foppish, a. coxcombical, dandified, finical, exquisite. Antonyms: slovenly, seedy.
foppishness, n. foppery, dandyism, coxcombry, dudishness.
for all that. nevertheless.
forasmuch as. in as much as, since, whereas, seeing that.
foray, n. See raid.
forbear, v. refrain, stop, pause, withhold, abstain; endure, tolerate.
forbearance, n. withholding, refraining; long-suffering, patience, indulgence, toleration.
forbearing, a. long-suffering, patient, indulgent, tolerant, lenient.
forbears, n. pl. ancestors, forefathers.
forbid, v. prohibit, interdict, inhibit, restrain, taboo, preclude, proscribe.
forbidden, a. prohibited, proscribed, interdicted, contraband, inhibited, illicit, taboo.
forbidding, a. repellent, repulsive, offensive, abhorrent, odious, repelling, grim.
forbidding, n. prohibition, interdiction, proscription, restraint, inhibition, taboo.
force, v. compel, coerce, necessitate, constrain, oblige, make; impel, obtrude, extort, wrest; capture, storm; rape, ravish. Antonyms: induce, inveigle, seduce, persuade.
force, n. strength, energy, power, vigor, might, potency, cogency, validity, efficacy, efficiency; compulsion, coercion, violence, constraint, tension, impetus; armament, troops, army, legion, battalion, phalanx. Associated Words: dynamics, dyne, statics, perforce, dynamic, mechanics, brunt, kinit.
forced, a. involuntary, compulsory, strained, far-fetched. Antonyms: spontaneous, voluntary, discretional, optional, elective.
forcible, a. energetic, potent, effective, compulsory, coercive, drastic, vigorous.
forcing, n. compelling, compulsion, coercion, extortion, necessitation, constraint; rape, ravishment. Antonyms: discretion, option, election, free-will.
forearm, n. antibrachium.
forebode, v. portend, presage, foreshadow, augur betoken, foretell.
foreboding, n. premonition, presentiment, augury, prescience, foreknowledge.
forecast, n. predetermination, premeditation, forethought.
foredoom, v. predestine, preordain.
forefather, n. ancestor, progenitor, forbear; pl. ancestry, lineage, progenitors, forbears.
forego, v. quit, relinquish, surrender, yield, do without; precede.
foregoer, n. predecessor, forefather; forerunner, herald, harbinger, precursor, avant-courier.
foregoing, a. previous, anterior, preceding, fore, prior, antecedent, aforesaid.
forehead, n. brow, sinciput. Antonym: occiput.
foreign, a. alien, extraneous, exotic, peregrine; remote, adventitious, inappropriate.
foreigner, n. alien; emigrant, immigrant. Antonyms: native, indigene, citizen.
foreign word, plant, or custom. exoticism, exotic.
foreknowledge, n. prescience.
foremilk, n. colostrum.