Forby

//fəˈbʌɪ//

Synonyms for "forby" (32 found)

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Closest matches (7)

Adjective(3 words)

aberrant alien booky

Preposition(4 words)

bar barring beyond but

Strong matches (9)

Adjective(5 words)

curious different eerie freak freaky

Preposition(4 words)

except except for excepting in addition to

Related words (16)

Preposition(5 words)

modulo next to on top of save for with the exception of

Adjective(11 words)

odd offbeat outlandish prodigious queer remarkable seld singular strange unusual weird

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5 relation types

derived

1 entries

forbyland

derived from

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etymologically related_to

2 entries

by fore

has context

3 entries

dialectal northern england uk

related to

14 entries

beside besides beyond by close to exceptionally extraordinary moreover near over past superior uncommon uncommonly

Sample sentences

7 total sentences available.

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He's a forbye man.

Source: wiktionary

To see the world and folk that went forby, […]

Source: wiktionary

He was forby kind.

Source: wiktionary

Those were the two sonnes of Acrates old / Who meeting earst with Archimago slie, / Foreby that idle strond, of him were told, / That he, wich earst them combatted, was Guyon bold.

Source: wiktionary

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