fig as a noun: - 1
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FIG - 3
fig - 4
FIG
noun
1 fig
A diagram or picture illustrating textual material:
— The area covered can be seen from Figure 2.
synonym: figure.
2 fig
Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit.
synonyms: common fig, common fig tree, Ficus carica.
Roget 643:
unimportance,
insignificance,
nothingness,
immateriality.
triviality,
levity,
frivolity;
paltriness
etc.
adj.;
poverty;
smallness
etc.
32;
vanity
etc.
(uselessness)
645;
matter of indifference
etc.
866;
no object.
nothing,
nothing to signify,
nothing worth speaking of,
nothing particular,
nothing to boast of,
nothing to speak of;
small matter,
no great matter,
trifling matter
etc.
adj.;
mere joke,
mere nothing;
hardly anything;
scarcely anything;
nonentity,
small beer,
cipher;
no great shakes,
peu de chose [Fr.];
child's play,
kinderspiel.
toy,
plaything,
popgun,
paper pellet,
gimcrack,
gewgaw,
bauble,
trinket,
bagatelle,
Rickshaw,
knickknack,
whim-wham,
trifle,
trifles light as air;"
yankee notions [U.S.].
trumpery,
trash,
rubbish,
stuff,
fatras†,
frippery;
leather or prunello;"
chaff,
drug,
froth bubble smoke,
cobweb;
weed;
refuse
etc.
(inutility)
645;
scum
etc.
(dirt)
653.
joke,
jest,
snap of the fingers;
fudge
etc.
(unmeaning)
517;
fiddlestick†,
fiddlestick end†;
pack of nonsense,
mere farce.
straw,
pin,
fig,
button,
rush;
bulrush,
feather,
halfpenny,
farthing,
brass farthing,
doit†,
peppercorn,
jot,
rap,
pinch of snuff,
old son;
cent,
mill,
picayune,
pistareen†,
red cent [U.S.].
minutiae,
details,
minor details,
small fry;
dust in the balance,
feather in the scale,
drop in the ocean,
flea-bite,
molehill.
nine days' wonder,
ridiculus mus [Lat.];
flash in the pan
etc.
(impotence)
158;
much ado about nothing
etc.
(overestimation)
482.
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Dutch: vijg, vijgeboom, vijgenboom
Polish: figa, figowiec pospolity, figa pospolita, figa karyjska, drzewo figowe
3 FIG
4 fig
Fleshy sweet pear-shaped yellowish or purple multiple fruit eaten fresh or preserved or dried.
Polish: figa
Moby thesaurus: a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, apparel, array, attire, bagatelle, bauble, bean, bedizenment, bibelot, bit, brass farthing, button, cent, clothes, clothing, costume, curio, drapery, dress, dressing, duds, farce, farthing, fashion, fatigues, feather, feathers, fleabite, folderol, fribble, frippery, garb, garments, gaud, gear, gewgaw, gimcrack, guise, habiliment, habit, hair, halfpenny, hill of beans, investiture, investment, jest, joke, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, linen, minikin, mockery, molehill, peppercorn, picayune, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, rags, raiment, rap, red cent, robes, row of pins, rush, shit, snap, sneeshing, sou, sportswear, straw, style, threads, togs, toilette, toy, trifle, trim, trinket, triviality, tuppence, two cents, twopence, vestment, vesture, wear, wearing apparel, whim-wham ... show more.
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