- 3. Extravagantly, prodigally, recklessly, wildly.
Fast and loose.
- 1. Variable, inconstant, fickle, uncertain.
- 2. Slippery, unreliable, tricky, shuffling, evasive, fencing, hedging.
Fast-day, n. Fast, day of fasting, banyan day.
Fasten, v. a.
- 1. Secure, bind, tie, attach, make fast, belay (naut.), bend (naut.).
- 2. Join, connect, unite, hold together.
Fasten, v. n. Be fixed, fix one’s self, cling, cleave, catch hold.
Fastidious, a. Squeamish, difficult, queasy, critical, dainty, over-nice, over-delicate, hard to please.
Fasting, n. Fast, abstinence from food.
Fastness, n. Fort, fortress, stronghold, castle, fortified place.
Fat, a.
- 1. Oleaginous, unctuous, adipose, oily, greasy, fatty.
- 2. Plump, fleshy, corpulent, obese, portly, pursy.
- 3. Coarse, heavy, dull, sluggish, stupid, fat-witted.
- 4. Rich, profitable, lucrative.
- 5. Fertile, fruitful, productive, rich.
Fatal, a.
- 1. Deadly, mortal, lethal.
- 2. Calamitous, destructive, ruinous, mischievous, baneful, baleful, pernicious, most harmful.
- 3. Fraught with fate, fateful.