| heartbreaking | (adjective) causing or marked by grief or anguish | Synonyms: grievous, heartrending |
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| heartbroken | (adjective) full of sorrow | Synonyms: brokenhearted, heartsick |
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| heartsick | (adjective) without or almost without hope | Synonyms: despondent |
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| (adjective) full of sorrow | Synonyms: brokenhearted, heartbroken |
| heathlike | (adjective) resembling heath | - |
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| henpecked | (adjective) harassed by persistent nagging | Synonyms: dominated |
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| hick | (adjective) awkwardly simple and provincial | Synonyms: bumpkinly, rustic, unsophisticated |
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| hokey | (adjective) artificially formal | Synonyms: artificial, contrived, stilted |
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| (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
| homelike | (adjective) having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable | Synonyms: homely, homey, homy |
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| homesick | (adjective) longing to return home | - |
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| honeylike | (adjective) resembling honey | - |
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| hooflike | (adjective) resembling a hoof; especially having the horny texture of a hoof | - |
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| hooked | (adjective) addicted to a drug | Synonyms: dependant, dependent, drug-addicted, strung-out |
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| (adjective) curved down like an eagle's beak | Synonyms: aquiline |
| (adjective) having or resembling a hook (especially in the ability to grasp and hold) | Synonyms: hooklike |
| hooklike | (adjective) having or resembling a hook (especially in the ability to grasp and hold) | Synonyms: hooked |
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| hornlike | (adjective) made of horn (or of a substance resembling horn) | Synonyms: corneous, horny |
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| housebroken | (adjective) (of pets) trained to urinate and defecate outside or in a special place | Synonyms: house-trained |
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| hulking | (adjective) of great size and bulk | Synonyms: hulky |
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| hulky | (adjective) of great size and bulk | Synonyms: hulking |
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| humanlike | (adjective) suggesting human characteristics for animals or inanimate things | Synonyms: anthropomorphic, anthropomorphous |
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| humpbacked | (adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookback, crookbacked, gibbous, humped, hunchbacked, kyphotic |
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| hunchbacked | (adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookback, crookbacked, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, kyphotic |
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| husky | (adjective) deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion | Synonyms: gruff, hoarse |
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| (adjective) muscular and heavily built | Synonyms: beefy, buirdly, burly, strapping |
| hydrokinetic | (adjective) relating to fluids in motion or the forces that produce or affect such motion | - |
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| icky | (adjective) soft and sticky | Synonyms: gooey |
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| (adjective) very bad | Synonyms: crappy, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky |
| implike | (adjective) naughtily or annoyingly playful | Synonyms: arch, impish, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, puckish, wicked |
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| inky | (adjective) of the color of black ink | Synonyms: ink-black, inky-black |
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| interlinking | (adjective) linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing | Synonyms: interlacing, interlocking, interwoven |
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| interlocking | (adjective) linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing | Synonyms: interlacing, interlinking, interwoven |
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| irksome | (adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | Synonyms: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome |
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| ironlike | (adjective) exhibiting strength or hardness like that of iron | - |
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| irrevokable | (adjective) incapable of being retracted or revoked | Synonyms: irrevocable |
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| jellylike | (adjective) thick like gelatin | Synonyms: gelatinlike, gelatinous |
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| jerking | (adjective) lacking a steady rhythm | Synonyms: arrhythmic, jerky |
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| jerkwater | (adjective) small and remote and insignificant | Synonyms: one-horse, pokey, poky |
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| jerky | (adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: anserine, dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosey, goosy |
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| (adjective) marked by abrupt transitions | Synonyms: choppy |
| (adjective) lacking a steady rhythm | Synonyms: arrhythmic, jerking |
| joking | (adjective) characterized by jokes and good humor | Synonyms: jesting, jocose, jocular |
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| k | (adjective) denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units | Synonyms: 1000, m, one thousand, thousand |
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| kabbalistic | (adjective) having a secret or hidden meaning | Synonyms: cabalistic, cryptic, cryptical, qabalistic, sibylline |
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| kafkaesque | (adjective) characterized by surreal distortion and a sense of impending danger | - |
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| kaleidoscopic | (adjective) continually shifting or rapidly changing | Synonyms: kaleidoscopical |
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| kaleidoscopical | (adjective) continually shifting or rapidly changing | Synonyms: kaleidoscopic |
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| kaput | (adjective) destroyed or killed | Synonyms: done for, gone |
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| karyokinetic | (adjective) of or relating to the division of the nucleus of a cell during mitosis or meiosis | - |
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| katabatic | (adjective) of an air current or wind; moving downward or down a slope because of cooling especially at night | Synonyms: catabatic |
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| katabolic | (adjective) characterized by destructive metabolism | Synonyms: catabolic |
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| (adjective) relating to or characterized by catabolism | Synonyms: catabolic |
| katharobic | (adjective) of living being in an oxygenated environment lacking organic matter | - |
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| kayoed | (adjective) knocked unconscious by a heavy blow | Synonyms: knocked out, KO'd, out, stunned |
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| keeled | (adjective) having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship | Synonyms: carinate, carinated, ridged |
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| keen | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
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| (adjective) intense or sharp | Synonyms: exquisite |
| (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, discriminating, incisive, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp |
| (adjective) having a sharp cutting edge or point | - |
| (adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cutting, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, piercing, stabbing |
| kempt | (adjective) (of hair) neat and tidy | Synonyms: tidy |
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| kept | (adjective) (especially of promises or contracts) not violated or disregarded | Synonyms: unbroken |
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| key | (adjective) serving as an essential component | Synonyms: cardinal, central, fundamental, primal |
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| keyed | (adjective) fitted with or secured by a key | - |
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| (adjective) set to a key or tone | - |
| keyless | (adjective) lacking or not requiring a key | - |
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| khaki | (adjective) of a yellowish brown color | - |
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| killable | (adjective) fit to kill, especially for food | - |
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| killing | (adjective) very funny | Synonyms: sidesplitting |
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| kin | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineal, consanguineous |
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| kinaesthetic | (adjective) of or relating to kinesthesis | Synonyms: kinesthetic |
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| kind | (adjective) having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior | - |
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| (adjective) tolerant and forgiving under provocation | Synonyms: tolerant |
| (adjective) agreeable, conducive to comfort | Synonyms: genial |
| kindhearted | (adjective) having or proceeding from an innately kind disposition | Synonyms: kind-hearted |
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| kindled | (adjective) set afire | Synonyms: enkindled, ignited |
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| kindly | (adjective) pleasant and agreeable | - |
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| (adjective) showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity | Synonyms: benevolent, charitable, good-hearted, large-hearted, openhearted, sympathetic |
| kindred | (adjective) related by blood or marriage | - |
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| (adjective) similar in quality or character | Synonyms: akin |
| kinesthetic | (adjective) of or relating to kinesthesis | Synonyms: kinaesthetic |
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| kinetic | (adjective) relating to the motion of material bodies and the forces associated therewith | - |
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| (adjective) supplying motive force | Synonyms: energising, energizing |
| (adjective) characterized by motion | - |
| kinglike | (adjective) having the rank of or resembling or befitting a king | Synonyms: kingly |
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| kingly | (adjective) having the rank of or resembling or befitting a king | Synonyms: kinglike |
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| kinky | (adjective) (used of sexual behavior) showing or appealing to bizarre or deviant tastes | Synonyms: perverted |
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| (adjective) (of hair) in small tight curls | Synonyms: crisp, frizzly, frizzy, nappy |
| (adjective) (informal) strikingly unconventional | Synonyms: far-out, offbeat, quirky, way-out |
| kitschy | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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| kittenish | (adjective) playful like a lively kitten | Synonyms: frisky |
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| knackered | (adjective) extremely exhausted | Synonyms: drained |
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| knavish | (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily |
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| knifelike | (adjective) having a sharp or distinct edge | - |
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| (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp |
| (adjective) cutting or able to cut as if with a knife | - |
| (adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cutting, keen, lancinate, lancinating, piercing, stabbing |
| knightly | (adjective) being attentive to women like an ideal knight | Synonyms: chivalrous, gallant |
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| (adjective) characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: chivalric, mediaeval, medieval |
| knitted | (adjective) made by intertwining threads in a series of connected loops rather than by weaving | - |
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| knobbed | (adjective) used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots | Synonyms: gnarled, gnarly, knotted, knotty |
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| knobbly | (adjective) having knobs | Synonyms: knobby |
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| knobby | (adjective) having knobs | Synonyms: knobbly |
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| knockabout | (adjective) suitable for rough use | - |
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| (adjective) full of rough and exuberant animal spirits | Synonyms: boisterous |
| knockdown | (adjective) (furniture) easily assembled and dismantled | - |
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| knockout | (adjective) very strong or vigorous | Synonyms: hard, severe |
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| knotted | (adjective) used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots | Synonyms: gnarled, gnarly, knobbed, knotty |
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| (adjective) tied with a knot | - |
| knotty | (adjective) highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious | Synonyms: Byzantine, convoluted, involved, labyrinthine, tangled, tortuous |
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| (adjective) used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots | Synonyms: gnarled, gnarly, knobbed, knotted |
| (adjective) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | Synonyms: baffling, elusive, problematic, problematical, tough |
| (adjective) tangled in knots or snarls | Synonyms: snarled, snarly |
| knowable | (adjective) capable of being known | Synonyms: cognisable, cognizable, cognoscible |
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| knowing | (adjective) highly educated; having extensive information or understanding | Synonyms: knowledgeable, learned, lettered, well-educated, well-read |
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| (adjective) evidencing the possession of inside information | Synonyms: wise, wise to |
| (adjective) characterized by conscious design or purpose | Synonyms: deliberate, intentional |
| (adjective) alert and fully informed | Synonyms: knowledgeable |
| knowledgeable | (adjective) highly educated; having extensive information or understanding | Synonyms: knowing, learned, lettered, well-educated, well-read |
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| (adjective) thoroughly acquainted through study or experience | Synonyms: intimate, versed |
| (adjective) alert and fully informed | Synonyms: knowing |
| known | (adjective) apprehended with certainty | - |
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| kookie | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| kooky | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| kosher | (adjective) conforming to Jewish dietary laws | Synonyms: cosher |
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| (adjective) proper or legitimate | - |
| kyphotic | (adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookback, crookbacked, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, hunchbacked |
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| lacelike | (adjective) made of or resembling lace | Synonyms: lacy |
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| lackadaisical | (adjective) idle or indolent especially in a dreamy way | - |
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| (adjective) lacking spirit or liveliness | Synonyms: dreamy, languid, languorous |
| lacking | (adjective) inadequate in amount or degree | Synonyms: deficient, wanting |
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| (adjective) nonexistent | Synonyms: absent, missing, wanting |
| lackluster | (adjective) lacking luster or shine | Synonyms: lacklustre, lusterless, lustreless |
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| (adjective) lacking brilliance or vitality | Synonyms: lacklustre, lusterless, lustreless |
| lacklustre | (adjective) lacking luster or shine | Synonyms: lackluster, lusterless, lustreless |
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| (adjective) lacking brilliance or vitality | Synonyms: lackluster, lusterless, lustreless |
| ladylike | (adjective) befitting a woman of good breeding | - |
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| lamblike | (adjective) like a lamb in meekness and gentleness | - |
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| lancelike | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) shaped like a lance head; narrow and tapering to a pointed apex | Synonyms: lanceolate |
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| landlocked | (adjective) surrounded entirely or almost entirely by land | - |
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