for-
/fɔː(ɹ)/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 7.01 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
prefix
Exhausting: prefixed to verbs with the sense of wearing or exhausting oneself.
prefix
Destructively: prefixed to verbs with the sense of destruction or pain.
prefix
Neglectfully: prefixed to verbs with the sense of abstaining from or neglecting.
prefix
Very: intensifying adjectives.
Example Sentences
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.