form, v. shape, fashion, mould.
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, ship.
forwarding, n. transmission.
fossil, n. Associated Words: paleontology, paleontography, ichnology, fossiliferous, in situ.
fossilist, n. paleontologist.
fossilization, n. fossilification, lapidification.
fossilize, v. petrify, lapidify; mummify.
fossilized, a. petrified; antiquated, old-fashioned.
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, smutty.
found, v. establish, plant, institute; cast, form, mould.
foundation, n. substructure, base, groundwork; founding establishment; endowment; grillage. Antonym: superstructure. Associated words: fundamental, basic, caisson.
founder, n. establisher, institutor, father, planter, originator, moulder; closh.
founder, v. fall, stumble; fail, miscarry.
fount, n. spring, fountain.