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free,a.exempt, immune,independent,unrestrained; liberated, freed, released, emancipated, delivered;unconstrained,unreserved,informal,familiar,frank, ingenuous, communicative,artless,candid;gratuitous,spontaneous,voluntary,optional;liberal, open-handed,generous,bountiful,lavish,flush, munificent, hospitable;unrestrained,immoderate,prodigal,dissolute,lax; ready, eager,prompt,willing.Antonyms:subject,reserved,formal, coercive,arbitrary, restrained,bound.free and easy.(Colloq.)informal,unceremonious,unrestrained.freebooter,n.buccaneer, pillager,pirate, searobber.freebooting,n.plunder, pillaging,robbery.freedom,n.exemption, immunity;liberty,independence,self-government, autonomy; privileges, immunities, franchises;ease, facility, unconstraint, laxity;candor,frankness,informality; latitudinarianism.Antonyms:subjection,liability,dependence, heteronomy,reserve,constraint, subordination,repression.free-handed,a.liberal, open-handed,lavish.freeing,n.emancipation, manumission,liberation,release, disinthrallment, enfranchisement, extrication, disengagement,discharge, exoneration.free-liver,n.epicure,epicurean,voluptuary,bon vivant.free-living,n.epicurism.freely,adv.bounteously, readily, abundantly, gratuitously, voluntarily, liberally, copiously, spontaneously, unreservedly.free-thinker,n.infidel,unbeliever,skeptic.free-will,a.voluntary.freezable,a.congealable.freeze,v.congeal.freezing,n.congelation, congealment.freight,n.cargo, lading,load; freightage.Frenchism,n.Gallicism.French policeman.gendarme.French Protestant.Huguenot.frenzied,a.distracted,frantic.frenzy,n.distraction,rage,fury, delirium.frequenter,n.habitué.freshen,v.refresh,revive, renovate,renew.fresh-water,a.fresh, unsalted;unskilled,raw,inexperienced, untrained.fret,v.chafe, abrade,fray,rub; gnaw,corrode; roughen,ruffle,agitate;worry,harass,tease,irritate,vex,fume, rankle.fret,n.vexation,agitation, irritation; herpes,tetter,ringworm; whelk, wale,ridge.fretful,a.irritable,petulant,querulous,peevish,captious,spleeny.fribbling,a.frivolous,trifling.friction,n.abrasion, attrition, confrication,rubbing; clashing,disagreement.friend,n.wellwisher, intimate, confidante,chum,associate;patron,advocate, adherent,supporter;ally, confrère;Quaker.friendliness,n.comity,amity, goodwill, amicability.friendly,a.amicable,favorable,kind;fraternal, hospitable, neighborly,cordial;favorable, propitious, salutary, advantageous.Antonyms: Seeunfriendly.friendship,n.amity, intimacy, amicability,friendliness.Antonyms:enmity,estrangement,alienation, disaffection,hostility, aloofness.fright,n.alarm,fear,consternation,terror,dismay; ogre,scarecrow,guy,dowdy.frighten,v.terrify,alarm,scare, intimidate,dismay, affright,daunt, appall, terrorize.frightful,a.terrible,dreadful,hideous, ogreish,fearful,alarming, grewsome, grim, dire, direful,awful, Gorgonian,horrible.frill,n.ruffle,gathering,furbelow.fringe,n.edging,margin,confine,border, fimbriation.fringed,a.fimbriate, fimbriated, fimbricate.frisk,n.frolic,gambol.--v.leap,skip,gambol,frolic,play.frisky,a.frolicsome,sportive,coltish,playful,gay.frivolous,a.trivial,trifling,petty,puerile,insignificant.friz,v.curl,crisp,frizzle.--n.curl,frizzle.frizzle,n.curl,friz.--v.curl,crisp, frizz.frock,n.gown; smock-frock;soutane,cassock.frog-eating,a.ranivorous, batrachophagous.frogs,n. pl.Associated words: Batrachomyomachy, ranarium, amphibious, batrachoid, batrachian, ranine.frolic,n.prank,lark,gambol, escapade,fun.frolicsome,a.playful,prankish,sportive,frisky.from head to foot.throughout, completely, cap-a-pie.front,n.facade; obverse,face; van, fore-rank, frontrank.--a.anterior, foremost.frost,n.rime, hoarfrost; uncordiality, unsociability,reserve.frosting,n.icing.frosty,a.cold,icy; uncordial,distant, aloof,unsociable; pruinose.froth,n.spume,foam.frothing,n.rant.frothy,a.spumy,foamy, spumous;trivial,frivolous, unsubstantial.froward,a.refractory,unyielding,disobedient, insubmissive, untoward.frown,n.scowl,lower, glower.frowning,a.scowling,lowering, glowering,stern.frowzy,a.strong-smelling,fetid,rank,musty,rancid, malodorous;slatternly,disordered,untidy,disheveled,dowdy.frugal,a.economical,saving,sparing,thrifty, provident.frugality,n.economy, parsimony, thriftiness,thrift.fruit,n.produce,harvest,crop;offspring,consequence,result,outcome, fruitage.fruit,n.fruitage, fruitery.Associated words: pomology, Pomona, pomologist, carpology, carpologist, carpophagous, drupe, carpomania, raceme, fructiferous, fructify, fructification, bletting, pulp,rind, orchard,nursery, pepinnery, fruitchafer, pomiculture, sarcocarp.fruit-eating,a.frugivorous, fructivorous, carpophagous.fruiterer,n.fruit-dealer, costermonger, coster.fruitful,a.prolific, productive,fertile, frugiferous, fecund,bountiful.fruitless,a.unfruitful, infertile, infecund, acarpous,barren;unavailing,useless,vain.fruit-seller,n.fruiterer, coster, costermonger (peddler).fruit sugar.levulose.frump,n.(Colloq.)gossip.frustrate,v.baffle,defeat,disappoint,foil,balk,thwart, circumvent,nullify.frustration,n.defeat,disappointment, balking, foiling,nullification.frying-pan,n.spider, skillet.fuddled,a.muddled, tipsy,drunk, intoxicated, boozy, groggy.fudge,n.Seebalderdash.fuel,n.combustibles.fugitive,a.fleeing; evanescent,short-lived, fugacious,volatile, ephemeral, impermanent,transient.fugitive,n.runaway,runagate,renegade,deserter.fulfill,v.accomplish,complete,consummate,realize,satisfy,fill,answer,meet;discharge,perform.fulfillment,n.consummation,accomplishment, fruition,realization;discharge,performance.full,a.filled up, replete;copious,ample, plethoric,plenteous,bountiful,abundant,liberal;complete, plenary; sated, surfeited, cloyed, glutted, gorged, saturated; engrossed with.full swing.carte blanche,liberty,unrestraint.fulsome,a.offensive,nauseous,disgusting,excessive,gross,immoderate.fume,n.exhalation,reek,smoke,steam,vapor.fume,v.smoke,reek;storm,rage,bluster.fun,n.merriment,mirth,gayety,frolic,jest,pleasantry,drollery,waggery, waggishness, facetiousness, divertisementamusement,relaxation,jocularity.function,n.duty, province,office,business,part;discharge,performance,execution;party,entertainment, festivity,reception.fundament,n.buttocks.fundamental,a.basal,elementary,original,essential,radical.fundamentally,adv.primarily, essentially,radically.funeral,n.obsequies.funeral director.undertaker.funeral oration.éloge.funeral pile.pyre.funeral song.dirge, elegy, requiem.funereal,a.exequial,mournful,solemn,sad.Fungi,n. pl.Thallophytes (toadstools,mushrooms,etc.).Associated words:spawn, spore, mycophagy, fungivorous, mycetophagous, amanitine, mycelium, fungic, fungicide, fungoid, fungiform, fungous, mycologist.fungology,n.mycology.fungus,n.thallogen, thallophyte; granulation, proudflesh.funk,v.stink; (Colloq.)flinch,recoil, shrinkback.funk,n.(Colloq.) recoiling, flinching;shirk,coward.funnel,n.tunnel.funnel-shaped,a.infundibular, infundibulate, infundibuliform.funny,a.comic,comical,amusing,droll,laughable,farcical,witty,jocular,jocose,ludicrous,burlesque, facetious,risible,absurd,waggish,humorous,jesting.fur,n.peltry, pelage.Associated words: furrier, furriery, tippet, pelisse.furbelow,n.flounce,frill,ruffle.furbish,v.polish, burnish, scour,clean.Furies,n. pl.Erinyes, Eumenides (Tisiphone, Alecto Megæra).furious,a.infuriated,angry,raging,violent,frenzied, turbulent,fierce.furnish,v.supply,provide, contribute, bestow, purvey,cater.furniture,n.goods, movables.Associated words: cabinet-maker, cabinet-making, upholstering, shook.furthermore,adv.moreover,besides.fury,n.wrath,rage, indignation, ire,frenzy; virago, termagant,shrew,vixen, beldame, Xantippe;agitation,excitement, turbulence.fuse,v.melt, liquefy,dissolve, smelt; commingle,blend, amalgamate, intermix.fusion,n.melting, fluidity; intermingling, amalgamation, coalition, blending, intermixture.fuss,n.ado,bustle, to-do,pother,agitation,excitement.fuss,v.pother,fume,fret;disturb,annoy,bother.fussy,a.fidgety,fastidious,finical,particular,scrupulous,overnice,pernickety.fustian,n.bombast,rant, rodomontade;twaddle,nonsense,balderdash.futile,a.vain,bootless, ineffectual,unavailing,abortive,useless.fuzz,n.down, pubescence.fuzzy,a.downy, pubescent.

free,a.exempt, immune,independent,unrestrained; liberated, freed, released, emancipated, delivered;unconstrained,unreserved,informal,familiar,frank, ingenuous, communicative,artless,candid;gratuitous,spontaneous,voluntary,optional;liberal, open-handed,generous,bountiful,lavish,flush, munificent, hospitable;unrestrained,immoderate,prodigal,dissolute,lax; ready, eager,prompt,willing.Antonyms:subject,reserved,formal, coercive,arbitrary, restrained,bound.

free and easy.(Colloq.)informal,unceremonious,unrestrained.

freebooter,n.buccaneer, pillager,pirate, searobber.

freebooting,n.plunder, pillaging,robbery.

freedom,n.exemption, immunity;liberty,independence,self-government, autonomy; privileges, immunities, franchises;ease, facility, unconstraint, laxity;candor,frankness,informality; latitudinarianism.Antonyms:subjection,liability,dependence, heteronomy,reserve,constraint, subordination,repression.

free-handed,a.liberal, open-handed,lavish.

freeing,n.emancipation, manumission,liberation,release, disinthrallment, enfranchisement, extrication, disengagement,discharge, exoneration.

free-liver,n.epicure,epicurean,voluptuary,bon vivant.

free-living,n.epicurism.

freely,adv.bounteously, readily, abundantly, gratuitously, voluntarily, liberally, copiously, spontaneously, unreservedly.

free-thinker,n.infidel,unbeliever,skeptic.

free-will,a.voluntary.

freezable,a.congealable.

freeze,v.congeal.

freezing,n.congelation, congealment.

freight,n.cargo, lading,load; freightage.

Frenchism,n.Gallicism.

French policeman.gendarme.

French Protestant.Huguenot.

frenzied,a.distracted,frantic.

frenzy,n.distraction,rage,fury, delirium.

frequenter,n.habitué.

freshen,v.refresh,revive, renovate,renew.

fresh-water,a.fresh, unsalted;unskilled,raw,inexperienced, untrained.

fret,v.chafe, abrade,fray,rub; gnaw,corrode; roughen,ruffle,agitate;worry,harass,tease,irritate,vex,fume, rankle.

fret,n.vexation,agitation, irritation; herpes,tetter,ringworm; whelk, wale,ridge.

fretful,a.irritable,petulant,querulous,peevish,captious,spleeny.

fribbling,a.frivolous,trifling.

friction,n.abrasion, attrition, confrication,rubbing; clashing,disagreement.

friend,n.wellwisher, intimate, confidante,chum,associate;patron,advocate, adherent,supporter;ally, confrère;Quaker.

friendliness,n.comity,amity, goodwill, amicability.

friendly,a.amicable,favorable,kind;fraternal, hospitable, neighborly,cordial;favorable, propitious, salutary, advantageous.Antonyms: Seeunfriendly.

friendship,n.amity, intimacy, amicability,friendliness.Antonyms:enmity,estrangement,alienation, disaffection,hostility, aloofness.

fright,n.alarm,fear,consternation,terror,dismay; ogre,scarecrow,guy,dowdy.

frighten,v.terrify,alarm,scare, intimidate,dismay, affright,daunt, appall, terrorize.

frightful,a.terrible,dreadful,hideous, ogreish,fearful,alarming, grewsome, grim, dire, direful,awful, Gorgonian,horrible.

frill,n.ruffle,gathering,furbelow.

fringe,n.edging,margin,confine,border, fimbriation.

fringed,a.fimbriate, fimbriated, fimbricate.

frisk,n.frolic,gambol.--v.leap,skip,gambol,frolic,play.

frisky,a.frolicsome,sportive,coltish,playful,gay.

frivolous,a.trivial,trifling,petty,puerile,insignificant.

friz,v.curl,crisp,frizzle.--n.curl,frizzle.

frizzle,n.curl,friz.--v.curl,crisp, frizz.

frock,n.gown; smock-frock;soutane,cassock.

frog-eating,a.ranivorous, batrachophagous.

frogs,n. pl.Associated words: Batrachomyomachy, ranarium, amphibious, batrachoid, batrachian, ranine.

frolic,n.prank,lark,gambol, escapade,fun.

frolicsome,a.playful,prankish,sportive,frisky.

from head to foot.throughout, completely, cap-a-pie.

front,n.facade; obverse,face; van, fore-rank, frontrank.--a.anterior, foremost.

frost,n.rime, hoarfrost; uncordiality, unsociability,reserve.

frosting,n.icing.

frosty,a.cold,icy; uncordial,distant, aloof,unsociable; pruinose.

froth,n.spume,foam.

frothing,n.rant.

frothy,a.spumy,foamy, spumous;trivial,frivolous, unsubstantial.

froward,a.refractory,unyielding,disobedient, insubmissive, untoward.

frown,n.scowl,lower, glower.

frowning,a.scowling,lowering, glowering,stern.

frowzy,a.strong-smelling,fetid,rank,musty,rancid, malodorous;slatternly,disordered,untidy,disheveled,dowdy.

frugal,a.economical,saving,sparing,thrifty, provident.

frugality,n.economy, parsimony, thriftiness,thrift.

fruit,n.produce,harvest,crop;offspring,consequence,result,outcome, fruitage.

fruit,n.fruitage, fruitery.Associated words: pomology, Pomona, pomologist, carpology, carpologist, carpophagous, drupe, carpomania, raceme, fructiferous, fructify, fructification, bletting, pulp,rind, orchard,nursery, pepinnery, fruitchafer, pomiculture, sarcocarp.

fruit-eating,a.frugivorous, fructivorous, carpophagous.

fruiterer,n.fruit-dealer, costermonger, coster.

fruitful,a.prolific, productive,fertile, frugiferous, fecund,bountiful.

fruitless,a.unfruitful, infertile, infecund, acarpous,barren;unavailing,useless,vain.

fruit-seller,n.fruiterer, coster, costermonger (peddler).

fruit sugar.levulose.

frump,n.(Colloq.)gossip.

frustrate,v.baffle,defeat,disappoint,foil,balk,thwart, circumvent,nullify.

frustration,n.defeat,disappointment, balking, foiling,nullification.

frying-pan,n.spider, skillet.

fuddled,a.muddled, tipsy,drunk, intoxicated, boozy, groggy.

fudge,n.Seebalderdash.

fuel,n.combustibles.

fugitive,a.fleeing; evanescent,short-lived, fugacious,volatile, ephemeral, impermanent,transient.

fugitive,n.runaway,runagate,renegade,deserter.

fulfill,v.accomplish,complete,consummate,realize,satisfy,fill,answer,meet;discharge,perform.

fulfillment,n.consummation,accomplishment, fruition,realization;discharge,performance.

full,a.filled up, replete;copious,ample, plethoric,plenteous,bountiful,abundant,liberal;complete, plenary; sated, surfeited, cloyed, glutted, gorged, saturated; engrossed with.

full swing.carte blanche,liberty,unrestraint.

fulsome,a.offensive,nauseous,disgusting,excessive,gross,immoderate.

fume,n.exhalation,reek,smoke,steam,vapor.

fume,v.smoke,reek;storm,rage,bluster.

fun,n.merriment,mirth,gayety,frolic,jest,pleasantry,drollery,waggery, waggishness, facetiousness, divertisementamusement,relaxation,jocularity.

function,n.duty, province,office,business,part;discharge,performance,execution;party,entertainment, festivity,reception.

fundament,n.buttocks.

fundamental,a.basal,elementary,original,essential,radical.

fundamentally,adv.primarily, essentially,radically.

funeral,n.obsequies.

funeral director.undertaker.

funeral oration.éloge.

funeral pile.pyre.

funeral song.dirge, elegy, requiem.

funereal,a.exequial,mournful,solemn,sad.

Fungi,n. pl.Thallophytes (toadstools,mushrooms,etc.).Associated words:spawn, spore, mycophagy, fungivorous, mycetophagous, amanitine, mycelium, fungic, fungicide, fungoid, fungiform, fungous, mycologist.

fungology,n.mycology.

fungus,n.thallogen, thallophyte; granulation, proudflesh.

funk,v.stink; (Colloq.)flinch,recoil, shrinkback.

funk,n.(Colloq.) recoiling, flinching;shirk,coward.

funnel,n.tunnel.

funnel-shaped,a.infundibular, infundibulate, infundibuliform.

funny,a.comic,comical,amusing,droll,laughable,farcical,witty,jocular,jocose,ludicrous,burlesque, facetious,risible,absurd,waggish,humorous,jesting.

fur,n.peltry, pelage.Associated words: furrier, furriery, tippet, pelisse.

furbelow,n.flounce,frill,ruffle.

furbish,v.polish, burnish, scour,clean.

Furies,n. pl.Erinyes, Eumenides (Tisiphone, Alecto Megæra).

furious,a.infuriated,angry,raging,violent,frenzied, turbulent,fierce.

furnish,v.supply,provide, contribute, bestow, purvey,cater.

furniture,n.goods, movables.Associated words: cabinet-maker, cabinet-making, upholstering, shook.

furthermore,adv.moreover,besides.

fury,n.wrath,rage, indignation, ire,frenzy; virago, termagant,shrew,vixen, beldame, Xantippe;agitation,excitement, turbulence.

fuse,v.melt, liquefy,dissolve, smelt; commingle,blend, amalgamate, intermix.

fusion,n.melting, fluidity; intermingling, amalgamation, coalition, blending, intermixture.

fuss,n.ado,bustle, to-do,pother,agitation,excitement.

fuss,v.pother,fume,fret;disturb,annoy,bother.

fussy,a.fidgety,fastidious,finical,particular,scrupulous,overnice,pernickety.

fustian,n.bombast,rant, rodomontade;twaddle,nonsense,balderdash.

futile,a.vain,bootless, ineffectual,unavailing,abortive,useless.

fuzz,n.down, pubescence.

fuzzy,a.downy, pubescent.


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