| abbreviated | (adjective) (of clothing) very short | Synonyms: brief |
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| (adjective) cut short in duration | Synonyms: shortened, truncated |
| achievable | (adjective) capable of existing or taking place or proving true; possible to do | Synonyms: accomplishable, doable, manageable, realizable |
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| alleviated | (adjective) (of pain or sorrow) made easier to bear | Synonyms: eased, relieved |
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| alleviative | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory, palliative |
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| alleviatory | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviative, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory, palliative |
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| believable | (adjective) capable of being believed | Synonyms: credible |
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| benevolent | (adjective) intending or showing kindness | - |
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| (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 |
| champleve | (adjective) (for metals) having areas separated by metal and filled with colored enamel and fired | Synonyms: cloisonne |
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| clever | (adjective) showing inventiveness and skill | Synonyms: cunning, ingenious |
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| (adjective) mentally quick and resourceful | Synonyms: apt |
| (adjective) showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others | Synonyms: cagey, cagy, canny |
| coeval | (adjective) of the same period | Synonyms: coetaneous, contemporaneous |
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| counterrevolutionary | (adjective) marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or being a counterrevolution | - |
| daredevil | (adjective) presumptuously daring | Synonyms: temerarious |
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| devalued | (adjective) lowered in value | Synonyms: debased, degraded |
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| devastating | (adjective) physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination | Synonyms: crushing |
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| (adjective) making light of | Synonyms: annihilating, withering |
| (adjective) wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction | Synonyms: annihilating, annihilative, withering |
| developed | (adjective) being changed over time so as to be e.g. stronger or more complete or more useful | - |
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| (adjective) (of real estate) made more useful and profitable as by building or laying out roads | - |
| (adjective) (used of societies) having high industrial development | Synonyms: highly-developed |
| developing | (adjective) relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply | Synonyms: underdeveloped |
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| developmental | (adjective) of or relating to or constituting development | - |
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| deviant | (adjective) markedly different from an accepted norm | Synonyms: aberrant, deviate |
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| deviate | (adjective) markedly different from an accepted norm | Synonyms: aberrant, deviant |
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| devilish | (adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelean, mephistophelian |
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| (adjective) playful in an appealingly bold way | Synonyms: rascally, roguish |
| devious | (adjective) deviating from a straight course | Synonyms: circuitous, roundabout |
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| (adjective) indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading | Synonyms: oblique |
| (adjective) characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive | Synonyms: shifty |
| devoid | (adjective) completely wanting or lacking | Synonyms: barren, destitute, free, innocent |
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| devoted | (adjective) (followed by `to') dedicated exclusively to a purpose or use | - |
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| (adjective) zealous in devotion or affection | - |
| devotional | (adjective) relating to worship | - |
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| devouring | (adjective) (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous | Synonyms: avid, esurient, greedy |
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| devout | (adjective) deeply religious | Synonyms: god-fearing |
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| (adjective) sincerely earnest | Synonyms: dear, earnest, heartfelt |
| disbelieving | (adjective) denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion | Synonyms: sceptical, skeptical, unbelieving |
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| disheveled | (adjective) in disarray; extremely disorderly | Synonyms: dishevelled, frowzled, rumpled, tousled |
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| dishevelled | (adjective) in disarray; extremely disorderly | Synonyms: disheveled, frowzled, rumpled, tousled |
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| elevated | (adjective) increased in amount or degree | Synonyms: raised |
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| (adjective) of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style | Synonyms: exalted, grand, high-flown, high-minded, idealistic, lofty, noble-minded, rarefied, rarified, sublime |
| (adjective) raised above the ground | - |
| eleven | (adjective) being one more than ten | Synonyms: 11, xi |
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| eleventh | (adjective) coming next after the tenth and just before the twelfth in position | Synonyms: 11th |
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| evacuant | (adjective) strongly laxative | Synonyms: cathartic, purgative |
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| evaluative | (adjective) exercising or involving careful evaluations | Synonyms: appraising |
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| evanescent | (adjective) tending to vanish like vapor | - |
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| evangelical | (adjective) of or pertaining to or in keeping with the Christian gospel especially as in the first 4 books of the New Testament | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or being a Christian church believing in personal conversion and the inerrancy of the Bible especially the 4 Gospels | - |
| (adjective) marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause | Synonyms: evangelistic |
| evangelistic | (adjective) relating to or promoting the preaching and dissemination of the Christian gospel | - |
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| (adjective) marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause | Synonyms: evangelical |
| evaporable | (adjective) (used of substances) capable of being volatilized | Synonyms: vaporific, vaporizable, vapourific, vapourisable, volatilisable, volatilizable |
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| evaporated | (adjective) drawn off in the form of vapor | - |
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| evaporative | (adjective) relating to or causing or being caused by evaporation | - |
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| evasive | (adjective) deliberately vague or ambiguous | - |
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| (adjective) avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire | - |
| even | (adjective) being level or straight or regular and without variation as e.g. in shape or texture; or being in the same plane or at the same height as something else (i.e. even with) | - |
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| (adjective) divisible by two | - |
| (adjective) occurring at fixed intervals | Synonyms: regular |
| (adjective) symmetrically arranged | Synonyms: regular |
| (adjective) equal in degree or extent or amount; or equally matched or balanced | Synonyms: fifty-fifty |
| (adjective) of the score in a contest | Synonyms: level, tied |
| evenhanded | (adjective) without partiality | - |
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| eventful | (adjective) full of events or incidents | - |
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| (adjective) having important issues or results | Synonyms: consequential |
| eventual | (adjective) expected to follow in the indefinite future from causes already operating | - |
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| evergreen | (adjective) (of plants and shrubs) bearing foliage throughout the year | - |
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| everlasting | (adjective) continuing forever or indefinitely | Synonyms: aeonian, ageless, eonian, eternal, perpetual, unceasing, unending |
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| (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
| every | (adjective) (used of count nouns) each and all of the members of a group considered singly and without exception | - |
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| (adjective) each and all of a series of entities or intervals as specified | - |
| everyday | (adjective) commonplace and ordinary | - |
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| (adjective) appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions | Synonyms: casual, daily |
| (adjective) found in the ordinary course of events | Synonyms: mundane, quotidian, routine, unremarkable, workaday |
| evidenced | (adjective) supported by evidence | - |
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| evident | (adjective) capable of being seen or noticed | Synonyms: discernible, observable |
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| (adjective) clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment | Synonyms: apparent, manifest, palpable, patent, plain, unmistakable |
| evidential | (adjective) serving as or based on evidence | Synonyms: evidentiary |
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| evidentiary | (adjective) pertaining to or constituting evidence | - |
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| (adjective) serving as or based on evidence | Synonyms: evidential |
| evil | (adjective) morally bad or wrong | - |
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| (adjective) having or exerting a malignant influence | Synonyms: malefic, malevolent, malign |
| (adjective) having the nature of vice | Synonyms: vicious |
| eviscerate | (adjective) having been disembowelled | - |
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| evitable | (adjective) capable of being avoided or warded off | Synonyms: avertable, avertible, avoidable |
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| evocative | (adjective) serving to bring to mind | Synonyms: redolent, remindful, reminiscent, resonant |
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| evoked | (adjective) called forth from a latent or potential state by stimulation | Synonyms: elicited |
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| evolutionary | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by evolution | - |
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| fevered | (adjective) highly or nervously excited | - |
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| feverish | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by fever | Synonyms: febrile |
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| (adjective) marked by intense agitation or emotion | Synonyms: hectic |
| (adjective) having or affected by a fever | Synonyms: feverous |
| feverous | (adjective) having or affected by a fever | Synonyms: feverish |
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| grieving | (adjective) sorrowful through loss or deprivation | Synonyms: bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, mourning, sorrowing |
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| grievous | (adjective) causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm | Synonyms: dangerous, grave, life-threatening, serious, severe |
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| (adjective) shockingly brutal or cruel | Synonyms: atrocious, flagitious, monstrous |
| (adjective) of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought | Synonyms: grave, heavy, weighty |
| (adjective) causing or marked by grief or anguish | Synonyms: heartbreaking, heartrending |
| inevitable | (adjective) incapable of being avoided or prevented | - |
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| (adjective) invariably occurring or appearing | - |
| irrelevant | (adjective) having no bearing on or connection with the subject at issue | - |
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| irretrievable | (adjective) impossible to recover or recoup or overcome | Synonyms: unretrievable |
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| irreverent | (adjective) showing lack of due respect or veneration | - |
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| (adjective) not revering god | Synonyms: godless |
| (adjective) characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality | Synonyms: impertinent, pert, saucy |
| irreversible | (adjective) incapable of being reversed | - |
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| irrevocable | (adjective) incapable of being retracted or revoked | Synonyms: irrevokable |
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| irrevokable | (adjective) incapable of being retracted or revoked | Synonyms: irrevocable |
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| level | (adjective) of the score in a contest | Synonyms: even, tied |
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| (adjective) being on a precise horizontal plane | - |
| (adjective) not showing abrupt variations | Synonyms: unwavering |
| (adjective) having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another | Synonyms: flat, plane |
| (adjective) oriented at right angles to the plumb | - |
| levelheaded | (adjective) exercising or showing good judgment | Synonyms: healthy, intelligent, level-headed, sound |
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| levorotary | (adjective) rotating to the left | Synonyms: left-handed, levorotatory |
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| levorotatory | (adjective) rotating to the left | Synonyms: left-handed, levorotary |
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| malevolent | (adjective) having or exerting a malignant influence | Synonyms: evil, malefic, malign |
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| (adjective) wishing or appearing to wish evil to others; arising from intense ill will or hatred | - |
| mediaeval | (adjective) relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages | Synonyms: medieval |
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| (adjective) as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened | Synonyms: gothic, medieval |
| (adjective) characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: chivalric, knightly, medieval |
| medieval | (adjective) relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages | Synonyms: mediaeval |
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| (adjective) as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened | Synonyms: gothic, mediaeval |
| (adjective) characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: chivalric, knightly, mediaeval |
| mischievous | (adjective) deliberately causing harm or damage | - |
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| (adjective) naughtily or annoyingly playful | Synonyms: arch, impish, implike, pixilated, prankish, puckish, wicked |
| multilevel | (adjective) of a building having more than one level | - |
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| nonreversible | (adjective) not reversible or capable of having either side out | Synonyms: one-sided |
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| pareve | (adjective) containing no meat or milk (or their derivatives) and thus eatable with both meat and dairy dishes according to the dietary laws of Judaism | Synonyms: parve |
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| peeved | (adjective) aroused to impatience or anger | Synonyms: annoyed, irritated, miffed, nettled, pissed, pissed off, riled, roiled, steamed, stung |
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| peevish | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
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| persevering | (adjective) quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness | Synonyms: diligent |
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| prevailing | (adjective) most frequent or common | Synonyms: dominant, predominant, prevalent, rife |
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| prevalent | (adjective) most frequent or common | Synonyms: dominant, predominant, prevailing, rife |
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| prevenient | (adjective) in anticipation | Synonyms: anticipatory |
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| preventable | (adjective) capable of being prevented | - |
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| preventative | (adjective) tending to prevent or hinder | Synonyms: preventive |
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| (adjective) preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease | Synonyms: preventive, prophylactic |
| preventive | (adjective) tending to prevent or hinder | Synonyms: preventative |
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| (adjective) preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease | Synonyms: preventative, prophylactic |
| previous | (adjective) too soon or too hasty | Synonyms: premature |
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| (adjective) (used especially of persons) of the immediate past | Synonyms: former, late |
| (adjective) just preceding something else in time or order | Synonyms: old |
| primaeval | (adjective) having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state | Synonyms: aboriginal, primal, primeval, primordial |
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| primeval | (adjective) having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state | Synonyms: aboriginal, primaeval, primal, primordial |
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| relevant | (adjective) having a bearing on or connection with the subject at issue | - |
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| relieved | (adjective) (of pain or sorrow) made easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviated, eased |
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| (adjective) extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary | Synonyms: jutting, projected, projecting, protruding, sticking, sticking out |
| retrievable | (adjective) capable of being regained especially with effort | - |
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| revealing | (adjective) showing or making known | - |
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| (adjective) disclosing unintentionally something concealed | Synonyms: telling, telltale |
| revelatory | (adjective) prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom | Synonyms: apocalyptic, apocalyptical |
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| (adjective) (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly | Synonyms: indicative, indicatory, significative, suggestive |
| revenant | (adjective) of or relating to or typical of a revenant | - |
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| (adjective) coming back | Synonyms: recurring |