sacramental | (adjective) of or relating to or involving a sacrament | - |
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sacred | (adjective) concerned with religion or religious purposes | - |
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(adjective) (often followed by `to') devoted exclusively to a single use or purpose or person | - |
(adjective) made or declared or believed to be holy; devoted to a deity or some religious ceremony or use | Synonyms: consecrated, sanctified |
(adjective) worthy of respect or dedication | - |
(adjective) worthy of religious veneration | Synonyms: hallowed |
sacrificeable | (adjective) may be deliberately sacrificed to achieve an objective | - |
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sacrificial | (adjective) used in or connected with a sacrifice | - |
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sacrilegious | (adjective) grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred | Synonyms: blasphemous, profane |
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sacrosanct | (adjective) must be kept sacred | Synonyms: inviolable, inviolate |
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scarecrowish | (adjective) resembling a scarecrow in being thin and ragged | - |
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scrabbly | (adjective) sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush | Synonyms: scrubby |
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scraggly | (adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: boney, bony, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy |
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(adjective) ragged, thin, or untidy in appearance | - |
scraggy | (adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: boney, bony, scraggly, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy |
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(adjective) having a sharply uneven surface or outline | Synonyms: jagged, jaggy |
scrambled | (adjective) thrown together in a disorderly fashion | - |
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scrappy | (adjective) full of fighting spirit | - |
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scratchy | (adjective) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound | Synonyms: grating, gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough |
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(adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, techy, testy, tetchy |
(adjective) lacking consistency | Synonyms: spotty, uneven |
(adjective) causing abrasion | Synonyms: abrasive |
scrawny | (adjective) inferior in size or quality | Synonyms: scrubby, stunted |
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(adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: boney, bony, scraggly, scraggy, skinny, underweight, weedy |
screaky | (adjective) having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge | Synonyms: screechy, squeaking, squeaky, squealing |
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(adjective) having a rasping or grating sound | Synonyms: creaky |
screaming | (adjective) marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter | Synonyms: hilarious, uproarious |
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(adjective) so extremely intense as to evoke screams | - |
(adjective) resembling a scream in effect | - |
screechy | (adjective) having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge | Synonyms: screaky, squeaking, squeaky, squealing |
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screwball | (adjective) foolish; totally unsound | Synonyms: crazy, half-baked, softheaded |
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screwy | (adjective) not behaving normally | Synonyms: screw-loose |
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scrimpy | (adjective) deficient in amount or quality or extent | Synonyms: meager, meagerly, meagre, stingy |
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scrimy | (adjective) dirty and disgusting | - |
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(adjective) petty or reluctant in giving or spending | Synonyms: grudging, niggardly |
scripted | (adjective) written as for a film or play or broadcast | Synonyms: written |
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scriptural | (adjective) of or pertaining to or contained in or in accordance with the Bible | Synonyms: biblical |
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(adjective) written or relating to writing | - |
scrivened | (adjective) copied in handwriting | - |
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scrofulous | (adjective) afflicted with scrofula | - |
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(adjective) morally contaminated | - |
(adjective) having a diseased appearance resembling scrofula | - |
scrotal | (adjective) relating to or having or lying within a scrotum | - |
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scrub | (adjective) (of domestic animals) not selectively bred | - |
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scrubbed | (adjective) made clean by scrubbing | - |
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scrubby | (adjective) inferior in size or quality | Synonyms: scrawny, stunted |
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(adjective) sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush | Synonyms: scrabbly |
scruffy | (adjective) shabby and untidy | Synonyms: seedy |
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scrumptious | (adjective) extremely pleasing to the sense of taste | Synonyms: delectable, delicious, luscious, pleasant-tasting, toothsome, yummy |
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scrupulous | (adjective) having scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong; principled | - |
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(adjective) characterized by extreme care and great effort | Synonyms: conscientious, painstaking |
secret | (adjective) the next to highest level of official classification for documents | - |
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(adjective) not open or public; kept private or not revealed | - |
(adjective) having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding | Synonyms: mysterious, mystic, mystical, occult, orphic |
(adjective) not expressed | Synonyms: private |
(adjective) (of information) given in confidence or in secret | Synonyms: confidential |
(adjective) not openly made known | Synonyms: unavowed |
(adjective) conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods | Synonyms: clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, surreptitious, undercover, underground |
(adjective) designed to elude detection | Synonyms: hidden |
(adjective) indulging only covertly | - |
(adjective) hidden from general view or use | Synonyms: privy, secluded |
(adjective) communicated covertly | - |
secretarial | (adjective) of or relating to a secretary or to a secretary's work | - |
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secretive | (adjective) inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information | Synonyms: close, closelipped, closemouthed, tightlipped |
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secretory | (adjective) of or relating to or producing a secretion | - |
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subscribed | (adjective) (of a contract or will or other document) having a signature written at the end | - |
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subscript | (adjective) written or printed below and to one side of another character | Synonyms: inferior |
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supercritical | (adjective) (especially of fissionable material) able to sustain a chain reaction in such a manner that the rate of reaction increases | - |
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superscript | (adjective) written or printed above and to one side of another character | Synonyms: superior |
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syncretic | (adjective) of or characterized by syncretism | Synonyms: syncretical, syncretistic, syncretistical |
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(adjective) relating to a historical tendency for a language to reduce its use of inflections | Synonyms: syncretical, syncretistic, syncretistical |
syncretical | (adjective) of or characterized by syncretism | Synonyms: syncretic, syncretistic, syncretistical |
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(adjective) relating to a historical tendency for a language to reduce its use of inflections | Synonyms: syncretic, syncretistic, syncretistical |
syncretistic | (adjective) of or characterized by syncretism | Synonyms: syncretic, syncretical, syncretistical |
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(adjective) relating to a historical tendency for a language to reduce its use of inflections | Synonyms: syncretic, syncretical, syncretistical |
syncretistical | (adjective) of or characterized by syncretism | Synonyms: syncretic, syncretical, syncretistic |
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(adjective) relating to a historical tendency for a language to reduce its use of inflections | Synonyms: syncretic, syncretical, syncretistic |
theocratic | (adjective) of or relating to or being a theocracy | - |
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transcribed | (adjective) recorded for broadcast | Synonyms: canned |
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ultramicroscopic | (adjective) too small to be seen without an ultramicroscope | - |
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unaccredited | (adjective) lacking official approval | Synonyms: unlicenced, unlicensed |
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unascribable | (adjective) not attributable | Synonyms: unattributable |
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unconsecrated | (adjective) not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled | Synonyms: profane, unsanctified |
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uncrannied | (adjective) without chinks or crannies | - |
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uncreased | (adjective) used especially of fabrics | Synonyms: creaseless |
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uncreative | (adjective) not creative | - |
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uncritical | (adjective) not critical; not tending to find or call attention to errors | - |
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(adjective) marked by disregard for critical standards or procedures | Synonyms: noncritical |
uncropped | (adjective) not used for growing crops | - |
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uncrossed | (adjective) not crossed | - |
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(adjective) (of a check) not crossed | - |
uncrowded | (adjective) having or allowing sufficient room | - |
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uncrowned | (adjective) not (especially not yet) provided with a crown | Synonyms: crownless |
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(adjective) not having an (artificial) crown on a tooth; used especially of molars and bicuspids | - |
uncrystallised | (adjective) not finally or definitely formed | Synonyms: uncrystallized |
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(adjective) without real or apparent crystalline form | Synonyms: amorphous, uncrystallized |
uncrystallized | (adjective) not finally or definitely formed | Synonyms: uncrystallised |
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(adjective) without real or apparent crystalline form | Synonyms: amorphous, uncrystallised |
undemocratic | (adjective) not in agreement with or according to democratic doctrine or practice or ideals | - |
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undescriptive | (adjective) not successful in describing | - |
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undiscriminating | (adjective) not discriminating | Synonyms: indiscriminating |
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unscripted | (adjective) not furnished with or using a script | - |
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unscrupulous | (adjective) without scruples or principles | - |
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watercress | (adjective) of a moderate yellow-green color that is greener and deeper than moss green and yellower and darker than pea green | Synonyms: cress green, cresson |
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