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A synonym is a word or phrase that means the same or nearly the same as another. Here is a list of synonyms, arranged alphbetically, that can help you build your vocabulary and add variety to your writing.

F

• Face, countenance, features, visage, physiognomy.
• Faculty, gift, endowment, aptitude, attribute, talent, predilection, bent.
• Failing, shortcoming, defect, fault, foible, infirmity.
• Fame, honor, renown, glory, distinction, reputation, repute, celebrity.
• Famous, renowned, celebrated, noted, distinguished, eminent, illustrious.
• Fashion, mode, style, vogue, rage, fad.
• Fast, rapid, swift, quick, fleet, speedy, hasty, celeritous, expeditious, instantaneous.
• Fasten, tie, hitch, moor, tether.
• Fat, fleshy, stout, plump, buxom, corpulent, obese, portly, pursy.
• Fate, destiny, lot, doom.
• Fawn, truckle, cringe, crouch.
• Fear, dread, fright, apprehension, affright, alarm, dismay, timidity,
• Feign, pretend, dissemble, simulate, counterfeit, affect, assume.
• Feminine, female, womanly, womanlike, womanish, effeminate,
• Fertile, fecund, fruitful, prolific.
• Fiendish, devilish, diabolical, demoniacal, demonic, satanic.
• Fight, combat, struggle, scuffle, fray, affray, attack, engagement,
• Financial, monetary, pecuniary, fiscal.
• Fit, suitable, appropriate, proper.
• Flame, blaze, flare, glare, glow.
• Flat, level, even, plane, smooth, horizontal.
• Flatter, blandish, beguile, compliment, praise.
• Flee, abscond, decamp.
• Fleeting, transient, transitory, ephemeral, evanescent.
• Flexible, pliable, pliant, supple, limber, lithe, lissome.
• Flit, flutter, flicker, hover.
• Flock, herd, bevy, covey, drove, pack, brood, litter, school.
• Flog, maul, drub, switch, spank, bastinado.
• Flow, pour, stream, gush, spout.
• Follow, pursue, chase.
• Follower, adherent, disciple, partisan, henchman.
• Fond, loving, doting, devoted, amorous, enamored.
• Force, compulsion, coercion, constraint, restraint.
• Force, strength, power, energy, vigor, might, potency, cogency, efficacy.
• Foretell, predict, prophesy, forecast, presage, forebode, portend.
• Frank, candid, open, artless, guileless, ingenuous, unsophisticated.
• Free, liberate, emancipate, manumit, release, disengage, disentangle, disembarrass, disencumber, extricate.
• Freshen, refresh, revive, renovate, renew.
• Friendly, amicable, companionable, hearty, cordial, neighborly, sociable.
• Frighten, affright, alarm, terrify, terrorize, dismay, appall, daunt, scare.
• Frolicsome, merry, jolly, sportive, jovial, jocular, jocose, jocund.
• Frown, scowl, glower, lower.
• Frugal, sparing, saving, economical, chary, thrifty, provident, prudent.
• Frustrate, foil, thwart, counteract, circumvent, balk, baffle, genial, complaisant, affable.

G

• Game, play, amusement, pastime, diversion, fun, sport, entertainment.
• Gather, accumulate, amass, collect, levy, muster, hoard.
• Get, acquire, obtain, procure, attain, gain, win, earn.
• Ghost, spirit, specter, phantom, apparition, shade, phantasm.
• Gift, present, donation, grant, gratuity, bequest, boon, bounty, largess, fee, bribe.
• Give, bestow, grant, confer, present, furnish, supply.
• Glad, happy, cheerful, mirthful, joyful, joyous, blithe, gay.
• Glower, lower, peek, peep, gape, con, pore, ogle, leer, view, survey.
• Grand, magnificent, gorgeous, splendid, superb, sublime.
• Greet, hail, salute, address, accost.
• Grief, sorrow, distress, affliction, trouble, tribulation, woe.
• Grieve, lament, mourn, bemoan, bewail, deplore, rue.
• Guard, defend, protect, shield, shelter, screen, preserve.

H

• Habit, custom, usage, practice, wont.
• Habitation, abode, dwelling, residence, domicile, home.
• Hang, electrocute, guillotine, lynch, dispatch, decimate, crucify.
• Harass, annoy, irritate, vex, fret, worry, plague, torment, molest.
• Harmful, injurious, detrimental, pernicious, deleterious, baneful, noxious.
• Haste, celerity, speed, hurry, expedition, dispatch.
• Hate, detest, abhor, loathe, abominate, despise.
• Hatred, hate, animosity, ill-will, enmity, hostility, bitterness.
• Have, possess, own, hold.
• Headstrong, wayward, willful, perverse, forward.
• Healthful, wholesome, salutary, salubrious, sanitary, hygienic.
• Heavy, weighty, burdensome, onerous.
• Help (noun), aid, assistance, succor.
• Help (verb), assist, aid, succor, abet, second, support, befriend.
• Hesitate, falter, vacillate, waver.
• Hide, conceal, secrete.
• High, tall, lofty, elevated, towering.
• Hinder, restrain, obstruct, impede, hamper, retard, check, curb, clog,
• Hint, intimate, insinuate.
• Hole, cavity, excavation, pit, cache, cave, cavern, hollow, depression,
• Holy, sacred, hallowed, sanctified, consecrated, godly, pious, saintly, blessed.
• Hopeful, expectant, sanguine, optimistic, confident.
• Hopeless, despairing, disconsolate, desperate.

I

• Idle, inert, lazy, indolent, sluggish, slothful.
• Ignorant, illiterate, uninformed, uneducated, untutored, unlettered.
• Immemorial, elderly, aged, hoary, decrepit, senile, superannuated.
• Impolite, discourteous, inurbane, uncivil, rude, disrespectful, pert, saucy, impertinent, impudent, insolent.
• Importance, consequence, moment.
• Impostor, pretender, charlatan, masquerader, mountebank, deceiver.
• Imprison, incarcerate, immure.
• Improper, indecent, indecorous, unseemly, unbecoming, indelicate.
• Impure, tainted, contaminated, polluted, defiled, vitiated.
• Inborn, innate, inbred, congenital.
• Incite, instigate, stimulate, impel, arouse, goad, spur, promote.
• Incline, tip, lean, cant, slant, slope, tilt, list, careen, dip.
• Increase, grow, enlarge, magnify, amplify, swell, augment.
• Indecent, indelicate, immodest, shameless, ribald, lewd, lustful, lascivious, libidinous, obscene.
• Insane, demented, deranged, crazy, mad.
• Insanity, dementia, derangement, craziness, madness, lunacy, mania, frenzy, hallucination.
• Insipid, tasteless, flat, vapid.
• Insulting, scornful, imperious, contumelious, impudent, impertinent.
• Intention, intent, purpose, plan, design, aim, object, end.
• Interpose, intervene, intercede, interfere, mediate.
• Intrepidity, daring, valor, prowess, fortitude, heroism.
• Irreligious, ungodly, impious, godless, sacrilegious, blasphemous, profane.
• Irritate, exasperate, nettle, incense.

J

• Join, connect, unite, couple, combine, link, annex, append.
• Journey, voyage, tour, pilgrimage, trip, jaunt, excursion, junket.

K

• Kill, slay, slaughter, massacre, butcher, murder, assassinate, execute.
• Kind, compassionate, merciful, lenient, benignant, benign, clement.
• Kindle, ignite, inflame, rouse.

L

• Lack, want, need, deficiency, dearth, paucity, scarcity, deficit.
• Lame, crippled, halt, deformed, maimed, disabled.
• Large, great, big, huge, immense, colossal, gigantic, extensive, vast, massive, unwieldy, bulky.
• Laugh, giggle, snicker, titter, chuckle, guffaw, cachinnate, chortle, roar.
• Laughable, comical, comic, farcical, ludicrous, ridiculous, funny, droll.
• Lead, guide, conduct, escort, convoy.
• Lecture, preach, harangue, rant, roar, spout, thunder, declaim, harp.
• Lengthen, prolong, protract, extend.
• Lessen, decrease, diminish, reduce, abate, curtail, moderate, mitigate, palliate.
• Liberal, generous, bountiful, munificent.
• Lie (noun), untruth, falsehood, falsity, fiction, fabrication, mendacity, canard, fib, story.
• Lie (verb), prevaricate, falsify, equivocate, quibble, shuffle, dodge, fence, fib.
• Likeness, resemblance, similitude, similarity, semblance, analogy.
• Limp, flaccid, flabby, flimsy.
• List, roll, catalogue, register, roster, schedule, inventory.
• Look, glance, gaze, stare, peer, scan, scrutinize, gloat, glare.
• Loud, resonant, clarion, stentorian, sonorous.
• Love, affection, attachment, fondness, infatuation, devotion.
• Low, base, abject, servile, slavish, menial.
• Loyal, faithful, true, constant, staunch, unwavering, steadfast.
• Lurk, skulk, slink, sneak, prowl.

M

• Make, create, frame, fashion, mold, shape, form, forge, fabricate, invent, construct, manufacture, concoct.
• Malice, malevolence, malignity, rancor, resentment, dudgeon, grudge.
• Manifest, plain, obvious, clear, apparent, patent, evident, perceptible, noticeable, open, overt, palpable, tangible, indubitable, unmistakable.
• Many, various, numerous, divers, manifold, multitudinous, myriad, countless, innumerable.
• Margin, edge, limit, border, boundary, bound, bourn, brim, rim, brink.
• Masculine, male, manly, manlike, manful, mannish, virile.
• Matrimonial, conjugal, connubial, nuptial, marital.
• Meaning, significance, signification, import, purport.
• Meet, encounter, collide, confront, converge.
• Meeting, assembly, assemblage, congregation, convention, conference, concourse, gathering, mustering.
• Melt, thaw, fuse, dissolve, liquefy.
• Memory, remembrance, recollection, reminiscence, retrospection.
• Merciless, unmerciful, pitiless, ruthless, fell.
• Mercy, clemency, lenity, leniency, lenience, forbearance.
• Misrepresent, misinterpret, falsify, distort, warp.
• Mix, compound, amalgamate, weld, combine, blend, concoct.
• Model, pattern, prototype, criterion, standard, exemplar, paragon, archetype, ideal.
• Motive, incentive, inducement, desire, purpose.
• Move, actuate, impel, prompt, incite.

N

• Name, appellation, designation, denomination, title, alias, cognomen, patronymic, nom.
• Near, nigh, close, neighboring, adjacent, contiguous.
• Neat, tidy, orderly, spruce, trim, prim.
• Needful, necessary, requisite, essential, indispensable.
• Negligence, neglect, inattention, inattentiveness, inadvertence, remissness, oversight.
• New, novel, fresh, recent, modern, late, innovative, unprecedented.
• Nice, fastidious, dainty, finical, squeamish.
• Noisy, clamorous, boisterous, hilarious, turbulent, riotous, obstreperous, uproarious, vociferous, blatant, brawling.
• Noticeable, prominent, conspicuous, salient, signal.

O

• Occupation, employment, calling, pursuit, vocation, avocation.
• Old, ancient, olden, antique, antiquated, archaic, obsolete, venerable.
• Order (noun), command, mandate, behest, injunction, decree.
• Order (verb), command, enjoin, direct, instruct.
• Oversight, supervision, direction, superintendence, surveillance.

P

• Pacify, appease, placate, propitiate, conciliate, mollify.
• Pale, pallid, wan, colorless, blanched, ghastly, ashen, cadaverous.
• Part, piece, portion, section, subdivision, fraction, installment.
• Patience, forbearance, resignation, longsuffering.
• Pay, compensate, recompense, remunerate, requite, reimburse.
• Pay, hire, salary, wages, fee, stipend, honorarium.
• Penetrate, pierce, perforate.
• Perforation, puncture, rent, slit, crack, chink, crevice, cranny, breach.
• Pirate, corsair, raider, burglar, footpad, highwayman, depredator.
• Pity, sympathy, compassion, commiseration, condolence.
• Place, office, post, position, situation, appointment.
• Plan, design, project, scheme, plot.
• Playful, mischievous, roguish, prankish, sportive, arch.
• Plentiful, plenteous, abundant, bounteous, copious, profuse, exuberant, luxuriant.
• Plunder, rifle, loot, sack, pillage, devastate, despoil.
• Polite, civil, obliging, courteous, courtly, urbane, affable.
• Poverty, want, need, destitution, indigence, penury.
• Pretty, beautiful, comely, handsome, fair.
• Profitable, remunerative, lucrative, gainful.
• Promenade, prowl, hobble, limp, perambulate.
• Prompt, punctual, ready, expeditious.
• Proud, arrogant, presumptuous, haughty, supercilious, insolent.
• Prune, reap, mow, clip, shear, trim, dock, crop, shave, whittle, slice.
• Pull, draw, drag, haul, tug, tow.
• Punish, chastise, chasten, castigate, scourge.
• Push, shove, thrust.
• Puzzle, perplex, mystify, bewilder.

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