| academic | (adjective) associated with academia or an academy | - |
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| (adjective) marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects | Synonyms: donnish, pedantic |
| (adjective) hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result | - |
| adenocarcinomatous | (adjective) of or pertaining to adenocarcinoma | - |
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| adenoid | (adjective) relating to or resembling lymphatic glands or lymphoid tissue | - |
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| adenoidal | (adjective) of or pertaining to the adenoids | - |
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| (adjective) sounding as if the nose were pinched | Synonyms: nasal, pinched |
| adept | (adjective) having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude | Synonyms: expert, good, practiced, proficient, skilful, skillful |
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| adequate | (adjective) having the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task | Synonyms: equal |
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| (adjective) about average; acceptable | Synonyms: fair to middling, passable, tolerable |
| (adjective) sufficient for the purpose | Synonyms: enough |
| airheaded | (adjective) lacking seriousness; given to frivolity | Synonyms: dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, light-headed, lightheaded, silly |
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| anterograde | (adjective) of amnesia; affecting time immediately following trauma | - |
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| bareheaded | (adjective) having the head uncovered | Synonyms: bared |
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| barricaded | (adjective) preventing entry or exit or a course of action | Synonyms: barred, blockaded |
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| beaded | (adjective) covered with beads of liquid | - |
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| beheaded | (adjective) having had the head cut off | Synonyms: decapitated |
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| bigheaded | (adjective) (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant | Synonyms: persnickety, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish |
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| bladed | (adjective) bearing or characterized by a blade or sword; often used in combination | - |
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| (adjective) having a blade or blades; often used in combination | - |
| (adjective) composed of thin flat plates resembling a knife blade | - |
| bladelike | (adjective) shaped like a sword blade | Synonyms: ensiform, sword-shaped, swordlike |
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| blockaded | (adjective) preventing entry or exit or a course of action | Synonyms: barred, barricaded |
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| blockheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: boneheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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| boneheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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| brocaded | (adjective) embellished with a raised pattern created by pressure or embroidery | Synonyms: embossed, raised |
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| bullheaded | (adjective) obstinate and stupid | Synonyms: bullet-headed, pigheaded |
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| cadenced | (adjective) marked by a rhythmical cadence | Synonyms: cadent |
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| cadent | (adjective) marked by a rhythmical cadence | Synonyms: cadenced |
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| centigrade | (adjective) of or relating to a temperature scale on which the freezing point of water is 0 degrees and the boiling point of water is 100 degrees | - |
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| clearheaded | (adjective) not mentally confused; able to think clearly and act intelligently | Synonyms: clear-thinking |
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| colonnaded | (adjective) having a series of columns arranged at regular intervals | - |
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| comradely | (adjective) heartily friendly and congenial | Synonyms: hail-fellow-well-met, hail-fellow |
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| coolheaded | (adjective) marked by calm self-control (especially in trying circumstances); unemotional | Synonyms: cool, nerveless |
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| deadened | (adjective) made or become less intense | - |
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| (adjective) devoid of physical sensation; numb | Synonyms: dead |
| deadening | (adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | Synonyms: boring, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome |
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| decadent | (adjective) marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay | Synonyms: fin-de-siecle |
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| (adjective) luxuriously self-indulgent | - |
| degraded | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous |
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| (adjective) lowered in value | Synonyms: debased, devalued |
| digitigrade | (adjective) (of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do) | - |
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| dreaded | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
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| faded | (adjective) having lost freshness or brilliance of color | Synonyms: bleached, washed-out, washy |
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| (adjective) reduced in strength | Synonyms: attenuate, attenuated, weakened |
| fatheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, boneheaded, duncical, duncish, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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| goaded | (adjective) compelled forcibly by an outside agency | Synonyms: driven |
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| graded | (adjective) arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks | Synonyms: ranked, stratified |
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| handmade | (adjective) made by hand or a hand process | Synonyms: hand-crafted |
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| hardheaded | (adjective) guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory | Synonyms: hard-nosed, practical, pragmatic |
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| (adjective) unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack | Synonyms: mulish |
| headed | (adjective) having a head of a specified kind or anything that serves as a head; often used in combination | - |
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| (adjective) having a heading or caption | - |
| (adjective) of leafy vegetables; having formed into a head | - |
| (adjective) having a heading or course in a certain direction | - |
| hexadecimal | (adjective) of or pertaining to a number system having 16 as its base | Synonyms: hex |
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| homemade | (adjective) made or produced in the home or by yourself | - |
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| hotheaded | (adjective) quickly aroused to anger | Synonyms: choleric, hot-tempered, irascible, quick-tempered, short-tempered |
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| (adjective) characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | Synonyms: brainish, impetuous, impulsive, madcap, tearaway |
| inadequate | (adjective) lacking the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task | Synonyms: unequal |
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| (adjective) of insufficient quantity to meet a need | Synonyms: jejune, poor, short |
| intradepartmental | (adjective) within a department | - |
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| intradermal | (adjective) relating to areas between the layers of the skin | Synonyms: intracutaneous, intradermic |
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| intradermic | (adjective) relating to areas between the layers of the skin | Synonyms: intracutaneous, intradermal |
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| jade | (adjective) of something having the color of jade; especially varying from bluish green to yellowish green | Synonyms: jade-green |
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| jaded | (adjective) dulled by surfeit | - |
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| (adjective) exhausted | Synonyms: wearied |
| laden | (adjective) burdened psychologically or mentally | Synonyms: oppressed |
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| (adjective) filled with a great quantity | Synonyms: ladened, loaded |
| ladened | (adjective) filled with a great quantity | Synonyms: laden, loaded |
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| leaded | (adjective) treated or mixed with lead | - |
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| (adjective) (of panes of glass) fixed in place by means of thin strips of lead | - |
| (adjective) having thin strips of lead between the lines of type | - |
| leaden | (adjective) made of lead | - |
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| (adjective) darkened with overcast | Synonyms: dull |
| (adjective) lacking lightness or liveliness | Synonyms: heavy |
| (adjective) (of movement) slow and laborious | Synonyms: plodding |
| (adjective) made heavy or weighted down with weariness | Synonyms: weighted |
| levelheaded | (adjective) exercising or showing good judgment | Synonyms: healthy, intelligent, level-headed, sound |
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| lightheaded | (adjective) lacking seriousness; given to frivolity | Synonyms: airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, light-headed, silly |
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| (adjective) weak and likely to lose consciousness | Synonyms: faint, light-headed, light, swooning |
| loaded | (adjective) (of weapons) charged with ammunition | - |
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| (adjective) filled with a great quantity | Synonyms: laden, ladened |
| (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
| (adjective) (of statements or questions) charged with associative significance and often meant to mislead or influence | - |
| (adjective) having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value | Synonyms: affluent, flush, moneyed, substantial, wealthy |
| loggerheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, boneheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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| made | (adjective) (of a bed) having the sheets and blankets set in order | - |
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| (adjective) produced by a manufacturing process | - |
| (adjective) successful or assured of success | - |
| muddleheaded | (adjective) stupid and confused | Synonyms: addlebrained, addlepated, puddingheaded |
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| nonleaded | (adjective) (of gasoline) not containing tetraethyl lead | Synonyms: lead-free |
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| overladen | (adjective) loaded past capacity | Synonyms: overloaded |
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| overloaded | (adjective) loaded past capacity | Synonyms: overladen |
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| pigheaded | (adjective) obstinate and stupid | Synonyms: bullet-headed, bullheaded |
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| plantigrade | (adjective) (of mammals) walking on the whole sole of the foot (as rabbits, raccoons, bears, and humans do) | - |
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| pomaded | (adjective) (of hair) groomed with pomade | - |
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| prefaded | (adjective) (of fabric or clothing) having been given a faded (weathered) appearance by artificial means | - |
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| puddingheaded | (adjective) stupid and confused | Synonyms: addlebrained, addlepated, muddleheaded |
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| redheaded | (adjective) having red hair and usually fair skin | - |
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| renegade | (adjective) having deserted a cause or principle | Synonyms: recreant |
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| retrograde | (adjective) of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma | - |
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| (adjective) moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth | - |
| (adjective) going from better to worse | Synonyms: retrogressive |
| (adjective) moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction | Synonyms: retral |
| roundheaded | (adjective) having a brachycephalic head | Synonyms: broad-headed, short-headed |
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| shaded | (adjective) protected from heat and light with shade or shadow | - |
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| (adjective) (of pictures or drawings) drawn or painted with degrees or gradations of shadow | - |
| sleepyheaded | (adjective) ready to fall asleep | Synonyms: sleepy-eyed, sleepy |
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| softheaded | (adjective) foolish; totally unsound | Synonyms: crazy, half-baked, screwball |
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| thickheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, boneheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, wooden-headed |
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| threaded | (adjective) (of bolts or screws) having screw threads | - |
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| towheaded | (adjective) of hair color; whitish | Synonyms: ash-blonde, platinum-blonde |
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| trademarked | (adjective) (of goods and merchandise) labeled with proprietary (and legally registered) identification guaranteeing exclusive use | - |
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| ungraded | (adjective) not arranged in order hierarchically | Synonyms: unordered, unranked |
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| (adjective) (of roads) not leveled or drained; unsuitable for all year travel | Synonyms: dirt |
| unheaded | (adjective) not having a heading or caption | - |
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| unleaded | (adjective) not treated with lead | Synonyms: leadless |
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| (adjective) not having leads between the lines | - |
| unloaded | (adjective) (of weapons) not charged with ammunition | - |
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| unmade | (adjective) (of a bed) not having the sheets and blankets set in order | - |
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| unpersuaded | (adjective) not converted | Synonyms: unconverted |
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| unshaded | (adjective) not darkened or dimmed by shade | - |
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| (adjective) (of pictures) not having shadow represented | - |
| wrongheaded | (adjective) obstinately perverse in judgment or opinion | - |
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