{
  "Fechner":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      "Gustav Theodor 1801\u20131887 German physicist and psychologist":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8fek-n\u0259r",
      "\u02c8fe\u1e35-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-191248",
    "type":[
      "biographical name"
    ]
  },
  "Fechnerian":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": of, relating to, or discovered by G.T. Fechner , German physicist considered to be a founder of psychophysics and experimental psychology":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Gustav Theodor Fechner \u20201887 German physicist, philosopher, & experimental psychologist + English -ian":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-e\u1e35\u00a6-",
      "(\u02c8)fek\u00a6nir\u0113\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-141351",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "fec":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      "he made it":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin fecit":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-191146",
    "type":[
      "abbreviation"
    ]
  },
  "fecal":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": of, relating to, or constituting feces":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Beach samples are analyzed for three fecal -indicator bacteria that show pollution from numerous sources, including human and animal waste. \u2014 Rosanna Xiastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 22 June 2022",
      "Grades were based on the levels of fecal -indicator bacterial pollution in the ocean, as measured by county health agencies. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 22 June 2022",
      "The principle consists in mixing, with the sewage, quantities of lime and clay, combining with the carbonic acid of the fecal matters to form carbonate of lime, in an impalpable powder. \u2014 Mark Fischetti, Scientific American , 15 June 2022",
      "Veterinarians who participate will submit fur, fecal , urine and blood samples of select, enrolled participants to help the team find aging milestones in dogs. \u2014 Tribune News Service, oregonlive , 6 Mar. 2022",
      "Water that is released into the river is treated at the plant with chlorine to kill organisms such as escherichia coli, commonly called e. coli, in fecal matter. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 10 June 2022",
      "It's most commonly spread by ingesting food or water that have been contaminated with fecal matter. \u2014 Doha Madani, NBC News , 30 May 2022",
      "Pull back sheets and check the mattress and box spring for live bed bugs or black fecal spots. \u2014 Jerome Goddard, The Conversation , 3 June 2022",
      "Prior studies have compared fecal parasites found in hunter-gatherer and farming communities, thereby revealing dramatic dietary changes, as well as shifts in settlement patterns and social organization coinciding with the rise of agriculture. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 20 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1541, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8f\u0113-k\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-075811",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ]
  },
  "feces":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": bodily waste discharged through the anus : excrement":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Infected animals may shed prions in their urine, feces and saliva \u2014 causing contamination in the soil that can stay infectious for years. \u2014 Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune , 18 June 2022",
      "It\u2019s transmitted through saliva, urine, feces and respiratory secretions, according to Cornell University Wildlife Health Labs. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 27 May 2022",
      "Infected birds spread the virus through their saliva, feces and mucous and can infect people through the eyes, nose mouth or through inhalation. \u2014 Fox News , 29 Apr. 2022",
      "The house was found to be in foul condition with feces and bottles of urine, police said. \u2014 Stephanie Casanova, chicagotribune.com , 8 Apr. 2022",
      "The air was thick with the smell of feces and sweat. \u2014 Mirzahussain Sadid, ProPublica , 5 Apr. 2022",
      "That\u2019s because the animals shed the virus in their urine, feces and saliva. \u2014 Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune , 14 Jan. 2022",
      "As attendance has soared in recent years, these play areas have seen parking pile-ups, overflowing port-a-potties and trash bins, litter and dog feces and visitors going lost in the surrounding woods. \u2014 Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle , 7 Jan. 2022",
      "The research group took samples of saliva, feces and blood from bats mostly in southern China and brought them to the Wuhan institute. \u2014 Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ , 31 Dec. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Latin faec-, faex (singular) dregs":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8f\u0113-(\u02cc)s\u0113z",
      "\u02c8f\u0113-\u02ccs\u0113z"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "dirt",
      "doo-doo",
      "dropping",
      "dung",
      "excrement",
      "excreta",
      "ordure",
      "poop",
      "scat",
      "slops",
      "soil",
      "waste"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-181700",
    "type":[
      "noun plural",
      "plural noun"
    ]
  },
  "feckless":{
    "antonyms":[
      "effective",
      "effectual",
      "efficacious",
      "efficient",
      "expedient",
      "operant",
      "ultraefficient"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": weak , ineffective":[
        "She can't rely on her feckless son."
      ],
      ": worthless , irresponsible":[
        "a feckless maneuver that could only serve to strengthen the enemy",
        "\u2014 Simon Schama"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "She can't rely on her feckless son.",
      "a well-intentioned but feckless response to the rise in school violence",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Caesar took power from the feckless Senate after waging a civil war against his chief rival, Pompey. \u2014 Erik Kain, Forbes , 2 July 2022",
      "And Julia\u2019s cousin, the feckless Lord Cassidy (Oliver Jackson-Cohen), is amusing as a flunky for Julia\u2019s demands. \u2014 Natalia Winkelman, BostonGlobe.com , 29 June 2022",
      "Perform mindless, pointless and degrading tasks all day while taking guff from perfect strangers and feckless idiots. \u2014 Pat Myers, Washington Post , 16 June 2022",
      "Halli, until recently a feckless teen at heart, has to grow up fast. \u2014 John Hopewell, Variety , 6 June 2022",
      "Like The Silent Twins, Landscapers revolves around an unlikely pair of feckless criminals (although the Edwards\u2019 crime was far, far more grave), whose co-dependent fantasies add a playful, self-reflexive quality to the drama. \u2014 Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter , 25 May 2022",
      "There was more deference, more royal blood to marry into, more feckless aristocrats. \u2014 Sam Knight, The New Yorker , 29 Apr. 2022",
      "The focus on the formula crisis dovetailed with the message Republicans hoped would win them victories in November: that Mr. Biden and Democrats have been feckless on issues like inflation and rising gas prices that matter most to regular Americans. \u2014 New York Times , 12 May 2022",
      "Americans wanted a more normal chief executive, not open borders, a feckless foreign policy and a more powerful Bernie Sanders. \u2014 WSJ , 9 Jan. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1585, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Scots, from feck effect, majority, from Middle English (Scots) fek , alteration of Middle English effect":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8fek-l\u0259s"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "counterproductive",
      "hamstrung",
      "ineffective",
      "ineffectual",
      "inefficacious",
      "inefficient",
      "inexpedient"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-095851",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "feckly":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": almost , nearly":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "an Edinburgh hotel that is feckly new"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1768, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "feck + -ly":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8fek-l\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "about",
      "all but",
      "almost",
      "borderline",
      "fair",
      "fairly",
      "more or less",
      "most",
      "much",
      "near",
      "nearly",
      "next to",
      "nigh",
      "practically",
      "somewhere",
      "virtually",
      "well-nigh"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-201425",
    "type":[
      "adverb"
    ]
  },
  "fecund":{
    "antonyms":[
      "barren",
      "dead",
      "infertile",
      "sterile",
      "unfertile",
      "unfruitful",
      "unproductive"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": fruitful in offspring or vegetation : prolific":[
        "a fecund breed of cattle"
      ],
      ": intellectually productive or inventive to a marked degree":[
        "a fecund imagination",
        "a fecund source of information"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "a fecund breed of cattle",
      "the Franklin stove, bifocals, and the lightning rod are just a few of the inventions that we owe to the fecund creativity of Benjamin Franklin",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "For as fecund as Peak TV has been during the past decade, the glut hasn\u2019t exactly yielded boundless perfection. \u2014 Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter , 21 June 2022",
      "Also of note: wild creations like topcoats in fecund floral prints, monogram logo jeans that alluded to Canal Street knockoffs and duffle bags with extraneous doodads that looked like rock climbing holds. \u2014 Jacob Gallagher, WSJ , 26 Jan. 2022",
      "Getting to AltaGracia is a memorable experience in and of itself: travelers fly into San Jos\u00e9 and take a small prop plane about 90 miles south to the fecund province of P\u00e9rez Zeled\u00f3n. \u2014 Jessie Heyman, Vogue , 17 Dec. 2021",
      "The decaying remains of those fecund swamp forests became Alabama\u2019s coal fields, especially throughout Jefferson, Walker, and Tuscaloosa Counties. \u2014 Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al , 1 Dec. 2021",
      "One problem is that fisheries often target what scientists call BOFFFFs: big, old, fat, fecund , female fish. \u2014 Matt Reynolds, Wired , 23 Nov. 2021",
      "After beavers almost went extinct by the mid-19th century, fashions shifted and Canada\u2019s fecund beavers rebounded. \u2014 New York Times , 20 Nov. 2021",
      "In the several years since his return, however, Beaujard has lavished the two-bedroom home with the full force of his fecund imagination, blending his signature theatricality with a new dose of insouciance. \u2014 New York Times , 10 Nov. 2021",
      "Johns continued to look back wistfully at this astonishingly fecund period in both their lives. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Sep. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin fecundus \u2014 more at feminine":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8f\u0113k-",
      "\u02c8f\u0113-",
      "\u02c8fek-\u0259nd",
      "\u02c8fe-k\u0259nd"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for fecund fertile , fecund , fruitful , prolific mean producing or capable of producing offspring or fruit. fertile implies the power to reproduce in kind or to assist in reproduction and growth fertile soil ; applied figuratively, it suggests readiness of invention and development. a fertile imagination fecund emphasizes abundance or rapidity in bearing fruit or offspring. a fecund herd fruitful adds to fertile and fecund the implication of desirable or useful results. fruitful research prolific stresses rapidity of spreading or multiplying by or as if by natural reproduction. a prolific writer",
    "synonyms":[
      "cornucopian",
      "fat",
      "fertile",
      "fructuous",
      "fruitful",
      "lush",
      "luxuriant",
      "productive",
      "prolific",
      "rich"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-192426",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "noun,"
    ]
  },
  "fecit":{
    "type":[
      "Latin verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": he/she made (it)":[
        "\u2014 used on an artwork (such as a painting, sculpture, engraving, or building) to identify its creator"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8f\u0101-kit"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-115748"
  }
}