fate,n.destiny,lot,doom;chance, fortune; Moira; karma; kismet;predestination.fated,a.destined, doomed, predestined, foredoomed.fateful,a.ominous.Fates,n. pl.Destinies, Parcæ (Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos).father,n.pater familias, procreator, sire, patriarch;founder, originator,author.Associated words: affiliate,affiliation, filiation, patricide, patricidal, paternalism, parricide, agnate, agnation, patrimony.father,v.beget, engender, procreate.fatherhood n.paternity.fatherly,a.paternal.fatigue,n.weariness,lassitude,languor,exhaustion.fatigue,v.weary,tire,jade,exhaust, fag,bore.fatness,n.corpulency, obesity,embonpoint, plumpness,fleshiness, stoutness, portliness, pudginess; adiposity;fertility,richness.fatten,v.batten.fatty,a.adipose,greasy, unctuous, oleaginous, sebaceous.fatty tumor.lipoma.fault,n.defect,imperfection,failing, foible,shortcoming,blemish,flaw;demerit, dereliction,offense,indiscretion,lapse, delinquency.Antonyms:merit,perfection,beauty, impeccability.fault-finder,n.caviler,critic,grumbler, carper, repiner, censurer,censor, complainer.fault-finding,a.captious,caviling,critical,derogatory,dissatisfied, grumbling,censorious,discontented,querulous,carping.fault-finding,n.carping,criticism, grumbling,murmuring, captiousness,cavil, reprehension,dissatisfaction, animadversion,stricture, repining.faultiness,n.defectiveness,imperfection, culpability, peccability.faultless,a.perfect,blameless, impeccable, inerrable, unblemished.faulty,a.imperfect, defective;blamable, culpable, peccable,erring.faun,n.satyr, sylvan.favor,n.countenance,regard, good-will,kindness;support,promotion, befriending, championship, espousal, countenancing.Antonyms:disfavor,opposition.favor,v.support,countenance,encourage; resemble.favorable,a.propitious,auspicious, conducive,beneficial,partial,helpful.Antonyms:unfavorable, unpropitious, inauspicious.favoring,a.partial, approving,helpful.favoritism,n.partiality; nepotism.Antonym: impartialityfawn,v.truckle, curryfavor,court.fawner,n.sycophant, bootlicker,footlicker.fawning,a.sycophantic,obsequious,servile, truckling.fear,n.apprehension,anxiety, solicitude,alarm,dread, trepidation,consternation,panic,dismay,terror,fright, cowardliness,timidity, pusillanimity;reverence,awe,veneration.fear,v.apprehend,dread, be afraid of;reverence,venerate, stand in awe of.fearful,a.apprehensive, alarmed,afraid, frightened;timid, timorous,faint-hearted,cowardly,craven,pusillanimous,meticulous;terrible,frightful,dreadful, grim,awful, dire, fell,atrocious,ghastly, terrifying,alarming, appalling.fearless,a.intrepid,courageous,bold, valorous, undaunted,unafraid,unflinching.feasibility,n.practicability.feasible,a.practicable.feast,n.banquet, repast,regale, Junket, festivity.Associated words:convivial, conviviality.feast,v.banquet,junket; delight,gratify.feastful,a.festive, festal.feat,n.exploit,achievement,stunt,act,deed.feather,n.plume, quill,pinion.feather,v.fledge.feathered,a.fledged.feathering,n.endysis.feather in the cap.(Colloq.)honor, trophy.featherless,a.unfledged, desplumate,callow.feathers,n. pl.plumage; aigret; panache, remiges (quill feathers); down (soft under feathers); coverts; rectrices.Associated words: plumassier, pterylography, endysis, ecdysis,moult,moulting,mew, desplumation, preen, barb, midrib,shaft, barbule, pompon, plumassary.feathery,a.plumy, pennaceous.feature,n.aspect,appearance; lineament; trait,characteristic,peculiarity.federation,n.confederation,league, confederacy,union.fee,n.retainer,tip, honorarium, perquisite.feeble,a.infirm,doddering. Seeweak.feeble-minded,a.half-witted, defective,imbecile.feeble-minded person, defective,imbecile.feed,v.bait,regale.feed,n.provender,fodder.feel,v.touch,handle; grope, grabble; experience, suffer.feeler,n.antenna, tentaculum, tentacle,horn, palpus.pl.antennæ, tentacula, palpi.feeling,a.susceptible,sensitive,sentient,sympathetic.Antonyms: insentient,unfeeling, stoic, impassive.feeling,n.sensibility,sensation, sentiency; emotion.Antonyms:insensibility, impassivity,numbness.feign,v.pretend, dissemble,simulate,affect,counterfeit,assume.feigned,a.pretended,simulate, simulated,counterfeit, dissembled,assumed.Antonyms:real,sincere,unfeigned.feigning,n.simulation, dissembling.feint,n.pretense,blind,stratagem.felicitate,v.congratulate.felicitation,n.congratulation.fellow-countryman,n.compatriot.fellowship,n.companionship,communion,converse,association.felon,n.criminal,convict; whitlow.felonious,a.heinous,atrocious,nefarious, flagitious,infamous.female,a.feminine; pistillate (Bot.).female warrior.Amazon.fence,n.pale, palings, palisade, stockade, hurdle, raddle,defense,protection, enclosure.fence,v.defend, fortify,protect; equivocate,evade,parry,shift, prevaricate.fencing,n.swordsmanship, gladiature, swordplay, gladiatorism.fend,v.ward off,avoid,parry.fender,n.protection,defense,screen,guard;dashboard, splashboard.ferment,n.harm, leaven,yeast; enzyme, histozyme, zyme, zymophite.fern,n.brake, bracken, maidenhair, Venushair, poly-pody.ferns,n. pl.Filices, Pteridophyta.Associated words: pteridology, filicology, pteridologist, filical, filicic, filici-form, filicoid, frond, spore, filicite, cryptogamous.ferocious,a.rapacious,ravenous, truculent, fell,savage.ferocity,n.rapacity, fierceness.ferrotype,n.tintype.fertile,a.fruitful, fecund; pistillate.Antonyms: infertile infecund,barren.fertility,n.fruitfulness, fecundity,richness.Antonyms: infertility, infecundity,barrenness.fertilization,n.enriching; fecundation,impregnation.fertilize,v.enrich,manure; fecundate,impregnate.fertilizer,n.manure, guano, phosphate oflime, compost.fervency,n.Seeardor.fervent,a.Seeardent.fervid,a.Seeardent.fervor,n.Seeardor.fester,v.suppurate,maturate,ulcerate; rankle.fester,n.sore, pustule,festering,abscess, imposthume,rankling.festering,n.suppuration,maturation, ulceration;fester,rankling.festering,a.suppurating, maturating;rankling.festival,n.fête,banquet,feast,holiday.festive,a.festal,convivial,festival.festoon,n.garland.fetid,a.malodorous,stinking,noisome.fetter,n.shackle,bond,hamper,restraint.fetter,v.shackle,manacle,hamper;restrain,impede.fever,n.Associated words: febrifacient, febrific, febrierous, febrifuge, febrifugal, pyretology, pyretic.feverish,a.febrile.fever spots.petechiæ.fewness,n.paucity.fiat,n.order,decree,mandate,edict,command.fib,n.falsehood,untruth.fiber,n.staple,thread, filament,pile.fickle,a.vacillating,volatile, mercurial,irresolute,fitful,capricious,unstable,inconstant,variable,wavering.Antonyms:constant,unwavering,steadfast,resolute.fickleness,n.vacillation,irresolution,inconstancy, volatility, tergiversation, capriciousness.fiddle,n.violin; kit.fiddler,n.violinist.fidelity,n.loyalty, fealty,faithfulness;truth, integrity.Antonyms: infidelity,faithlessness.fidgets,n. pl.restlessness; dysphoria.field,n.meadow,lea; campaign, savanna, croft;scope,range,room, province,domain,region,realm, rowen (stubble field).fiend,n.demon.fiendish,a.diabolical,atrocious, infernal.fierce,a.violent,unrestrained,furious,immoderate, impetuous,vehement,passionate,ferocious,fiery,mettlesome.Antonyms:tame,gentle,docile.fiery,a.igneous;vehement, impetuous,passionate, irascible,irritable.fifteen-sided figure.quindecagon.fifteenth day of March, May, July, and October.ides.fig,n.fico,snap, fillip.fig,n.Associated words: caprification, caricous.fight,n.combat,battle,engagement,struggle,encounter,fray, affray,mêlée, scrimmage (Colloq.); pugnacity, belligerence.Associated words: militant,combative, combativeness,bellicose,belligerent, pugnacious.fight,v.battle,combat, militate,struggle, cope with.fighter,n.warrior,champion,combatant,vindicator, gladiator,belligerent.fight shy.avoid, elude.figment,n.fabrication.figurative,a.typical,representative, emblematical; metaphorical, tropical.figure,n.shape,form,outline,tournure, conformation,image, effigy,statue, bust, figurehead,likeness; numeral, digit,number;type, emblem, symbol; caryatid; atlantes, telamones; figurine; diagram,drawing;dash, conspicuousness,show.figure,v.compute,cipher,calculate;contrive,scheme,plan;symbolize,typify,represent.figure of speech.trope,metaphor.file,n.line,row;rasp, quannet.filing,n.limature, limation.fill,n.thill,shaft.fill,n.sufficiency,plenty.fill,v.satisfy,cloy,satiate, sate,glut,stuff;occupy,hold; replenish;expand,dilate, distend,inflate,bloat; pervade.fill out.extend,inflate,complete, amplify.film,n.pellicle.filter,v.strain, clarify, filtrate;percolate, exude,ooze,seep, transude, infiltrate.filtering,n.filtration;percolation, exudation, transudation, infiltration.filth,n.squalor, foulness,corruption, Augeanstable, muck,dirt.filthy,a.nasty,dirty,squalid,foul;smutty,obscene,indecent,ribald,lewd.finally,adv.ultimately, eventually,lastly.find fault.object, disapprove, demur,cavil, except, criticize,carp,repine,complain,grumble.finding,n.discovery;verdict.finding out.detection,discovery.find out.discover, detect, ascertain, solve, unriddle.fine,n.amercement, mulet,penalty.--v.mulet, amerce.fine,a.refined,nice,exquisite,excellent,recherché,elegant,splendid, admirable,choice,select,attractive,delicate,subtle,minute, capillary, tenuous,thin,subtile, ethereal, attenuated, filmy,flimsy, gossamery,slender; comminuted, bolted, pulverized, impalpable, powdered.Antonyms:coarse,crude, unbolted,stout,crass,thick.fine arts.Associated words: esthetics, æsthetic, æstheticism, æsthete.finedrawn,a.subtle.finery,n.ornaments, decorations, frippery,clothes, gewgaws.finespun,a.subtle, attenuated.finesse,n.artifice,stratagem, maneuvering, ruses.finger,n.digit; medius (middle finger); minimus (Little finger); index (fore or index finger).Associated words: digital, digitation, interdigital.finger,v.touch,handle; thrum, strum.finger bone.phalanx, internode;pl.phalanges.finger-shaped,a.digitiform.finical,a.over-particular,fastidious.finicky,a.(Colloq.)finical,fastidious, squeamish,dainty.finish,v.complete, elaborate.finish,n.completion, elaboration.fire,v.ignite,kindle; (Slang)discharge,dismiss; inflame,irritate,arouse,excite,incite;animate,quicken, vitalize, enthuse, inspirit; stoke; bake,burn, torrefy.fire,n.combustion, ignition,burning; phlogiston; conflagration, holocaust, deflagration;flame,blaze; bonfire, balefire,feu de joie,beacon.Associated words: pyrology, pyrography, pyromania, pyrophobia, incendiary, incendiarism, arson, lurid, Moloch,fuel, combustible, pyroleter, smolder,ignis fatuus, Vulcan, Hephæstus.fire-arm,n.Seegun.fire-arms,n. pl.guns, gunnery, artillery.firebug,n.incendiary, pyromaniac.fire-damp,n.carbureted hydrogen.firedog,n.andiron.fireman,n.fire-tender, stoker.fireproof,a.incombustible, asbestic.fireside,n.hearth, ingleside.fireworks,n. pl.Associated words: pyrotechnics, pyrotechnist, pyrotechnician, pyrotechnic, pyrotechny.fire-worship,n.pyrolatry, Parseeism, Mazdeism, Magianism, Zoroastrianism.fire-worshiper,n.pyrolater, Gheber, Parsee, Magian, Zoroastrian.firm,a.fast,immovable,secure;compact,solid, dense, compressed;fixed,resolute,constant,unwavering, unshaken,steadfast,stanch, determined,invincible,inflexible, incompliant.Antonyms: flaccid,soft,vacillating,irresolute,lax,yielding, facile,inconstant.
fate,n.destiny,lot,doom;chance, fortune; Moira; karma; kismet;predestination.
fated,a.destined, doomed, predestined, foredoomed.
fateful,a.ominous.
Fates,n. pl.Destinies, Parcæ (Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos).
father,n.pater familias, procreator, sire, patriarch;founder, originator,author.Associated words: affiliate,affiliation, filiation, patricide, patricidal, paternalism, parricide, agnate, agnation, patrimony.
father,v.beget, engender, procreate.
fatherhood n.paternity.
fatherly,a.paternal.
fatigue,n.weariness,lassitude,languor,exhaustion.
fatigue,v.weary,tire,jade,exhaust, fag,bore.
fatness,n.corpulency, obesity,embonpoint, plumpness,fleshiness, stoutness, portliness, pudginess; adiposity;fertility,richness.
fatten,v.batten.
fatty,a.adipose,greasy, unctuous, oleaginous, sebaceous.
fatty tumor.lipoma.
fault,n.defect,imperfection,failing, foible,shortcoming,blemish,flaw;demerit, dereliction,offense,indiscretion,lapse, delinquency.Antonyms:merit,perfection,beauty, impeccability.
fault-finder,n.caviler,critic,grumbler, carper, repiner, censurer,censor, complainer.
fault-finding,a.captious,caviling,critical,derogatory,dissatisfied, grumbling,censorious,discontented,querulous,carping.
fault-finding,n.carping,criticism, grumbling,murmuring, captiousness,cavil, reprehension,dissatisfaction, animadversion,stricture, repining.
faultiness,n.defectiveness,imperfection, culpability, peccability.
faultless,a.perfect,blameless, impeccable, inerrable, unblemished.
faulty,a.imperfect, defective;blamable, culpable, peccable,erring.
faun,n.satyr, sylvan.
favor,n.countenance,regard, good-will,kindness;support,promotion, befriending, championship, espousal, countenancing.Antonyms:disfavor,opposition.
favor,v.support,countenance,encourage; resemble.
favorable,a.propitious,auspicious, conducive,beneficial,partial,helpful.Antonyms:unfavorable, unpropitious, inauspicious.
favoring,a.partial, approving,helpful.
favoritism,n.partiality; nepotism.Antonym: impartiality
fawn,v.truckle, curryfavor,court.
fawner,n.sycophant, bootlicker,footlicker.
fawning,a.sycophantic,obsequious,servile, truckling.
fear,n.apprehension,anxiety, solicitude,alarm,dread, trepidation,consternation,panic,dismay,terror,fright, cowardliness,timidity, pusillanimity;reverence,awe,veneration.
fear,v.apprehend,dread, be afraid of;reverence,venerate, stand in awe of.
fearful,a.apprehensive, alarmed,afraid, frightened;timid, timorous,faint-hearted,cowardly,craven,pusillanimous,meticulous;terrible,frightful,dreadful, grim,awful, dire, fell,atrocious,ghastly, terrifying,alarming, appalling.
fearless,a.intrepid,courageous,bold, valorous, undaunted,unafraid,unflinching.
feasibility,n.practicability.
feasible,a.practicable.
feast,n.banquet, repast,regale, Junket, festivity.Associated words:convivial, conviviality.
feast,v.banquet,junket; delight,gratify.
feastful,a.festive, festal.
feat,n.exploit,achievement,stunt,act,deed.
feather,n.plume, quill,pinion.
feather,v.fledge.
feathered,a.fledged.
feathering,n.endysis.
feather in the cap.(Colloq.)honor, trophy.
featherless,a.unfledged, desplumate,callow.
feathers,n. pl.plumage; aigret; panache, remiges (quill feathers); down (soft under feathers); coverts; rectrices.Associated words: plumassier, pterylography, endysis, ecdysis,moult,moulting,mew, desplumation, preen, barb, midrib,shaft, barbule, pompon, plumassary.
feathery,a.plumy, pennaceous.
feature,n.aspect,appearance; lineament; trait,characteristic,peculiarity.
federation,n.confederation,league, confederacy,union.
fee,n.retainer,tip, honorarium, perquisite.
feeble,a.infirm,doddering. Seeweak.
feeble-minded,a.half-witted, defective,imbecile.
feeble-minded person, defective,imbecile.
feed,v.bait,regale.
feed,n.provender,fodder.
feel,v.touch,handle; grope, grabble; experience, suffer.
feeler,n.antenna, tentaculum, tentacle,horn, palpus.pl.antennæ, tentacula, palpi.
feeling,a.susceptible,sensitive,sentient,sympathetic.Antonyms: insentient,unfeeling, stoic, impassive.
feeling,n.sensibility,sensation, sentiency; emotion.Antonyms:insensibility, impassivity,numbness.
feign,v.pretend, dissemble,simulate,affect,counterfeit,assume.
feigned,a.pretended,simulate, simulated,counterfeit, dissembled,assumed.Antonyms:real,sincere,unfeigned.
feigning,n.simulation, dissembling.
feint,n.pretense,blind,stratagem.
felicitate,v.congratulate.
felicitation,n.congratulation.
fellow-countryman,n.compatriot.
fellowship,n.companionship,communion,converse,association.
felon,n.criminal,convict; whitlow.
felonious,a.heinous,atrocious,nefarious, flagitious,infamous.
female,a.feminine; pistillate (Bot.).
female warrior.Amazon.
fence,n.pale, palings, palisade, stockade, hurdle, raddle,defense,protection, enclosure.
fence,v.defend, fortify,protect; equivocate,evade,parry,shift, prevaricate.
fencing,n.swordsmanship, gladiature, swordplay, gladiatorism.
fend,v.ward off,avoid,parry.
fender,n.protection,defense,screen,guard;dashboard, splashboard.
ferment,n.harm, leaven,yeast; enzyme, histozyme, zyme, zymophite.
fern,n.brake, bracken, maidenhair, Venushair, poly-pody.
ferns,n. pl.Filices, Pteridophyta.Associated words: pteridology, filicology, pteridologist, filical, filicic, filici-form, filicoid, frond, spore, filicite, cryptogamous.
ferocious,a.rapacious,ravenous, truculent, fell,savage.
ferocity,n.rapacity, fierceness.
ferrotype,n.tintype.
fertile,a.fruitful, fecund; pistillate.Antonyms: infertile infecund,barren.
fertility,n.fruitfulness, fecundity,richness.Antonyms: infertility, infecundity,barrenness.
fertilization,n.enriching; fecundation,impregnation.
fertilize,v.enrich,manure; fecundate,impregnate.
fertilizer,n.manure, guano, phosphate oflime, compost.
fervency,n.Seeardor.
fervent,a.Seeardent.
fervid,a.Seeardent.
fervor,n.Seeardor.
fester,v.suppurate,maturate,ulcerate; rankle.
fester,n.sore, pustule,festering,abscess, imposthume,rankling.
festering,n.suppuration,maturation, ulceration;fester,rankling.
festering,a.suppurating, maturating;rankling.
festival,n.fête,banquet,feast,holiday.
festive,a.festal,convivial,festival.
festoon,n.garland.
fetid,a.malodorous,stinking,noisome.
fetter,n.shackle,bond,hamper,restraint.
fetter,v.shackle,manacle,hamper;restrain,impede.
fever,n.Associated words: febrifacient, febrific, febrierous, febrifuge, febrifugal, pyretology, pyretic.
feverish,a.febrile.
fever spots.petechiæ.
fewness,n.paucity.
fiat,n.order,decree,mandate,edict,command.
fib,n.falsehood,untruth.
fiber,n.staple,thread, filament,pile.
fickle,a.vacillating,volatile, mercurial,irresolute,fitful,capricious,unstable,inconstant,variable,wavering.Antonyms:constant,unwavering,steadfast,resolute.
fickleness,n.vacillation,irresolution,inconstancy, volatility, tergiversation, capriciousness.
fiddle,n.violin; kit.
fiddler,n.violinist.
fidelity,n.loyalty, fealty,faithfulness;truth, integrity.Antonyms: infidelity,faithlessness.
fidgets,n. pl.restlessness; dysphoria.
field,n.meadow,lea; campaign, savanna, croft;scope,range,room, province,domain,region,realm, rowen (stubble field).
fiend,n.demon.
fiendish,a.diabolical,atrocious, infernal.
fierce,a.violent,unrestrained,furious,immoderate, impetuous,vehement,passionate,ferocious,fiery,mettlesome.Antonyms:tame,gentle,docile.
fiery,a.igneous;vehement, impetuous,passionate, irascible,irritable.
fifteen-sided figure.quindecagon.
fifteenth day of March, May, July, and October.ides.
fig,n.fico,snap, fillip.
fig,n.Associated words: caprification, caricous.
fight,n.combat,battle,engagement,struggle,encounter,fray, affray,mêlée, scrimmage (Colloq.); pugnacity, belligerence.Associated words: militant,combative, combativeness,bellicose,belligerent, pugnacious.
fight,v.battle,combat, militate,struggle, cope with.
fighter,n.warrior,champion,combatant,vindicator, gladiator,belligerent.
fight shy.avoid, elude.
figment,n.fabrication.
figurative,a.typical,representative, emblematical; metaphorical, tropical.
figure,n.shape,form,outline,tournure, conformation,image, effigy,statue, bust, figurehead,likeness; numeral, digit,number;type, emblem, symbol; caryatid; atlantes, telamones; figurine; diagram,drawing;dash, conspicuousness,show.
figure,v.compute,cipher,calculate;contrive,scheme,plan;symbolize,typify,represent.
figure of speech.trope,metaphor.
file,n.line,row;rasp, quannet.
filing,n.limature, limation.
fill,n.thill,shaft.
fill,n.sufficiency,plenty.
fill,v.satisfy,cloy,satiate, sate,glut,stuff;occupy,hold; replenish;expand,dilate, distend,inflate,bloat; pervade.
fill out.extend,inflate,complete, amplify.
film,n.pellicle.
filter,v.strain, clarify, filtrate;percolate, exude,ooze,seep, transude, infiltrate.
filtering,n.filtration;percolation, exudation, transudation, infiltration.
filth,n.squalor, foulness,corruption, Augeanstable, muck,dirt.
filthy,a.nasty,dirty,squalid,foul;smutty,obscene,indecent,ribald,lewd.
finally,adv.ultimately, eventually,lastly.
find fault.object, disapprove, demur,cavil, except, criticize,carp,repine,complain,grumble.
finding,n.discovery;verdict.
finding out.detection,discovery.
find out.discover, detect, ascertain, solve, unriddle.
fine,n.amercement, mulet,penalty.--v.mulet, amerce.
fine,a.refined,nice,exquisite,excellent,recherché,elegant,splendid, admirable,choice,select,attractive,delicate,subtle,minute, capillary, tenuous,thin,subtile, ethereal, attenuated, filmy,flimsy, gossamery,slender; comminuted, bolted, pulverized, impalpable, powdered.Antonyms:coarse,crude, unbolted,stout,crass,thick.
fine arts.Associated words: esthetics, æsthetic, æstheticism, æsthete.
finedrawn,a.subtle.
finery,n.ornaments, decorations, frippery,clothes, gewgaws.
finespun,a.subtle, attenuated.
finesse,n.artifice,stratagem, maneuvering, ruses.
finger,n.digit; medius (middle finger); minimus (Little finger); index (fore or index finger).Associated words: digital, digitation, interdigital.
finger,v.touch,handle; thrum, strum.
finger bone.phalanx, internode;pl.phalanges.
finger-shaped,a.digitiform.
finical,a.over-particular,fastidious.
finicky,a.(Colloq.)finical,fastidious, squeamish,dainty.
finish,v.complete, elaborate.
finish,n.completion, elaboration.
fire,v.ignite,kindle; (Slang)discharge,dismiss; inflame,irritate,arouse,excite,incite;animate,quicken, vitalize, enthuse, inspirit; stoke; bake,burn, torrefy.
fire,n.combustion, ignition,burning; phlogiston; conflagration, holocaust, deflagration;flame,blaze; bonfire, balefire,feu de joie,beacon.Associated words: pyrology, pyrography, pyromania, pyrophobia, incendiary, incendiarism, arson, lurid, Moloch,fuel, combustible, pyroleter, smolder,ignis fatuus, Vulcan, Hephæstus.
fire-arm,n.Seegun.
fire-arms,n. pl.guns, gunnery, artillery.
firebug,n.incendiary, pyromaniac.
fire-damp,n.carbureted hydrogen.
firedog,n.andiron.
fireman,n.fire-tender, stoker.
fireproof,a.incombustible, asbestic.
fireside,n.hearth, ingleside.
fireworks,n. pl.Associated words: pyrotechnics, pyrotechnist, pyrotechnician, pyrotechnic, pyrotechny.
fire-worship,n.pyrolatry, Parseeism, Mazdeism, Magianism, Zoroastrianism.
fire-worshiper,n.pyrolater, Gheber, Parsee, Magian, Zoroastrian.
firm,a.fast,immovable,secure;compact,solid, dense, compressed;fixed,resolute,constant,unwavering, unshaken,steadfast,stanch, determined,invincible,inflexible, incompliant.Antonyms: flaccid,soft,vacillating,irresolute,lax,yielding, facile,inconstant.