| abiding | (adjective) lasting a long time | Synonyms: enduring, imperishable |
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| abounding | (adjective) existing in abundance | Synonyms: galore |
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| according | (adjective) (followed by `to') in agreement with or accordant with | - |
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| (adjective) (followed by `to') as reported or stated by | - |
| altitudinal | (adjective) pertaining to altitude | - |
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| altitudinous | (adjective) indefinitely high; lofty | - |
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| aptitudinal | (adjective) of or relating to aptitudes | - |
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| arundinaceous | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling reedlike plants of the genus Arundinaria | - |
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| ascending | (adjective) moving or going or growing upward | - |
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| astounding | (adjective) so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm | Synonyms: astonishing, staggering, stupefying |
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| (adjective) bewildering or striking dumb with wonder | Synonyms: dumbfounding, dumfounding |
| attending | (adjective) giving practical help to | Synonyms: ministrant |
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| attitudinal | (adjective) of or relating to attitudes | - |
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| autoloading | (adjective) (of firearms) capable of automatic loading and firing continuously | Synonyms: self-loading, semiautomatic |
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| balding | (adjective) getting bald | - |
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| binding | (adjective) executed with proper legal authority | - |
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| blinding | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blazing, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary |
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| blockading | (adjective) blocking entrance to and exit from seaports and harbors | - |
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| breeding | (adjective) producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring | - |
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| brooding | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
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| budding | (adjective) beginning to develop | - |
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| cardinal | (adjective) being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order | - |
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| (adjective) serving as an essential component | Synonyms: central, fundamental, key, primal |
| coinciding | (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincident, coincidental, concurrent, cooccurring, simultaneous |
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| commanding | (adjective) used of a height or viewpoint | Synonyms: dominating, overlooking |
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| concluding | (adjective) occurring at or forming an end or termination | Synonyms: final, last, terminal |
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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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| confiding | (adjective) willing to entrust personal matters | - |
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| confounding | (adjective) that confounds or contradicts or confuses | Synonyms: contradictory |
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| coordinate | (adjective) of equal importance, rank, or degree | - |
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| coordinated | (adjective) being dexterous in the use of more than one set of muscle movements | Synonyms: co-ordinated |
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| (adjective) operating as a unit | Synonyms: co-ordinated, interconnected, unified |
| (adjective) intentionally matched | Synonyms: co-ordinated, matching |
| coordinating | (adjective) serving to connect two grammatical constituents of identical construction | Synonyms: coordinative |
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| coordinative | (adjective) serving to connect two grammatical constituents of identical construction | Synonyms: coordinating |
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| corresponding | (adjective) accompanying | - |
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| (adjective) conforming in every respect | Synonyms: comparable, like |
| (adjective) similar especially in position or purpose | - |
| deciding | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: determinant, determinative, determining |
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| defending | (adjective) attempting to or designed to prevent an opponent from winning or scoring | - |
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| degrading | (adjective) used of conduct; characterized by dishonor | Synonyms: debasing |
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| (adjective) harmful to the mind or morals | Synonyms: corrupting |
| demanding | (adjective) requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill | - |
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| descending | (adjective) coming down or downward | - |
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| dingy | (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry |
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| (adjective) thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot | Synonyms: begrimed, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy |
| (adjective) (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear | Synonyms: dirty, muddied, muddy |
| dinky | (adjective) (British informal) pretty and neat | - |
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| (adjective) small and unimpressive | Synonyms: insignificant |
| dumbfounding | (adjective) bewildering or striking dumb with wonder | Synonyms: astounding, dumfounding |
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| dumfounding | (adjective) bewildering or striking dumb with wonder | Synonyms: astounding, dumbfounding |
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| exceeding | (adjective) far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree | Synonyms: exceptional, olympian, prodigious, surpassing |
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| extraordinaire | (adjective) extraordinary in a particular capacity | - |
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| extraordinary | (adjective) beyond what is ordinary or usual; highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable; special | - |
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| (adjective) far more than usual or expected | Synonyms: over-the-top, sinful |
| (adjective) (of an official) serving an unusual or special function in addition to those of the regular officials | - |
| faultfinding | (adjective) tending to find and call attention to faults | Synonyms: captious |
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| (adjective) tending to make moral judgments or judgments based on personal opinions | - |
| folding | (adjective) capable of being folded up and stored | Synonyms: foldable, foldaway |
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| forbidding | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening |
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| (adjective) harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance | Synonyms: dour, grim |
| foreboding | (adjective) ominously prophetic | Synonyms: fateful, portentous |
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| freestanding | (adjective) standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything | Synonyms: separate |
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| guiding | (adjective) exerting control or influence | - |
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| (adjective) showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on | Synonyms: directing, directional, directive |
| heartrending | (adjective) causing or marked by grief or anguish | Synonyms: grievous, heartbreaking |
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| impeding | (adjective) preventing movement | Synonyms: clogging, hindering, obstructive |
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| impending | (adjective) close in time; about to occur | Synonyms: at hand, close at hand, imminent, impendent |
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| inordinate | (adjective) beyond normal limits | Synonyms: excessive, undue, unreasonable |
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| insubordinate | (adjective) not submissive to authority | - |
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| (adjective) disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority | Synonyms: resistant, resistive |
| intruding | (adjective) projecting inward | - |
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| invading | (adjective) involving invasion or aggressive attack | Synonyms: incursive, invasive |
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| iodinated | (adjective) treated with iodine | Synonyms: iodised, iodized |
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| iodinating | (adjective) combining or causing to combine with iodine | - |
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| latitudinal | (adjective) of or relating to latitudes north or south | - |
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| latitudinarian | (adjective) unwilling to accept authority or dogma (especially in religion) | Synonyms: free-thinking, undogmatic, undogmatical |
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| leading | (adjective) going or proceeding or going in advance; showing the way | - |
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| (adjective) greatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement | Synonyms: preeminent |
| (adjective) having the leading position or higher score in a contest | Synonyms: ahead, in the lead |
| (adjective) indicating the most important performer or role | Synonyms: prima, star, starring, stellar |
| libidinal | (adjective) belonging to the libido | - |
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| libidinous | (adjective) driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires | Synonyms: lascivious, lewd, lustful |
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| longitudinal | (adjective) of or relating to lines of longitude | - |
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| (adjective) running lengthwise | - |
| (adjective) over an extended time | - |
| longstanding | (adjective) having existed for a long time | Synonyms: long-standing |
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| marauding | (adjective) characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding | Synonyms: predatory, raiding |
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| misleading | (adjective) designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently | Synonyms: deceptive |
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| multitudinous | (adjective) too numerous to be counted | Synonyms: countless, infinite, innumerable, innumerous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable |
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| nodding | (adjective) having branches or flower heads that bend downward | Synonyms: cernuous, drooping, pendulous, weeping |
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| offending | (adjective) offending against or breaking a law or rule | - |
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| ordinal | (adjective) being or denoting a numerical order in a series | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a taxonomic order | - |
| ordinary | (adjective) not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree | - |
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| (adjective) lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered | Synonyms: average |
| outstanding | (adjective) having a quality that thrusts itself into attention | Synonyms: prominent, salient, spectacular, striking |
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| (adjective) of major significance or importance | Synonyms: great |
| (adjective) distinguished from others in excellence | - |
| (adjective) owed as a debt | Synonyms: owing, undischarged |
| overriding | (adjective) having superior power and influence | Synonyms: paramount, predominant, predominate, preponderant, preponderating |
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| pending | (adjective) awaiting conclusion or confirmation | - |
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| platitudinal | (adjective) dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality | Synonyms: bromidic, corny, platitudinous |
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| platitudinous | (adjective) dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality | Synonyms: bromidic, corny, platitudinal |
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| pleading | (adjective) begging | Synonyms: beseeching, imploring |
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| plodding | (adjective) (of movement) slow and laborious | Synonyms: leaden |
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| preceding | (adjective) existing or coming before | - |
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| (adjective) of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office | Synonyms: past, retiring |
| protruding | (adjective) extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary | Synonyms: jutting, projected, projecting, relieved, sticking, sticking out |
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| puddingheaded | (adjective) stupid and confused | Synonyms: addlebrained, addlepated, muddleheaded |
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| pulchritudinous | (adjective) used of persons only; having great physical beauty | - |
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| raiding | (adjective) characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding | Synonyms: marauding, predatory |
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| receding | (adjective) (of a hairline e.g.) moving slowly back | - |
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| rending | (adjective) resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree | Synonyms: ripping, splitting |
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| resounding | (adjective) characterized by resonance | Synonyms: resonant, resonating, reverberating, reverberative |
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| rewarding | (adjective) providing personal satisfaction | - |
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| slaveholding | (adjective) allowing slavery | - |
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| sliding | (adjective) being a smooth continuous motion | - |
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| sodding | (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
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| sounding | (adjective) making or having a sound as specified; used as a combining form | - |
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| (adjective) having volume or deepness | - |
| (adjective) appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms | Synonyms: looking |
| spellbinding | (adjective) attracting and holding interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: hypnotic, mesmeric, mesmerizing |
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| standing | (adjective) (of persons) on the feet; having the torso in an erect position supported by straight legs | - |
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| (adjective) executed in or initiated from a standing position | - |
| (adjective) (of fluids) not moving or flowing | - |
| (adjective) having a supporting base | - |
| (adjective) not created for a particular occasion | - |
| (adjective) permanent | - |
| subordinate | (adjective) lower in rank or importance | Synonyms: low-level |
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| (adjective) subject or submissive to authority or the control of another | - |
| (adjective) (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence | Synonyms: dependent |
| subordinating | (adjective) serving to connect a subordinate clause to a main clause | Synonyms: subordinative |
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| subordinative | (adjective) serving to connect a subordinate clause to a main clause | Synonyms: subordinating |
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| succeeding | (adjective) coming after or following | - |
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| (adjective) (of elected officers) elected but not yet serving | Synonyms: future, next |
| superordinate | (adjective) of higher rank or status or value | - |
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| surrounding | (adjective) closely encircling | Synonyms: circumferent, encompassing |
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