| artificial | (adjective) contrived by art rather than nature | Synonyms: unreal |
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| (adjective) artificially formal | Synonyms: contrived, hokey, stilted |
| (adjective) not arising from natural growth or characterized by vital processes | - |
| beatific | (adjective) marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint | Synonyms: angelic, angelical, sainted, saintlike, saintly |
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| (adjective) experiencing or bestowing celestial joy | - |
| benefic | (adjective) exerting a favorable or beneficent influence | - |
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| beneficed | (adjective) having a benefice | - |
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| beneficent | (adjective) doing or producing good | - |
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| (adjective) generous in assistance to the poor | Synonyms: benevolent, eleemosynary, philanthropic |
| beneficial | (adjective) promoting or enhancing well-being | Synonyms: good |
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| beneficiary | (adjective) having or arising from a benefice | - |
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| calcific | (adjective) involving or resulting from calcification | - |
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| calorific | (adjective) heat-generating | - |
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| certificated | (adjective) furnished with or authorized by a certificate: | - |
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| certificatory | (adjective) serving to certify or endorse authoritatively | - |
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| chylific | (adjective) producing or converting into chyle | Synonyms: chylifactive, chylifactory |
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| classificatory | (adjective) relating to or involving classification | - |
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| conspecific | (adjective) belonging to the same species | - |
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| deficient | (adjective) of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement | Synonyms: insufficient |
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| (adjective) inadequate in amount or degree | Synonyms: lacking, wanting |
| (adjective) falling short of some prescribed norm | Synonyms: inferior, substandard |
| deific | (adjective) characterized by divine or godlike nature | - |
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| difficult | (adjective) not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure | Synonyms: hard |
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| (adjective) hard to control | Synonyms: unmanageable |
| efficacious | (adjective) marked by qualities giving the power to produce an intended effect | - |
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| (adjective) producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect | Synonyms: effective, effectual |
| efficient | (adjective) being effective without wasting time or effort or expense | - |
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| (adjective) able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively | Synonyms: effective |
| fibrocalcific | (adjective) involving or resulting from calcification of fibrous tissue | - |
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| fickle | (adjective) liable to sudden unpredictable change | Synonyms: erratic, mercurial, quicksilver |
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| (adjective) marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments | Synonyms: volatile |
| fictile | (adjective) of or relating to the craft of pottery | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material) | Synonyms: moldable, plastic |
| (adjective) susceptible to being led or directed | Synonyms: pliable |
| fictional | (adjective) related to or involving literary fiction | - |
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| (adjective) formed or conceived by the imagination | Synonyms: fabricated, fancied, fictitious |
| fictitious | (adjective) adopted in order to deceive | Synonyms: assumed, false, fictive, pretended, put on, sham |
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| (adjective) formed or conceived by the imagination | Synonyms: fabricated, fancied, fictional |
| fictive | (adjective) adopted in order to deceive | Synonyms: assumed, false, fictitious, pretended, put on, sham |
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| (adjective) capable of imaginative creation | - |
| forficate | (adjective) resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches | Synonyms: bifurcate, biramous, branched, fork-like, forked, pronged, prongy |
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| frigorific | (adjective) causing cold; cooling or chilling | - |
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| honorific | (adjective) conferring or showing honor or respect | - |
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| horrific | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, terrible |
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| (adjective) grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror | Synonyms: hideous, horrid, outrageous |
| immunodeficient | (adjective) incapable of developing an immune response following exposure to an antigen | - |
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| inefficacious | (adjective) lacking the power to produce a desired effect | - |
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| inefficient | (adjective) not producing desired results; wasteful | - |
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| (adjective) lacking the ability or skill to perform effectively; inadequate | Synonyms: ineffective |
| insignificant | (adjective) devoid of importance, meaning, or force | Synonyms: unimportant |
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| (adjective) signifying nothing | - |
| (adjective) of little importance or influence or power; of minor status | Synonyms: peanut |
| (adjective) small and unimpressive | Synonyms: dinky |
| insufficient | (adjective) of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement | Synonyms: deficient |
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| interspecific | (adjective) arising or occurring between species | Synonyms: interspecies |
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| intraspecific | (adjective) arising or occurring within a species; involving the members of one species | Synonyms: intraspecies |
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| justificative | (adjective) attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing | Synonyms: defensive, justificatory |
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| (adjective) providing justification | Synonyms: justificatory, vindicatory |
| justificatory | (adjective) attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing | Synonyms: defensive, justificative |
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| (adjective) providing justification | Synonyms: justificative, vindicatory |
| magnificent | (adjective) characterized by grandeur | Synonyms: brilliant, glorious, splendid |
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| malefic | (adjective) having or exerting a malignant influence | Synonyms: evil, malevolent, malign |
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| maleficent | (adjective) harmful or evil in intent or effect | - |
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| morbific | (adjective) able to cause disease | Synonyms: infective, pathogenic |
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| munificent | (adjective) very generous | Synonyms: lavish, overgenerous, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting |
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| nonfictional | (adjective) not fictional | - |
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| nonsignificant | (adjective) attributable to chance | - |
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| nonspecific | (adjective) not caused by a specific agent; used also of staining in making microscope slides | - |
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| official | (adjective) having official authority or sanction | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to an office | - |
| (adjective) verified officially | - |
| (adjective) (of a church) given official status as a national or state institution | - |
| (adjective) conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline | Synonyms: prescribed |
| officious | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, busybodied, interfering, meddlesome, meddling |
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| pacific | (adjective) promoting peace | - |
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| (adjective) disposed to peace or of a peaceful nature | Synonyms: peaceable |
| pontifical | (adjective) denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops | Synonyms: episcopal |
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| (adjective) proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles | Synonyms: apostolic, apostolical, papal |
| (adjective) puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, portentous |
| proficient | (adjective) of or relating to technique or proficiency in a practical skill | Synonyms: technical |
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| (adjective) having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude | Synonyms: adept, expert, good, practiced, skilful, skillful |
| prolific | (adjective) bearing in abundance especially offspring | Synonyms: fertile |
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| (adjective) intellectually productive | Synonyms: fecund, fertile |
| pseudoscientific | (adjective) based on theories and methods erroneously regarded as scientific | - |
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| sacrificeable | (adjective) may be deliberately sacrificed to achieve an objective | - |
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| sacrificial | (adjective) used in or connected with a sacrifice | - |
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| salvific | (adjective) pertaining to the power of salvation or redemption | - |
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| scientific | (adjective) conforming with the principles or methods used in science | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the practice of science | - |
| semiofficial | (adjective) having some official authority or sanction | - |
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| significant | (adjective) important in effect or meaning | Synonyms: important |
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| (adjective) too closely correlated to be attributed to chance and therefore indicating a systematic relation | - |
| (adjective) of considerable importance, size, or worth | Synonyms: substantial |
| (adjective) rich in significance or implication | Synonyms: meaning, pregnant |
| significative | (adjective) (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly | Synonyms: indicative, indicatory, revelatory, suggestive |
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| somnific | (adjective) sleep inducing | Synonyms: hypnagogic, hypnogogic, somniferous, soporiferous, soporific |
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| soporific | (adjective) sleep inducing | Synonyms: hypnagogic, hypnogogic, somniferous, somnific, soporiferous |
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| (adjective) inducing mental lethargy | Synonyms: narcotic, soporiferous |
| specific | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `to') applying to or characterized by or distinguishing something particular or special or unique | - |
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| (adjective) being or affecting a disease produced by a particular microorganism or condition; used also of stains or dyes used in making microscope slides | - |
| (adjective) relating to or distinguishing or constituting a taxonomic species | - |
| (adjective) stated explicitly or in detail | - |
| sudorific | (adjective) inducing perspiration | Synonyms: diaphoretic |
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| sufficient | (adjective) of a quantity that can fulfill a need or requirement but without being abundant | - |
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| superficial | (adjective) concerned with or comprehending only what is apparent or obvious; not deep or penetrating emotionally or intellectually | - |
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| (adjective) of, affecting, or being on or near the surface | - |
| (adjective) hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough | Synonyms: casual, cursory, passing, perfunctory |
| (adjective) of little substance or significance | Synonyms: trivial |
| (adjective) occurring on or near the surface of the skin | - |
| surficial | (adjective) pertaining to or occurring on or near the earth's surface | - |
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| tenebrific | (adjective) dark and gloomy | Synonyms: tenebrious, tenebrous |
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| terrific | (adjective) causing extreme terror | Synonyms: terrifying |
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| (adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: fantastic, grand, howling, marvellous, marvelous, phenomenal, rattling, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous |
| (adjective) very great or intense | - |
| unbeneficed | (adjective) not having a benefice | - |
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| unofficial | (adjective) not having official authority or sanction | - |
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| (adjective) not officially established | - |
| unscientific | (adjective) not consistent with the methods or principles of science | - |
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| unspecific | (adjective) not detailed or specific | Synonyms: broad |
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| vaporific | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of vapor | Synonyms: vaporish, vaporous, vapourific, vapourish, vapourous |
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| (adjective) (used of substances) capable of being volatilized | Synonyms: evaporable, vaporizable, vapourific, vapourisable, volatilisable, volatilizable |
| vapourific | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of vapor | Synonyms: vaporific, vaporish, vaporous, vapourish, vapourous |
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| (adjective) (used of substances) capable of being volatilized | Synonyms: evaporable, vaporific, vaporizable, vapourisable, volatilisable, volatilizable |
| verificatory | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verifying |
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