abducent | (adjective) especially of muscles; drawing away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part | Synonyms: abducting |
---|
abhorrent | (adjective) offensive to the mind | Synonyms: detestable, obscene, repugnant, repulsive |
---|
abient | (adjective) characterized by avoidance or withdrawal | - |
---|
abortifacient | (adjective) causing abortion | - |
---|
absent | (adjective) not being in a specified place | - |
---|
(adjective) lost in thought; showing preoccupation | Synonyms: absentminded, abstracted, scatty |
(adjective) nonexistent | Synonyms: lacking, missing, wanting |
absentminded | (adjective) lost in thought; showing preoccupation | Synonyms: absent, abstracted, scatty |
---|
absorbefacient | (adjective) inducing or promoting absorption | Synonyms: sorbefacient |
---|
absorbent | (adjective) having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.) | Synonyms: absorptive |
---|
abstentious | (adjective) self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink | Synonyms: abstinent |
---|
abstinent | (adjective) self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink | Synonyms: abstentious |
---|
acaulescent | (adjective) (of plants) having no apparent stem above ground | Synonyms: stemless |
---|
accented | (adjective) bearing a stress or accent | Synonyms: stressed |
---|
(adjective) (used of syllables) bearing the principle stress, usually accompanied by a change in pitch | Synonyms: tonic |
accentual | (adjective) (of verse) having a metric system based on stress rather than syllables or quantity | - |
---|
(adjective) of or pertaining to accent or stress | - |
accidental | (adjective) not of prime or central importance | Synonyms: incidental, nonessential |
---|
(adjective) happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally | Synonyms: inadvertent |
accumbent | (adjective) lying down; in a position of comfort or rest | Synonyms: decumbent, recumbent |
---|
acentric | (adjective) lacking a centromere | - |
---|
(adjective) not centered or having no center | - |
acidulent | (adjective) being sour to the taste | Synonyms: acid, acidic, acidulous |
---|
acquiescent | (adjective) willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without protest | Synonyms: biddable |
---|
acrocentric | (adjective) having a subterminal centromere | - |
---|
adducent | (adjective) especially of muscles; bringing together or drawing toward the midline of the body or toward an adjacent part | Synonyms: adducting, adductive |
---|
adherent | (adjective) sticking fast | - |
---|
adient | (adjective) characterized by acceptance or approach | - |
---|
adjacent | (adjective) nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space | Synonyms: next, side by side |
---|
(adjective) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching | Synonyms: conterminous, contiguous, neighboring, neighbouring |
(adjective) near or close to but not necessarily touching | - |
adolescent | (adjective) relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent | - |
---|
(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 |
adsorbent | (adjective) having capacity or tendency to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface | Synonyms: adsorptive, surface-assimilative |
---|
adventitial | (adjective) of or pertaining to the adventitia | - |
---|
adventitious | (adjective) associated by chance and not an integral part | - |
---|
adventive | (adjective) not native and not fully established; locally or temporarily naturalized | - |
---|
adventuresome | (adjective) willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises | Synonyms: adventurous |
---|
adventuristic | (adjective) of or pertaining to adventurism | - |
---|
adventurous | (adjective) willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises | Synonyms: adventuresome |
---|
advertent | (adjective) giving attention | Synonyms: heedful |
---|
afferent | (adjective) of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying sensory information from the sense organs to the CNS | - |
---|
affluent | (adjective) having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value | Synonyms: flush, loaded, moneyed, substantial, wealthy |
---|
aforementioned | (adjective) being the one previously mentioned or spoken of | Synonyms: aforesaid, said |
---|
agential | (adjective) of or relating to an agent or agency | - |
---|
albescent | (adjective) becoming or shading into white | - |
---|
alcalescent | (adjective) tending to become alkaline; slightly alkaline | Synonyms: alkalescent |
---|
alimental | (adjective) of or providing nourishment | Synonyms: alimentary, nourishing, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive |
---|
alimentary | (adjective) of or providing nourishment | Synonyms: alimental, nourishing, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive |
---|
alimentative | (adjective) related to the supply of aliment | - |
---|
alkalescent | (adjective) tending to become alkaline; slightly alkaline | Synonyms: alcalescent |
---|
ambient | (adjective) completely enveloping | - |
---|
ambivalent | (adjective) uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow | - |
---|
amentaceous | (adjective) (of plants) bearing or characterized by aments or catkins | Synonyms: amentiferous |
---|
amentiferous | (adjective) (of plants) bearing or characterized by aments or catkins | Synonyms: amentaceous |
---|
ancient | (adjective) very old | - |
---|
(adjective) belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire | - |
antecedent | (adjective) preceding in time or order | - |
---|
anthropocentric | (adjective) human-centered | - |
---|
aperient | (adjective) mildly laxative | - |
---|
aplacental | (adjective) having no placenta | - |
---|
apparent | (adjective) clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment | Synonyms: evident, manifest, palpable, patent, plain, unmistakable |
---|
(adjective) appearing as such but not necessarily so | Synonyms: ostensible, seeming |
appetent | (adjective) marked by eager desire | - |
---|
apprenticed | (adjective) bound by contract | Synonyms: articled, bound, indentured |
---|
arborescent | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
---|
ardent | (adjective) glowing or shining like fire | - |
---|
(adjective) characterized by strong enthusiasm | Synonyms: warm |
(adjective) characterized by intense emotion | Synonyms: fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid |
argent | (adjective) of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver | Synonyms: silver, silverish, silvery |
---|
argentic | (adjective) relating to compounds in which silver is bivalent | - |
---|
argentiferous | (adjective) containing or yielding silver | - |
---|
argentous | (adjective) relating to compounds in which silver is univalent | - |
---|
argumentative | (adjective) given to or characterized by argument | - |
---|
ascendent | (adjective) tending or directed upward | Synonyms: ascendant, ascensive |
---|
(adjective) most powerful or important or influential | Synonyms: ascendant, dominating |
assentient | (adjective) expressing agreement or consent | Synonyms: assenting |
---|
assenting | (adjective) expressing agreement or consent | Synonyms: assentient |
---|
assurgent | (adjective) growing or extending upward | - |
---|
(adjective) rising from the sea | - |
astringent | (adjective) tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue | - |
---|
(adjective) sour or bitter in taste | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic |
atrioventricular | (adjective) relating to or affecting the atria and ventricles of the heart | Synonyms: auriculoventricular |
---|
attentional | (adjective) of or relating to attention | - |
---|
attentive | (adjective) (often followed by `to') giving care or attention | - |
---|
(adjective) taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention | Synonyms: heedful, paying attention, thoughtful |
augmentative | (adjective) increasing or having the power to increase especially in size or amount or degree | - |
---|
(adjective) intensifying by augmentation and enhancement | Synonyms: enhancive |
augmented | (adjective) added to or made greater in amount or number or strength | - |
---|
auriculoventricular | (adjective) relating to or affecting the atria and ventricles of the heart | Synonyms: atrioventricular |
---|
authentic | (adjective) not counterfeit or copied | Synonyms: bona fide, unquestionable, veritable |
---|
(adjective) conforming to fact and therefore worthy of belief | Synonyms: reliable |
authenticated | (adjective) established as genuine | Synonyms: attested, documented |
---|
autofluorescent | (adjective) emitting light via self-induced fluorescence | - |
---|
avirulent | (adjective) not virulent; unable to produce disease | - |
---|
battlemented | (adjective) having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement | Synonyms: castellated, castled, crenelated, embattled |
---|
(adjective) protected with battlements or parapets with indentations or embrasures for shooting through | - |
belligerent | (adjective) characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight | Synonyms: aggressive |
---|
(adjective) engaged in war | Synonyms: militant, war-ridden, warring |
beneficent | (adjective) doing or producing good | - |
---|
(adjective) generous in assistance to the poor | Synonyms: benevolent, eleemosynary, philanthropic |
benevolent | (adjective) intending or showing kindness | - |
---|
(adjective) generous in assistance to the poor | Synonyms: beneficent, eleemosynary, philanthropic |
(adjective) generous in providing aid to others | Synonyms: freehearted |
(adjective) showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity | Synonyms: charitable, good-hearted, kindly, large-hearted, openhearted, sympathetic |
bent | (adjective) of metal e.g. | Synonyms: crumpled, dented |
---|
(adjective) fixed in your purpose | Synonyms: bent on, dead set, out to |
(adjective) used of the back and knees; stooped | Synonyms: bended |
benthal | (adjective) of or relating to or happening on the bottom under a body of water | Synonyms: benthic, benthonic |
---|
benthic | (adjective) of or relating to or happening on the bottom under a body of water | Synonyms: benthal, benthonic |
---|
benthonic | (adjective) of or relating to or happening on the bottom under a body of water | Synonyms: benthal, benthic |
---|
bentonitic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing bentonite | - |
---|
besprent | (adjective) sprinkled over | - |
---|
bicentenary | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 200 years | Synonyms: bicentennial |
---|
bicentennial | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 200 years | Synonyms: bicentenary |
---|
bicentric | (adjective) having two centers | - |
---|
bidentate | (adjective) having toothlike projections that are themselves toothed | - |
---|
bioluminescent | (adjective) (of living organisms) emitting light | - |
---|
birefringent | (adjective) relating to or characterized by double refraction | - |
---|
bivalent | (adjective) used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis | Synonyms: double |
---|
(adjective) having a valence of two or having two valences | Synonyms: divalent |
cadent | (adjective) marked by a rhythmical cadence | Synonyms: cadenced |
---|
calefacient | (adjective) producing the sensation of heat when applied to the body | Synonyms: warming |
---|
calorifacient | (adjective) producing heat; usually used of foods | - |
---|
candent | (adjective) emitting light as a result of being heated | Synonyms: incandescent |
---|
candescent | (adjective) glowing from great heat | - |
---|
canescent | (adjective) of greyish white | - |
---|
(adjective) covered with fine whitish hairs or down | Synonyms: hoary |
caulescent | (adjective) (of plants) producing a well-developed stem above ground | Synonyms: cauline, stemmed |
---|