dictionary | A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
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Sounds | faa'l; fao'l |
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Rhymes | aerosol, alcohol, Algol / ALGOL, and 25 more rhymes in aal at the HyperDic website... |
albuterol, all, appall, and 93 more rhymes in aol at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | The season when the leaves fall from the trees. |
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Examples | "in the fall of 1973" |
Synonyms | autumn |
Parts | Indian summer, Saint Martin's summer; September, Sep, Sept; October, Oct; November, Nov; autumnal equinox, September equinox, fall equinox |
Broader | season, time of year |
Meaning | A sudden drop from an upright position. |
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Synonyms | spill, tumble |
Narrower | wipeout |
Broader | slip, trip |
Verbs | fall; fall; fall |
Meaning | The lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of the sin of Adam and Eve. |
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Examples | "women have been blamed ever since the Fall" |
Broader | event |
Verbs | fall |
Meaning | A downward slope or bend. |
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Synonyms | descent, declivity, decline, declination, declension, downslope |
Narrower | downhill; steep |
Broader | slope, incline, side |
Contrary | ascent, acclivity, rise, raise, climb, upgrade |
Verbs | fall |
Meaning | A lapse into sin. A loss of innocence or of chastity. |
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Examples | "a fall from virtue" |
Broader | sin, sinning |
Verbs | fall; fall |
Meaning | A sudden decline in strength or number or importance. |
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Examples | "the fall of the House of Hapsburg" |
Synonyms | downfall |
Narrower | anticlimax |
Broader | weakening |
Contrary | rise |
Verbs | fall; fall |
Meaning | A movement downward. |
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Examples | "the rise and fall of the tides" |
Broader | change of location, travel |
Contrary | rise, rising, ascent, ascension |
Verbs | fall |
Meaning | The act of surrendering (under agreed conditions). |
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Synonyms | capitulation, surrender |
Broader | loss |
Verbs | fall; fall; fall |
Meaning | The time of day immediately following sunset. |
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Examples | "they finished before the fall of night" |
Synonyms | twilight, dusk, gloaming, nightfall, evenfall, crepuscule, crepuscle |
Part of | evening, eve, eventide |
Narrower | night |
Broader | hour, time of day |
Meaning | When a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat. |
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Synonyms | pin |
Part of | wrestling match |
Narrower | takedown |
Broader | victory, triumph |
Meaning | A free and rapid descent by the force of gravity. |
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Synonyms | drop |
Narrower | free fall; plunge; precipitation |
Broader | gravitation; descent |
Adjectives | prelapsarian |
Verbs | fall; fall |
Meaning | A sudden sharp decrease in some quantity. |
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Examples | "when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall" |
Synonyms | drop, dip, free fall |
Narrower | correction; voltage drop |
Broader | decrease, decrement |
Verbs | fall |
Meaning | Descend in free fall under the influence of gravity. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s |
Broader | travel, go, move, locomote |
Similar to | precipitate, come down, fall |
Nouns | faller; fall; fall |
Meaning | Move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s |
Model | The airplane is sure to fall |
Examples | "The barometer is falling" |
Synonyms | descend, go down, come down |
Caused by | fell, drop, strike down, cut down; lower, take down, let down, get down, bring down |
Entailed by | parachute, jump |
Narrower | prolapse; rappel, abseil, rope down; unhorse, dismount, light, get off, get down; avalanche, roll down; dive, plunge, plunk; set, go down, go under; decline, slump, correct; precipitate; sink, subside; crash; flop; tumble, topple; drop; plop; pitch; alight, climb down; sink, settle, go down, go under; pounce, swoop; drip; cascade, cascade down |
Broader | travel, go, move, locomote |
Contrary | rise, lift, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise; ascend, go up |
See also | fall in |
Nouns | fall |
Meaning | Pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind. |
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Pattern | Something is ----ing PP; Something ----s Adjective/Noun; Somebody ----s Adjective; Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s PP |
Examples | "fall into a trap"; "Fall in love"; "fall asleep"; "fall prey to an imposter"; "fall into a strange way of thinking" |
Narrower | fall in love |
Broader | change state, turn |
See also | fall for; fall back, fall behind; fall away; fall apart; fall apart; fall back, fall behind; fall through, fall flat |
Meaning | Come under, be classified or included. |
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Pattern | Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP |
Examples | "fall into a category" |
Synonyms | come |
Broader | be |
Meaning | Fall from clouds. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "rain, snow and sleet were falling" |
Synonyms | precipitate, come down |
Entails | condense, distill, distil |
Narrower | rain, rain down; spat; snow; hail; sleet |
Similar to | fall |
Meaning | Suffer defeat, failure, or ruin. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s |
Examples | "We must stand or fall"; "fall by the wayside" |
Broader | fail, go wrong, miscarry |
Nouns | fall; fall |
Meaning | Decrease in size, extent, or range. |
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Pattern | Something ----s |
Examples | "her weight fall to under a hundred pounds" |
Synonyms | decrease, diminish, lessen |
Entailed by | scale down |
Narrower | break; shrink, shrivel; taper; drop off; vanish, fly, vaporize; break; ease up, ease off, slacken off, flag; weaken; boil down, reduce, decoct, concentrate; shrink, contract; shrivel, shrivel up, shrink, wither; abate, let up, slack off, slack, die away; deflate; dwindle, dwindle away, dwindle down; remit; de-escalate; depreciate, undervalue, devaluate, devalue; shorten; thin out; decline, go down, wane; wane; wane; decelerate, slow, slow down, slow up, retard; decrescendo |
Broader | change magnitude |
Contrary | increase |
Nouns | fall |
Meaning | Die, as in battle or in a hunt. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP |
Examples | "Several deer have fallen to the same gun" |
Broader | die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass |
Similar to | fall; fall |
Meaning | Touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly. |
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Pattern | Something ----s something |
Synonyms | shine, strike |
Broader | happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place |
Meaning | Be captured. |
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Pattern | Something ----s |
Broader | yield |
Similar to | fall |
Nouns | fall |
Meaning | Occur at a specified time or place. |
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Pattern | Something is ----ing PP |
Examples | "Christmas falls on a Monday this year"; "The accent falls on the first syllable" |
Broader | happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place |
Similar to | fall |
Meaning | Yield to temptation or sin. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s |
Broader | sin, transgress, trespass; fall |
Similar to | fall |
Nouns | Fall; fall |
Meaning | Lose office or power. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s |
Broader | leave office, quit, step down, resign |
Similar to | fall |
Nouns | fall; fall |
Meaning | To be given by assignment or distribution. |
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Pattern | Something is ----ing PP |
Similar to | fall, light; fall |
Meaning | Move in a specified direction. |
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Pattern | Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP |
Examples | "The line of men fall forward" |
Broader | travel, go, move, locomote |
Meaning | Be due. |
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Pattern | Something is ----ing PP |
Examples | "payments fall on the 1st of the month" |
Broader | be |
Similar to | fall |
Meaning | Lose one's chastity. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s |
Examples | "a fallen woman" |
Narrower | fall |
Similar to | fall |
Nouns | fall |
Meaning | To be given by right or inheritance. |
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Pattern | Something is ----ing PP |
Similar to | fall |
Meaning | Come into the possession of. |
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Pattern | Something ----s somebody |
Synonyms | accrue |
Broader | change hands |
Similar to | fall, return, pass, devolve; fall, light |
Meaning | Fall to somebody by assignment or lot. |
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Pattern | Something ----s somebody; Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE |
Synonyms | light |
Broader | fall, return, pass, devolve |
Similar to | accrue, fall; fall |
Meaning | Be inherited by. |
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Pattern | Something ----s somebody |
Synonyms | return, pass, devolve |
Narrower | fall, light |
Broader | change hands |
Similar to | accrue, fall |
Meaning | Slope downward. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP |
Examples | "The hills around here fall towards the ocean" |
Broader | slope, incline, pitch |
Nouns | fall |
Meaning | Lose an upright position suddenly. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s |
Synonyms | fall down |
Broader | change posture |
Similar to | fall |
Nouns | fall; fall |
Meaning | Drop oneself to a lower or less erect position. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s |
Broader | change posture |
Similar to | fall, fall down |
Nouns | fall |
Meaning | Fall or flow in a certain way. |
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Pattern | Something ----s Adjective/Noun |
Synonyms | hang, flow |
Meaning | Assume a disappointed or sad expression. |
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Pattern | Something ----s |
Broader | change |
Similar to | fall |
Meaning | Be cast down. |
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Pattern | Something ----s |
Broader | change |
Similar to | fall |
Meaning | Come out. Issue. |
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Pattern | Something is ----ing PP |
Broader | issue, emerge, come out, come forth, go forth, egress |
Meaning | Be born, used chiefly of lambs. |
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Pattern | Something ----s |
Broader | be born |
Meaning | Begin vigorously. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s PP |
Broader | get down, begin, get, start out, start, set about, set out, commence |
Meaning | Go as if by falling. |
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Pattern | Something is ----ing PP |
Broader | disappear, vanish, go away |
Similar to | fall, descend, settle |
Meaning | Come as if by falling. |
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Pattern | Something ----s |
Synonyms | descend, settle |
Broader | come |
Similar to | fall |