abecedarian | (adjective) alphabetically arranged (as for beginning readers) | - |
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aeonian | (adjective) of or relating to a geological eon (longer than an era) | Synonyms: eonian |
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(adjective) continuing forever or indefinitely | Synonyms: ageless, eonian, eternal, everlasting, perpetual, unceasing, unending |
aesculapian | (adjective) of or belonging to Aesculapius or the healing art | Synonyms: medical |
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agrarian | (adjective) relating to farming or agriculture | Synonyms: agricultural, farming |
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allegiant | (adjective) steadfast in devotion (especially to your lawful monarch or government) | - |
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ambrosian | (adjective) worthy of the gods | Synonyms: ambrosial |
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(adjective) extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant | Synonyms: ambrosial, nectarous |
amphibian | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of animals of the class Amphibia | Synonyms: amphibious |
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antediluvian | (adjective) of or relating to the period before the biblical flood | Synonyms: antediluvial |
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(adjective) so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period | Synonyms: antiquated, archaic |
antemeridian | (adjective) before noon | - |
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antiauthoritarian | (adjective) opposed to authoritarianism | - |
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antinomian | (adjective) relating to or influenced by antinomianism | - |
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antiquarian | (adjective) of or relating to antiques or antiquities | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to persons who study or deal in antiques or antiquities | - |
apian | (adjective) relating to or having the characteristics of bees | - |
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apiarian | (adjective) relating to bees or beekeeping | - |
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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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arcadian | (adjective) (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic | Synonyms: bucolic, pastoral |
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archosaurian | (adjective) of or relating to reptiles of the subclass Archosauria | - |
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artesian | (adjective) (of water) rising to the surface under internal hydrostatic pressure | - |
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authoritarian | (adjective) expecting unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: dictatorial, overbearing |
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(adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: autocratic, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical |
avian | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of birds | - |
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bacchanalian | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic |
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barbarian | (adjective) without civilizing influences | Synonyms: barbaric, savage, uncivilised, uncivilized, wild |
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batrachian | (adjective) relating to frogs and toads | Synonyms: anuran, salientian |
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biannual | (adjective) occurring or payable twice each year | Synonyms: biyearly, half-yearly, semiannual |
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bohemian | (adjective) unconventional in especially appearance and behavior | - |
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brilliant | (adjective) full of light; shining intensely | - |
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(adjective) having strong or striking color | Synonyms: bright, vivid |
(adjective) characterized by grandeur | Synonyms: glorious, magnificent, splendid |
(adjective) having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence | Synonyms: brainy, smart as a whip |
(adjective) clear and sharp and ringing | Synonyms: bright |
(adjective) of surpassing excellence | Synonyms: superb |
caecilian | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the family Caeciliidae | - |
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caesarian | (adjective) relating to abdominal delivery | Synonyms: caesarean, cesarean, cesarian |
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callipygian | (adjective) pertaining to or having finely developed buttocks | Synonyms: callipygous |
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callithumpian | (adjective) of or relating to a callithump | - |
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catapultian | (adjective) of or like a catapult | Synonyms: catapultic |
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catarrhinian | (adjective) of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward | Synonyms: catarrhine |
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centenarian | (adjective) being at least 100 years old | - |
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cesarian | (adjective) relating to abdominal delivery | Synonyms: caesarean, caesarian, cesarean |
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chelonian | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling or being a turtle or tortoise | - |
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christian | (adjective) following the teachings or manifesting the qualities or spirit of Jesus Christ | - |
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christianly | (adjective) becoming to or like a Christian | - |
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chthonian | (adjective) dwelling beneath the surface of the earth | Synonyms: chthonic, nether |
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circadian | (adjective) of or relating to biological processes occurring at 24-hour intervals | - |
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civilian | (adjective) associated with civil life or performed by persons who are not active members of the military | - |
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compliant | (adjective) inclined to comply | - |
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corinthian | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Corinth or its inhabitants | - |
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(adjective) of or pertaining to the Corinthian style of architecture | - |
covariant | (adjective) changing so that interrelations with another variable quantity or set of quantities remain unchanged | - |
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cyprian | (adjective) resembling the ancient orgiastic worship of Aphrodite on Cyprus | - |
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defiant | (adjective) boldly resisting authority or an opposing force | Synonyms: noncompliant |
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deviant | (adjective) markedly different from an accepted norm | Synonyms: aberrant, deviate |
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dianoetic | (adjective) proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition | Synonyms: discursive |
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diluvian | (adjective) of or connected with a deluge | Synonyms: diluvial |
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dioecian | (adjective) having male and female reproductive organs in separate plants or animals | Synonyms: dioecious |
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dystopian | (adjective) as bad as can be; characterized by human misery | - |
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(adjective) of or pertaining to or resembling a dystopia | - |
egalitarian | (adjective) favoring social equality | Synonyms: classless |
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elysian | (adjective) relating to the Elysian Fields | - |
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(adjective) being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods | Synonyms: divine, inspired |
eonian | (adjective) of or relating to a geological eon (longer than an era) | Synonyms: aeonian |
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(adjective) continuing forever or indefinitely | Synonyms: aeonian, ageless, eternal, everlasting, perpetual, unceasing, unending |
equestrian | (adjective) of or relating to or featuring horseback riding | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to or composed of knights | - |
equiangular | (adjective) having all angles equal | - |
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euclidian | (adjective) relating to geometry as developed by Euclid | Synonyms: euclidean |
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euphoriant | (adjective) tending to produce euphoria | - |
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eutherian | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the subclass Eutheria | - |
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fabian | (adjective) using cautious slow strategy to wear down opposition; avoiding direct confrontation | - |
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giant | (adjective) of great mass; huge and bulky | Synonyms: elephantine, gargantuan, jumbo |
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hominian | (adjective) characterizing the family Hominidae, which includes Homo sapiens as well as extinct species of manlike creatures | Synonyms: hominid |
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humanitarian | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of humanitarianism | - |
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(adjective) marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare | Synonyms: human-centered, human-centred, humanist, humanistic |
insouciant | (adjective) marked by blithe unconcern | Synonyms: casual, nonchalant |
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invariant | (adjective) unvarying in nature | Synonyms: changeless, constant, unvarying |
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(adjective) unaffected by a designated operation or transformation | - |
isthmian | (adjective) of or relating to or forming an isthmus | - |
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labyrinthian | (adjective) resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity | Synonyms: labyrinthine, mazy |
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lacertilian | (adjective) of or relating to lizards | Synonyms: saurian |
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lapidarian | (adjective) inscribed on stone | - |
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latitudinarian | (adjective) unwilling to accept authority or dogma (especially in religion) | Synonyms: free-thinking, undogmatic, undogmatical |
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leptorrhinian | (adjective) having a long narrow nose | Synonyms: leptorhine, leptorrhine, leptorrhinic |
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lesbian | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by homosexual relations between woman | Synonyms: sapphic |
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lilliputian | (adjective) very small | Synonyms: bantam, diminutive, flyspeck, midget, petite, tiny |
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(adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial |
luxuriant | (adjective) produced or growing in extreme abundance | Synonyms: exuberant, lush, profuse, riotous |
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(adjective) marked by complexity and richness of detail | Synonyms: elaborate |
(adjective) displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses | Synonyms: epicurean, luxurious, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous |
mammalian | (adjective) of or relating to the class Mammalia | - |
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median | (adjective) relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle | Synonyms: medial |
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(adjective) dividing an animal into right and left halves | Synonyms: medial |
(adjective) relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values) | Synonyms: average |
mephistophelian | (adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: devilish, diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelean |
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meridian | (adjective) of or happening at noon | - |
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(adjective) being at the best stage of development | Synonyms: prime |
messianic | (adjective) of or relating to a messiah promising deliverance | - |
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millenarian | (adjective) relating to or believing in the millennium of peace and happiness | Synonyms: chiliastic |
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millennian | (adjective) relating to a millennium or span of a thousand years | Synonyms: millennial |
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naiant | (adjective) applied to a fish depicted horizontally | Synonyms: swimming |
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nonagenarian | (adjective) being from 90 to 99 years old | - |
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nonchristian | (adjective) not believing in Christ | Synonyms: christless |
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noncompliant | (adjective) boldly resisting authority or an opposing force | Synonyms: defiant |
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nonsectarian | (adjective) not restricted to one sect or school or party | Synonyms: unsectarian |
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octogenarian | (adjective) being from 80 to 89 years old | - |
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olympian | (adjective) far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree | Synonyms: exceeding, exceptional, prodigious, surpassing |
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(adjective) majestic in manner or bearing; superior to mundane matters | Synonyms: majestic |
ovarian | (adjective) of or involving the ovaries | - |
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overvaliant | (adjective) having or showing undue valor or boldness | - |
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patrician | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy | Synonyms: aristocratic, aristocratical, blue-blooded, blue, gentle |
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(adjective) befitting a person of noble origin | - |
pedestrian | (adjective) lacking wit or imagination | Synonyms: earthbound, prosaic, prosy |
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perianal | (adjective) around the anus | - |
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pianissimo | (adjective) (chiefly a direction or description in music) very soft | - |
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pianistic | (adjective) skilled at or adapted for the piano | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the piano | - |
piano | (adjective) (used chiefly as a direction or description in music) soft; in a quiet, subdued tone | Synonyms: soft |
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platyrhinian | (adjective) of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses | Synonyms: broadnosed, platyrhine, platyrrhine, platyrrhinian, platyrrhinic |
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platyrrhinian | (adjective) of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses | Synonyms: broadnosed, platyrhine, platyrhinian, platyrrhine, platyrrhinic |
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plebeian | (adjective) of or associated with the great masses of people | Synonyms: common, unwashed, vulgar |
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pliant | (adjective) able to adjust readily to different conditions | Synonyms: elastic, flexible, pliable |
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(adjective) capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking | Synonyms: bendable, pliable, waxy |
(adjective) capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out | Synonyms: ductile, malleable, pliable, tensile, tractile |
(adjective) capable of being influenced or formed | Synonyms: plastic |
postdiluvian | (adjective) existing or occurring after Noah's flood | - |
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