| adamantine | (adjective) consisting of or having the hardness of adamant | - |
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| (adjective) having the hardness of a diamond | - |
| (adjective) impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason | Synonyms: adamant, inexorable, intransigent |
| andantino | (adjective) (of tempo) moderately fast | - |
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| anti | (adjective) not in favor of (an action or proposal etc.) | - |
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| antiadrenergic | (adjective) relating to blocking or reducing adrenergic effects in the body | - |
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| antiaircraft | (adjective) designed for defense from a surface position against air attack | - |
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| antiapartheid | (adjective) opposing the policy of apartheid in South Africa | - |
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| antiauthoritarian | (adjective) opposed to authoritarianism | - |
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| antibacterial | (adjective) destroying bacteria or inhibiting their growth | - |
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| antibiotic | (adjective) of or relating to antibiotic drugs | - |
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| antiblack | (adjective) discriminatory especially on the basis of race or religion | Synonyms: anti-Semite, racist |
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| antic | (adjective) ludicrously odd | Synonyms: fantastic, fantastical, grotesque |
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| anticancer | (adjective) used in the treatment of cancer | Synonyms: antineoplastic, antitumor, antitumour |
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| anticholinergic | (adjective) inhibiting or blocking the action of acetylcholine at a receptor site | - |
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| anticipant | (adjective) marked by eager anticipation | Synonyms: anticipative, expectant |
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| anticipated | (adjective) expected hopefully | Synonyms: awaited, hoped-for |
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| anticipative | (adjective) marked by eager anticipation | Synonyms: anticipant, expectant |
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| anticipatory | (adjective) in anticipation | Synonyms: prevenient |
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| anticlimactic | (adjective) coming after the climax especially of a dramatic or narrative plot | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a sudden change from an impressive to a ludicrous style | Synonyms: anticlimactical |
| anticlimactical | (adjective) of or relating to a sudden change from an impressive to a ludicrous style | Synonyms: anticlimactic |
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| anticlinal | (adjective) sloping downward away from a common crest | - |
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| anticlockwise | (adjective) in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock | Synonyms: contraclockwise, counterclockwise |
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| anticoagulative | (adjective) of or relating to an anticoagulant | - |
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| anticyclonic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the atmosphere around a high pressure center | - |
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| antidotal | (adjective) counteracting the effects of a poison | - |
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| antidromic | (adjective) conducting nerve impulses in a direction opposite to normal | - |
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| antiferromagnetic | (adjective) relating to antiferromagnetism | - |
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| antifertility | (adjective) capable of preventing conception or impregnation | Synonyms: contraceptive, prophylactic |
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| antifungal | (adjective) capable of destroying fungi | Synonyms: fungicidal |
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| antigenic | (adjective) of or relating to antigens | - |
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| antiheretical | (adjective) opposed to heresy | - |
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| antiknock | (adjective) suppressing or eliminating engine knock in combustion engines | Synonyms: antiknocking |
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| antiknocking | (adjective) suppressing or eliminating engine knock in combustion engines | Synonyms: antiknock |
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| antimagnetic | (adjective) impervious to the effects of a magnetic field; resistant to magnetization | - |
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| antimicrobial | (adjective) capable of destroying or inhibiting the growth of disease-causing microorganisms | Synonyms: antimicrobic |
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| antimicrobic | (adjective) capable of destroying or inhibiting the growth of disease-causing microorganisms | Synonyms: antimicrobial |
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| antimonial | (adjective) containing antimony | - |
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| antimonic | (adjective) relating to or derived from antimony | Synonyms: antimonious |
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| antimonious | (adjective) relating to or derived from antimony | Synonyms: antimonic |
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| antimonopoly | (adjective) of laws and regulations; designed to protect trade and commerce from unfair business practices | Synonyms: antitrust |
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| antineoplastic | (adjective) used in the treatment of cancer | Synonyms: anticancer, antitumor, antitumour |
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| antinomian | (adjective) relating to or influenced by antinomianism | - |
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| antiparallel | (adjective) (especially of vectors) parallel but oppositely directed | - |
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| antipathetic | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed | Synonyms: antipathetical, averse, indisposed, loath, loth |
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| (adjective) characterized by antagonism or antipathy | Synonyms: antagonistic, antipathetical |
| antipathetical | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed | Synonyms: antipathetic, averse, indisposed, loath, loth |
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| (adjective) characterized by antagonism or antipathy | Synonyms: antagonistic, antipathetic |
| antipersonnel | (adjective) designed to inflict death or personal injury rather than material destruction | - |
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| antiphlogistic | (adjective) counteracting inflammation | - |
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| antiphonal | (adjective) containing or using responses; alternating | Synonyms: responsive |
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| (adjective) relating to or resembling an antiphon or antiphony | Synonyms: antiphonary |
| antiphonary | (adjective) relating to or resembling an antiphon or antiphony | Synonyms: antiphonal |
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| antipodal | (adjective) relating to the antipodes or situated at opposite sides of the earth | Synonyms: antipodean |
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| antipodean | (adjective) relating to the antipodes or situated at opposite sides of the earth | Synonyms: antipodal |
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| antipollution | (adjective) intended to reduce pollution | - |
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| antipyretic | (adjective) preventing or alleviating fever | - |
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| antiquarian | (adjective) of or relating to antiques or antiquities | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to persons who study or deal in antiques or antiquities | - |
| antiquated | (adjective) so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period | Synonyms: antediluvian, archaic |
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| antique | (adjective) made in or typical of earlier times and valued for its age | - |
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| (adjective) out of fashion | Synonyms: demode, ex, old-fashioned, old-hat, outmoded, passe, passee |
| (adjective) belonging to or lasting from times long ago | Synonyms: age-old |
| antisatellite | (adjective) of or relating to a system to destroy satellites in orbit | Synonyms: ASAT |
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| antisemitic | (adjective) relating to or characterized by anti-Semitism; hating Jews | Synonyms: anti-semitic |
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| antiseptic | (adjective) thoroughly clean and free of or destructive to disease-causing organisms | - |
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| (adjective) devoid of objectionable language | - |
| (adjective) clean and honest | - |
| (adjective) freeing from error or corruption | - |
| antisocial | (adjective) shunning contact with others | - |
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| (adjective) hostile to or disruptive of normal standards of social behavior | Synonyms: asocial |
| antistrophic | (adjective) of or relating to an antistrophe | - |
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| antisubmarine | (adjective) defensive against enemy submarines | - |
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| antitank | (adjective) designed for defense against armored vehicles | - |
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| 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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| autosemantic | (adjective) of a word or phrase meaningful in isolation, independent of context | - |
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| bacchantic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a bacchanalian reveler | - |
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| chiromantic | (adjective) of or relating to palmistry | - |
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| circumstantial | (adjective) fully detailed and specific about particulars | - |
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| consubstantial | (adjective) regarded as the same in substance or essence (as of the three persons of the Trinity) | - |
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| diamantine | (adjective) consisting of diamonds or resembling diamonds | - |
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| dilettantish | (adjective) showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish | Synonyms: dilettante, dilettanteish, sciolistic |
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| disenchanting | (adjective) freeing from illusion or false belief | Synonyms: disillusioning |
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| elephantine | (adjective) of great mass; huge and bulky | Synonyms: gargantuan, giant, jumbo |
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| enchanting | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: bewitching, captivating, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating |
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| frantic | (adjective) excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion | Synonyms: frenetic, frenzied, phrenetic |
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| (adjective) marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion | Synonyms: delirious, excited, mad, unrestrained |
| gigantic | (adjective) so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth | Synonyms: mammoth |
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| infantile | (adjective) of or relating to infants or infancy | - |
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| (adjective) indicating a lack of maturity | Synonyms: childish |
| (adjective) being or befitting or characteristic of an infant | - |
| insubstantial | (adjective) lacking material form or substance; unreal | Synonyms: unreal, unsubstantial |
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| (adjective) lacking in nutritive value | - |
| (adjective) lacking solidity or strength | Synonyms: flimsy |
| lithomantic | (adjective) of or relating to lithomancy | - |
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| mantic | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy | Synonyms: divinatory, sibyllic, sibylline, vatic, vatical |
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| mercantile | (adjective) of or relating to the economic system of mercantilism | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of trade or traders | - |
| (adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: commercial, mercenary, moneymaking |
| necromantic | (adjective) relating to or associated with necromancy | Synonyms: necromantical |
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| (adjective) given to or produced by or used in the art of conjuring up the dead | - |
| necromantical | (adjective) relating to or associated with necromancy | Synonyms: necromantic |
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| pedantic | (adjective) marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects | Synonyms: academic, donnish |
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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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| polysemantic | (adjective) of words; having many meanings | Synonyms: polysemous |
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| quantifiable | (adjective) capable of being quantified | - |
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| quantitative | (adjective) expressible as a quantity or relating to or susceptible of measurement | - |
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| (adjective) (of verse) having a metric system based on relative duration of syllables | - |
| (adjective) relating to the measurement of quantity | - |
| quantized | (adjective) of or relating to a quantum or capable of existing in only one of two states | Synonyms: quantal |
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| quarantined | (adjective) under forced isolation especially for health reasons | Synonyms: isolated |
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| romantic | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts | Synonyms: romanticist, romanticistic |
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| (adjective) not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic | Synonyms: quixotic, wild-eyed |
| (adjective) expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance | Synonyms: amatory, amorous |
| romanticist | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts | Synonyms: romantic, romanticistic |
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