Nouns (5)
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fair
n. gathering of producers to promote business; "world fair"; "trade fair"; "book fair"
fair
n. a competitive exhibition of farm products; "she won a blue ribbon for her baking at the county fair"
bazaar
n. a sale of miscellany; often for charity; "the church bazaar"
carnival, funfair
n. a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc.
Verbs (1)
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fair
v. join so that the external surfaces blend smoothly
Adverbs (4)
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fairly, evenhandedly
adv. without favoring one party, in a fair evenhanded manner; "deal fairly with one another"
fairly, clean
adv. in conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating; "they played fairly"
Adjectives (18)
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fair
adj. free of clouds or rain; "today will be fair and warm"
fair
adj. more than adequate in quality; "respectable work"
clean
adj. (of a manuscript) having few alterations or corrections; "fair copy"; "a clean manuscript"
just
adj. free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; conforming with established standards or rules; "a fair referee"; "fair deal"; "on a fair footing"; "a fair fight"; "by fair means or foul"
fairish
adj. (used of hair or skin) pale or light-colored; "a fair complexion";
fairish, reasonable
adj. not excessive or extreme; "a fairish income"; "reasonable prices"
just, equitable
adj. "honest wages for an honest day's work"
average, mediocre, middling
adj. lacking exceptional quality or ability; "a novel of average merit"; "only a fair performance of the sonata"; "in fair health"; "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"; "the performance was middling at best"
attractive, sightly
adj. very pleasing to the eye; "my bonny lass"; "there's a bonny bay beyond"; "a comely face"; "young fair maidens"
bonny, bonnie, comely, sightly
adj. very pleasing to the eye; "my bonny lass"; "there's a bonny bay beyond"; "a comely face"; "young fair maidens"
Fuzzynyms (173)
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extravaganza
n. any lavishly staged or spectacular entertainment
pageant, pageantry
n. an elaborate representation of scenes from history etc; usually involves a parade with rich costumes
production
n. the creation of value or wealth by producing goods and services
spectacular
n. a lavishly produced performance; "they put on a Christmas spectacular"
vaudeville, music hall
n. a variety show with songs and comic acts etc.
festival, fete
n. an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place); "a drama festival"
honestly, candidly, frankly
adv. (used as intensives reflecting the speaker's attitude) it is sincerely the case that; "honestly, I don't believe it"; "candidly, I think she doesn't have a conscience"; "frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn"
due, deserved
adj. properly deserved; "a merited success"
healthy, intelligent, levelheaded, level-headed, sound
adj. exercising or showing good judgment; "healthy scepticism"; "a healthy fear of rattlesnakes"; "the healthy attitude of French laws"; "healthy relations between labor and management"; "an intelligent solution"; "a sound approach to the problem"; "sound advice"; "no sound explanation for his decision"
logical
adj. based on known statements or events or conditions; "rain was a logical expectation, given the time of year"
logical
adj. capable of or reflecting the capability for correct and valid reasoning; "a logical mind"
deductive
adj. involving inferences from general principles
inductive
adj. of reasoning; proceeding from particular facts to a general conclusion; "inductive reasoning"
honorable, honourable
adj. worthy of being honored; entitled to honor and respect; "an honorable man"; "led an honorable life"; "honorable service to his country"
ethical, honorable, honourable
adj. adhering to ethical and moral principles; "it seems ethical and right"; "followed the only honorable course of action"
decent, nice
adj. socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous; "from a decent family"; "a nice girl"
fair, just, equitable
adj. "honest wages for an honest day's work"
right
adj. in conformance with justice or law or morality; "do the right thing and confess"
right, correct
adj. correct in opinion or judgment; "time proved him right"
true(a), lawful, rightful(a)
adj. having a legally established claim; "the legitimate heir"; "the true and lawful king"
reasoned, sound, well-grounded
adj. logically valid; "a sound argument"
sound
adj. free from moral defect; "a man of sound character"
valid
adj. well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force; "a valid inference"; "a valid argument"; "a valid contract"
legitimate
adj. in accordance with recognized or accepted standards or principles; "legitimate advertising practices"
legitimate, logical
adj. based on known statements or events or conditions; "rain was a logical expectation, given the time of year"
uncolored, uncoloured
adj. without color; "pure water is uncolored"
light
adj. designed for ease of movement or to carry little weight; "light aircraft"; "a light truck"
bleached, faded, washed-out, washy
adj. having lost freshness or brilliance of color; "sun-bleached deck chairs"; "faded jeans"; "a very pale washed-out blue"; "washy colors"
creamy
adj. of the color of cream; "creamy translucent pebbles"
light, light-colored
adj. (used of color) having a relatively small amount of coloring agent; "light blue"; "light colors such as pastels"; "a light-colored powder"
white
adj. being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light; "as white as fresh snow"; "a bride's white dress"
pastel
adj. delicate and pale in color; "pastel pink"
intense, vivid
adj. (of color) having the highest saturation; "vivid green"; "intense blue"
temperate
adj. not extreme in behavior; "temperate in his habits"; "a temperate response to an insult"; "temperate in his eating and drinking"
moderate, temperate
adj. not extreme; "a moderate penalty"; "temperate in his response to criticism"
economical, frugal, scotch, sparing, stinting
adj. avoiding waste; "an economical meal"; "an economical shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty because they remember the great Depression"; "`scotch' is used only informally"
sparse, thin
adj. not dense; "a thin beard"; "trees were sparse"
blind, unreasoning
adj. not based on reason or evidence; "blind hatred"; "blind faith"; "unreasoning panic"
hideous, horrid, horrific, outrageous
adj. grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry"
absurd
adj. inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense; "the absurd predicament of seeming to argue that virtue is highly desirable but intensely unpleasant"- Walter Lippman
overpriced
adj. too costly for the value; "overpriced items at resort shops"
expensive
adj. high in price or charging high prices; "expensive clothes"; "an expensive shop"
exorbitant, extortionate, outrageous, steep, unconscionable, usurious
adj. greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation; "exorbitant rent"; "extortionate prices"; "spends an outrageous amount on entertainment"; "usurious interest rate"; "unconscionable spending"
big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, giving, liberal, openhanded
adj. given or giving freely; "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and openhanded grandfather"
great
adj. remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; "a great crisis"; "had a great stake in the outcome"
abundant
adj. present in great quantity; "an abundant supply of water"
excessive, extravagant, exuberant, overweening
adj. unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings; "extravagant praise"; "exuberant compliments"; "overweening ambition"; "overweening greed"
outermost, outmost
adj. situated at the farthest possible point from a center
bleached, faded, washed-out, washy
adj. having lost freshness or brilliance of color; "sun-bleached deck chairs"; "faded jeans"; "a very pale washed-out blue"; "washy colors"
pastel
adj. delicate and pale in color; "pastel pink"
low-cost, low-priced, affordable
adj. that you have the financial means for; "low-cost housing"
due, deserved
adj. properly deserved; "a merited success"
honorable, honourable
adj. worthy of being honored; entitled to honor and respect; "an honorable man"; "led an honorable life"; "honorable service to his country"
ethical, honorable, honourable
adj. adhering to ethical and moral principles; "it seems ethical and right"; "followed the only honorable course of action"
decent, nice
adj. socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous; "from a decent family"; "a nice girl"
fair, just
adj. free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; conforming with established standards or rules; "a fair referee"; "fair deal"; "on a fair footing"; "a fair fight"; "by fair means or foul"
impartial
adj. showing lack of favoritism; "the cold neutrality of an impartial judge"
right
adj. in conformance with justice or law or morality; "do the right thing and confess"
right, correct
adj. correct in opinion or judgment; "time proved him right"
evenhanded
adj. without partiality; "evenhanded justice"
objective
adj. belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events; "objective benefits"; "an objective example"; "there is no objective evidence of anything of the kind"
becoming, comely, comme il faut, decent, decorous, seemly
adj. according with custom or propriety; "her becoming modesty"; "comely behavior"; "it is not comme il faut for a gentleman to be constantly asking for money"; "a decent burial"; "seemly behavior"
noble
adj. having or showing or indicative of high or elevated character; "a noble spirit"; "noble deeds"
respectable
adj. characterized by socially or conventionally acceptable morals; "a respectable woman"
upstanding, solid
adj. meriting respect or esteem; "an upstanding member of the community"
exemplary, model(a)
adj. worthy of imitation; "exemplary behavior"; "model citizens"
mediocre
adj. poor to middling in quality; "there have been good and mediocre and bad artists"
adequate, passable, fair to middling, tolerable
adj. about average; acceptable; "more than adequate as a secretary"
plain, lay, popular, nontechnical, unspecialized, untechnical
adj. not characteristic of or skilled in applied arts and sciences; "nontechnical aspects of the job"; "nontechnical training"; "an untechnical reader"; "in clear effective nontechnical language"
normal, average
adj. conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal; "serve wine at normal room temperature"; "normal diplomatic relations"; "normal working hours"; "normal word order"; "normal curiosity"; "the normal course of events"
average, ordinary
adj. lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered; "average people"; "the ordinary (or common) man in the street"
pedestrian, prosaic, prosy, earthbound
adj. lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot"
satisfactory, acceptable
adj. meeting requirements; "the step makes a satisfactory seat"
tied(p), even, level(p)
adj. of the score in a contest; "the score is tied"
balanced
adj. being in a state of proper equilibrium; "the carefully balanced seesaw"; "a properly balanced symphony orchestra"; "a balanced assessment of intellectual and cultural history"; "a balanced blend of whiskeys"; "the educated man shows a balanced development of all his powers"
graceful
adj. characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution
tasteful
adj. having or showing or conforming to good taste
neat, refined, tasteful
adj. free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; "a neat style"; "a neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans upset"
fetching, taking, winning
adj. very attractive; capturing interest; "a fetching new hairstyle"; "something inexpressibly taking in his manner"; "a winning personality"
Synonyms (94)
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decent, nice
adj. socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous; "from a decent family"; "a nice girl"
presentable
adj. fit to be seen; "presentable clothes"
worthy
adj. having qualities or abilities that merit recognition in some way; "behavior worthy of reprobation"; "a fact worthy of attention"
clear, decipherable, readable
adj. easily deciphered
ash-blonde, platinum-blonde, towheaded
adj. of hair color; whitish
flaxen, sandy
adj. of hair color; pale yellowish to yellowish brown; "flaxen locks"
nordic
adj. resembling peoples of Scandinavia
redheaded
adj. having red hair and usually fair skin
average, intermediate, medium
adj. around the middle of a scale of evaluation; "an orange of average size"; "intermediate capacity"; "medium bombers"
cautious, conservative
adj. avoiding excess; "a conservative estimate"
limited
adj. not excessive
middle-of-the-road
adj. not extreme, especially in political views
modest, small
adj. not large but sufficient in size or amount; "a modest salary"; "modest inflation"; "helped in my own small way"
openhearted
adj. freely communicative; candidly straightforward; "openhearted advice"
commonplace
adj. completely ordinary and unremarkable; "air travel has now become commonplace"; "commonplace everyday activities"
characterless, nondescript
adj. lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting; "women dressed in nondescript clothes"; "a nondescript novel"
common
adj. to be expected; standard; "common decency"
everyday, mundane, quotidian, routine, unremarkable, workaday
adj. found in the ordinary course of events; "a placid everyday scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"- Anita Diamant
indifferent, so-so(p)
adj. being neither good nor bad; "an indifferent performance"; "a gifted painter but an indifferent actor"; "her work at the office is passable"; "a so-so golfer"; "feeling only so-so"; "prepared a tolerable dinner"; "a tolerable working knowledge of French"
run-of-the-mill, run-of-the-mine, mine run, unexceptional
adj. not special in any way; "run-of-the-mill boxing"; "your run-of-the-mine college graduate"; "a unexceptional an incident as can be found in a lawyer's career"
beauteous
adj. (poetic )beautiful, especially to the sight
bonny, bonnie, comely, fair, sightly
adj. very pleasing to the eye; "my bonny lass"; "there's a bonny bay beyond"; "a comely face"; "young fair maidens"
fine, braw
adj. "`braw' is Scottish: 'tis a braw bricht moonlict nicht"; "a fine evening"
glorious, resplendent, splendid, splendiferous
adj. having great beauty and splendor; "a glorious spring morning"; "a glorious sunset"; "splendid costumes"; "a kind of splendiferous native simplicity"
charming
adj. pleasing or delighting; "endowed with charming manners"; "a charming little cottage"; "a charming personality"
fine-looking, good-looking, better-looking, handsome, well-favored, well-favoured
adj. pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion; "a fine-looking woman"; "a good-looking man"; "better-looking than her sister"; "very pretty but not so extraordinarily handsome"- Thackeray; "our southern women are well-favored"- Lillian Hellman
exquisite
adj. of extreme beauty; "her exquisite face"
lovely
adj. appealing to the emotions as well as the eye
gorgeous
adj. dazzlingly beautiful; "a gorgeous Victorian gown"
picturesque
adj. suggesting or suitable for a picture; pretty as a picture; "a picturesque village"
pretty
adj. pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing; "pretty girl"; "pretty song"; "pretty room"
pretty-pretty
adj. ostentatiously or inappropriately pretty
pulchritudinous
adj. used of persons only; having great physical beauty; "pulchritudinous movie stars"
ravishing
adj. stunningly beautiful; "a ravishing blonde"
scenic
adj. used of locations; having beautiful natural scenery; "scenic drives"
fair, attractive, sightly
adj. very pleasing to the eye; "my bonny lass"; "there's a bonny bay beyond"; "a comely face"; "young fair maidens"
beauteous
adj. (poetic )beautiful, especially to the sight
fine, braw
adj. "`braw' is Scottish: 'tis a braw bricht moonlict nicht"; "a fine evening"
glorious, resplendent, splendid, splendiferous
adj. having great beauty and splendor; "a glorious spring morning"; "a glorious sunset"; "splendid costumes"; "a kind of splendiferous native simplicity"
charming
adj. pleasing or delighting; "endowed with charming manners"; "a charming little cottage"; "a charming personality"
fine-looking, good-looking, better-looking, handsome, well-favored, well-favoured
adj. pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion; "a fine-looking woman"; "a good-looking man"; "better-looking than her sister"; "very pretty but not so extraordinarily handsome"- Thackeray; "our southern women are well-favored"- Lillian Hellman
exquisite
adj. of extreme beauty; "her exquisite face"
lovely
adj. appealing to the emotions as well as the eye
gorgeous
adj. dazzlingly beautiful; "a gorgeous Victorian gown"
picturesque
adj. suggesting or suitable for a picture; pretty as a picture; "a picturesque village"
pretty
adj. pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing; "pretty girl"; "pretty song"; "pretty room"
pretty-pretty
adj. ostentatiously or inappropriately pretty
pulchritudinous
adj. used of persons only; having great physical beauty; "pulchritudinous movie stars"
ravishing
adj. stunningly beautiful; "a ravishing blonde"
scenic
adj. used of locations; having beautiful natural scenery; "scenic drives"
Antonyms (23)
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unfairly, below the belt
adv. in an unfair manner; "they dealt with him unfairly"; "their accusations hit below the belt"
foul
adj. (of a baseball) not hit between the foul lines
unfair, unjust
adj. not fair; marked by injustice or partiality or deception; "used unfair methods"; "it was an unfair trial"; "took an unfair advantage"
raw
adj. brutally unfair or harsh; "received raw treatment from his friends"; "a raw deal"
biased, colored, coloured, one-sided, slanted
adj. favoring one person or side over another; "a biased account of the trial"; "a decision that was partial to the defendant"
crooked, corrupt
adj. not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
illegal
adj. prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules; "an illegal chess move"
undue, unjustified, unwarranted
adj. lacking justification or authorization; "desire for undue private profit"; "unwarranted limitations of personal freedom"
extraordinary, over-the-top, sinful
adj. far more than usual or expected; "an extraordinary desire for approval"; "it was an over-the-top experience"
crooked, corrupt
adj. not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
ugly
adj. displeasing to the senses; "an ugly face"; "ugly furniture"
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