| antisubmarine | (adjective) defensive against enemy submarines | - |
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| antithetic | (adjective) sharply contrasted in character or purpose | Synonyms: antithetical |
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| antithetical | (adjective) sharply contrasted in character or purpose | Synonyms: antithetic |
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| antlered | (adjective) having antlers | - |
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| antrorse | (adjective) bent or curved forward or upward | - |
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| anuretic | (adjective) of or relating to an inability to urinate | Synonyms: anuric |
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| apathetic | (adjective) showing little or no emotion or animation | - |
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| (adjective) marked by a lack of interest | Synonyms: indifferent |
| apelike | (adjective) being or given to servile imitation | Synonyms: apish |
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| (adjective) resembling apes | Synonyms: anthropoid, anthropoidal |
| aperient | (adjective) mildly laxative | - |
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| aperiodic | (adjective) not recurring at regular intervals | Synonyms: nonperiodic |
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| apetalous | (adjective) (of flowers) having no petals | Synonyms: petalless |
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| aphaeretic | (adjective) relating to or formed by or consisting of aphaeresis | Synonyms: apheretic |
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| apheretic | (adjective) relating to or formed by or consisting of aphaeresis | Synonyms: aphaeretic |
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| aphetic | (adjective) produced by aphesis | - |
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| apiculate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having a short sharply pointed tip | - |
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| aplacental | (adjective) having no placenta | - |
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| apneic | (adjective) of or relating to apnea | Synonyms: apnoeic |
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| apnoeic | (adjective) of or relating to apnea | Synonyms: apneic |
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| apocrine | (adjective) (of exocrine glands) producing a secretion in which part of the secreting cell is released with the secretion | - |
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| apocynaceous | (adjective) of or relating to tropical plants of the family Apocynaceae | - |
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| apodeictic | (adjective) of a proposition; necessarily true or logically certain | Synonyms: apodictic |
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| apogametic | (adjective) of or relating to the development of an embryo in the absence of fertilization | Synonyms: apogamic, apogamous |
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| apogean | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of an apogee | - |
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| apologetic | (adjective) offering or expressing apology | Synonyms: excusatory |
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| aponeurotic | (adjective) of or relating to an aponeurosis | - |
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| apopemptic | (adjective) addressed to one who is departing | - |
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| apophyseal | (adjective) of or relating to an apophysis | - |
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| apoplectic | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of apoplexy | - |
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| apoplectiform | (adjective) resembling apoplexy | Synonyms: apoplectoid |
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| apoplectoid | (adjective) resembling apoplexy | Synonyms: apoplectiform |
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| aposiopetic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of aposiopesis | - |
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| apostate | (adjective) not faithful to religion or party or cause | - |
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| apothecial | (adjective) of or relating to the apothecium of some lichens and fungi | - |
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| apothegmatic | (adjective) given to or characterized by terse apothegms | Synonyms: apothegmatical |
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| (adjective) terse and witty and like a maxim | Synonyms: aphoristic, epigrammatic |
| apothegmatical | (adjective) given to or characterized by terse apothegms | Synonyms: apothegmatic |
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| appalled | (adjective) struck with fear, dread, or consternation | Synonyms: aghast, dismayed, shocked |
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| appareled | (adjective) dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination | Synonyms: attired, dressed, garbed, garmented, habilimented, robed |
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| apparent | (adjective) clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment | Synonyms: evident, manifest, palpable, patent, plain, unmistakable |
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| (adjective) appearing as such but not necessarily so | Synonyms: ostensible, seeming |
| appealable | (adjective) capable of being appealed especially to a higher tribunal | - |
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| appealing | (adjective) able to attract interest or draw favorable attention | - |
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| (adjective) (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings | Synonyms: likable, likeable, sympathetic |
| appeasable | (adjective) capable of being pacified | Synonyms: conciliable |
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| appeasing | (adjective) intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions | Synonyms: placating, placative, placatory |
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| appellant | (adjective) of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals) | Synonyms: appellate |
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| appellate | (adjective) of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals) | Synonyms: appellant |
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| appellative | (adjective) pertaining to or dealing with or used as a common noun | - |
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| (adjective) inclined to or serving for the giving of names | Synonyms: naming |
| appendaged | (adjective) having an appendage | - |
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| appendant | (adjective) affixed as an appendage | - |
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| appendicular | (adjective) relating to or consisting of an appendage or appendages; especially the limbs | - |
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| apperceptive | (adjective) able to relate new percepts to past experience | - |
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| appetent | (adjective) marked by eager desire | - |
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| appetising | (adjective) appealing to or stimulating the appetite especially in appearance or aroma | Synonyms: appetizing |
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| appetitive | (adjective) of or relating to appetite | - |
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| appetizing | (adjective) appealing to or stimulating the appetite especially in appearance or aroma | Synonyms: appetising |
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| applaudable | (adjective) worthy of high praise | Synonyms: commendable, laudable, praiseworthy |
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| applicable | (adjective) capable of being applied; having relevance | - |
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| applicative | (adjective) readily applicable or practical | Synonyms: applicatory |
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| applied | (adjective) concerned with concrete problems or data rather than with fundamental principles | - |
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| appointed | (adjective) subject to appointment | Synonyms: appointive |
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| (adjective) selected for a job | - |
| (adjective) provided with furnishing and accessories (especially of a tasteful kind) | - |
| (adjective) fixed or established especially by order or command | Synonyms: decreed, ordained, prescribed |
| appointive | (adjective) subject to appointment | Synonyms: appointed |
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| (adjective) relating to the act of appointing | - |
| apportionable | (adjective) capable of being distributed | Synonyms: allocable, allocatable |
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| apportioned | (adjective) given out in portions | Synonyms: dealt out, doled out, meted out, parceled out |
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| apposable | (adjective) capable of being placed opposite to something | Synonyms: opposable |
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| apposite | (adjective) being of striking appropriateness and pertinence | Synonyms: apt, pertinent |
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| appositive | (adjective) relating to or being in apposition | Synonyms: appositional |
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| appreciable | (adjective) enough to be estimated or measured | - |
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| appreciated | (adjective) fully understood or grasped | Synonyms: apprehended, comprehended |
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| appreciative | (adjective) having or showing appreciation or a favorable critical judgment or opinion | - |
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| (adjective) feeling or expressive of gratitude | - |
| apprehended | (adjective) fully understood or grasped | Synonyms: appreciated, comprehended |
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| apprehensible | (adjective) capable of being apprehended or understood | Synonyms: graspable, intelligible, perceivable, understandable |
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| apprehensive | (adjective) in fear or dread of possible evil or harm | - |
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| (adjective) quick to understand | Synonyms: discerning |
| (adjective) mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc | Synonyms: worried |
| apprenticed | (adjective) bound by contract | Synonyms: articled, bound, indentured |
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| appressed | (adjective) pressed close to or lying flat against something | Synonyms: adpressed |
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| approachable | (adjective) easy to meet or converse or do business with | - |
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| (adjective) easily approached | Synonyms: reachable |
| (adjective) capable of being read with comprehension | Synonyms: accessible |
| approbative | (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: affirmative, approbatory, approving, plausive |
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| appropriable | (adjective) that can be appropriated | - |
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| appropriate | (adjective) suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc | - |
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| (adjective) meant or adapted for an occasion or use | Synonyms: suitable, suited |
| appropriative | (adjective) of or relating to or given to the act of taking for yourself | - |
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| approved | (adjective) established by authority; given authoritative approval | Synonyms: sanctioned |
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| approximate | (adjective) located close together | Synonyms: close together |
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| (adjective) very close in resemblance | Synonyms: near |
| (adjective) not quite exact or correct | Synonyms: approximative, rough |
| approximative | (adjective) not quite exact or correct | Synonyms: approximate, rough |
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| appurtenant | (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjunct, adjuvant, ancillary, auxiliary |
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| apteral | (adjective) having columns at one or both ends but not along the sides | - |
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| (adjective) (of insects) without wings | Synonyms: apterous |
| apterous | (adjective) (of insects) without wings | Synonyms: apteral |
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| aqueous | (adjective) produced by the action of water | Synonyms: sedimentary |
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| (adjective) similar to or containing or dissolved in water | - |
| aquiferous | (adjective) of or relating to an aquifer | - |
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| aquiline | (adjective) curved down like an eagle's beak | Synonyms: hooked |
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| arable | (adjective) (of farmland) capable of being farmed productively | Synonyms: cultivable, cultivatable, tillable |
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| araceous | (adjective) relating to a plant of the family Araceae | Synonyms: aroid |
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| araneidal | (adjective) relating to or resembling a spider | Synonyms: araneidan |
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| araneidan | (adjective) relating to or resembling a spider | Synonyms: araneidal |
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| arbitrable | (adjective) appropriate for or subject to settlement by arbitration | - |
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| arbitrative | (adjective) relating to or having the authority to arbitrate | - |
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| arboraceous | (adjective) abounding in trees | Synonyms: arboreous, woodsy, woody |
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| arboreal | (adjective) inhabiting or frequenting trees | Synonyms: arboreous, tree-living |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or formed by trees | Synonyms: arborary, arborical, arborous |
| (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
| arboreous | (adjective) inhabiting or frequenting trees | Synonyms: arboreal, tree-living |
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| (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arborescent, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
| (adjective) abounding in trees | Synonyms: arboraceous, woodsy, woody |
| arborescent | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
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| arboresque | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
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| arcane | (adjective) requiring secret or mysterious knowledge | - |
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| arced | (adjective) forming or resembling an arch | Synonyms: arched, arching, arciform, arcuate, bowed |
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| archaean | (adjective) of or relating to the earliest known rocks formed during the Precambrian Eon | Synonyms: archean |
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