| baptized | (adjective) having undergone the Christian ritual of baptism | Synonyms: baptised |
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| barbarian | (adjective) without civilizing influences | Synonyms: barbaric, savage, uncivilised, uncivilized, wild |
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| barbaric | (adjective) without civilizing influences | Synonyms: barbarian, savage, uncivilised, uncivilized, wild |
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| (adjective) unrestrained and crudely rich | - |
| barbarous | (adjective) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering | Synonyms: brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious |
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| (adjective) primitive in customs and culture | - |
| barbate | (adjective) having hair on the cheeks and chin | Synonyms: bearded, bewhiskered, whiskered, whiskery |
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| barbecued | (adjective) cooked over an outdoor grill | Synonyms: grilled |
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| barbed | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| (adjective) capable of wounding | Synonyms: biting, mordacious, nipping, pungent |
| barbellate | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| bardic | (adjective) being a bard or relating to a bard's poetry | - |
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| bare | (adjective) lacking its natural or customary covering | - |
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| (adjective) not having a protective covering | Synonyms: unsheathed |
| (adjective) having everything extraneous removed including contents | Synonyms: stripped |
| (adjective) providing no shelter or sustenance | Synonyms: barren, bleak, desolate, stark |
| (adjective) lacking in magnitude or quantity | Synonyms: scanty, spare |
| (adjective) just barely adequate or within a lower limit | Synonyms: marginal |
| (adjective) apart from anything else; without additions or modifications | Synonyms: mere, simple |
| (adjective) lacking embellishment or ornamentation | Synonyms: plain, spare, unembellished, unornamented |
| (adjective) having no clothes on the body | Synonyms: au naturel, naked, nude |
| (adjective) lacking a surface finish such as paint | Synonyms: unfinished |
| bareback | (adjective) riding without a saddle | Synonyms: barebacked |
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| barebacked | (adjective) riding without a saddle | Synonyms: bareback |
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| bared | (adjective) having the head uncovered | Synonyms: bareheaded |
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| barefaced | (adjective) with no effort to conceal | Synonyms: bald |
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| (adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, bodacious, brassy, brazen-faced, brazen, insolent |
| barefoot | (adjective) without shoes | Synonyms: barefooted, shoeless |
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| barefooted | (adjective) without shoes | Synonyms: barefoot, shoeless |
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| barehanded | (adjective) with bare hands | - |
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| bareheaded | (adjective) having the head uncovered | Synonyms: bared |
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| barelegged | (adjective) having the legs uncovered by clothing | - |
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| baric | (adjective) of or relating to or containing barium | - |
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| baritone | (adjective) lower in range than tenor and higher than bass | - |
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| barky | (adjective) resembling the rough bark of a tree | - |
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| barmy | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| (adjective) marked by spirited enjoyment | Synonyms: yeasty, zestful, zesty |
| barographic | (adjective) relating to or registered by a barograph | - |
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| barometric | (adjective) relating to atmospheric pressure or indicated by a barometer | Synonyms: barometrical |
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| barometrical | (adjective) relating to atmospheric pressure or indicated by a barometer | Synonyms: barometric |
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| baronial | (adjective) impressive in size, manner, or appearance | Synonyms: imposing, noble, stately |
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| baroque | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the elaborately ornamented style of architecture, art, and music popular in Europe between 1600 and 1750 | Synonyms: Baroque |
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| (adjective) having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation | Synonyms: churrigueresco, churrigueresque |
| barred | (adjective) marked with stripes or bands | - |
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| (adjective) preventing entry or exit or a course of action | Synonyms: barricaded, blockaded |
| barreled | (adjective) put in or stored in a barrel | Synonyms: barrelled |
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| (adjective) (of an arrow) tapered toward both ends | Synonyms: barrelled |
| barrelled | (adjective) put in or stored in a barrel | Synonyms: barreled |
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| (adjective) (of an arrow) tapered toward both ends | Synonyms: barreled |
| barren | (adjective) providing no shelter or sustenance | Synonyms: bare, bleak, desolate, stark |
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| (adjective) completely wanting or lacking | Synonyms: destitute, devoid, free, innocent |
| (adjective) not bearing offspring | - |
| barricaded | (adjective) preventing entry or exit or a course of action | Synonyms: barred, blockaded |
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| barytic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing baryta | - |
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| basal | (adjective) especially of leaves; located at the base of a plant or stem; especially arising directly from the root or rootstock or a root-like stem | Synonyms: radical |
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| (adjective) serving as or forming a base | Synonyms: base |
| (adjective) of or being the essential or basic part | Synonyms: elemental, elementary, primary |
| basaltic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing basalt | - |
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| base | (adjective) serving as or forming a base | Synonyms: basal |
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| (adjective) debased; not genuine | - |
| (adjective) having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality | Synonyms: mean, meanspirited |
| (adjective) illegitimate | Synonyms: baseborn |
| (adjective) (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal | - |
| (adjective) of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense) | Synonyms: baseborn, humble, lowly |
| (adjective) not adhering to ethical or moral principles | Synonyms: immoral |
| baseborn | (adjective) illegitimate | Synonyms: base |
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| (adjective) of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense) | Synonyms: base, humble, lowly |
| based | (adjective) having a base of operations (often used as a combining form) | - |
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| (adjective) having a base | - |
| baseless | (adjective) without a basis in reason or fact | Synonyms: groundless, idle, unfounded, unwarranted, wild |
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| bashful | (adjective) disposed to avoid notice | Synonyms: blate |
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| (adjective) self-consciously timid | - |
| basic | (adjective) pertaining to or constituting a base or basis | - |
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| (adjective) of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base | - |
| (adjective) reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality | Synonyms: canonic, canonical |
| (adjective) serving as a base or starting point | Synonyms: introductory |
| basidial | (adjective) relating to or characterized by basidia | - |
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| basidiomycetous | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of fungi of the class Basidiomycetes | - |
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| basidiosporous | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by spores produced by basidia | - |
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| basifixed | (adjective) attached by its base (as certain anthers to their filaments or stalks) | - |
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| basilar | (adjective) of or relating to or located at the base | Synonyms: basilary |
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| basilary | (adjective) of or relating to or located at the base | Synonyms: basilar |
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| basilican | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a basilica | - |
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| basinal | (adjective) of or relating to a basin | - |
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| basined | (adjective) enclosed in a basin | - |
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| basipetal | (adjective) of leaves or flowers; developing or opening in succession from apex to base | - |
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| basiscopic | (adjective) facing or on the side toward the base | - |
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| basophilic | (adjective) staining readily with basic dyes | - |
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| bass | (adjective) having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range | Synonyms: deep |
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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 |
| bastioned | (adjective) secured with bastions or fortifications | Synonyms: fortified |
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| bated | (adjective) diminished or moderated | - |
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| bathetic | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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| batholithic | (adjective) of or relating to a batholith | Synonyms: batholitic |
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| batholitic | (adjective) of or relating to a batholith | Synonyms: batholithic |
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| bathyal | (adjective) relating to ocean depths between 200 and 2000 meters (corresponds to the continental slope) | - |
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| bathymetric | (adjective) of or relating to measurements of the depths of oceans or lakes | Synonyms: bathymetrical |
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| bathymetrical | (adjective) of or relating to measurements of the depths of oceans or lakes | Synonyms: bathymetric |
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| batrachian | (adjective) relating to frogs and toads | Synonyms: anuran, salientian |
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| bats | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| battered | (adjective) exhibiting symptoms resulting from repeated physical and emotional injury | - |
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| (adjective) damaged by blows or hard usage | Synonyms: beat-up, beaten-up |
| (adjective) damaged especially by hard usage | - |
| battleful | (adjective) having or showing a ready disposition to fight | Synonyms: bellicose, combative |
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| battlemented | (adjective) having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement | Synonyms: castellated, castled, crenelated, embattled |
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| (adjective) protected with battlements or parapets with indentations or embrasures for shooting through | - |
| batty | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| batwing | (adjective) formed or shaped like a bat's wing | - |
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| bauxitic | (adjective) resembling or containing bauxite | - |
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| bawdy | (adjective) humorously vulgar | Synonyms: off-color, ribald |
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| bay | (adjective) (used of animals especially a horse) of a moderate reddish-brown color | - |
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| bilobate | (adjective) divided into two lobes | Synonyms: bilobated, bilobed |
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| bilobated | (adjective) divided into two lobes | Synonyms: bilobate, bilobed |
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| bombastic | (adjective) ostentatiously lofty in style | Synonyms: declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid |
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| bribable | (adjective) capable of being corrupted | Synonyms: corruptible, dishonest, purchasable, venal |
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| broadband | (adjective) responding to or operating at a wide band of frequencies | Synonyms: wideband |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or being a communications network in which the bandwidth can be divided and shared by multiple simultaneous signals (as for voice or data or video) | - |
| bubaline | (adjective) relating to or resembling a buffalo | - |
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| bulbaceous | (adjective) producing or growing from bulbs | - |
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| bulbar | (adjective) involving the medulla oblongata | - |
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| cabalistic | (adjective) having a secret or hidden meaning | Synonyms: cryptic, cryptical, kabbalistic, qabalistic, sibylline |
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| cannibalic | (adjective) marked by barbarity suggestive of a cannibal; rapaciously savage | - |
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| cannibalistic | (adjective) characteristic of cannibals or exhibiting cannibalism | - |
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| carpetbag | (adjective) following the practices or characteristic of carpetbaggers | - |
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| (adjective) presumptuously seeking success or a position in a new locality | Synonyms: carpetbagging |
| carpetbagging | (adjective) presumptuously seeking success or a position in a new locality | Synonyms: carpetbag |
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| catabatic | (adjective) of an air current or wind; moving downward or down a slope because of cooling especially at night | Synonyms: katabatic |
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| celibate | (adjective) abstaining from sexual intercourse | Synonyms: continent |
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| cinnabar | (adjective) of a vivid red to reddish-orange color | Synonyms: Chinese-red, vermilion, vermillion |
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| climbable | (adjective) capable of being surmounted | Synonyms: surmountable |
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| (adjective) capable of being ascended | Synonyms: ascendable, ascendible |
| clubable | (adjective) inclined to club together | Synonyms: clubbable |
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| clubbable | (adjective) inclined to club together | Synonyms: clubable |
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| combatant | (adjective) engaging in or ready for combat | - |
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| combative | (adjective) having or showing a ready disposition to fight | Synonyms: battleful, bellicose |
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| (adjective) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits | Synonyms: contentious, disputatious, disputative, litigious |
| (adjective) striving to overcome in argument | Synonyms: agonistic, agonistical |
| contraband | (adjective) distributed or sold illicitly | Synonyms: black-market, black, bootleg, smuggled |
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| contrabass | (adjective) pitched an octave below normal bass instrumental or vocal range | Synonyms: double-bass |
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