Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Forth: prefixed to verbs to indicate a direction of 'away', 'off', 'forth'.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic, morpheme
Synonyms: none provided
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Exhausting: prefixed to verbs with the sense of wearing or exhausting oneself.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic, morpheme
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Destructively: prefixed to verbs with the sense of destruction or pain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic, morpheme
Synonyms: none provided
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Wrongly: prefixed to verbs with the sense of wrongly, amorally.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic, morpheme
Synonyms: none provided
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Neglectfully: prefixed to verbs with the sense of abstaining from or neglecting.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic, morpheme
Synonyms: none provided
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Very: intensifying adjectives.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic, morpheme
Synonyms: none provided
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Making: prefixed to verbs to indicate the subject takes the character of the verb.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic, morpheme
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Excessively: prefixed to verbs with the sense of doing so in excessive or overwhelm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic, morpheme
Synonyms: none provided
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Excluding: prefixed to verbs to give the sense of prohibition or exclusion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic, morpheme
Synonyms: none provided
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Intensively
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic, morpheme
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
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Thoroughly: prefixed to verbs with the sense of thoroughly, all over.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic, morpheme
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
prefix
Alternative form of fore-.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, morpheme
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
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Outside, out.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme, rare
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Middle English for-, vor-, ver-, from Old English for-, fer-, fær-, fyr- (“far, away, completely”, prefix), from the merger of Proto-Germanic *fra- ("away, away from"; see fro, from) and Proto-Germanic *fur-, *far- (“through, completely, fully”), from Proto-Indo-European *pro-, *per-, *pr-. Cognate with Scots for-, West Frisian fer-, for-, Dutch ver-, German ver-, Swedish för-, Danish for-, Norwegian for-, Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌰- (fra-), Latin pro-. More at for.
From Old English for-, which is identical with the preposition "for". In "Old English and Middle English it occurs frequently as a variant of fore- prefix, with the senses ‘before’, ‘in front’, ‘on behalf of’, etc.; cf. Old English for-, forecuman to come before, Middle English forganger and foreganger n."
"Occurring only in words adopted from French, as forcatch v., forfeit n., forprise n., represents Old French for-, fors-, identical with fors adv. (modern French hors) outside, out."
