| 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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| absorbable | (adjective) capable of being absorbed or taken in through the pores of a surface | - |
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| acrobatic | (adjective) vigorously active | Synonyms: athletic, gymnastic |
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| adiabatic | (adjective) occurring without loss or gain of heat | - |
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| adsorbable | (adjective) capable of being adsorbed or accumulated on a surface of a solid | Synonyms: adsorbate |
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| adsorbate | (adjective) capable of being adsorbed or accumulated on a surface of a solid | Synonyms: adsorbable |
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| ahorseback | (adjective) traveling on horseback | Synonyms: ahorse |
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| alabaster | (adjective) of or resembling alabaster | Synonyms: alabastrine |
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| alabastrine | (adjective) of or resembling alabaster | Synonyms: alabaster |
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| ambagious | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic |
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| ambassadorial | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of ambassadors | - |
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| ameban | (adjective) pertaining to or resembling amoebae | Synonyms: amebic, amebous, amoeban, amoebic, amoebous |
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| amoeban | (adjective) pertaining to or resembling amoebae | Synonyms: ameban, amebic, amebous, amoebic, amoebous |
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| anabatic | (adjective) of an air current or wind; rising especially up a slope | - |
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| antibacterial | (adjective) destroying bacteria or inhibiting their growth | - |
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| 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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| ascribable | (adjective) capable of being assigned or credited to | Synonyms: due, imputable, referable |
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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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| baggy | (adjective) not fitting closely; hanging loosely | Synonyms: loose-fitting, sloppy |
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| bailable | (adjective) eligible for bail | - |
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| (adjective) admitting of bail | - |
| baked | (adjective) (bread and pastries) cooked by dry heat (as in an oven) | - |
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| (adjective) dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight | Synonyms: adust, parched, scorched, sunbaked |
| baking | (adjective) as hot as if in an oven | Synonyms: baking hot |
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| balanced | (adjective) being in a state of proper equilibrium | - |
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| balconied | (adjective) having balconies or a balcony | - |
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| bald | (adjective) without the natural or usual covering | Synonyms: denudate, denuded |
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| (adjective) lacking hair on all or most of the scalp | Synonyms: bald-headed, bald-pated |
| (adjective) with no effort to conceal | Synonyms: barefaced |
| balding | (adjective) getting bald | - |
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| baleful | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening |
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| (adjective) deadly or sinister | Synonyms: baneful |
| balking | (adjective) refusing to proceed, act or work | Synonyms: balky |
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| balky | (adjective) refusing to proceed, act or work | Synonyms: balking |
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| balletic | (adjective) characteristic of or resembling or suitable for ballet | - |
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| ballistic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the motion of objects moving under their own momentum and the force of gravity | - |
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| bally | (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: blinking, bloody, blooming, crashing, flaming, fucking |
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| balmy | (adjective) mild and pleasant | Synonyms: mild, soft |
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| (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
| balsamic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing balsam | Synonyms: balsamy |
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| balsamy | (adjective) of or relating to or containing balsam | Synonyms: balsamic |
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| banal | (adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn |
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| banausic | (adjective) (formal) ordinary and not refined | - |
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| bandaged | (adjective) covered or wrapped with a bandage | Synonyms: bound |
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| banded | (adjective) identified with a band especially around a leg | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by a band of especially white around the body | - |
| (adjective) marked with bands or strips of contrasting color or texture | - |
| bandy | (adjective) have legs that curve outward at the knees | Synonyms: bandy-legged, bowed, bowleg, bowlegged |
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| baneful | (adjective) deadly or sinister | Synonyms: baleful |
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| (adjective) exceedingly harmful | Synonyms: deadly, pernicious, pestilent |
| banging | (adjective) (used informally) very large | Synonyms: humongous, thumping, walloping, whopping |
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| bankable | (adjective) acceptable to or at a bank | - |
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| (adjective) guaranteed to bring a profit | - |
| bankrupt | (adjective) financially ruined | Synonyms: belly-up |
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| banned | (adjective) forbidden by law | Synonyms: prohibited |
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| banner | (adjective) unusually good; outstanding | - |
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| bantam | (adjective) very small | Synonyms: diminutive, flyspeck, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny |
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| bantering | (adjective) cleverly amusing in tone | Synonyms: facetious, tongue-in-cheek |
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| baptised | (adjective) having undergone the Christian ritual of baptism | Synonyms: baptized |
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| baptismal | (adjective) of or relating to baptism | - |
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