fee, n. retainer, tip, honorarium, perquisite.
feeble, a. infirm, doddering. See weak.
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. antennae, 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, maiden hair, Venus hair, 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 of lime, compost.
fervency, n. See ardor.
fervent, a. See ardent.
fervid, a. See ardent.
fervor, n. See ardor.
fester, v. suppurate, maturate, ulcerate; rankle.
fester, n. sore, pustule, festering, abscess, imposthume, rankling.