| abbreviated | (adjective) (of clothing) very short | Synonyms: brief |
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| (adjective) cut short in duration | Synonyms: shortened, truncated |
| 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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| 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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| breakable | (adjective) capable of being broken or damaged | - |
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| breakaway | (adjective) having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude | Synonyms: fissiparous, separatist |
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| breakneck | (adjective) moving at very high speed | - |
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| breasted | (adjective) having a breast or breasts; or breasts as specified; used chiefly in compounds | - |
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| breastless | (adjective) without a breast | - |
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| breathed | (adjective) uttered without voice | Synonyms: voiceless |
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| breathing | (adjective) passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally; sometimes used in combination | Synonyms: eupneic, eupnoeic |
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| breathless | (adjective) not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty | Synonyms: dyspneal, dyspneic, dyspnoeal, dyspnoeic |
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| (adjective) appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse | Synonyms: inanimate, pulseless |
| (adjective) tending to cause suspension of regular breathing | Synonyms: breathtaking |
| breathtaking | (adjective) tending to cause suspension of regular breathing | Synonyms: breathless |
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| breeched | (adjective) dressed in trousers | Synonyms: pantalooned, trousered |
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| breeding | (adjective) producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring | - |
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| breezy | (adjective) fresh and animated | - |
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| (adjective) abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes | Synonyms: blowy, windy |
| bregmatic | (adjective) of or relating to the bregma of the skull | - |
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| crossbred | (adjective) bred from parents of different varieties or species | - |
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| fibreoptic | (adjective) of or relating to fiber optics | Synonyms: fiber-optic, fiberoptic, fibre-optic |
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| glabrescent | (adjective) lacking hair or a similar growth or tending to become hairless | - |
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| groundbreaking | (adjective) being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before | Synonyms: innovational, innovative |
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| heartbreaking | (adjective) causing or marked by grief or anguish | Synonyms: grievous, heartrending |
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| inbred | (adjective) produced by inbreeding | - |
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| (adjective) normally existing at birth | Synonyms: connatural, inborn |
| interbred | (adjective) bred of closely related parents | - |
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| lowbred | (adjective) (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace | Synonyms: bounderish, ill-bred, rude, underbred, yokelish |
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| macabre | (adjective) shockingly repellent; inspiring horror | Synonyms: ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, sick |
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| outbred | (adjective) bred of parents not closely related; having parents of different classes or tribes | - |
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| purebred | (adjective) bred for many generations from member of a recognized breed or strain | - |
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| sombre | (adjective) lacking brightness or color; dull | Synonyms: drab, sober, somber |
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| (adjective) grave or even gloomy in character | Synonyms: melancholy, somber |
| thoroughbred | (adjective) having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal | Synonyms: pedigree, pedigreed, pureblood, pureblooded |
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| umbrella | (adjective) covering or applying simultaneously to a number of similar items or elements or groups | - |
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| umbrellalike | (adjective) resembling an umbrella | - |
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| unbreakable | (adjective) impossible to break especially under ordinary usage | - |
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| underbred | (adjective) of inferior or mixed breed | - |
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| (adjective) (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace | Synonyms: bounderish, ill-bred, lowbred, rude, yokelish |