| abactinal | (adjective) (of radiate animals) located on the surface or end opposite to that on which the mouth is situated | - |
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| abasic | (adjective) of or relating to abasia (inability to walk) | Synonyms: abatic |
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| abatic | (adjective) of or relating to abasia (inability to walk) | Synonyms: abasic |
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| abdicable | (adjective) capable of being discarded or renounced or relinquished | - |
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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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| 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 | - |
| abortifacient | (adjective) causing abortion | - |
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| aboulic | (adjective) suffering from abulia; showing abnormal inability to act or make decisions | Synonyms: abulic |
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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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| abroach | (adjective) of a cask or barrel | Synonyms: broached |
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| abscessed | (adjective) infected and filled with pus | - |
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| absolutistic | (adjective) pertaining to the principle of totalitarianism | Synonyms: absolutist |
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| absorbefacient | (adjective) inducing or promoting absorption | Synonyms: sorbefacient |
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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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| abulic | (adjective) suffering from abulia; showing abnormal inability to act or make decisions | Synonyms: aboulic |
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| academic | (adjective) associated with academia or an academy | - |
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| (adjective) marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects | Synonyms: donnish, pedantic |
| (adjective) hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result | - |
| acanthoid | (adjective) shaped like a spine or thorn | Synonyms: acanthous, spinous |
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| acanthotic | (adjective) of or relating to or having acanthosis | - |
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| acanthous | (adjective) shaped like a spine or thorn | Synonyms: acanthoid, spinous |
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| acapnial | (adjective) relating to or demonstrating acapnia | Synonyms: acapnic, acapnotic |
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| acapnic | (adjective) relating to or demonstrating acapnia | Synonyms: acapnial, acapnotic |
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| acapnotic | (adjective) relating to or demonstrating acapnia | Synonyms: acapnial, acapnic |
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| acarpellous | (adjective) having no carpels | Synonyms: acarpelous |
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| acarpelous | (adjective) having no carpels | Synonyms: acarpellous |
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| acarpous | (adjective) producing no fruit | - |
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| acatalectic | (adjective) (verse) metrically complete; especially having the full number of syllables in the final metrical foot | - |
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| acaudal | (adjective) lacking a tail or taillike appendage | Synonyms: acaudate |
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| acaudate | (adjective) lacking a tail or taillike appendage | Synonyms: acaudal |
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| acaulescent | (adjective) (of plants) having no apparent stem above ground | Synonyms: stemless |
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| accelerando | (adjective) (music) gradually increasing in tempo | - |
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| accelerated | (adjective) speeded up, as of an academic course | - |
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| accelerative | (adjective) tending to increase velocity | Synonyms: acceleratory |
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| acceleratory | (adjective) tending to increase velocity | Synonyms: accelerative |
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| accented | (adjective) bearing a stress or accent | Synonyms: stressed |
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| (adjective) (used of syllables) bearing the principle stress, usually accompanied by a change in pitch | Synonyms: tonic |
| accentual | (adjective) (of verse) having a metric system based on stress rather than syllables or quantity | - |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to accent or stress | - |
| 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 | - |
| acceptant | (adjective) accepting willingly | Synonyms: acceptive |
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| accepted | (adjective) generally approved or compelling recognition | Synonyms: recognised, recognized |
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| accepting | (adjective) tolerating without protest | - |
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| acceptive | (adjective) inclined to accept rather than reject | - |
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| (adjective) accepting willingly | Synonyms: acceptant |
| accessary | (adjective) aiding and abetting in a crime | Synonyms: accessory |
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| 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 |
| accessional | (adjective) of or constituting an accession | - |
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| accessorial | (adjective) nonessential but helpful | - |
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| accessory | (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: adjunct, adjuvant, ancillary, appurtenant, auxiliary |
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| (adjective) aiding and abetting in a crime | Synonyms: accessary |
| accidental | (adjective) not of prime or central importance | Synonyms: incidental, nonessential |
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| (adjective) happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally | Synonyms: inadvertent |
| accipitrine | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the genus Accipiter (or to typical hawks) | - |
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| acclivitous | (adjective) sloping upward | Synonyms: rising, uphill |
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| accommodating | (adjective) helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation | Synonyms: accommodative |
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| (adjective) obliging; willing to do favors | - |
| accommodational | (adjective) of or relating to the accommodation of the lens of the eye | - |
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| accommodative | (adjective) helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation | Synonyms: accommodating |
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| (adjective) tending to reconcile or accommodate; bringing into harmony | Synonyms: reconciling |
| (adjective) willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement | Synonyms: cooperative |
| accompanied | (adjective) having companions or an escort | - |
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| (adjective) playing or singing with instrumental or vocal accompaniment | Synonyms: attended |
| accompanying | (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: attendant, collateral, concomitant, consequent, ensuant, incidental, resultant, sequent |
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| accomplishable | (adjective) capable of existing or taking place or proving true; possible to do | Synonyms: achievable, doable, manageable, realizable |
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| accomplished | (adjective) successfully completed or brought to an end | Synonyms: completed, realised, realized |
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| (adjective) settled securely and unconditionally | Synonyms: effected, established |
| (adjective) highly skilled | Synonyms: complete |
| accordant | (adjective) being in agreement or harmony; often followed by `with' | - |
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| (adjective) in keeping | Synonyms: agreeable, concordant, conformable, consonant |
| according | (adjective) (followed by `to') in agreement with or accordant with | - |
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| (adjective) (followed by `to') as reported or stated by | - |
| accountable | (adjective) liable to account for one's actions | Synonyms: answerable |
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| accoutered | (adjective) provided with necessary articles of equipment for a specialized purpose (especially military) | Synonyms: accoutred |
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| accoutred | (adjective) provided with necessary articles of equipment for a specialized purpose (especially military) | Synonyms: accoutered |
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| accredited | (adjective) given official approval to act | Synonyms: commissioned, licenced, licensed |
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| accretionary | (adjective) marked or produced by accretion | - |
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| accretive | (adjective) growing by accretion | - |
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| accrued | (adjective) periodically accumulated over time | Synonyms: accumulated |
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| acculturational | (adjective) of or relating to acculturation | Synonyms: acculturative |
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| acculturative | (adjective) of or relating to acculturation | Synonyms: acculturational |
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| accumbent | (adjective) lying down; in a position of comfort or rest | Synonyms: decumbent, recumbent |
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| accumulated | (adjective) periodically accumulated over time | Synonyms: accrued |
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| accumulative | (adjective) marked by acquiring or amassing | - |
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| (adjective) increasing by successive addition | Synonyms: cumulative |
| accurate | (adjective) conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy | - |
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| (adjective) (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct | Synonyms: exact, precise |
| accursed | (adjective) under a curse | Synonyms: accurst, maledict |
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| accurst | (adjective) under a curse | Synonyms: accursed, maledict |
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| accusative | (adjective) serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes | Synonyms: objective |
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| (adjective) containing or expressing accusation | Synonyms: accusatory, accusing, accusive |
| accusatorial | (adjective) specifically indicating a form of prosecution in which one is publicly accused of and tried for a crime and in which the judge is not also the prosecutor | - |
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| accusatory | (adjective) containing or expressing accusation | Synonyms: accusative, accusing, accusive |
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| accusing | (adjective) containing or expressing accusation | Synonyms: accusative, accusatory, accusive |
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| accusive | (adjective) containing or expressing accusation | Synonyms: accusative, accusatory, accusing |
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| accustomed | (adjective) commonly used or practiced; usual | Synonyms: customary, habitual, wonted |
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| ace | (adjective) of the highest quality | Synonyms: A-one, crack, first-rate, super, tiptop, top-notch, topnotch, tops |
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| acellular | (adjective) not made up of or divided into cells | Synonyms: noncellular |
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| acentric | (adjective) lacking a centromere | - |
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| (adjective) not centered or having no center | - |
| acephalous | (adjective) lacking a head or a clearly defined head | - |
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| acerate | (adjective) narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves | Synonyms: acerose, acicular, needle-shaped |
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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 |
| acerose | (adjective) narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves | Synonyms: acerate, acicular, needle-shaped |
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| acervate | (adjective) pertaining to a growth of fungi that forms a heaped-up mass | - |
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| acetabular | (adjective) of the cup-shaped socket that receives the head of the thigh bone | Synonyms: cotyloid, cotyloidal |
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| acetic | (adjective) relating to or containing acetic acid | - |
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| acetonic | (adjective) of or relating to acetone | - |
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| acetose | (adjective) tasting or smelling like vinegar | Synonyms: acetous, vinegarish, vinegary |
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