| antithetic | (adjective) sharply contrasted in character or purpose | Synonyms: antithetical |
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| antithetical | (adjective) sharply contrasted in character or purpose | Synonyms: antithetic |
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| antithyroid | (adjective) having the effect of counteracting excessive thyroid activity | - |
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| antitoxic | (adjective) counteracting a toxin or poison | - |
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| antitrust | (adjective) of laws and regulations; designed to protect trade and commerce from unfair business practices | Synonyms: antimonopoly |
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| antitumor | (adjective) used in the treatment of cancer | Synonyms: anticancer, antineoplastic, antitumour |
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| antitumour | (adjective) used in the treatment of cancer | Synonyms: anticancer, antineoplastic, antitumor |
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| antitypic | (adjective) of or relating to an antitype that is a symbol | Synonyms: antitypical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to an antitype that represents an opposite | Synonyms: antitypical |
| antitypical | (adjective) of or relating to an antitype that is a symbol | Synonyms: antitypic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to an antitype that represents an opposite | Synonyms: antitypic |
| antiviral | (adjective) inhibiting or stopping the growth and reproduction of viruses | - |
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| antlered | (adjective) having antlers | - |
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| antonymous | (adjective) of words: having opposite meanings | - |
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| antrorse | (adjective) bent or curved forward or upward | - |
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| antsy | (adjective) nervous and unable to relax | Synonyms: fidgety, fretful, itchy, restless |
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| anuran | (adjective) relating to frogs and toads | Synonyms: batrachian, salientian |
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| anuretic | (adjective) of or relating to an inability to urinate | Synonyms: anuric |
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| anuric | (adjective) of or relating to an inability to urinate | Synonyms: anuretic |
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| anurous | (adjective) not having a tail | Synonyms: tailless |
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| anxiolytic | (adjective) anxiety relieving | - |
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| anxious | (adjective) eagerly desirous | Synonyms: dying |
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| (adjective) causing or fraught with or showing anxiety | Synonyms: nervous, queasy, uneasy, unquiet |
| any | (adjective) one or some or every or all without specification; entity, elective existential pronoun; quantifier, elective existential | Synonyms: whatever, whatsoever |
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| aphanitic | (adjective) of or relating to aphanite | - |
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| apian | (adjective) relating to or having the characteristics of bees | - |
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| apiarian | (adjective) relating to bees or beekeeping | - |
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| aplanatic | (adjective) free from or corrected for spherical aberration | - |
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| apogean | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of an apogee | - |
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| appellant | (adjective) of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals) | Synonyms: appellate |
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| appendant | (adjective) affixed as an appendage | - |
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| appurtenant | (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjunct, adjuvant, ancillary, auxiliary |
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| arachnidian | (adjective) relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida | Synonyms: arachnoid, spiderlike, spiderly, spidery |
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| araneidal | (adjective) relating to or resembling a spider | Synonyms: araneidan |
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| araneidan | (adjective) relating to or resembling a spider | Synonyms: araneidal |
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| arcadian | (adjective) (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic | Synonyms: bucolic, pastoral |
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| arcane | (adjective) requiring secret or mysterious knowledge | - |
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| archaean | (adjective) of or relating to the earliest known rocks formed during the Precambrian Eon | Synonyms: archean |
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| archangelic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling archangels | Synonyms: archangelical |
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| archangelical | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling archangels | Synonyms: archangelic |
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| archdiocesan | (adjective) of or relating to an archdiocese | - |
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| archean | (adjective) of or relating to the earliest known rocks formed during the Precambrian Eon | Synonyms: archaean |
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| archosaurian | (adjective) of or relating to reptiles of the subclass Archosauria | - |
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| arranged | (adjective) disposed or placed in a particular kind of order | Synonyms: ordered |
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| (adjective) deliberately arranged for effect | Synonyms: staged |
| (adjective) organized or planned for | - |
| arrant | (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
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| arrogant | (adjective) having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride | Synonyms: chesty, self-important |
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| artesian | (adjective) (of water) rising to the surface under internal hydrostatic pressure | - |
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| arthropodan | (adjective) of or relating to invertebrates of the phylum Arthropoda | Synonyms: arthropodal, arthropodous |
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| ascendant | (adjective) tending or directed upward | Synonyms: ascendent, ascensive |
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| (adjective) most powerful or important or influential | Synonyms: ascendent, dominating |
| askance | (adjective) (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy | Synonyms: askant, asquint, sidelong, squint-eyed, squint, squinty |
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| askant | (adjective) (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy | Synonyms: askance, asquint, sidelong, squint-eyed, squint, squinty |
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| aslant | (adjective) having an oblique or slanted direction | Synonyms: aslope, diagonal, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping |
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| aspirant | (adjective) desiring or striving for recognition or advancement | Synonyms: aspiring, wishful |
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| assistant | (adjective) of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another | Synonyms: adjunct |
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| assonant | (adjective) having the same vowel sound occurring with different consonants in successive words or stressed syllables | - |
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| (adjective) having the same sound (especially the same vowel sound) occurring in successive stressed syllables | - |
| attendant | (adjective) being present (at a meeting or event, etc.) | - |
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| (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, collateral, concomitant, consequent, ensuant, incidental, resultant, sequent |
| aurorean | (adjective) characteristic of the dawn | Synonyms: auroral |
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| authoritarian | (adjective) expecting unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: dictatorial, overbearing |
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| (adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: autocratic, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical |
| autosemantic | (adjective) of a word or phrase meaningful in isolation, independent of context | - |
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| avellan | (adjective) pertaining to filberts or hazelnuts | Synonyms: avellane |
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| avellane | (adjective) pertaining to filberts or hazelnuts | Synonyms: avellan |
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| avian | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of birds | - |
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| bacchanal | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanalian, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic |
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| bacchanalian | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic |
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| bacchantic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a bacchanalian reveler | - |
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| backhand | (adjective) (of racket strokes) made across the body with back of hand facing direction of stroke | Synonyms: backhanded |
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| (adjective) (of handwriting) having the letters slanting backward | Synonyms: left-slanting |
| backhanded | (adjective) (of racket strokes) made across the body with back of hand facing direction of stroke | Synonyms: backhand |
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| (adjective) roundabout or ambiguous | - |
| balanced | (adjective) being in a state of proper equilibrium | - |
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| banal | (adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn |
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| banausic | (adjective) (formal) ordinary and not refined | - |
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| bandaged | (adjective) covered or wrapped with a bandage | Synonyms: bound |
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| banded | (adjective) identified with a band especially around a leg | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by a band of especially white around the body | - |
| (adjective) marked with bands or strips of contrasting color or texture | - |
| bandy | (adjective) have legs that curve outward at the knees | Synonyms: bandy-legged, bowed, bowleg, bowlegged |
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| baneful | (adjective) deadly or sinister | Synonyms: baleful |
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| (adjective) exceedingly harmful | Synonyms: deadly, pernicious, pestilent |
| banging | (adjective) (used informally) very large | Synonyms: humongous, thumping, walloping, whopping |
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| bankable | (adjective) acceptable to or at a bank | - |
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| (adjective) guaranteed to bring a profit | - |
| bankrupt | (adjective) financially ruined | Synonyms: belly-up |
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| banned | (adjective) forbidden by law | Synonyms: prohibited |
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| banner | (adjective) unusually good; outstanding | - |
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| bantam | (adjective) very small | Synonyms: diminutive, flyspeck, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny |
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| bantering | (adjective) cleverly amusing in tone | Synonyms: facetious, tongue-in-cheek |
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| barbarian | (adjective) without civilizing influences | Synonyms: barbaric, savage, uncivilised, uncivilized, wild |
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| barehanded | (adjective) with bare hands | - |
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| basilican | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a basilica | - |
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| batrachian | (adjective) relating to frogs and toads | Synonyms: anuran, salientian |
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| beforehand | (adjective) being ahead of time or need | Synonyms: advance |
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| behindhand | (adjective) behind schedule | - |
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| benignant | (adjective) pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence | Synonyms: benign |
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| (adjective) characterized by kindness and warm courtesy especially of a king to his subjects | Synonyms: gracious |
| biannual | (adjective) occurring or payable twice each year | Synonyms: biyearly, half-yearly, semiannual |
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| bibliomaniacal | (adjective) characteristic of or characterized by or noted for bibliomania | - |
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| bimanual | (adjective) requiring two hands or designed for two people | Synonyms: two-handed |
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| bipartisan | (adjective) supported by both sides | Synonyms: bipartizan, two-party, two-way |
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| bipartizan | (adjective) supported by both sides | Synonyms: bipartisan, two-party, two-way |
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| blanched | (adjective) anemic looking from illness or emotion | Synonyms: ashen, bloodless, livid, white |
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| (adjective) (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light | Synonyms: etiolate, etiolated |
| bland | (adjective) smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication | Synonyms: politic, smooth, suave |
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| (adjective) lacking taste or flavor or tang | Synonyms: flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid |
| (adjective) lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting | Synonyms: flat |
| blank | (adjective) (of a surface) not written or printed on | Synonyms: clean, white |
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| (adjective) not charged with a bullet | - |
| (adjective) complete and absolute | Synonyms: utter |
| (adjective) without comprehension | - |
| blanket | (adjective) broad in scope or content | Synonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, broad, encompassing, extensive, panoptic, wide |
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| blanketed | (adjective) covered with (or as if with) a blanket | - |
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| blatant | (adjective) conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry | Synonyms: clamant, clamorous, strident, vociferous |
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| (adjective) without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious | Synonyms: blazing, conspicuous |
| bohemian | (adjective) unconventional in especially appearance and behavior | - |
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| botanic | (adjective) of or relating to plants or botany | Synonyms: botanical |
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| botanical | (adjective) of or relating to plants or botany | Synonyms: botanic |
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| bouffant | (adjective) being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing | Synonyms: puffy |
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