Synonyms for FORTY
ˈfɔr tiforty

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1. fortynumeral

   Synonyms:
   w:Arabic numerals, w:Roman numerals

2. fortynumeral

   The cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine and before forty-one.

   Synonyms:
   w:Arabic numerals, w:Roman numerals

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.7 / 3 votes

1. forty, 40, XLadjective

   the cardinal number that is the product of ten and four

   Synonyms:
   forty

   Antonyms:
   ordinal

2. forty, 40, xl, twoscoreadjective

   being ten more than thirty

   Synonyms:
   twoscore, xl, forty

   Antonyms:
   ordinal

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:4.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "forty":

   40, quarantine, fortieth, forty-, 40th

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1. President Barack Obama:

   Last year, Vice President Biden said that with a new moonshot, America can cure cancer. Last month, he worked with this Congress to give scientists at the National Institutes of Health the strongest resources they've had in over a decade, (Because) he's gone to the mat for all of us, on so many issues over the past forty years, I'm putting Joe in charge of Mission Control.

2. Richard Shelby:

   I am grateful to the people of Alabama who have put their trust in me for more than forty years. I have been fortunate to serve in the U.S. Senate longer than any other Alabamian.

3. Winston Churchill:

   If you are not a liberal at twenty, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

4. Superintendent Vicki Townsend:

   We are currently delivering the training as part of the force training days to frontline officers, forty officers get an input [each] week. This started in January and is due to finish in May. This is is the first scenario that we built. We have planned to build 10 scenarios … We are also hoping to build multi-agency-based scenarios.

5. Collen McCullough:

   The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five- year-old men more.