| acceleratory | (adjective) tending to increase velocity | Synonyms: accelerative |
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| accusatorial | (adjective) specifically indicating a form of prosecution in which one is publicly accused of and tried for a crime and in which the judge is not also the prosecutor | - |
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| accusatory | (adjective) containing or expressing accusation | Synonyms: accusative, accusing, accusive |
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| adjudicatory | (adjective) concerned with adjudicating | Synonyms: adjudicative |
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| adjuratory | (adjective) earnestly or solemnly entreating | - |
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| (adjective) containing a solemn charge or command | - |
| adulatory | (adjective) obsequiously complimentary | Synonyms: flattering |
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| affirmatory | (adjective) affirming or giving assent | Synonyms: affirmative |
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| aleatory | (adjective) dependent on chance | - |
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| alleviatory | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviative, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory, palliative |
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| alligatored | (adjective) of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide | Synonyms: cracked |
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| amatory | (adjective) expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance | Synonyms: amorous, romantic |
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| ambulatory | (adjective) relating to or adapted for walking | - |
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| (adjective) able to walk about | Synonyms: ambulant |
| amelioratory | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorating, ameliorative, meliorative |
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| amendatory | (adjective) effecting amendment | - |
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| annunciatory | (adjective) relating to the act of announcing or being announced | - |
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| anticipatory | (adjective) in anticipation | Synonyms: prevenient |
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| applicatory | (adjective) readily applicable or practical | Synonyms: applicative |
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| approbatory | (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: affirmative, approbative, approving, plausive |
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| articulatory | (adjective) of or relating to articulation | Synonyms: articulative |
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| assimilatory | (adjective) capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution | Synonyms: assimilating, assimilative |
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| associatory | (adjective) characterized by or causing or resulting from the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination | Synonyms: associative |
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| auscultatory | (adjective) of or relating to auscultation | - |
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| calumniatory | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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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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| celebratory | (adjective) used for celebrating | - |
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| certificatory | (adjective) serving to certify or endorse authoritatively | - |
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| circulatory | (adjective) relating to circulatory system or to circulation of the blood | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to circulation | Synonyms: circulative |
| clamatorial | (adjective) of or relating to Clamatores | - |
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| classificatory | (adjective) relating to or involving classification | - |
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| combinatorial | (adjective) relating to the combination and arrangement of elements in sets | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or involving combinations | Synonyms: combinative, combinatory |
| combinatory | (adjective) marked by or relating to or resulting from combination | Synonyms: combinative |
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| (adjective) relating to or involving combinations | Synonyms: combinative, combinatorial |
| (adjective) able to or tending to combine | Synonyms: combinable, combinational |
| comminatory | (adjective) containing warning of punishment | Synonyms: denunciative, denunciatory |
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| communicatory | (adjective) able or tending to communicate | Synonyms: communicative |
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| conciliatory | (adjective) intended to placate | Synonyms: conciliative |
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| (adjective) making or willing to make concessions | Synonyms: compromising, flexible |
| condemnatory | (adjective) containing or imposing condemnation or censure | Synonyms: condemning |
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| confirmatory | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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| congratulatory | (adjective) expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune | Synonyms: gratulatory |
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| consolatory | (adjective) affording comfort or solace | Synonyms: comforting, consoling |
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| conspiratorial | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of conspiracy or conspirators | Synonyms: conspirative |
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| consultatory | (adjective) giving advice | Synonyms: advisory, consultative, consultive |
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| copulatory | (adjective) of or relating to coitus or copulation | Synonyms: coital |
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| corroboratory | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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| cosignatory | (adjective) signing jointly with others | - |
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| criminatory | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminative, incriminating, incriminatory |
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| curatorial | (adjective) of or relating to a curator or the duties of a curator | - |
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| damnatory | (adjective) threatening with damnation | Synonyms: damning |
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| declamatory | (adjective) ostentatiously lofty in style | Synonyms: bombastic, large, orotund, tumid, turgid |
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| declaratory | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration | Synonyms: asserting, declarative |
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| defamatory | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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| denigratory | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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| denunciatory | (adjective) containing warning of punishment | Synonyms: comminatory, denunciative |
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| depilatory | (adjective) able to remove hair or render hairless | - |
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| deprecatory | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
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| depreciatory | (adjective) tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value | Synonyms: depreciating, depreciative |
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| (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, slighting |
| derogatory | (adjective) expressive of low opinion | Synonyms: derogative, disparaging |
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| dextrorotatory | (adjective) rotating to the right | Synonyms: dextrorotary, right-handed |
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| dictatorial | (adjective) of or characteristic of a dictator | - |
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| (adjective) expecting unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: authoritarian, overbearing |
| (adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: authoritarian, autocratic, despotic, tyrannic, tyrannical |
| dilatory | (adjective) wasting time | Synonyms: laggard, pokey, poky |
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| discriminatory | (adjective) being biased or having a belief or attitude formed beforehand | Synonyms: prejudiced |
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| (adjective) manifesting partiality | Synonyms: preferential |
| (adjective) capable of making fine distinctions | Synonyms: discriminative |
| (adjective) containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice | Synonyms: invidious |
| divinatory | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy | Synonyms: mantic, sibyllic, sibylline, vatic, vatical |
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| (adjective) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence | Synonyms: conjectural, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious |
| epistolatory | (adjective) written in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence | Synonyms: epistolary |
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| equatorial | (adjective) of or existing at or near the geographic equator | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to conditions at the geographical equator | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or at an equator | - |
| excitatory | (adjective) (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate | Synonyms: excitant, excitative |
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| exclamatory | (adjective) sudden and strong | Synonyms: emphatic |
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| exculpatory | (adjective) clearing of guilt or blame | - |
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| excusatory | (adjective) offering or expressing apology | Synonyms: apologetic |
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| exhortatory | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortative, hortative, hortatory |
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| expiatory | (adjective) having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation | Synonyms: expiative, propitiatory |
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| expiratory | (adjective) of or relating to the breathing out phase of respiration | - |
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| explanatory | (adjective) serving or intended to explain or make clear | - |
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| exploitatory | (adjective) tending to exploit or make use of | Synonyms: exploitative, exploitive |
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| exploratory | (adjective) serving in or intended for exploration or discovery | Synonyms: explorative |
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| facilitatory | (adjective) inducing or aiding in facilitating neural activity | - |
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| feudatory | (adjective) of or pertaining to the relation of a feudal vassal to his lord | - |
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| (adjective) owing feudal allegiance to or being subject to a sovereign | - |
| gladiatorial | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling gladiators or their combat | - |
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| gradatory | (adjective) taking place by degrees | Synonyms: gradational, graduated |
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| gratulatory | (adjective) expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune | Synonyms: congratulatory |
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| gubernatorial | (adjective) relating to a governor | - |
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| gustatorial | (adjective) of or relating to gustation | Synonyms: gustative, gustatory |
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| gustatory | (adjective) of or relating to gustation | Synonyms: gustative, gustatorial |
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| hallucinatory | (adjective) characterized by or characteristic of hallucination | - |
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| hortatory | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortative, exhortatory, hortative |
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| incriminatory | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminative, criminatory, incriminating |
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| inculpatory | (adjective) causing blame to be imputed to | Synonyms: inculpative |
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| indicatory | (adjective) (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly | Synonyms: indicative, revelatory, significative, suggestive |
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| inflammatory | (adjective) arousing to action or rebellion | Synonyms: incendiary, incitive, instigative, rabble-rousing, seditious |
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| (adjective) characterized or caused by inflammation | - |
| informatory | (adjective) providing or conveying information | Synonyms: informative |
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| ingratiatory | (adjective) calculated to please or gain favor | Synonyms: ingratiating, insinuating |
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| (adjective) pleasingly persuasive or intended to persuade | Synonyms: coaxing |
| initiatory | (adjective) serving to set in motion | Synonyms: first, inaugural, initiative, maiden |
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| inspiratory | (adjective) pertaining to the drawing in phase of respiration | - |
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| interrogatory | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of an interrogation | Synonyms: interrogative |
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| investigatory | (adjective) designed to find information or ascertain facts | Synonyms: fact-finding, investigative |
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| invitatory | (adjective) conveying an invitation | - |
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| justificatory | (adjective) attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing | Synonyms: defensive, justificative |
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| (adjective) providing justification | Synonyms: justificative, vindicatory |
| lachrymatory | (adjective) relating to or prompting tears | Synonyms: lacrimatory |
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| lacrimatory | (adjective) relating to or prompting tears | Synonyms: lachrymatory |
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| laudatory | (adjective) full of or giving praise | Synonyms: praiseful, praising |
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| levorotatory | (adjective) rotating to the left | Synonyms: left-handed, levorotary |
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| mandatory | (adjective) required by rule | Synonyms: compulsory, required |
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| mediatorial | (adjective) of or relating to a mediator or the duties of a mediator | - |
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