| aboveboard | (adjective) without concealment or deception; honest | Synonyms: straightforward |
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| afeard | (adjective) a pronunciation of afraid | Synonyms: afeared |
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| ardent | (adjective) glowing or shining like fire | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by strong enthusiasm | Synonyms: warm |
| (adjective) characterized by intense emotion | Synonyms: fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid |
| arduous | (adjective) difficult to accomplish; demanding considerable mental effort and skill | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
| (adjective) taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance | Synonyms: straining, strenuous |
| awkward | (adjective) lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance | - |
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| (adjective) hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment | Synonyms: embarrassing, sticky, unenviable |
| (adjective) causing inconvenience | - |
| (adjective) not elegant or graceful in expression | Synonyms: clumsy, cumbersome, ill-chosen, inapt, inept |
| (adjective) socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner | Synonyms: ill at ease, uneasy |
| (adjective) difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape | Synonyms: bunglesome, clumsy, ungainly |
| backward | (adjective) directed or facing toward the back or rear | - |
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| (adjective) (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature | - |
| (adjective) retarded in intellectual development | Synonyms: feebleminded, half-witted, slow-witted |
| (adjective) having made less than normal progress | - |
| bardic | (adjective) being a bard or relating to a bard's poetry | - |
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| bastard | (adjective) fraudulent; having a misleading appearance | Synonyms: bogus, fake, phoney, phony |
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| bastardised | (adjective) deriving from more than one source or style | Synonyms: bastardized |
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| bastardized | (adjective) deriving from more than one source or style | Synonyms: bastardised |
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| bastardly | (adjective) of no value or worth | Synonyms: mean |
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| (adjective) born out of wedlock | Synonyms: misbegot, misbegotten, spurious |
| bearded | (adjective) having a growth of hairlike awns | - |
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| (adjective) having hair on the cheeks and chin | Synonyms: barbate, bewhiskered, whiskered, whiskery |
| beardless | (adjective) lacking hair on the face | Synonyms: smooth-faced |
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| (adjective) having no beard | Synonyms: whiskerless |
| beardown | (adjective) with full strength | - |
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| billiard | (adjective) of or relating to billiards | - |
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| blackguardly | (adjective) lacking principles or scruples | Synonyms: rascally, roguish, scoundrelly |
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| cardboard | (adjective) without substance | Synonyms: unlifelike |
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| cardiac | (adjective) of or relating to the heart | - |
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| cardinal | (adjective) being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order | - |
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| (adjective) serving as an essential component | Synonyms: central, fundamental, key, primal |
| cardiographic | (adjective) of or relating to a cardiograph | - |
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| cardiologic | (adjective) of or relating to or used in or practicing cardiology | - |
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| cardiopulmonary | (adjective) of or pertaining to or affecting both the heart and the lungs and their functions | Synonyms: cardiorespiratory |
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| cardiorespiratory | (adjective) of or pertaining to or affecting both the heart and the lungs and their functions | Synonyms: cardiopulmonary |
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| cardiovascular | (adjective) of or pertaining to or involving the heart and blood vessels | - |
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| cowardly | (adjective) lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted | Synonyms: fearful |
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| dastard | (adjective) despicably cowardly | Synonyms: dastardly |
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| dastardly | (adjective) despicably cowardly | Synonyms: dastard |
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| discarded | (adjective) thrown away | Synonyms: cast-off, throwaway, thrown-away |
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| disregarded | (adjective) not noticed inadvertently | Synonyms: forgotten |
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| downward | (adjective) extending or moving from a higher to a lower place | Synonyms: down |
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| (adjective) on or toward a surface regarded as a base | - |
| eastward | (adjective) moving toward the east | Synonyms: eastbound |
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| electrocardiographic | (adjective) of or relating to an electrocardiograph | - |
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| foolhardy | (adjective) marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences | Synonyms: heady, rash, reckless |
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| forward | (adjective) at or near or directed toward the front | - |
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| (adjective) used of temperament or behavior; lacking restraint or modesty | - |
| (adjective) of the transmission gear causing forward movement in a motor vehicle | - |
| (adjective) moving forward | Synonyms: advancing, forward-moving |
| froward | (adjective) habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition | Synonyms: headstrong, self-willed, wilful, willful |
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| gardant | (adjective) looking forward | Synonyms: full-face, guardant |
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| garden | (adjective) the usual or familiar type | - |
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| guardant | (adjective) looking forward | Synonyms: full-face, gardant |
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| guarded | (adjective) prudent | Synonyms: restrained |
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| haggard | (adjective) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold | Synonyms: cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, pinched, skeletal, wasted |
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| (adjective) showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering | Synonyms: careworn, drawn, raddled, worn |
| haphazard | (adjective) marked by great carelessness | Synonyms: slapdash, slipshod, sloppy |
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| (adjective) dependent upon or characterized by chance | Synonyms: hit-or-miss |
| hard | (adjective) produced without vibration of the vocal cords | Synonyms: surd, unvoiced, voiceless |
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| (adjective) resisting weight or pressure | - |
| (adjective) dispassionate | - |
| (adjective) (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum | - |
| (adjective) (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source | Synonyms: concentrated |
| (adjective) not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure | Synonyms: difficult |
| (adjective) being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content | Synonyms: strong |
| (adjective) unfortunate or hard to bear | Synonyms: tough |
| (adjective) given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors | Synonyms: heavy, intemperate |
| (adjective) dried out | - |
| (adjective) very strong or vigorous | Synonyms: knockout, severe |
| (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
| hardback | (adjective) having a hard back or cover | Synonyms: hardbacked, hardbound, hardcover |
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| hardbacked | (adjective) having a hard back or cover | Synonyms: hardback, hardbound, hardcover |
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| hardbound | (adjective) having a hard back or cover | Synonyms: hardback, hardbacked, hardcover |
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| hardcore | (adjective) extremely explicit | Synonyms: hard-core |
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| (adjective) intensely loyal | Synonyms: hard-core |
| hardcover | (adjective) having a hard back or cover | Synonyms: hardback, hardbacked, hardbound |
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| hardened | (adjective) made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment | Synonyms: tempered, toughened, treated |
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| (adjective) protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons) | - |
| (adjective) made tough by habitual exposure | Synonyms: enured, inured |
| (adjective) converted to solid form (as concrete) | Synonyms: set |
| (adjective) used of persons; emotionally hardened | Synonyms: case-hardened, hard-boiled |
| hardfisted | (adjective) unwilling to part with money | Synonyms: closefisted, tightfisted |
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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 |
| hardhearted | (adjective) lacking in feeling or pity or warmth | Synonyms: heartless |
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| (adjective) devoid of feeling for others | Synonyms: stonyhearted, unfeeling |
| hardline | (adjective) firm and uncompromising | Synonyms: hard-line |
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| hardscrabble | (adjective) barely satisfying a lower standard | - |
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| hardworking | (adjective) characterized by hard work and perseverance | Synonyms: industrious, tireless, untiring |
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| hardy | (adjective) invulnerable to fear or intimidation | Synonyms: audacious, brave, dauntless, fearless, intrepid, unfearing |
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| (adjective) having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships | Synonyms: stalwart, stout, sturdy |
| (adjective) able to survive under unfavorable weather conditions | - |
| hazardous | (adjective) involving risk or danger | Synonyms: risky, wild |
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| heard | (adjective) detected or perceived by the sense of hearing | - |
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| heavenward | (adjective) directed toward heaven or the sky | Synonyms: skyward |
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| homeward | (adjective) oriented toward home | Synonyms: homeward-bound |
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| inboard | (adjective) located within the hull or nearest the midline of a vessel or aircraft | - |
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| inward | (adjective) relating to or existing in the mind or thoughts | - |
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| (adjective) directed or moving inward or toward a center | Synonyms: inbound |
| laggard | (adjective) wasting time | Synonyms: dilatory, pokey, poky |
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| larboard | (adjective) located on the left side of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: port |
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| leeward | (adjective) on the side away from the wind | - |
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| mansard | (adjective) (of a roof) having two slopes on all sides with the lower slope steeper than the upper | - |
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| myocardial | (adjective) of or relating to the myocardium | - |
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| niggardly | (adjective) petty or reluctant in giving or spending | Synonyms: grudging, scrimy |
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| nonstandard | (adjective) not standard; not accepted as a model of excellence | - |
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| (adjective) varying from or not adhering to a standard | - |
| (adjective) not conforming to the language usage of a prestige group within a community | - |
| northeastward | (adjective) toward the northeast | - |
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| northward | (adjective) moving toward the north | Synonyms: northbound |
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| northwestward | (adjective) toward the northwest | - |
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| outboard | (adjective) located away from the midline of a vessel or aircraft | - |
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| outward | (adjective) relating to physical reality rather than with thoughts or the mind | - |
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| (adjective) that is going out or leaving | Synonyms: departing, outbound, outward-bound |
| pardonable | (adjective) admitting of being pardoned | - |
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| pericardiac | (adjective) located around the heart or relating to or affecting the pericardium | Synonyms: pericardial |
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| pericardial | (adjective) located around the heart or relating to or affecting the pericardium | Synonyms: pericardiac |
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| rearward | (adjective) located in or toward the back or rear | Synonyms: rear |
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| (adjective) directed or moving toward the rear | Synonyms: reverse |
| regardant | (adjective) looking backward | - |
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| regardful | (adjective) showing deference | Synonyms: deferent, deferential |
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| regardless | (adjective) (usually followed by `of') without due thought or consideration | Synonyms: careless |
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| retarded | (adjective) relatively slow in mental or emotional or physical development | - |
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| rewardful | (adjective) offering or productive of reward | - |
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| rewarding | (adjective) providing personal satisfaction | - |
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| ritardando | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in tempo | Synonyms: rallentando, rit., ritenuto |
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| sardonic | (adjective) disdainfully or ironically humorous; scornful and mocking | Synonyms: snarky |
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| seaward | (adjective) (of winds) coming from the land | Synonyms: offshore |
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| (adjective) directed or situated away from inland regions and toward the sea or coast | - |
| semihard | (adjective) somewhat hard | - |
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| shipboard | (adjective) casual or ephemeral as if taking place on board a ship | - |
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| shoreward | (adjective) (of winds) coming from the sea toward the land | Synonyms: inshore, onshore |
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| skyward | (adjective) directed toward heaven or the sky | Synonyms: heavenward |
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| southeastward | (adjective) toward the southeast | - |
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| southward | (adjective) moving toward the south | Synonyms: southbound |
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| southwestward | (adjective) toward the southwest | - |
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| standard | (adjective) established or well-known or widely recognized as a model of authority or excellence | - |
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| (adjective) conforming to or constituting a standard of measurement or value; or of the usual or regularized or accepted kind | - |
| (adjective) conforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers | Synonyms: received |
| (adjective) commonly used or supplied | - |
| (adjective) regularly and widely used or sold | Synonyms: stock |
| standardised | (adjective) capable of replacing or changing places with something else; permitting mutual substitution without loss of function or suitability | Synonyms: exchangeable, interchangeable, similar, standardized |
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| (adjective) brought into conformity with a standard | Synonyms: standardized |
| standardized | (adjective) capable of replacing or changing places with something else; permitting mutual substitution without loss of function or suitability | Synonyms: exchangeable, interchangeable, similar, standardised |
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| (adjective) brought into conformity with a standard | Synonyms: standardised |
| starboard | (adjective) located on the right side of a ship or aircraft | - |
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| straightforward | (adjective) pointed directly ahead | - |
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| (adjective) without evasion or compromise | Synonyms: square, straight |
| (adjective) without concealment or deception; honest | Synonyms: aboveboard |
| (adjective) free from ambiguity | - |
| substandard | (adjective) falling short of some prescribed norm | Synonyms: deficient, inferior |
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| tardive | (adjective) late-occurring (especially with reference to symptoms of a disease) | - |
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