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formal, a. ceremonial, express, explicit, punctilious, methodical, prim, ceremonious, conventional.
formality, n. ceremoniousness, precision, punctiliousness, ceremony; conventionality.
formative, a. plastic, creative.
former, a. antecedent, preceding, previous, prior, foregoing, bygone, quondam, _ci-devant_.
formerly, adv. heretofore, aforetime.
formless, a. shapeless, amorphous, chaotic.
formula, n. ritual, ceremony, ceremonial; rule, principle; recipe.
formulary, n. ritual, ceremonial, rule, formula.
forsake, v. quit, abandon, leave; renounce, reject, relinquish, forswear.
forsaken, a. abandoned, deserted, derelict, lorn.
forsaking, n. desertion, abandonment.
forswear, v. renounce, abjure, disavow.
fort, n. fortress, fortification, citadel, fastness, stronghold, bulwark, redoubt.
forthwith, adv. immediately, directly, instantly.
fortification, n. See fort.
fortress, n. See fort.
fortunate, a. lucky, favored; auspicious, favorable. Antonyms: See unfortunate.
fortune-teller, n. chiromancer, palmist, chirosophist, fatiloquist, sibyl.
fortune-telling, n. chiromancy, palmistry.
forty-niner, n. Argonaut.
forum, n. tribunal.
forward, a. anterior, fore; overready, presumptuous, brazen, impertinent, obtrusive, intrusive; premature, precocious.
forward, v. advance, promote, accelerate, expedite, further; transmit, send, s.h.i.+p.
forwarding, n. transmission.
fossil, n. a.s.sociated Words: paleontology, paleontography, ichnology, fossiliferous, _in situ_.
fossilist, n. paleontologist.
fossilization, n. fossilification, lapidification.
fossilize, v. petrify, lapidify; mummify.
fossilized, a. petrified; antiquated, old-fas.h.i.+oned.
foster, v. nourish, nurse, support; promote, encourage, advance.
foul, a. filthy, squalid, dirty, polluted; scurrilous, abusive, obscene, insulting, blasphemous, vituperative, vulgar; shameful, detestable, odious, abominable, loathsome, disgusting, repulsive, offensive; unpropitious, unfavorable; feculent, roily, turbid, dreggy, dreggish.
foul, v. defile, soil, dirty, pollute.
foul-mouthed, a. scurrilous, opprobrious, abusive; blasphemous, profane, obscene, s.m.u.tty.
found, v. establish, plant, inst.i.tute; cast, form, mould.
foundation, n. substructure, base, groundwork; founding establishment; endowment; grillage. Antonym: superstructure. a.s.sociated words: fundamental, basic, caisson.
founder, n. establisher, inst.i.tutor, father, planter, originator, moulder; closh.
founder, v. fall, stumble; fail, miscarry.
fount, n. spring, fountain.
fountain, n. fount, spring, _jet d'eau_; source, fountainhead, origin; Castalia.
four, n. quaternion, quaternary, tetrad, quadruplet, quartette; quadruplets. a.s.sociated Words: quadrisection quadripart.i.te, quadripart.i.tion, quadruplication, quarter, quadruply, quadruple.
four cities. tetrapolis.
fourfold, a. quadruple, quadruples, quadruplicate.
four-footed, a. quadruped.
four-handed, a. quadrumanous.
four-handed animals. Quadrumana.
four hundred. a.s.sociated Word: quadrigenarious.
four-sided, a. quadrangular, square, quadrilateral, tetragonal, tetrahedral.
four-sided figure. square, tetragon, quadrangle, rhombus.
foursquare, a. quadrangular.
fourth, n. quarter.
