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(original sense, archaic or literary) Beautiful, of a pleasing appearance, with a pure and fresh quality.

📑 Synonyms: beautiful pretty lovely

Unblemished (figuratively or literally); clean and pure; innocent.

📑 Synonyms: pure clean neat

Light in color, pale, particularly with regard to skin tone but also referring to blond hair.

📑 Synonyms: pale

Just, equitable.

📑 Synonyms: honest just equitable

Adequate, reasonable, or decent, but not excellent.

📑 Synonyms: OK okay

(nautical, of a wind) Favorable to a ship's course.

Not overcast; cloudless; clear; pleasant; propitious; said of the sky, weather, or wind, etc.

Free from obstacles or hindrances; unobstructed; unencumbered; open; direct; said of a road, passage, etc.

(shipbuilding) Without sudden change of direction or curvature; smooth; flowing; said of the figure of a vessel, and of surfaces, water lines, and other lines.

(baseball) Between the baselines.

(rugby, of a catch) Taken direct from an opponent's foot, without the ball touching the ground or another player.

(cricket, of a ball delivered by the bowler) Not a no ball.

(statistics) Of a coin or die, having equal chance of landing on any side, unbiased.

Something which is fair (in various senses of the adjective).

(obsolete) A woman, a member of the ‘fair sex’; also as a collective singular, women.

(obsolete) Fairness, beauty.

A fair woman; a sweetheart.

(obsolete) Good fortune; good luck.

To smoothen or even a surface (especially a connection or junction on a surface).

To bring into perfect alignment (especially about rivet holes when connecting structural members).

(art) To make an animation smooth, removing any jerkiness.

To construct or design with the aim of producing a smooth outline or reducing air drag or water resistance.

📑 Synonyms: streamline

(obsolete) To make fair or beautiful.

Clearly, openly, frankly, civilly, honestly, favorably, auspiciously, agreeably.

A community gathering to celebrate and exhibit local achievements.

An event for public entertainment and trade, a market.

An event for professionals in a trade to learn of new products and do business, a trade fair.

A travelling amusement park (called a funfair in British English and a (travelling) carnival in US English).