firm – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of firm

Adjective: firm

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Comparativefirmer
Superlativefirmest

Perifrastic

Sample Sentences

  • It's good to have a firm grip when shaking hands.
  • a firm believer; a firm friend; a firm adherent
  • firm favourites
  • With such constant off-field turmoil Hughton’s work has been remarkable and this may have been his last game in charge. West Bromwich Albion, searching for a replacement for Roy Hodgson, are firm admirers. [2012 May 9, John Percy, “Birmingham City 2 Blackpool 2 (2-3 on agg): match report”, in the Telegraph:]
  • He wanted to stay overnight, but I was firm with him and said he had to leave today.
  • firm flesh; firm muscles, firm wood; firm land (i.e. not soft and marshy)
  • Biblical criteria of sexual seductiveness include a white skin, black hair, or henna-dyed, scarlet lips, a prominent nose, rosy temples, long straight neck, firm breasts, round thighs, an erect posture. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 219:]
  • […] The life that almost dies in me:
  • That dies not, but endures with pain,
  • ⁠And slowly forms the firmer mind,
  • ⁠Treasuring the look it cannot find,
  • The words that are not heard again. [1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XVIII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 30:]
  • Although facilitators of the workshop for lesbians and bisexual women attempted to address the concerns of lesbians, little firm information emerged. [1988 April 23, Elizabeth Pincus, “Moving To Meet The Needs Of Women In The Age Of AIDS”, in Gay Community News, page 7:]
  • None of the Aramaic inscriptions from the Hellenistic and Roman period that are cited in support of this hypothesis that divine messengers are identified with their sender provide any firm proof to this respect. [1999, Lucinda Dirven, The Palmyrenes of Dura-Europos:]

Adjectives inflected like firm

sallow, smooth, slight, sleigh, sordid, somber, shweet, shrill, shrewd, yellow, yaller, hard knock, DRY, Greek, cut short, unquiet, unclean, indiscreet, chipper, straicht, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)

Etymology

From Middle English ferme, from Old French ferme, from Latin firmus (“strong, steady”). Doublet of dharma. See: Latin Adjectives 'firmus'.