| antiblack | (adjective) discriminatory especially on the basis of race or religion | Synonyms: anti-Semite, racist |
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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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| antisubmarine | (adjective) defensive against enemy submarines | - |
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| appealable | (adjective) capable of being appealed especially to a higher tribunal | - |
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| appeasable | (adjective) capable of being pacified | Synonyms: conciliable |
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| applaudable | (adjective) worthy of high praise | Synonyms: commendable, laudable, praiseworthy |
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| applicable | (adjective) capable of being applied; having relevance | - |
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| apportionable | (adjective) capable of being distributed | Synonyms: allocable, allocatable |
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| apposable | (adjective) capable of being placed opposite to something | Synonyms: opposable |
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| appreciable | (adjective) enough to be estimated or measured | - |
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| apprehensible | (adjective) capable of being apprehended or understood | Synonyms: graspable, intelligible, perceivable, understandable |
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| approachable | (adjective) easy to meet or converse or do business with | - |
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| (adjective) easily approached | Synonyms: reachable |
| (adjective) capable of being read with comprehension | Synonyms: accessible |
| approbative | (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: affirmative, approbatory, approving, plausive |
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| approbatory | (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: affirmative, approbative, approving, plausive |
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| appropriable | (adjective) that can be appropriated | - |
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| aquaphobic | (adjective) abnormally afraid of water | Synonyms: hydrophobic |
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| arable | (adjective) (of farmland) capable of being farmed productively | Synonyms: cultivable, cultivatable, tillable |
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| arbitrable | (adjective) appropriate for or subject to settlement by arbitration | - |
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| arbitral | (adjective) relating to or resulting from arbitration | Synonyms: arbitrational |
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| arbitrary | (adjective) based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice | - |
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| arbitrational | (adjective) relating to or resulting from arbitration | Synonyms: arbitral |
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| arbitrative | (adjective) relating to or having the authority to arbitrate | - |
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| arboraceous | (adjective) abounding in trees | Synonyms: arboreous, woodsy, woody |
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| arborary | (adjective) of or relating to or formed by trees | Synonyms: arboreal, arborical, arborous |
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| arboreal | (adjective) inhabiting or frequenting trees | Synonyms: arboreous, tree-living |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or formed by trees | Synonyms: arborary, arborical, arborous |
| (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
| arboreous | (adjective) inhabiting or frequenting trees | Synonyms: arboreal, tree-living |
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| (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arborescent, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
| (adjective) abounding in trees | Synonyms: arboraceous, woodsy, woody |
| arborescent | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
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| arboresque | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
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| arborical | (adjective) of or relating to or formed by trees | Synonyms: arborary, arboreal, arborous |
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| arboriform | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
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| arborous | (adjective) of or relating to or formed by trees | Synonyms: arborary, arboreal, arborical |
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| arguable | (adjective) open to argument or debate | Synonyms: debatable, disputable, moot |
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| (adjective) capable of being supported by argument | - |
| ascendable | (adjective) capable of being ascended | Synonyms: ascendible, climbable |
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| ascendible | (adjective) capable of being ascended | Synonyms: ascendable, climbable |
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| ascertainable | (adjective) capable of being ascertained or found out | Synonyms: discoverable |
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| ascribable | (adjective) capable of being assigned or credited to | Synonyms: due, imputable, referable |
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| assailable | (adjective) not defended or capable of being defended | Synonyms: open, undefendable, undefended |
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| assertable | (adjective) capable of being affirmed or asserted | Synonyms: affirmable |
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| assessable | (adjective) capable of being considered carefully | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being assessed especially for the purpose of taxation | - |
| assignable | (adjective) legally transferable to the ownership of another | Synonyms: conveyable, negotiable, transferable, transferrable |
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| assimilable | (adjective) able to be absorbed and incorporated into body tissues | - |
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| associable | (adjective) capable of being associated | - |
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| atrabilious | (adjective) irritable as if suffering from indigestion | Synonyms: bilious, dyspeptic, liverish |
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| attachable | (adjective) capable of being fastened or added to something else | - |
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| attainable | (adjective) capable of being attained or accomplished | Synonyms: come-at-able |
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| attractable | (adjective) capable of being magnetized or attracted by a magnet | - |
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| attributable | (adjective) capable of being attributed | - |
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| attributive | (adjective) of adjectives; placed before the nouns they modify | Synonyms: prenominal |
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| auburn | (adjective) (of hair) colored a moderate reddish-brown | - |
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| audible | (adjective) heard or perceptible by the ear | Synonyms: hearable |
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| autobiographic | (adjective) relating to or in the style of an autobiography | Synonyms: autobiographical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of an autobiographer | Synonyms: autobiographical |
| autobiographical | (adjective) relating to or in the style of an autobiography | Synonyms: autobiographic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of an autobiographer | Synonyms: autobiographic |
| available | (adjective) obtainable or accessible and ready for use or service | - |
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| (adjective) convenient for use or disposal | Synonyms: usable, useable |
| (adjective) not busy; not otherwise committed | Synonyms: uncommitted |
| avertable | (adjective) capable of being avoided or warded off | Synonyms: avertible, avoidable, evitable |
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| avertible | (adjective) capable of being avoided or warded off | Synonyms: avertable, avoidable, evitable |
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| avoidable | (adjective) capable of being avoided or warded off | Synonyms: avertable, avertible, evitable |
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| babelike | (adjective) like a baby especially in dependence | - |
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| baboonish | (adjective) resembling a baboon | - |
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| babyish | (adjective) characteristic of a baby | - |
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| baccate | (adjective) resembling a berry | Synonyms: berrylike |
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| (adjective) producing or bearing berries | Synonyms: bacciferous, berried |
| 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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| bacchic | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalian, carousing, orgiastic |
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| bacciferous | (adjective) producing or bearing berries | Synonyms: baccate, berried |
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| baccivorous | (adjective) feeding on berries | - |
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| bacillar | (adjective) relating to or produced by or containing bacilli | Synonyms: bacillary |
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| (adjective) formed like a bacillus | Synonyms: bacillary, bacilliform, baculiform, rod-shaped |
| bacillary | (adjective) relating to or produced by or containing bacilli | Synonyms: bacillar |
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| (adjective) formed like a bacillus | Synonyms: bacillar, bacilliform, baculiform, rod-shaped |
| bacilliform | (adjective) formed like a bacillus | Synonyms: bacillar, bacillary, baculiform, rod-shaped |
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| back | (adjective) related to or located at the back | - |
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| (adjective) of an earlier date | - |
| (adjective) located at or near the back of an animal | Synonyms: hind, hinder |
| backbreaking | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
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| backed | (adjective) having a back or backing, usually of a specified type | - |
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| (adjective) used of film that is coated on the side opposite the emulsion with a substance to absorb light | - |
| 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 | - |
| backless | (adjective) lacking a back | - |
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| backmost | (adjective) located farthest to the rear | Synonyms: hindermost, hindmost, rearmost |
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| backstage | (adjective) concealed from public view or attention | Synonyms: offstage |
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| backstair | (adjective) secret and sly or sordid | Synonyms: backstairs, furtive |
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| backstairs | (adjective) secret and sly or sordid | Synonyms: backstair, furtive |
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| backswept | (adjective) used of hair | Synonyms: sweptback |
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| 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 | - |
| bacteremic | (adjective) of or relating to or having bacteremia | - |
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| bacterial | (adjective) relating to or caused by bacteria | - |
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| bactericidal | (adjective) preventing infection by inhibiting the growth or action of microorganisms | Synonyms: disinfectant, germicidal |
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| bacterioid | (adjective) resembling bacteria | Synonyms: bacterioidal, bacteroid, bacteroidal |
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| bacterioidal | (adjective) resembling bacteria | Synonyms: bacterioid, bacteroid, bacteroidal |
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| bacteriologic | (adjective) of or relating to bacteriology | Synonyms: bacteriological |
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| bacteriological | (adjective) of or relating to bacteriology | Synonyms: bacteriologic |
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| bacteriolytic | (adjective) of or relating to or causing bacteriolysis | - |
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| bacteriophagic | (adjective) of or relating to bacteriophages | Synonyms: bacteriophagous |
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| bacteriophagous | (adjective) of or relating to bacteriophages | Synonyms: bacteriophagic |
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| bacteriostatic | (adjective) of or relating to or causing bacteriostasis | - |
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| bacteroid | (adjective) resembling bacteria | Synonyms: bacterioid, bacterioidal, bacteroidal |
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| bacteroidal | (adjective) resembling bacteria | Synonyms: bacterioid, bacterioidal, bacteroid |
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| baculiform | (adjective) formed like a bacillus | Synonyms: bacillar, bacillary, bacilliform, rod-shaped |
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| bad | (adjective) having undesirable or negative qualities | - |
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| (adjective) feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone | Synonyms: regretful, sorry |
| (adjective) reproduced fraudulently | Synonyms: forged |
| (adjective) characterized by wickedness or immorality | - |
| (adjective) capable of harming | - |
| (adjective) below average in quality or performance | - |
| (adjective) serious or severe | Synonyms: big |
| (adjective) not capable of being collected | Synonyms: uncollectible |
| (adjective) not working properly | Synonyms: defective |
| (adjective) nonstandard | - |
| (adjective) (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition | Synonyms: spoiled, spoilt |
| (adjective) feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad') | Synonyms: tough |
| (adjective) physically unsound or diseased | Synonyms: unfit, unsound |
| (adjective) not financially safe or secure | Synonyms: high-risk, risky, speculative |
| badass | (adjective) being impressive due to extreme attitude or style | - |
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| baffled | (adjective) perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at sea, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up |
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| baffling | (adjective) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | Synonyms: elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough |
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