| absentminded | (adjective) lost in thought; showing preoccupation | Synonyms: absent, abstracted, scatty |
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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 | - |
| 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 |
| achlamydeous | (adjective) not having a floral envelope or perianth | - |
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| adenocarcinomatous | (adjective) of or pertaining to adenocarcinoma | - |
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| adenoid | (adjective) relating to or resembling lymphatic glands or lymphoid tissue | - |
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| adenoidal | (adjective) of or pertaining to the adenoids | - |
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| (adjective) sounding as if the nose were pinched | Synonyms: nasal, pinched |
| adept | (adjective) having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude | Synonyms: expert, good, practiced, proficient, skilful, skillful |
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| adequate | (adjective) having the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task | Synonyms: equal |
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| (adjective) about average; acceptable | Synonyms: fair to middling, passable, tolerable |
| (adjective) sufficient for the purpose | Synonyms: enough |
| aided | (adjective) having help; often used as a combining form | Synonyms: assisted |
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| airheaded | (adjective) lacking seriousness; given to frivolity | Synonyms: dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, light-headed, lightheaded, silly |
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| aldehydic | (adjective) of or related to or containing aldehydes | - |
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| aldermanic | (adjective) of or relating to or like an alderman | Synonyms: aldermanly |
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| aldermanly | (adjective) of or relating to or like an alderman | Synonyms: aldermanic |
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| ambidextrous | (adjective) equally skillful with each hand | Synonyms: two-handed |
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| (adjective) marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another | Synonyms: deceitful, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced |
| amended | (adjective) of legislation | - |
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| (adjective) modified for the better | - |
| antecedent | (adjective) preceding in time or order | - |
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| anterograde | (adjective) of amnesia; affecting time immediately following trauma | - |
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| antipodean | (adjective) relating to the antipodes or situated at opposite sides of the earth | Synonyms: antipodal |
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| apodeictic | (adjective) of a proposition; necessarily true or logically certain | Synonyms: apodictic |
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| apprehended | (adjective) fully understood or grasped | Synonyms: appreciated, comprehended |
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| ardent | (adjective) glowing or shining like fire | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by strong enthusiasm | Synonyms: warm |
| (adjective) characterized by intense emotion | Synonyms: fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid |
| ascendent | (adjective) tending or directed upward | Synonyms: ascendant, ascensive |
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| (adjective) most powerful or important or influential | Synonyms: ascendant, dominating |
| astounded | (adjective) filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock | Synonyms: amazed, astonied, astonished, stunned |
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| asunder | (adjective) widely separated especially in space | - |
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| asyndetic | (adjective) lacking conjunctions | - |
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| attended | (adjective) playing or singing with instrumental or vocal accompaniment | Synonyms: accompanied |
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| (adjective) having a caretaker or other watcher | Synonyms: tended to |
| 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 | - |
| 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 | - |
| barehanded | (adjective) with bare hands | - |
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| bareheaded | (adjective) having the head uncovered | Synonyms: bared |
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| barricaded | (adjective) preventing entry or exit or a course of action | Synonyms: barred, blockaded |
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| beaded | (adjective) covered with beads of liquid | - |
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| bearded | (adjective) having a growth of hairlike awns | - |
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| (adjective) having hair on the cheeks and chin | Synonyms: barbate, bewhiskered, whiskered, whiskery |
| bedded | (adjective) having a bed or beds as specified | - |
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| (adjective) deposited or arranged in horizontal layers | Synonyms: stratified |
| bedewed | (adjective) wet with dew | Synonyms: dewy |
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| bedridden | (adjective) confined to bed (by illness) | Synonyms: bedfast, bedrid, sick-abed |
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| beheaded | (adjective) having had the head cut off | Synonyms: decapitated |
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| beholden | (adjective) under a moral obligation to someone | - |
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| bended | (adjective) used of the back and knees; stooped | Synonyms: bent |
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| bewildered | (adjective) perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at sea, baffled, befuddled, bemused, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up |
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| bidentate | (adjective) having toothlike projections that are themselves toothed | - |
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| bigheaded | (adjective) (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant | Synonyms: persnickety, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish |
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| biodegradable | (adjective) capable of being decomposed by e.g. bacteria | - |
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| bladderlike | (adjective) resembling a bladder | Synonyms: bladdery |
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| bladdery | (adjective) resembling a bladder | Synonyms: bladderlike |
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| bladed | (adjective) bearing or characterized by a blade or sword; often used in combination | - |
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| (adjective) having a blade or blades; often used in combination | - |
| (adjective) composed of thin flat plates resembling a knife blade | - |
| bladelike | (adjective) shaped like a sword blade | Synonyms: ensiform, sword-shaped, swordlike |
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| blastodermatic | (adjective) of or relating to a blastoderm | Synonyms: blastodermic |
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| blastodermic | (adjective) of or relating to a blastoderm | Synonyms: blastodermatic |
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| blended | (adjective) combined or mixed together so that the constituent parts are indistinguishable | - |
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| blinded | (adjective) deprived of sight | - |
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| blindfolded | (adjective) wearing a blindfold | Synonyms: blindfold |
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| blockaded | (adjective) preventing entry or exit or a course of action | Synonyms: barred, barricaded |
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| blockheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: boneheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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| blonde | (adjective) being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes | Synonyms: blond, light-haired |
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| blooded | (adjective) of unmixed ancestry | Synonyms: full-blood, full-blooded |
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| boneheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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| bordered | (adjective) having a border especially of a specified kind; sometimes used as a combining term | - |
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| borderline | (adjective) of questionable or minimal quality | Synonyms: marginal |
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| bouldered | (adjective) abounding in rocks or stones | Synonyms: bouldery, rocky, stony |
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| bouldery | (adjective) abounding in rocks or stones | Synonyms: bouldered, rocky, stony |
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| bounded | (adjective) having the limits or boundaries established | Synonyms: delimited |
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| bounden | (adjective) morally obligatory | - |
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| bounderish | (adjective) (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace | Synonyms: ill-bred, lowbred, rude, underbred, yokelish |
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| braided | (adjective) woven by (or as if by) braiding | - |
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| branded | (adjective) marked with a brand | - |
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| (adjective) (of goods and merchandise) marked or labeled by a distinctive word or symbol indicating exclusive rights | - |
| brinded | (adjective) having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats | Synonyms: brindle, brindled, tabby |
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| broadside | (adjective) toward a full side | - |
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| brocaded | (adjective) embellished with a raised pattern created by pressure or embroidery | Synonyms: embossed, raised |
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| bullheaded | (adjective) obstinate and stupid | Synonyms: bullet-headed, pigheaded |
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| burdened | (adjective) bearing a heavy burden of work or difficulties or responsibilities | - |
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| (adjective) bearing a physically heavy weight or load | Synonyms: heavy-laden, loaded down |
| burdenless | (adjective) not encumbered with a physical burden or load | Synonyms: unburdened |
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| burdensome | (adjective) not easily borne; wearing | Synonyms: onerous, taxing |
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| cacodemonic | (adjective) of or relating to evil spirits | Synonyms: cacodaemonic |
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| cadenced | (adjective) marked by a rhythmical cadence | Synonyms: cadent |
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| cadent | (adjective) marked by a rhythmical cadence | Synonyms: cadenced |
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| calendered | (adjective) (of paper and fabric and leather) having a surface made smooth and shiny especially by pressing between rollers | Synonyms: glossy |
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| candent | (adjective) emitting light as a result of being heated | Synonyms: incandescent |
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| candescent | (adjective) glowing from great heat | - |
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| centigrade | (adjective) of or relating to a temperature scale on which the freezing point of water is 0 degrees and the boiling point of water is 100 degrees | - |
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| chlamydeous | (adjective) having a floral envelope or perianth consisting of a calyx and/or corolla | - |
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| citywide | (adjective) occurring or extending throughout a city | - |
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| clandestine | (adjective) conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods | Synonyms: cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover, underground |
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| clearheaded | (adjective) not mentally confused; able to think clearly and act intelligently | Synonyms: clear-thinking |
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| clouded | (adjective) filled or abounding with clouds | Synonyms: cloud-covered, overcast, sunless |
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| (adjective) mentally disordered | - |
| (adjective) made troubled or apprehensive or distressed in appearance | - |
| (adjective) unclear in form or expression | Synonyms: blurred |
| coincident | (adjective) matching point for point | - |
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| (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincidental, coinciding, concurrent, cooccurring, simultaneous |
| coincidental | (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincident, coinciding, concurrent, cooccurring, simultaneous |
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| colonnaded | (adjective) having a series of columns arranged at regular intervals | - |
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| compounded | (adjective) combined into or constituting a chemical compound | - |
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| comprehended | (adjective) fully understood or grasped | Synonyms: appreciated, apprehended |
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| comradely | (adjective) heartily friendly and congenial | Synonyms: hail-fellow-well-met, hail-fellow |
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| concluded | (adjective) having come or been brought to a conclusion | Synonyms: all over, complete, ended, over, terminated |
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| condemnable | (adjective) bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure | Synonyms: criminal, deplorable, reprehensible, vicious |
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| condemnatory | (adjective) containing or imposing condemnation or censure | Synonyms: condemning |
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| condemning | (adjective) containing or imposing condemnation or censure | Synonyms: condemnatory |
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| condescending | (adjective) (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension | Synonyms: arch, patronising, patronizing |
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| confederate | (adjective) united in a confederacy or league | Synonyms: allied, confederative |
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| confederative | (adjective) united in a confederacy or league | Synonyms: allied, confederate |
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| confident | (adjective) having or marked by confidence or assurance | - |
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| (adjective) not liable to error in judgment or action | Synonyms: sure-footed, surefooted |
| (adjective) persuaded of; very sure | Synonyms: convinced, positive |