon; (v) deceive, bamboozle; (n, v) joke, gull. ANTONYM: (n) savant

foolish: (adj) childish, fool, crazy, dumb, daft, fatuous, stupid, unwise, preposterous, dopey; (adj, n) silly. ANTONYMS: (adj) wise, sensible, shrewd, prudent, visionary, diplomatic, levelheaded, sane, rational, mature, judicious foolishly: (adv) idiotically, ridiculously, stupidly, indiscreetly, silly, insanely, injudiciously, preposterously, absurdly, senselessly; (adj, adv) madly. ANTONYMS: (adv) sensibly, solemnly, shrewdly, prudently, responsibly, judiciously, carefully, rationally

footlights: (n) footlight, stage, proscenium, arena, theatre, platform, limelight, ramp, show business, klieg light

footsteps: (n) road, footprints, way, trail, path, track, footpath forbidden: (adj) banned, taboo, illegal, prohibited, contraband, illicit, verboten, proscribed, outlawed, illegitimate; (adj, adv) offlimits. ANTONYMS: (adj) allowed, permitted, permissible, legal, open ford: (n, v) cross, pass; (n) crossing, tunnel, rift, deep fording, crossway;

(v) surpass, span, defile, condition forehead: (n) brow, front, foreland, lineament, mut, phiz, physiognomy, visage, eyebrow, skull; (adv) foremost

forests: (n) country forgave: (v) to excuse

forgetfulness: (n) neglect, amnesia, obliviousness, inattention, memory loss, omission, unknowingness, unawareness, Lethe, carelessness, loss of memory. ANTONYMS: (n) awareness, concentration, remembering, attention

forgive: (v) absolve, excuse, acquit, remit, pardon, justify, to forgive, exonerate, overlook, clear, to excuse.