Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to fair
Participle: faired
Gerund: fairing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | fair |
| you | fair |
| he;she;it | fairs |
| we | fair |
| you | fair |
| they | fair |
Perfect
| I | have faired |
| you | have faired |
| he;she;it | has faired |
| we | have faired |
| you | have faired |
| they | have faired |
Past
| I | faired |
| you | faired |
| he;she;it | faired |
| we | faired |
| you | faired |
| they | faired |
Pluperfect
| I | had faired |
| you | had faired |
| he;she;it | had faired |
| we | had faired |
| you | had faired |
| they | had faired |
Future
| I | will fair |
| you | will fair |
| he;she;it | will fair |
| we | will fair |
| you | will fair |
| they | will fair |
Future Perfect
| I | will have faired |
| you | will have faired |
| he;she;it | will have faired |
| we | will have faired |
| you | will have faired |
| they | will have faired |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | fair |
| you | fair |
| he;she;it | fair |
| we | fair |
| you | fair |
| they | fair |
Perfect
| I | have faired |
| you | have faired |
| he;she;it | have faired |
| we | have faired |
| you | have faired |
| they | have faired |
Imperfect
| I | faired |
| you | faired |
| he;she;it | faired |
| we | faired |
| you | faired |
| they | faired |
Pluperfect
| I | had faired |
| you | had faired |
| he;she;it | had faired |
| we | had faired |
| you | had faired |
| they | had faired |
Conditional
Present
| I | would fair |
| you | would fair |
| he;she;it | would fair |
| we | would fair |
| you | would fair |
| they | would fair |
Perfect
| I | would have faired |
| you | would have faired |
| he;she;it | would have faired |
| we | would have faired |
| you | would have faired |
| they | would have faired |
Imperative
| you | fair |
| we | Let's fair |
| you | fair |
Verbs conjugated like 'fair'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'fair'
air,
cair,
fail,
fain,
flair,
lair,
pair,
wair,
aid,
aik,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to reduce air drag or water resistance
- streamline
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English fayr, from Old English fæġer (“beautiful”), from Proto-West Germanic *fagr, from Proto-Germanic *fagraz (“appropriate, fitting, nice, suitable”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- (“to attach, join; agreement, settlement”).
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with Old High German and Old Saxon fagar (“beautiful, fair”), Danish fager, favr (“fair, pretty, wonderful”), Faroese and Icelandic fagur (“beautiful, fair”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish fager (“fair, pretty”), Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌲𐍂𐍃 (fagrs, “fair, proper”), Estonian vapper (“brave, courageous”), Finnish vauras (“substantial, wealthy”); also Latin pāx (“peace; ease, quiet, rest”), Umbrian pase (“peace”), Belarusian пе́кны (pjékny, “beautiful”), Czech pěkný (“nice; pretty”), Polish piekny, piękny (“beautiful; admirable, praiseworthy”), Slovak pekný (“nice; pretty”), Sanskrit पाश॑ (pā́śa, “bond, cord, noose; nature, outer world; border, edge, selvage”). See also peace.
Sample Sentences
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Since the sequence of data contain sampling noises, the captured motion is not smooth and wiggles along the moving path. There are well-known fairing algorithms in Euclidean space based on difference geometry. [1996, Computer Animation '96: June 3-4, 1996, Geneva, Switzerland, page 136:]
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Two forward cars were provided with the model. One of these (shown detached in Fig. 1) was faired at its after end, with a view to possible reduction of head resistance, and to induce a better flow of air to the propeller. [1920, Technical Report of the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, page 206:]
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Fairing the foul with art’s false borrow’d face [1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 127”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:]
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[The] weather faired, and toward midday we were again facing the fringe of breakers from the cliffs. [1891, Percival Lowell, Noto: An Unexplored Corner of Japan, IndyPublish.com, page 211:]
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... weather "faired off" next morning, and we were not a bit sorry to mark time for a couple of days while the water went down. [1929, James Frank Dobie, A Vaquero of the Brush Country, page 88:]
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... weather faired up but there was no thought of delay; it was time for Texas to move forward and form a new, independent government. In an effort to combat the frigid conditions, the delegates nailed thin pieces of cloth over the[…] [1992 05, Wallace O. Chariton, Charlie Eckhardt, Kevin Young, Unsolved Texas Mysteries, Taylor Trade Publications, →ISBN, page 205:]