Frighten, v. a. Alarm, affright, terrify, dismay, intimidate, scare, shock with sudden fear.
Frightful, a. Terrible, terrific, fearful, alarming, dread, dreadful, direful, dire, horrid, horrible, awful, shocking, hideous, ghastly, grim, grisly, grewsome or gruesome.
Frigid, a.
- 1. Cold, cool, gelid, of a low temperature.
- 2. Dull, uninteresting, uninterested, unanimated, lifeless, cold, destitute of enthusiasm, without fervor,
spiritless, tame.
- 3. Forbidding, formal, prim, stiff, rigid, repellent, repelling, repulsive, chilling, freezing.
Frigidity, n.
- 1. Coldness, coolness, chilliness, frigidness, gelidity, gelidness, low temperature.
- 2. Dulness, frigidness, lifelessness, want of animation.
- 3. Frigidness, formality, primness, stiffness, rigidity, repelling manner, forbidding manner, chilliness, chill.
Frigidness, n. See frigidity.
Frigorific, a. Cold, chilling, causing cold or lowering of temperature.
Frill, n. Ruffle, edging, gathering, frilling.
Frill, v. a. Put a frill on, edge with a frill, ruffle, decorate with frills or gathers.
Frill, v. n. Shake, shiver, quake, thrill.
Fringed, a. Fimbriate, fimbriated.
Frippery, n.
- 1. Old clothes, cast-off dresses.
- 2. Trumpery, second-hand finery.
- 3. Trifling, trifles, stuff, nonsense, fribbling. See flummery.
Friseur, n. [Fr.] Hair-dresser.
Frisk, v. n. Leap, skip, hop, jump, frolic, romp, gambol, dance.
Frisky, a. Gay, lively, playful, sportive, frolicsome, coltish, full of frolic.