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fall, n. descent, collapse, tumble, drop; decrease, decline, depreciation, slump; cadence; declivity, slope; prostration, downfall, subversion; autumn; disemboguement, discharge.
fallacious, a. sophistical, misleading, illusive, untenable, inconsistent.
fallacy, n. deception, delusion, misconception; sophism, sophistry, paralogism.
fallals, n. pl. (Colloq.) frippery, gewgaws, ornaments.
fall away. emaciate; renounce, desert, rebel; apostatize, backslide; decline, languish.
fall back. recede, retreat, retire, withdraw.
fallen, a. dropped, prostrate, degraded, depreciated, debased.
fallibility, n. errancy. Antonym: infallibility.
fallible, a. errable, erring. Antonym: infallible.
fall in. collapse, cave in.
falling away. emaciation, pining; renunciation, desertion, revolt, unfaithfulness; apostasy, defection, backsliding; decline, declension.
falling back. recession, retreat, retirement, withdrawal.
falling down. prostration, collapse.
falling in with. meeting; concurrence, agreement, compliance.
falling off. dropping; withdrawal, separation, detachment; apostasy, defection, desertion; depreciation, deterioration.
falling out. See quarrel.
falling short. deficiency, inadequacy, deficit, shortcoming.
falling sickness. epilepsy.
falling star. meteor.
falling stone. meteorite, aerolite.
falling to pieces. disintegration, dilapidation.--a. ramshackle, dilapidated, disintegrating.
fall off. drop; withdraw, separate; apostatize, backslide; depreciate, deteriorate.
fall on. attack, a.s.sault, a.s.sail.
fall out. See quarrel.
fallow, a. uncultivated, untilled; dormant, inactive.
fall short. be deficient, be inadequate.
fall to pieces. disintegrate.
false, a. spurious, forged, counterfeit, sham, supposit.i.tious, unauthentic, bogus, feigned, fallacious, make believe, hypocritical, a.s.sumed, pseudo, sophistical, untenable; unveracious, dishonest, erroneous, untruthful; disloyal, perfidious, traitorous, disingenuous, insincere, recreant, faithless, unfaithful.
false friend. traitor, betrayer, Judas.
falsehood, n. inveracity, untruthfulness; lie, fiction, untruth, mendacity, fabrication, canard.
false key. picklock.
false name. pseudonym, _nom de plume_. a.s.sociated words: pseudonymous, pseudonymity, pseudepigraphous pseudepigraphy.
false swearing. perjury.
false writing. forgery, pseudography, pseudograph.
falsification, n. counterfeiting, forgery, falsifying; misrepresentation, distortion.
falsify, v. misstate, misrepresent, garble, distort, pervert; confute, refute, disprove.
falter, v. hesitate, tremble, waver, vacillate.
faltering, a. wavering, hesitating.
faltering, n. hesitation, indecision, wavering, vacillation.
fame, n. celebrity, note, eminence, renown, glory, reputation, repute. Antonyms: obscurity, ingloriousness, oblivion, ignominy, disrepute.
familiar, a. intimate, close, cordial, near, friendly, bosom; informal, unreserved, unconstrained, easy, unceremonious; conversant, well-known. Antonyms: unfamiliar, shy, ceremonious, distant.
familiarity, n. intimacy, conversance, acquaintance; informality, freedom, unconstraint; disrespect, unreserve. Antonyms: unfamiliarity, strangeness.
familiarize, v. habituate, accustom, inure, break in.
family, n. household; genealogy, lineage, ancestry. a.s.sociated words: genealogist, _foris-familiate_, pedigree, nepotism, nepotic, cadency, gens.
family way. pregnancy. a.s.sociated Words: pregnant, gravid, enceinte.
famous, a. renowned, famed, noted, celebrated, eminent, ill.u.s.trious, distinguished, far-famed. Antonyms: obscure, inglorious, unknown, notorious.
fan, n. flabellum (Eccl.), a.s.sociated Words: brin, panache, plicate, plicated.
fan, v. winnow; cool, ventilate; stimulate, rouse, foment, provoke, encourage.
fanatic, n. extremist, visionary, zealot.
fanatical, a. fanatic, rabid, uncompromising, over-zealous.
