fragmentary, a. disconnected, fractional, incomplete.
fragrance, n. perfume, aroma, redolence. Antonyms: fetor, stench,
inodorousness.
fragrant, a. sweet-smelling, redolent, aromatic, balmy,
sweet-scented. Antonyms: inodorous, scentless, fetid.
frail, a. fragile, brittle, frangible; feeble, weak, infirm.
frailty, n. fragility, frangibility, brittleness; imperfection,
fault, defect.
frame, v. devise, plan, contrive, compose; invent, fabricate; adjust,
fit, conform.
framework, n. frame, skeleton.
frank, a. candid, unreserved, outspoken, ingenuous, undisguised.
frankness, n. candor, unreserve, ingenuousness.
frantic, a. distracted, frenzied, crazed, raving.
fraternal, a. brotherly.
fraternity, n. brotherhood, brotherliness.
fraud, n. imposture, deceit, humbug, duplicity, imposition,
chicanery, wile, circumvention, guile, hypocrisy, malversation, graft,
surreption. Associated Words: collude, collusion, collusive, connivance.
fraudulent, a. deceptive, wily, crafty, subtle, surreptitious,
knavish.
fraught, a. laden, freighted, charged, pregnant.
fray, n. fight, battle, combat, broil, affray; fret, chafe.
frazzle, v. fray, tatter.
frazzle, n. tag end, tatter.
freak, n. whim, vagary, caprice, whimsey, humor, crotchet, fancy.
freakish, a. whimsical, capricious, fanciful, erratic, crotchety,
vagarious.
freckle, n. lentigo, lenticula.
freckled, a. spotted, lentiginous.
free, v. liberate, manumit, disinthrall, deliver, emancipate,
release, enfranchise, disengage, exonerate, acquit, extricate,
disentangle.
free, a. exempt, immune, independent, unrestrained; liberated, freed,
released, emancipated, delivered; unconstrained, unreserved, informal,
familiar, frank, ingenuous, communicative, artless, candid; gratuitous,
spontaneous, voluntary, optional; liberal, open-handed, generous,
bountiful, lavish, flush, munificent, hospitable; unrestrained,
immoderate, prodigal, dissolute, lax; ready, eager, prompt, willing.
Antonyms: subject, reserved, formal, coercive, arbitrary, restrained,
bound.
free and easy. (Colloq.) informal, unceremonious, unrestrained.
freebooter, n. buccaneer, pillager, pirate, sea robber.
freebooting, n. plunder, pillaging, robbery.
freedom, n. exemption, immunity; liberty, independence,
self-government, autonomy; privileges, immunities, franchises; ease,
facility, unconstraint, laxity; candor, frankness, informality;
latitudinarianism. Antonyms: subje
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