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foreboding, n. premonition, presentiment, augury, prescience, foreknowledge.
forecast, n. predetermination, premeditation, forethought.
foredoom, v. predestine, preordain.
forefather, n. ancestor, progenitor, forbear; pl. ancestry, lineage, progenitors, forbears.
forego, v. quit, relinquish, surrender, yield, do without; precede.
foregoer, n. predecessor, forefather; forerunner, herald, harbinger, precursor, avant-courier.
foregoing, a. previous, anterior, preceding, fore, prior, antecedent, aforesaid.
forehead, n. brow, sinciput. Antonym: occiput.
foreign, a. alien, extraneous, exotic, peregrine; remote, advent.i.tious, inappropriate.
foreigner, n. alien; emigrant, immigrant. Antonyms: native, indigene, citizen.
foreign word, plant, or custom. exoticism, exotic.
foreknowledge, n. prescience.
foremilk, n. colostrum.
foreordain, v. preordain, predestinate, foredoom, predetermine.
foreordination, n. predestination, predetermination.
forerun, v. precede, herald.
forerunner, n. precursor, harbinger, herald, avant-courier.
foreshadow, v. presage, presignify, prognosticate, prefigure, augur.
foresight, n. prescience, foreknowledge, prudence.
foreskin, n. prepuce. a.s.sociated Words: circ.u.mcise, circ.u.mcision, preputial.
forest, n. wood, woodland, timber-land, woods, wold, wildwood.
a.s.sociated Words: sylvan, sylviculture, nemophilist, nemophily, nemoral, afforest, afforestation, Silenus, hamadryad, glade, reforestize, reforestation, reboise, reafforest, forestry, forester, disboscation, disforest disforestation, hag, a.s.sart, cama.s.s, cruise, cruiser.
forestall, v. antic.i.p.ate; preoccupy, monopolize.
foretell, v. predict, prophesy, prognosticate, augur, presage, portend, forebode, bode, divine, foreshadow, presignify.
foreteller, a. See prophet.
foretelling, a. prophetic, prognostic, portentous, predictive, oracular, augurial, divinatory.
foretelling, n. prediction, prophecy, foreshowing, prognostication, augury, presage, foreboding, presignification, divination, oracle.
forethought, a. aforethought, prepense, deliberate.
forethought, n. premeditation, prescience, forecast, precaution, prudence, providence.
foretoken, n. omen, prognostic, premonition, sign, augury.
forever, adv. eternally, continually, perpetually, everlastingly.
forewarning, n. premonition.--a. premonitory.
forfeit, n. forfeiture, philopena; fine, mulct, penalty, amercement.
forge, n. smithy, st.i.thy, smithery.
forger, n. fabricator, falsifier, counterfeiter.
forgery, n. counterfeiting, falsification, counterfeit, pseudograph, pseudography; (Civ. Law) _falsi crimen_.
forgetfulness, n. amnesty, amnesia, oblivion, Lethe; ecmnesia.
forget-me-not, n. myosotis.
forgivable, a. pardonable, venial.
forgive, v. pardon, excuse, absolve, condone, exculpate, connive, acquit.
forgiveness, n. pardon, remission, absolution, condonation, acquittal, indulgence.
forgiving, a. compa.s.sionate, indulgent, placable, remissive.
Antonyms: unforgiving, implacable.
forgo, v. omit, relinquish, let slip.
fork, n. fourchette; divarication, branch, crotch; p.r.o.ng, tine; pew, grain.
fork, v. ramify, branch, divaricate.
forked, a. furcated, bifurcated, crotched, zigzag.
forked support. crotchet.
forlorn, a. deserted, forsaken, lorn, disconsolate, lonesome.
form, n. shape, structure, configuration, figure, conformation, cast, mould, _tournure_; formula, ritual; formality, ceremonial, conventionality; symmetry; image, phantom; mould, pattern, model.
form, v. shape, fas.h.i.+on, mould.
