Fastness is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FASTNESS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the quality of being fast
• a secure place well protected by natural features
• the ability of a material or dye to maintain its colour without fading or washing away
• fortress, safe place
• a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens
• the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment
• a strongly fortified defensive structure
ADJECTIVE:
• The state of being fast and firm; firmness; fixedness; security; faithfulness.
• A fast place; a stronghold; a fortress or fort; a secure retreat; a castle; as, the enemy retired to their fastnesses in the mountains.
• Conciseness of style.
• The state of being fast or swift.

Words related to FASTNESS

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Words that contain FASTNESS

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How to use FASTNESS in a sentence

• And in the incredibly small and incredibly dirty fastness of the stationmaster, they indeed found a Bradshaw.
• In this crowded land there is no fastness, no shelter.
• La Ferriere was a fastness of the kind of tyranny that passes out of human experience, the tyranny of the strong man over men.
• The opposition which he met was as sternly and mutely terrible as the rocky fastness of a mountain in his way.
• A Maori pa, in some forest fastness, stoutly built for defence from within, held by determined men with firearms, was hard to storm.
• The capital, or rather chief fastness, of Cassibelan was then taken, with a number of cattle, the wealth of this barbarous city.
• For there, in that icy fastness of the north, his mutinous crew bound him, set him adrift in a small boat, and sailed away and left him.
• Mediunah came down from its fastness among the hilltops to investigate discreetly from secure corners, prepared for flight so soon as occasion demanded it, if not before.
• The pursuers well knew what they might expect at his hands, driven to his last fastness, with the spear of the hunter at his throat.
• Kut-le drew rein beside a little waterfall deep in the mountain fastness.
• Using these properties a good jet black is obtained, which is quite satisfactory on the score of solidity and fastness.
• The Patent Blues work exceedingly well on wool, giving good bright shades of a fair degree of fastness.
• And they probably would make a stand in some natural fastness which vantage point would be hard to attack and turn.
• It was with a feeling of triumph, indeed, that the negroes, after gaining their own fastness, looked back at the sky, lighted by the distant conflagration.
• A shower of arrows fell among them, but they could not see a trace of the enemy, till the Indians, who had shot the arrows, broke from cover and ran to a second fastness.
• Once boats must have carried the knights and ladies back and forth between the mainland and the fourteenth-century fastness of old Archibald the Grim.
• The mountain fastness of the Apache in Arizona permitted easiest approach from the south and the west for all who wished to seek peace or revenge.
• Somewhere, in some mysterious fastness, the mysterious woman kept it.
• As he sat down he was aware of the solemnity of the great room, last fastness of the old strict decorum in the club.
• She could picture him living alone somewhere in its wild fastness, aloof from the little things of life.
• The same might be said of Nikol and Ivan because of days spent in the mountain fastness, where danger lurked at all times.
• Our only hope, he said, lay in reaching his tribe which was quite strong enough in their mountain fastness to beat off any number of Sagoths.
• It is, however, by no means necessary to demand absolute fastness from any color.
• Still they deserve only the rank of medium fastness.
• The Indians of the Muskingum valley felt secure in their wilderness fastness.
• In the afternoon of that day, the enemy practised a well devised stratagem for the purpose of drawing general Clay and his troops from their fastness.

Similar words containing FASTNES without suffix s

fastnesses13 stedfastness16 colorfastness18 lightfastness20 shamefastness21 soothfastness19 steadfastness17 colourfastness19 stedfastnesses18 colorfastnesses20 lightfastnesses22 shamefastnesses23 soothfastnesses21 steadfastnesses19 unsteadfastness19

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