| amphitheatric | (adjective) of or related to an amphitheater | Synonyms: amphitheatrical |
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| amphitheatrical | (adjective) of or related to an amphitheater | Synonyms: amphitheatric |
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| amphitropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) partly inverted; turned back 90 degrees on its stalk | - |
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| amphoric | (adjective) the sound heard in auscultation resembling the hollow sound made by blowing across the mouth of a bottle | - |
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| amphoteric | (adjective) having characteristics of both an acid and a base and capable of reacting as either | Synonyms: amphiprotic |
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| anachronic | (adjective) chronologically misplaced | Synonyms: anachronistic, anachronous |
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| anachronistic | (adjective) chronologically misplaced | Synonyms: anachronic, anachronous |
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| anachronous | (adjective) chronologically misplaced | Synonyms: anachronic, anachronistic |
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| anacoluthic | (adjective) of or related to syntactic inconsistencies of the sort known as anacoluthons | - |
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| anaesthetic | (adjective) relating to or producing insensibility | Synonyms: anesthetic |
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| (adjective) characterized by insensibility | Synonyms: anesthetic |
| anaglyphic | (adjective) related to anaglyphs or anaglyphy | Synonyms: anaglyphical, anaglyptic, anaglyptical |
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| anaglyphical | (adjective) related to anaglyphs or anaglyphy | Synonyms: anaglyphic, anaglyptic, anaglyptical |
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| analphabetic | (adjective) not alphabetic | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or expressed by a writing system that is not alphabetic | - |
| (adjective) having little acquaintance with writing | Synonyms: unlettered |
| anamorphic | (adjective) pertaining to a kind of distorting optical system | - |
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| (adjective) pertaining to gradual evolution from one type of organism to another | - |
| anaphasic | (adjective) of or related to the stage of mitosis known as anaphase | - |
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| anaphoric | (adjective) relating to anaphora | - |
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| anaphrodisiac | (adjective) tending to diminish sexual desire | - |
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| anaphylactic | (adjective) related to the hypersensitivity known as anaphylaxis | - |
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| anarchic | (adjective) without law or control | Synonyms: anarchical, lawless |
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| anarchical | (adjective) without law or control | Synonyms: anarchic, lawless |
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| anarchistic | (adjective) of or related to anarchism or tending toward anarchism | - |
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| anchoritic | (adjective) characterized by ascetic solitude | Synonyms: eremitic, eremitical, hermitic, hermitical |
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| anechoic | (adjective) not having or producing echoes; sound-absorbent | - |
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| anemographic | (adjective) pertaining to the recording of wind measurements | - |
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| anemophilous | (adjective) of flowering plants (especially grasses etc) that are pollinated by the wind | - |
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| anencephalic | (adjective) characterized by partial or total absence of a brain | Synonyms: anencephalous |
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| anencephalous | (adjective) characterized by partial or total absence of a brain | Synonyms: anencephalic |
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| anesthetic | (adjective) relating to or producing insensibility | Synonyms: anaesthetic |
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| (adjective) characterized by insensibility | Synonyms: anaesthetic |
| anguished | (adjective) experiencing intense pain especially mental pain | Synonyms: tormented, tortured |
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| anhydrous | (adjective) without water; especially without water of crystallization | - |
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| annihilated | (adjective) destroyed completely | Synonyms: exterminated, wiped out |
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| annihilating | (adjective) wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction | Synonyms: annihilative, devastating, withering |
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| (adjective) making light of | Synonyms: devastating, withering |
| annihilative | (adjective) wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction | Synonyms: annihilating, devastating, withering |
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| anopheline | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of malaria mosquitoes | - |
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| anorthic | (adjective) having three unequal crystal axes intersecting at oblique angles | Synonyms: triclinic |
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| anorthitic | (adjective) characteristic of anorthite | - |
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| another | (adjective) any of various alternatives; some other; entity, singular, other pronoun; quantifier, singular, another | Synonyms: some other |
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| anthelminthic | (adjective) capable of expelling or destroying parasitic worms | Synonyms: anthelmintic, helminthic, parasiticidal |
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| anthelmintic | (adjective) capable of expelling or destroying parasitic worms | Synonyms: anthelminthic, helminthic, parasiticidal |
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| antheral | (adjective) capable of fertilizing female organs | Synonyms: staminate |
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| antheridial | (adjective) relating to or characterized by an antheridium | - |
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| anthophagous | (adjective) feeding on flowers | Synonyms: anthophilous |
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| anthophilous | (adjective) feeding on flowers | Synonyms: anthophagous |
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| anthracitic | (adjective) relating to or resembling anthracite coal | - |
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| anthropic | (adjective) relating to mankind or the period of mankind's existence | Synonyms: anthropical |
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| anthropical | (adjective) relating to mankind or the period of mankind's existence | Synonyms: anthropic |
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| anthropocentric | (adjective) human-centered | - |
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| anthropogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to the study of the origins and development of human beings | Synonyms: anthropogenic |
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| anthropogenic | (adjective) of or relating to the study of the origins and development of human beings | Synonyms: anthropogenetic |
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| anthropoid | (adjective) resembling human beings | Synonyms: manlike |
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| (adjective) resembling apes | Synonyms: anthropoidal, apelike |
| anthropoidal | (adjective) resembling apes | Synonyms: anthropoid, apelike |
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| anthropological | (adjective) of or concerned with the science of anthropology | - |
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| anthropometric | (adjective) of or relating to anthropometry | Synonyms: anthropometrical |
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| anthropometrical | (adjective) of or relating to anthropometry | Synonyms: anthropometric |
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| anthropomorphic | (adjective) suggesting human characteristics for animals or inanimate things | Synonyms: anthropomorphous, humanlike |
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| anthropomorphous | (adjective) suggesting human characteristics for animals or inanimate things | Synonyms: anthropomorphic, humanlike |
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| anthropophagous | (adjective) of or relating to eaters of human flesh | - |
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| antiapartheid | (adjective) opposing the policy of apartheid in South Africa | - |
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| antiauthoritarian | (adjective) opposed to authoritarianism | - |
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| anticholinergic | (adjective) inhibiting or blocking the action of acetylcholine at a receptor site | - |
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| antiheretical | (adjective) opposed to heresy | - |
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| antipathetic | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed | Synonyms: antipathetical, averse, indisposed, loath, loth |
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| (adjective) characterized by antagonism or antipathy | Synonyms: antagonistic, antipathetical |
| antipathetical | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed | Synonyms: antipathetic, averse, indisposed, loath, loth |
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| (adjective) characterized by antagonism or antipathy | Synonyms: antagonistic, antipathetic |
| antiphlogistic | (adjective) counteracting inflammation | - |
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| antiphonal | (adjective) containing or using responses; alternating | Synonyms: responsive |
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| (adjective) relating to or resembling an antiphon or antiphony | Synonyms: antiphonary |
| antiphonary | (adjective) relating to or resembling an antiphon or antiphony | Synonyms: antiphonal |
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| antistrophic | (adjective) of or relating to an antistrophe | - |
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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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| antithyroid | (adjective) having the effect of counteracting excessive thyroid activity | - |
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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 |
| aphaeretic | (adjective) relating to or formed by or consisting of aphaeresis | Synonyms: apheretic |
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| aphakic | (adjective) of or relating to or afflicted with aphakia | - |
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| aphanitic | (adjective) of or relating to aphanite | - |
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| aphasic | (adjective) related to or affected by aphasia | - |
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| (adjective) unable to speak because of a brain lesion | - |
| 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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| aphonic | (adjective) being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech | Synonyms: voiceless |
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| aphoristic | (adjective) containing aphorisms or maxims | Synonyms: axiomatic |
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| (adjective) terse and witty and like a maxim | Synonyms: apothegmatic, epigrammatic |
| aphotic | (adjective) lacking light; especially not reached by sunlight | - |
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| aphrodisiac | (adjective) stimulating sexual desire | Synonyms: aphrodisiacal, sexy |
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| aphrodisiacal | (adjective) stimulating sexual desire | Synonyms: aphrodisiac, sexy |
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| aphyllous | (adjective) devoid of leaves | - |
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| apish | (adjective) being or given to servile imitation | Synonyms: apelike |
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| apochromatic | (adjective) corrected for both chromatic and spherical aberration | - |
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| apocryphal | (adjective) being of questionable authenticity | - |
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| apophatic | (adjective) of or relating to the belief that God can be known to humans only in terms of what He is not (such as `God is unknowable') | - |
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| apophyseal | (adjective) of or relating to an apophysis | - |
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| apostrophic | (adjective) of or characteristic of apostrophe | - |
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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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| 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 |
| 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 |
| approaching | (adjective) of the relatively near future | Synonyms: coming, forthcoming, upcoming |
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| aquaphobic | (adjective) abnormally afraid of water | Synonyms: hydrophobic |
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| arachnidian | (adjective) relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida | Synonyms: arachnoid, spiderlike, spiderly, spidery |
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| arachnoid | (adjective) relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida | Synonyms: arachnidian, spiderlike, spiderly, spidery |
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