| abandoned | (adjective) forsaken by owner or inhabitants | Synonyms: derelict, deserted |
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| (adjective) unrestrained and uninhibited | - |
| abdominal | (adjective) of or relating to or near the abdomen | - |
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| abdominous | (adjective) having a large belly | Synonyms: paunchy, potbellied |
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| abdominovesical | (adjective) of or relating to the abdomen and the urinary bladder | - |
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| accelerando | (adjective) (music) gradually increasing in tempo | - |
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| acidophilic | (adjective) especially of some bacteria; growing well in an acid medium | Synonyms: acidophilous, aciduric |
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| acidophilous | (adjective) especially of some bacteria; growing well in an acid medium | Synonyms: acidophilic, aciduric |
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| acidotic | (adjective) having or being characterized by acidosis | - |
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| adolescent | (adjective) relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent | - |
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| (adjective) in the state of development between puberty and maturity | - |
| (adjective) displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity | Synonyms: jejune, juvenile, puerile |
| (adjective) being of the age 13 through 19 | Synonyms: teen, teenage, teenaged |
| adoptable | (adjective) suitable or eligible for adoption | - |
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| adopted | (adjective) acquired as your own by free choice | Synonyms: adoptive |
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| adoptive | (adjective) of parents and children; related by adoption | - |
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| (adjective) acquired as your own by free choice | Synonyms: adopted |
| adorable | (adjective) lovable especially in a childlike or naive way | Synonyms: endearing, lovely |
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| adored | (adjective) regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god) | Synonyms: idolised, idolized, worshipped |
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| adoring | (adjective) extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent | Synonyms: doting, fond |
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| (adjective) showing adoration | Synonyms: worshipful |
| adorned | (adjective) provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction | Synonyms: decorated |
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| allargando | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in tempo and broadening in manner | - |
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| ambassadorial | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of ambassadors | - |
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| anecdotal | (adjective) having the character of an anecdote | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by or given to telling anecdotes | Synonyms: anecdotic, anecdotical |
| anecdotic | (adjective) characterized by or given to telling anecdotes | Synonyms: anecdotal, anecdotical |
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| anecdotical | (adjective) characterized by or given to telling anecdotes | Synonyms: anecdotal, anecdotic |
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| antidotal | (adjective) counteracting the effects of a poison | - |
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| apodous | (adjective) (of snakes and eels) naturally footless | Synonyms: apodal |
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| arthropodous | (adjective) of or relating to invertebrates of the phylum Arthropoda | Synonyms: arthropodal, arthropodan |
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| avocado | (adjective) of the dull yellowish green of the meat of an avocado | - |
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| azido | (adjective) relating to or containing the azido group N3 | - |
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| beardown | (adjective) with full strength | - |
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| boustrophedonic | (adjective) of or relating to writing alternate lines in opposite directions | - |
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| brachiopodous | (adjective) of or belonging to the phylum Brachiopoda | Synonyms: brachiopod |
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| branchiopodous | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda | Synonyms: branchiopod, branchiopodan |
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| calando | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in tempo and volume | - |
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| condolent | (adjective) expressing sympathy with a person who experienced the death of a loved one | - |
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| crescendo | (adjective) (music) gradually increasing in volume | - |
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| decrescendo | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in volume | Synonyms: diminuendo |
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| dicotyledonous | (adjective) (of a flowering plant) having two cotyledons in the seed | - |
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| diminuendo | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in volume | Synonyms: decrescendo |
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| doable | (adjective) capable of existing or taking place or proving true; possible to do | Synonyms: accomplishable, achievable, manageable, realizable |
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| docile | (adjective) willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed | - |
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| (adjective) easily handled or managed | Synonyms: gentle |
| (adjective) ready and willing to be taught | Synonyms: teachable |
| doctoral | (adjective) of or relating to a doctor or doctorate | Synonyms: doctorial |
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| doctorial | (adjective) of or relating to a doctor or doctorate | Synonyms: doctoral |
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| doctrinaire | (adjective) stubbornly insistent on theory without regard for practicality or suitability | - |
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| doctrinal | (adjective) relating to or involving or preoccupied with doctrine | - |
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| documental | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or derived from documents | Synonyms: documentary |
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| documentary | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or derived from documents | Synonyms: documental |
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| (adjective) (of film, television, radio, or photography) depicting a real-life event using images or interviews with people involved in the event | - |
| documented | (adjective) furnished with or supported by documents | - |
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| (adjective) established as genuine | Synonyms: attested, authenticated |
| doddering | (adjective) mentally or physically infirm with age | Synonyms: doddery, gaga, senile |
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| doddery | (adjective) mentally or physically infirm with age | Synonyms: doddering, gaga, senile |
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| dodgy | (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: crafty, cunning, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily |
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| (adjective) of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk | Synonyms: chanceful, chancy, dicey |
| dogged | (adjective) stubbornly unyielding | Synonyms: dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding |
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| dogging | (adjective) relentless and indefatigable in pursuit or as if in pursuit | Synonyms: persisting |
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| doglike | (adjective) resembling a dog; especially in devotion | - |
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| dogmatic | (adjective) relating to or involving dogma | - |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative | - |
| (adjective) characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles | Synonyms: dogmatical |
| dogmatical | (adjective) characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles | Synonyms: dogmatic |
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| dolabrate | (adjective) having the shape of the head of an ax or cleaver | Synonyms: dolabriform |
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| dolabriform | (adjective) having the shape of the head of an ax or cleaver | Synonyms: dolabrate |
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| doleful | (adjective) filled with or evoking sadness | Synonyms: mournful |
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| dolichocephalic | (adjective) having a relatively long head with a cephalic index of under 75 | Synonyms: dolichocranial, dolichocranic |
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| dolichocranial | (adjective) having a relatively long head with a cephalic index of under 75 | Synonyms: dolichocephalic, dolichocranic |
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| dolichocranic | (adjective) having a relatively long head with a cephalic index of under 75 | Synonyms: dolichocephalic, dolichocranial |
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| dolomitic | (adjective) relating to or consisting of dolomite | - |
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| dolorous | (adjective) showing sorrow | Synonyms: dolourous, lachrymose, tearful, weeping |
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| dolourous | (adjective) showing sorrow | Synonyms: dolorous, lachrymose, tearful, weeping |
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| doltish | (adjective) heavy and dull and stupid | Synonyms: cloddish |
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| domed | (adjective) having a hemispherical vault or dome | Synonyms: vaulted |
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| domestic | (adjective) of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation | - |
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| (adjective) of or involving the home or family | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to the home | - |
| (adjective) produced in a particular country | - |
| (adjective) converted or adapted to domestic use | Synonyms: domesticated |
| domesticated | (adjective) accustomed to home life | - |
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| (adjective) converted or adapted to domestic use | Synonyms: domestic |
| domiciliary | (adjective) of or relating to or provided in a domicile | - |
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| dominant | (adjective) exercising influence or control | - |
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| (adjective) (of genes) producing the same phenotype whether its allele is identical or dissimilar | - |
| (adjective) most frequent or common | Synonyms: predominant, prevailing, prevalent, rife |
| dominated | (adjective) controlled or ruled by superior authority or power | - |
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| (adjective) harassed by persistent nagging | Synonyms: henpecked |
| dominating | (adjective) most powerful or important or influential | Synonyms: ascendant, ascendent |
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| (adjective) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | Synonyms: autocratic, bossy, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory |
| (adjective) used of a height or viewpoint | Synonyms: commanding, overlooking |
| domineering | (adjective) tending to domineer | - |
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| dominical | (adjective) of or relating to Sunday as the Lord's Day | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or coming from Jesus Christ | - |
| done | (adjective) cooked until ready to serve | - |
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| (adjective) having finished or arrived at completion | Synonyms: through, through with |
| donnish | (adjective) marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects | Synonyms: academic, pedantic |
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| doomed | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') determined by tragic fate | Synonyms: fated |
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| (adjective) marked for certain death | - |
| (adjective) in danger of the eternal punishment of Hell | Synonyms: cursed, damned, unredeemed, unsaved |
| (adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune | Synonyms: ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, unlucky |
| doped | (adjective) under the influence of narcotics | Synonyms: drugged, narcotised, narcotized |
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| (adjective) treated or impregnated with a foreign substance | - |
| dopey | (adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: anserine, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosey, goosy, jerky |
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| dopy | (adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: anserine, dopey, foolish, gooselike, goosey, goosy, jerky |
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| doric | (adjective) of or pertaining to the Doric style of architecture | - |
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| dormant | (adjective) (of e.g. volcanoes) not erupting and not extinct | Synonyms: inactive |
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| (adjective) in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation | Synonyms: hibernating, torpid |
| (adjective) inactive but capable of becoming active | Synonyms: abeyant |
| (adjective) lying with head on paws as if sleeping | Synonyms: sleeping |
| dormie | (adjective) in match play a side that stands as many holes ahead as there are holes remaining to be played | Synonyms: dormy |
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| dormy | (adjective) in match play a side that stands as many holes ahead as there are holes remaining to be played | Synonyms: dormie |
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| dorsal | (adjective) belonging to or on or near the back or upper surface of an animal or organ or part | - |
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| (adjective) facing away from the axis of an organ or organism | Synonyms: abaxial |
| dorsoventral | (adjective) extending from the back to the belly | - |
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| dosed | (adjective) treated with some kind of application | - |
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| doting | (adjective) extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent | Synonyms: adoring, fond |
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| dotted | (adjective) having gaps or spaces | Synonyms: dashed |
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| (adjective) having a pattern of dots | Synonyms: flecked, specked, speckled, stippled |
| dotty | (adjective) intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with | Synonyms: crazy, gaga, wild |
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| (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
| double | (adjective) used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis | Synonyms: bivalent |
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| (adjective) used of flowers having more than the usual number of petals in crowded or overlapping arrangements | - |
| (adjective) having two meanings with intent to deceive | Synonyms: forked |
| (adjective) large enough for two | - |
| (adjective) twice as great or many | Synonyms: doubled, two-fold, twofold |
| (adjective) consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs | Synonyms: dual, duple |
| (adjective) having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities | Synonyms: dual, three-fold, threefold, treble, two-fold, twofold |
| doubled | (adjective) twice as great or many | Synonyms: double, two-fold, twofold |
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| doubtful | (adjective) open to doubt or suspicion | Synonyms: dubious, dubitable, in question |
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| (adjective) fraught with uncertainty or doubt | Synonyms: dubious |
| (adjective) unsettled in mind or opinion | Synonyms: tentative |
| doubting | (adjective) marked by or given to doubt | Synonyms: questioning, sceptical, skeptical |
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| doughy | (adjective) having the consistency of dough because of insufficient leavening or improper cooking | Synonyms: soggy |
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| dour | (adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen |
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| (adjective) stubbornly unyielding | Synonyms: dogged, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding |
| (adjective) harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance | Synonyms: forbidding, grim |
| dovish | (adjective) opposed to war | Synonyms: pacifist, pacifistic |
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| dowdy | (adjective) lacking in smartness or taste | - |
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| (adjective) primly out of date | Synonyms: frumpish, frumpy |
| dowered | (adjective) supplied with a dower or dowry | - |
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| dowerless | (adjective) lacking a dowry | - |
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| down | (adjective) being or moving lower in position or less in some value | - |
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| (adjective) filled with melancholy and despondency | Synonyms: blue, depressed, dispirited, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low-spirited, low |
| (adjective) extending or moving from a higher to a lower place | Synonyms: downward |
| (adjective) becoming progressively lower | - |
| (adjective) not functioning (temporarily or permanently) | - |
| (adjective) lower than previously | Synonyms: depressed |
| (adjective) shut | - |
| (adjective) being put out in a game of baseball | - |
| (adjective) understood perfectly | Synonyms: down pat, mastered |
| downbound | (adjective) heading in any direction that is conventionally down | - |
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