abactinal | (adjective) (of radiate animals) located on the surface or end opposite to that on which the mouth is situated | - |
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abandoned | (adjective) forsaken by owner or inhabitants | Synonyms: derelict, deserted |
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(adjective) unrestrained and uninhibited | - |
abashed | (adjective) feeling or caused to feel ill at ease or self-conscious or ashamed | Synonyms: chagrined, embarrassed |
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abasic | (adjective) of or relating to abasia (inability to walk) | Synonyms: abatic |
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abatable | (adjective) capable of being abated | - |
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abatic | (adjective) of or relating to abasia (inability to walk) | Synonyms: abasic |
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abaxial | (adjective) facing away from the axis of an organ or organism | Synonyms: dorsal |
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abbatial | (adjective) of or having to do with or belonging to an abbey or abbot, or abbess | - |
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abbreviated | (adjective) (of clothing) very short | Synonyms: brief |
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(adjective) cut short in duration | Synonyms: shortened, truncated |
abdicable | (adjective) capable of being discarded or renounced or relinquished | - |
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abdominal | (adjective) of or relating to or near the abdomen | - |
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abdominous | (adjective) having a large belly | Synonyms: paunchy, potbellied |
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abdominovesical | (adjective) of or relating to the abdomen and the urinary bladder | - |
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abducent | (adjective) especially of muscles; drawing away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part | Synonyms: abducting |
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abducting | (adjective) especially of muscles; drawing away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part | Synonyms: abducent |
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abecedarian | (adjective) alphabetically arranged (as for beginning readers) | - |
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aberrant | (adjective) markedly different from an accepted norm | Synonyms: deviant, deviate |
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abeyant | (adjective) inactive but capable of becoming active | Synonyms: dormant |
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abhorrent | (adjective) offensive to the mind | Synonyms: detestable, obscene, repugnant, repulsive |
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abiding | (adjective) lasting a long time | Synonyms: enduring, imperishable |
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abient | (adjective) characterized by avoidance or withdrawal | - |
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abiogenetic | (adjective) originating by abiogenesis | - |
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abject | (adjective) of the most contemptible kind | Synonyms: low-down, low, miserable, scummy, scurvy |
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(adjective) showing utter resignation or hopelessness | Synonyms: unhopeful |
(adjective) showing humiliation or submissiveness | - |
(adjective) most unfortunate or miserable | - |
ablated | (adjective) made smaller or less by melting or erosion or vaporization | - |
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ablative | (adjective) relating to the ablative case | - |
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(adjective) tending to ablate; i.e. to be removed or vaporized at very high temperature | - |
ablaze | (adjective) resembling flame in brilliance or color | - |
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(adjective) lighted with red light as if with flames | Synonyms: inflamed, reddened |
(adjective) lighted up by or as by fire or flame | Synonyms: afire, aflame, aflare, alight, on fire |
(adjective) keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement | Synonyms: aflame, aroused |
able | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something | - |
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(adjective) having inherent physical or mental ability or capacity | - |
(adjective) have the skills and qualifications to do things well | Synonyms: capable |
(adjective) having a strong healthy body | Synonyms: able-bodied |
abloom | (adjective) when the bud, or buds, on a plant are bursting into flower | Synonyms: efflorescent |
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ablutionary | (adjective) cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of e.g. hands | Synonyms: cleansing |
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abnormal | (adjective) not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm | Synonyms: unnatural |
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(adjective) departing from the normal in e.g. intelligence and development | - |
(adjective) much greater than the normal | - |
abolishable | (adjective) capable of being abolished | - |
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abolitionary | (adjective) relating to or favoring abolition, especially abolition of slavery | - |
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abomasal | (adjective) relating to the abomasum (the fourth compartment of the stomach of ruminants) | - |
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abominable | (adjective) exceptionally bad or displeasing | Synonyms: atrocious, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable |
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(adjective) unequivocally detestable | Synonyms: detestable, execrable, odious |
aboral | (adjective) opposite to or away from the mouth | - |
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aboriginal | (adjective) characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning | Synonyms: native |
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(adjective) having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state | Synonyms: primaeval, primal, primeval, primordial |
abortifacient | (adjective) causing abortion | - |
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abortive | (adjective) failing to accomplish an intended result | Synonyms: stillborn, unsuccessful |
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aboulic | (adjective) suffering from abulia; showing abnormal inability to act or make decisions | Synonyms: abulic |
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abounding | (adjective) existing in abundance | Synonyms: galore |
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about | (adjective) on the move | Synonyms: astir |
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above | (adjective) appearing earlier in the same text | - |
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aboveboard | (adjective) without concealment or deception; honest | Synonyms: straightforward |
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aboveground | (adjective) on or above the surface of the ground | - |
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abranchial | (adjective) having no gills | Synonyms: abranchiate, abranchious, gill-less |
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abranchiate | (adjective) having no gills | Synonyms: abranchial, abranchious, gill-less |
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abranchious | (adjective) having no gills | Synonyms: abranchial, abranchiate, gill-less |
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abrasive | (adjective) sharply disagreeable; rigorous | Synonyms: harsh |
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(adjective) causing abrasion | Synonyms: scratchy |
abreast | (adjective) being up to particular standard or level especially in being up to date in knowledge | Synonyms: au courant, au fait, up on |
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abridged | (adjective) (used of texts) shortened by condensing or rewriting | - |
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abroach | (adjective) of a cask or barrel | Synonyms: broached |
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abroad | (adjective) in a foreign country | Synonyms: overseas |
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abrupt | (adjective) surprisingly and unceremoniously brusque in manner | - |
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(adjective) marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions | Synonyms: disconnected |
(adjective) dangerously steep | Synonyms: precipitous, sharp |
(adjective) exceedingly sudden and unexpected | - |
abscessed | (adjective) infected and filled with pus | - |
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absent | (adjective) not being in a specified place | - |
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(adjective) lost in thought; showing preoccupation | Synonyms: absentminded, abstracted, scatty |
(adjective) nonexistent | Synonyms: lacking, missing, wanting |
absentminded | (adjective) lost in thought; showing preoccupation | Synonyms: absent, abstracted, scatty |
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absolute | (adjective) perfect or complete or pure | - |
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(adjective) not limited by law | - |
(adjective) not capable of being violated or infringed | Synonyms: infrangible, inviolable |
(adjective) expressing finality with no implication of possible change | - |
(adjective) complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: downright, out-and-out, rank, right-down, sheer |
absolutist | (adjective) pertaining to the principle of totalitarianism | Synonyms: absolutistic |
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absolutistic | (adjective) pertaining to the principle of totalitarianism | Synonyms: absolutist |
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absolved | (adjective) freed from any question of guilt | Synonyms: clear, cleared, exculpated, exonerated, vindicated |
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absolvitory | (adjective) providing absolution | Synonyms: exonerative, forgiving |
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absorbable | (adjective) capable of being absorbed or taken in through the pores of a surface | - |
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absorbed | (adjective) giving or marked by complete attention to | Synonyms: captive, engrossed, enwrapped, intent, rapt, wrapped |
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(adjective) retained without reflection | - |
absorbefacient | (adjective) inducing or promoting absorption | Synonyms: sorbefacient |
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absorbent | (adjective) having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.) | Synonyms: absorptive |
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absorbing | (adjective) capable of arousing and holding the attention | Synonyms: engrossing, fascinating, gripping, riveting |
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absorptive | (adjective) having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.) | Synonyms: absorbent |
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abstemious | (adjective) sparing in consumption of especially food and drink | - |
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(adjective) marked by temperance in indulgence | Synonyms: light |
abstentious | (adjective) self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink | Synonyms: abstinent |
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abstinent | (adjective) self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink | Synonyms: abstentious |
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abstract | (adjective) existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment | - |
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(adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstractionist, nonfigurative, nonobjective |
(adjective) dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention | - |
abstracted | (adjective) lost in thought; showing preoccupation | Synonyms: absent, absentminded, scatty |
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abstractionist | (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstract, nonfigurative, nonobjective |
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abstractive | (adjective) of an abstracting nature or having the power of abstracting | - |
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abstruse | (adjective) difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge | Synonyms: deep, recondite |
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absurd | (adjective) so unreasonable as to invite derision | Synonyms: cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous |
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(adjective) inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense | - |
abulic | (adjective) suffering from abulia; showing abnormal inability to act or make decisions | Synonyms: aboulic |
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abundant | (adjective) present in great quantity | - |
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abused | (adjective) subjected to cruel treatment | Synonyms: ill-treated, maltreated, mistreated |
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(adjective) used improperly or excessively especially drugs | - |
abusive | (adjective) characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment | - |
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(adjective) expressing offensive reproach | Synonyms: opprobrious, scurrilous |
abuzz | (adjective) noisy like the sound of a bee | Synonyms: buzzing |
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abysmal | (adjective) resembling an abyss in depth; so deep as to be unmeasurable | Synonyms: abyssal, unfathomable |
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(adjective) very great; limitless | - |
abyssal | (adjective) relating to ocean depths from 2000 to 5000 meters | - |
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(adjective) resembling an abyss in depth; so deep as to be unmeasurable | Synonyms: abysmal, unfathomable |
acceptable | (adjective) worthy of acceptance or satisfactory | - |
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(adjective) adequate for the purpose | - |
(adjective) meeting requirements | Synonyms: decent, satisfactory |
(adjective) judged to be in conformity with approved usage | - |
accessible | (adjective) capable of being reached | - |
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(adjective) easy to get along with or talk to; friendly | - |
(adjective) easily obtained | - |
(adjective) capable of being read with comprehension | Synonyms: approachable |
accomplishable | (adjective) capable of existing or taking place or proving true; possible to do | Synonyms: achievable, doable, manageable, realizable |
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accountable | (adjective) liable to account for one's actions | Synonyms: answerable |
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accumbent | (adjective) lying down; in a position of comfort or rest | Synonyms: decumbent, recumbent |
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acerb | (adjective) sour or bitter in taste | Synonyms: acerbic, astringent |
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(adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic |
acerbic | (adjective) sour or bitter in taste | Synonyms: acerb, astringent |
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(adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic |
acetabular | (adjective) of the cup-shaped socket that receives the head of the thigh bone | Synonyms: cotyloid, cotyloidal |
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achievable | (adjective) capable of existing or taking place or proving true; possible to do | Synonyms: accomplishable, doable, manageable, realizable |
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acknowledgeable | (adjective) capable of being acknowledged | - |
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acquirable | (adjective) capable of being acquired | - |
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acrobatic | (adjective) vigorously active | Synonyms: athletic, gymnastic |
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acrophobic | (adjective) suffering from acrophobia; abnormally afraid of high places | - |
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actable | (adjective) capable of being acted; suitable for the stage | - |
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actionable | (adjective) affording grounds for legal action | - |
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adaptable | (adjective) capable of adapting (of becoming or being made suitable) to a particular situation or use | - |
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addable | (adjective) capable of being added or added to | Synonyms: addible |
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