| subtractive | (adjective) constituting or involving subtraction | - |
|---|
| subversive | (adjective) in opposition to a civil authority or government | Synonyms: insurgent, seditious |
|---|
| successive | (adjective) in regular succession without gaps | Synonyms: consecutive, sequent, sequential, serial |
|---|
| suffocative | (adjective) causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat | Synonyms: choking, smothering, suffocating |
|---|
| suffusive | (adjective) spreading through | - |
|---|
| suggestive | (adjective) tending to suggest or imply | Synonyms: implicative |
|---|
| (adjective) tending to suggest something improper or indecent | - |
| (adjective) (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly | Synonyms: indicative, indicatory, revelatory, significative |
| summative | (adjective) of or relating to a summation or produced by summation | Synonyms: summational |
|---|
| superlative | (adjective) highest in quality | Synonyms: greatest, sterling |
|---|
| supersensitive | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitised, hypersensitive, hypersensitized, sensitised, sensitized, supersensitised, supersensitized |
|---|
| supportive | (adjective) furnishing support or assistance | - |
|---|
| suppressive | (adjective) tending to suppress | - |
|---|
| suppurative | (adjective) relating to or characterized by suppuration | - |
|---|
| suspensive | (adjective) undecided or characterized by indecisiveness | - |
|---|
| (adjective) (of a situation) characterized by or causing suspense | Synonyms: cliff-hanging, nail-biting, suspenseful |
| talkative | (adjective) friendly and open and willing to talk | Synonyms: expansive |
|---|
| (adjective) unwisely talking too much | Synonyms: bigmouthed, blabbermouthed, blabby |
| (adjective) full of trivial conversation | Synonyms: chatty, gabby, garrulous, loquacious, talky |
| tardive | (adjective) late-occurring (especially with reference to symptoms of a disease) | - |
|---|
| tentative | (adjective) under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon | Synonyms: probationary, provisional, provisionary |
|---|
| (adjective) unsettled in mind or opinion | Synonyms: doubtful |
| terminative | (adjective) coming to an end | - |
|---|
| tractive | (adjective) exerting traction and serving to pull | - |
|---|
| transitive | (adjective) designating a verb that requires a direct object to complete the meaning | - |
|---|
| ulcerative | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by ulceration | - |
|---|
| ultraconservative | (adjective) extremely conservative | - |
|---|
| unacquisitive | (adjective) not acquisitive; not interested in acquiring or owning anything | - |
|---|
| unaggressive | (adjective) not aggressive; not given to fighting or assertiveness | Synonyms: nonaggressive |
|---|
| unappreciative | (adjective) not feeling or expressing gratitude | - |
|---|
| unapprehensive | (adjective) not recognizing or slow to recognize danger | - |
|---|
| unargumentative | (adjective) not given to or characterized by argument | - |
|---|
| unassertive | (adjective) inclined to timidity or lack of self-confidence | - |
|---|
| unattractive | (adjective) lacking beauty or charm | - |
|---|
| (adjective) lacking power to arouse interest | - |
| (adjective) not appealing to the senses | Synonyms: untempting |
| uncommunicative | (adjective) not inclined to talk or give information or express opinions | Synonyms: incommunicative |
|---|
| uncompetitive | (adjective) not inclined to compete | - |
|---|
| unconstructive | (adjective) not constructive | - |
|---|
| uncontrived | (adjective) not by design or artifice; unforced and impromptu | Synonyms: unstudied |
|---|
| uncooperative | (adjective) unwilling to cooperate | - |
|---|
| (adjective) intentionally unaccommodating | Synonyms: disobliging |
| uncreative | (adjective) not creative | - |
|---|
| undeceived | (adjective) freed of a mistaken or misguided notion | Synonyms: disabused |
|---|
| undemonstrative | (adjective) not given to open expression of emotion | - |
|---|
| underactive | (adjective) abnormally inactive | Synonyms: hypoactive |
|---|
| underivative | (adjective) not derivative or imitative | - |
|---|
| underived | (adjective) not derived; primary or simple | - |
|---|
| undescriptive | (adjective) not successful in describing | - |
|---|
| undiversified | (adjective) not diversified | - |
|---|
| uneffective | (adjective) not producing an intended effect | Synonyms: ineffective, ineffectual |
|---|
| unenlivened | (adjective) not made lively or brightened | - |
|---|
| unexclusive | (adjective) not restricted or exclusive | Synonyms: unrestricted |
|---|
| unexpansive | (adjective) showing no tendency to expand | - |
|---|
| (adjective) not given to high spirits or effusiveness | - |
| unexplorative | (adjective) not exploratory | Synonyms: nonexplorative, nonexploratory, unexploratory |
|---|
| unexpressive | (adjective) deliberately impassive in manner | Synonyms: deadpan, expressionless, impassive, poker-faced |
|---|
| unimaginative | (adjective) lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality | Synonyms: stereotyped, stereotypic, stereotypical |
|---|
| (adjective) dealing only with concrete facts | - |
| (adjective) deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention | Synonyms: sterile, uninspired, uninventive |
| unimpressive | (adjective) not capable of impressing | - |
|---|
| uninformative | (adjective) lacking information | - |
|---|
| uninquisitive | (adjective) not inquiring | Synonyms: uninquiring |
|---|
| (adjective) deficient in curiosity | Synonyms: uninquiring |
| uninstructive | (adjective) failing to instruct | - |
|---|
| unintrusive | (adjective) not interfering or meddling | Synonyms: not intrusive |
|---|
| uninventive | (adjective) deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention | Synonyms: sterile, unimaginative, uninspired |
|---|
| universal | (adjective) adapted to various purposes, sizes, forms, operations | - |
|---|
| (adjective) of worldwide scope or applicability | Synonyms: cosmopolitan, ecumenical, general, oecumenical, world-wide, worldwide |
| (adjective) applicable to or common to all members of a group or set | - |
| universalist | (adjective) of or relating to or tending toward universalism | Synonyms: universalistic |
|---|
| universalistic | (adjective) of or relating to or tending toward universalism | Synonyms: universalist |
|---|
| (adjective) of or relating to the whole | - |
| unliveable | (adjective) unfit or unsuitable to live in or with | Synonyms: unlivable |
|---|
| unliveried | (adjective) not wearing livery | - |
|---|
| unmedicative | (adjective) not having a medicinal effect or not medically prescribed | Synonyms: nonmedicinal, unmedical, unmedicinal |
|---|
| unobjective | (adjective) (of e.g. evidence) not objective or easily verified | Synonyms: unverifiable |
|---|
| unobtrusive | (adjective) not obtrusive or undesirably noticeable | - |
|---|
| unperceived | (adjective) not perceived or commented on | Synonyms: unremarked |
|---|
| unperceptive | (adjective) lacking perception | Synonyms: unperceiving |
|---|
| (adjective) lacking sensitivity, taste, or judgment | - |
| unpermissive | (adjective) not inclined to grant permission; severe in discipline | - |
|---|
| unpersuasive | (adjective) not capable of persuading | - |
|---|
| unpredictive | (adjective) having no predictive value | - |
|---|
| unproductive | (adjective) not producing or capable of producing | - |
|---|
| (adjective) not producing desired results | - |
| unprogressive | (adjective) old-fashioned and out of date | Synonyms: fusty, nonprogressive, standpat |
|---|
| unprotective | (adjective) not affording protection | - |
|---|
| unprovocative | (adjective) not provocative | Synonyms: unprovoking |
|---|
| unreactive | (adjective) (chemistry) not reacting chemically | - |
|---|
| (adjective) not tending to react to stimulation | - |
| unreceptive | (adjective) not receptive | - |
|---|
| unreflective | (adjective) not exhibiting or characterized by careful thought | Synonyms: unthinking, unthoughtful |
|---|
| unremunerative | (adjective) not yielding profit or recompense | - |
|---|
| unrepresentative | (adjective) not exemplifying a class | - |
|---|
| unresponsive | (adjective) not responding to some influence or stimulus | - |
|---|
| (adjective) aloof or indifferent | - |
| (adjective) not susceptible to suggestion or influence | - |
| unrestrictive | (adjective) not tending to restrict | - |
|---|
| unretentive | (adjective) (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range | Synonyms: forgetful, short |
|---|
| unrevived | (adjective) not revived | Synonyms: unrenewed |
|---|
| unseductive | (adjective) not seductive | - |
|---|
| unselective | (adjective) not selective or discriminating | - |
|---|
| unsubmissive | (adjective) not servile or submissive | Synonyms: unservile |
|---|
| unsupportive | (adjective) not furnishing support or assistance | - |
|---|
| untalkative | (adjective) temperamentally disinclined to talk | Synonyms: reticent |
|---|
| unvindictive | (adjective) not vindictive | - |
|---|
| vegetative | (adjective) composed of vegetation or plants | Synonyms: vegetal, vegetational |
|---|
| (adjective) of or relating to an activity that is passive and monotonous | Synonyms: vegetive |
| (adjective) (of reproduction) characterized by asexual processes | Synonyms: vegetal |
| (adjective) relating to involuntary bodily functions | - |
| vegetive | (adjective) of or relating to an activity that is passive and monotonous | Synonyms: vegetative |
|---|
| vindictive | (adjective) showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite | Synonyms: despiteful, spiteful |
|---|
| (adjective) disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge | Synonyms: revengeful, vengeful |
| violative | (adjective) violating or tending to violate or offend against | Synonyms: offensive |
|---|
| vituperative | (adjective) marked by harshly abusive criticism | Synonyms: scathing |
|---|
| vocative | (adjective) relating to a case used in some languages | - |
|---|
| votive | (adjective) dedicated in fulfillment of a vow | - |
|---|