English Explanatory Dictionary

for-

English dictionary entry

Meanings

prefix
  1. Forth: prefixed to verbs to indicate a direction of 'away', 'off', 'forth'.
  2. Exhausting: prefixed to verbs with the sense of wearing or exhausting one's self.
  3. Destructively: prefixed to verbs with the sense of destruction or pain.
  4. Wrongly: prefixed to verbs with the sense of wrongly, amorally.
  5. Neglectfully: prefixed to verbs with the sense of abstaining from or neglecting.
  6. Very: intensifying adjectives.
  7. Making: prefixed to verbs to indicate the subject takes the character of the verb.
  8. Excessively: prefixed to verbs with the sense of doing so in excessive or overwhelm.
  9. Excluding: prefixed to verbs to give the sense of prohibition or exclusion.
  10. Intensively
  11. Thoroughly: prefixed to verbs with the sense of thoroughly, all over.
prefix
  1. Alternative form of fore-.
prefix
  1. Outside, out.

Pronunciation

/fɔː(ɹ)/ /fə(ɹ)/

Word forms

for- fore-

Etymology

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.

Related words

fore-

Derived words

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