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, curry favor, 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.