| accredited | (adjective) given official approval to act | Synonyms: commissioned, licenced, licensed |
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| alliterative | (adjective) having the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable | - |
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| antisatellite | (adjective) of or relating to a system to destroy satellites in orbit | Synonyms: ASAT |
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| apposite | (adjective) being of striking appropriateness and pertinence | Synonyms: apt, pertinent |
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| architectonic | (adjective) of or pertaining to construction or architecture | Synonyms: tectonic |
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| architectural | (adjective) of or pertaining to the art and science of architecture | - |
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| attrited | (adjective) worn by rubbing or friction | - |
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| awaited | (adjective) expected hopefully | Synonyms: anticipated, hoped-for |
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| bipartite | (adjective) divided into two portions almost to the base | - |
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| (adjective) involving two parts or elements | Synonyms: two-part, two-way |
| bitey | (adjective) Having a tendency to bite aggressively | - |
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| composite | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Compositae | - |
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| (adjective) consisting of separate interconnected parts | - |
| conceited | (adjective) characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance | Synonyms: egotistic, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen-headed, swollen, vain |
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| contrite | (adjective) feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses | Synonyms: remorseful, rueful, ruthful |
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| credited | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') given credit for | - |
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| criterial | (adjective) serving as a basis for evaluation | Synonyms: criterional |
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| criterional | (adjective) serving as a basis for evaluation | Synonyms: criterial |
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| cytoarchitectonic | (adjective) of or relating to cytoarchitecture | Synonyms: cytoarchitectural |
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| cytoarchitectural | (adjective) of or relating to cytoarchitecture | Synonyms: cytoarchitectonic |
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| definite | (adjective) precise; explicit and clearly defined | - |
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| (adjective) known for certain | - |
| delimited | (adjective) having the limits or boundaries established | Synonyms: bounded |
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| despiteful | (adjective) showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite | Synonyms: spiteful, vindictive |
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| discomfited | (adjective) disappointingly unsuccessful | Synonyms: defeated, disappointed, foiled, frustrated, thwarted |
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| discredited | (adjective) suffering shame | Synonyms: disgraced, dishonored, shamed |
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| (adjective) being unjustly brought into disrepute | Synonyms: damaged |
| disinherited | (adjective) deprived of your rightful heritage | - |
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| dispirited | (adjective) filled with melancholy and despondency | Synonyms: blue, depressed, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low-spirited, low |
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| (adjective) marked by low spirits; showing no enthusiasm | Synonyms: listless |
| disunited | (adjective) having been divided; having the unity destroyed | Synonyms: disconnected, fragmented, split |
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| edited | (adjective) improved or corrected by critical editing | Synonyms: emended |
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| elicited | (adjective) called forth from a latent or potential state by stimulation | Synonyms: evoked |
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| elite | (adjective) selected as the best | Synonyms: elect |
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| erudite | (adjective) having or showing profound knowledge | Synonyms: learned |
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| excited | (adjective) in an aroused state | - |
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| (adjective) (of persons) excessively affected by emotion | Synonyms: aroused, emotional, worked up |
| (adjective) (of e.g. a molecule) made reactive or more reactive | Synonyms: activated |
| (adjective) marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion | Synonyms: delirious, frantic, mad, unrestrained |
| exploited | (adjective) developed or used to greatest advantage | - |
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| (adjective) (of persons) taken advantage of | Synonyms: ill-used, put-upon, used, victimised, victimized |
| exquisite | (adjective) of extreme beauty | - |
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| (adjective) delicately beautiful | Synonyms: dainty |
| (adjective) lavishly elegant and refined | Synonyms: recherche |
| (adjective) intense or sharp | Synonyms: keen |
| favorite | (adjective) preferred above all others and treated with partiality | Synonyms: best-loved, favored, favoured, favourite, pet, preferent, preferred |
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| (adjective) appealing to the general public | Synonyms: favourite |
| favourite | (adjective) preferred above all others and treated with partiality | Synonyms: best-loved, favored, favorite, favoured, pet, preferent, preferred |
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| (adjective) appealing to the general public | Synonyms: favorite |
| finite | (adjective) bounded or limited in magnitude or spatial or temporal extent | - |
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| (adjective) (of verbs) relating to forms of the verb that are limited in time by a tense and (usually) show agreement with number and person | - |
| forfeited | (adjective) surrendered as a penalty | Synonyms: confiscate, forfeit |
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| granitelike | (adjective) hard as granite | Synonyms: granitic, rocklike, stony |
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| habited | (adjective) dressed in a habit | - |
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| hermaphrodite | (adjective) of animal or plant; having both male female reproductive organs | Synonyms: hermaphroditic |
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| ignited | (adjective) set afire | Synonyms: enkindled, kindled |
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| illiterate | (adjective) not able to read or write | - |
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| (adjective) lacking culture, especially in language and literature | - |
| (adjective) uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field | Synonyms: ignorant |
| impenitent | (adjective) not penitent or remorseful | Synonyms: unremorseful, unrepentant |
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| (adjective) impervious to moral persuasion | - |
| impolite | (adjective) not polite | - |
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| inapposite | (adjective) of an inappropriate or misapplied nature | Synonyms: out of place |
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| indefinite | (adjective) vague or not clearly defined or stated | - |
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| (adjective) not decided or not known | - |
| infinite | (adjective) having no limits or boundaries in time or space or extent or magnitude | - |
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| (adjective) (of verbs) not having tense, person, or number (as a participle or gerund or infinitive) | Synonyms: non-finite, nonfinite |
| (adjective) total and all-embracing | - |
| (adjective) too numerous to be counted | Synonyms: countless, innumerable, innumerous, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable |
| infinitesimal | (adjective) infinitely or immeasurably small | Synonyms: minute |
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| inhabited | (adjective) having inhabitants; lived in | - |
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| inherited | (adjective) occurring among members of a family usually by heredity | Synonyms: familial, genetic, hereditary, transmissible, transmitted |
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| inhibited | (adjective) held back or restrained or prevented | - |
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| iterative | (adjective) marked by iteration | Synonyms: reiterative |
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| limited | (adjective) small in range or scope | - |
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| (adjective) not unlimited | - |
| (adjective) not excessive | - |
| (adjective) including only a part | - |
| (adjective) mediocre | Synonyms: modified |
| (adjective) subject to limits or subjected to limits | Synonyms: circumscribed |
| (adjective) having a specific function or scope | Synonyms: special |
| lite | (adjective) having relatively few calories | Synonyms: calorie-free, light, low-cal |
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| literal | (adjective) limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text | - |
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| (adjective) without interpretation or embellishment | - |
| (adjective) avoiding embellishment or exaggeration (used for emphasis) | - |
| (adjective) being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something | Synonyms: actual, genuine, real |
| literary | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of literature | - |
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| (adjective) appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing | - |
| (adjective) knowledgeable about literature | - |
| literate | (adjective) able to read and write | - |
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| (adjective) versed in literature; dealing with literature | - |
| (adjective) knowledgeable and educated in one or several fields | - |
| meanspirited | (adjective) lacking in magnanimity | Synonyms: ungenerous |
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| (adjective) having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality | Synonyms: base, mean |
| merited | (adjective) properly deserved | Synonyms: deserved |
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| multipartite | (adjective) involving more than two parties | - |
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| nonfinite | (adjective) (of verbs) not having tense, person, or number (as a participle or gerund or infinitive) | Synonyms: infinite, non-finite |
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| nonliteral | (adjective) (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech | Synonyms: figurative |
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| nonliterary | (adjective) marked by lack of affectation or pedantry | Synonyms: unliterary |
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| nonliterate | (adjective) used of a society that has not developed writing | Synonyms: preliterate |
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| obliterable | (adjective) able to be obliterated completely | Synonyms: removable |
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| obliterate | (adjective) reduced to nothingness | Synonyms: blotted out, obliterated |
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| obliterated | (adjective) reduced to nothingness | Synonyms: blotted out, obliterate |
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| opposite | (adjective) of leaves etc; growing in pairs on either side of a stem | Synonyms: paired |
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| (adjective) characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed | Synonyms: diametric, diametrical, polar |
| (adjective) the other one of a complementary pair | - |
| (adjective) being directly across from each other; facing | - |
| (adjective) altogether different in nature or quality or significance | - |
| (adjective) moving or facing away from each other | - |
| overexcited | (adjective) unduly excited | - |
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| penitent | (adjective) feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds | Synonyms: repentant |
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| penitential | (adjective) showing or constituting penance | Synonyms: penitentiary |
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| penitentiary | (adjective) showing or constituting penance | Synonyms: penitential |
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| (adjective) used for punishment or reform of criminals or wrongdoers | - |
| petite | (adjective) very small | Synonyms: bantam, diminutive, flyspeck, lilliputian, midget, tiny |
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| piteous | (adjective) deserving or inciting pity | Synonyms: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched |
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| polite | (adjective) showing regard for others in manners, speech, behavior, etc. | - |
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| (adjective) not rude; marked by satisfactory (or especially minimal) adherence to social usages and sufficient but not noteworthy consideration for others | Synonyms: civil |
| (adjective) marked by refinement in taste and manners | Synonyms: civilised, civilized, cultivated, cultured, genteel |
| popliteal | (adjective) of or relating to the area behind the knee joint | - |
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| preliterate | (adjective) not yet having acquired the ability to read and write | - |
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| (adjective) used of a society that has not developed writing | Synonyms: nonliterate |
| prerequisite | (adjective) required as a prior condition or course of study | - |
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| prohibited | (adjective) forbidden by law | Synonyms: banned |
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| (adjective) excluded from use or mention | Synonyms: forbidden, out, proscribed, taboo, tabu, verboten |
| pseudohermaphrodite | (adjective) having internal reproductive organs of one sex and external sexual characteristics of the other sex | Synonyms: pseudohermaphroditic |
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| quadripartite | (adjective) involving four parties | Synonyms: four-party |
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| recondite | (adjective) difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge | Synonyms: abstruse, deep |
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| reiterative | (adjective) marked by iteration | Synonyms: iterative |
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| requisite | (adjective) necessary for relief or supply | Synonyms: needed, needful, required |
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| ritenuto | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in tempo | Synonyms: rallentando, rit., ritardando |
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| satellite | (adjective) surrounding and dominated by a central authority or power | - |
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| semiliterate | (adjective) literate but poorly informed | - |
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| (adjective) barely able to read and write | - |
| (adjective) able to read but not to write | - |
| semiterrestrial | (adjective) chiefly but not exclusively terrestrial | - |
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| sempiternal | (adjective) having no known beginning and presumably no end | Synonyms: dateless, endless |
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| spirited | (adjective) displaying animation, vigor, or liveliness | - |
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| (adjective) made lively or spirited | Synonyms: enlivened |
| (adjective) willing to face danger | Synonyms: game, gamey, gamy, gritty, mettlesome, spunky |
| (adjective) marked by lively action | Synonyms: bouncing, bouncy, peppy, zippy |
| spiteful | (adjective) showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite | Synonyms: despiteful, vindictive |
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| subliterary | (adjective) not written as or intended to be literature | - |
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| suited | (adjective) outfitted or supplied with clothing | - |
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| (adjective) meant or adapted for an occasion or use | Synonyms: appropriate, suitable |
| transvestite | (adjective) receiving sexual gratification from wearing clothing of the opposite sex | Synonyms: transvestic |
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| tripartite | (adjective) involving three parties or elements | Synonyms: three-party, three-way |
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| trite | (adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, well-worn |
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| unaccredited | (adjective) lacking official approval | Synonyms: unlicenced, unlicensed |
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| unedited | (adjective) not changed by editing | - |
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| unexcited | (adjective) not excited | - |
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| unexploited | (adjective) not developed, improved, exploited or used | Synonyms: undeveloped |
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