| ailing | (adjective) somewhat ill or prone to illness | Synonyms: indisposed, peaked, poorly, seedy, sickly, under the weather, unwell |
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| alkaline | (adjective) relating to or containing an alkali; having a pH greater than 7 | Synonyms: alkalic |
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| amygdaline | (adjective) related to or resembling an almond | - |
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| anaclinal | (adjective) of valleys and rivers; progressing in a direction opposite to the dip in surrounding rock strata | - |
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| anopheline | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of malaria mosquitoes | - |
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| anticholinergic | (adjective) inhibiting or blocking the action of acetylcholine at a receptor site | - |
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| anticlinal | (adjective) sloping downward away from a common crest | - |
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| appalling | (adjective) causing consternation | Synonyms: dismaying |
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| appealing | (adjective) able to attract interest or draw favorable attention | - |
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| (adjective) (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings | Synonyms: likable, likeable, sympathetic |
| aquiline | (adjective) curved down like an eagle's beak | Synonyms: hooked |
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| baffling | (adjective) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | Synonyms: elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough |
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| beetling | (adjective) jutting or overhanging | Synonyms: beetle |
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| beguiling | (adjective) misleading by means of pleasant or alluring methods | - |
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| (adjective) highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire | Synonyms: alluring, enticing, tempting |
| belittling | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
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| bicylindrical | (adjective) having two cylindrical surfaces usually with parallel axes | - |
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| bilinear | (adjective) linear with respect to each of two variables or positions | - |
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| bilingual | (adjective) using or knowing two languages | - |
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| blind | (adjective) unable to see | Synonyms: unsighted |
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| (adjective) not based on reason or evidence | Synonyms: unreasoning |
| (adjective) unable or unwilling to perceive or understand | - |
| blinded | (adjective) deprived of sight | - |
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| blindfold | (adjective) wearing a blindfold | Synonyms: blindfolded |
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| blindfolded | (adjective) wearing a blindfold | Synonyms: blindfold |
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| blinding | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blazing, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary |
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| blinking | (adjective) closing the eyes intermittently and rapidly | Synonyms: winking |
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| (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, bloody, blooming, crashing, flaming, fucking |
| bloodcurdling | (adjective) extremely alarming | Synonyms: hair-raising, nightmarish |
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| borderline | (adjective) of questionable or minimal quality | Synonyms: marginal |
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| botulinal | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by the botulinus | - |
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| bubaline | (adjective) relating to or resembling a buffalo | - |
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| bubbling | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbly, effervescing, foaming, foamy, frothy, spumy |
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| (adjective) marked by high spirits or excitement | Synonyms: effervescent, frothy, scintillating, sparkly |
| bumbling | (adjective) lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands | Synonyms: bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed |
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| bungling | (adjective) lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands | Synonyms: bumbling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed |
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| (adjective) showing lack of skill or aptitude | Synonyms: clumsy, fumbling, incompetent |
| burbling | (adjective) uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm | Synonyms: burbly, effusive, gushing |
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| bustling | (adjective) full of energetic and noisy activity | - |
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| cataclinal | (adjective) of valleys and rivers; running in the direction of the dip in surrounding rock strata | - |
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| cauline | (adjective) especially of leaves; growing on a stem especially on the upper part of a stem | - |
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| (adjective) (of plants) producing a well-developed stem above ground | Synonyms: caulescent, stemmed |
| ceilinged | (adjective) provided with a ceiling especially the overhead interior surface | - |
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| chilling | (adjective) provoking fear or terror | Synonyms: scary, shivery, shuddery |
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| cholinergic | (adjective) releasing or activated by acetylcholine or a related compound | - |
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| clinched | (adjective) closed or squeezed together tightly | Synonyms: clenched |
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| clingy | (adjective) excessively emotional and attached | - |
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| clinical | (adjective) relating to a clinic or conducted in or as if in a clinic and depending on direct observation of patients | - |
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| (adjective) scientifically detached; unemotional | - |
| clinking | (adjective) like the light sharp ringing sound of glasses being tapped | - |
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| clinquant | (adjective) glittering with gold or silver | Synonyms: tinseled, tinselly |
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| coiling | (adjective) in the shape of a coil | Synonyms: helical, spiral, spiraling, spiralling, turbinate, volute, voluted, whorled |
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| collinear | (adjective) lying on the same line | - |
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| compelling | (adjective) tending to persuade by forcefulness of argument | - |
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| (adjective) driving or forcing | - |
| concealing | (adjective) covering or hiding | - |
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| consoling | (adjective) affording comfort or solace | Synonyms: comforting, consolatory |
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| controlling | (adjective) able to control or determine policy | - |
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| crippling | (adjective) that cripples or disables or incapacitates | Synonyms: disabling, incapacitating |
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| crystalline | (adjective) consisting of or containing or of the nature of crystals | - |
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| (adjective) transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity | Synonyms: crystal clear, limpid, lucid, pellucid, transparent |
| (adjective) distinctly or sharply outlined | - |
| culinary | (adjective) of or relating to or used in cooking | - |
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| curling | (adjective) (of hair) making curls or having been made to curl | Synonyms: curled |
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| curvilineal | (adjective) characterized by or following a curved line | Synonyms: curvilinear |
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| curvilinear | (adjective) characterized by or following a curved line | Synonyms: curvilineal |
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| cylindric | (adjective) having the form of a cylinder | Synonyms: cylindrical |
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| cylindrical | (adjective) having the form of a cylinder | Synonyms: cylindric |
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| darkling | (adjective) (poetic) occurring in the dark or night | - |
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| (adjective) uncannily or threateningly dark or obscure | - |
| darling | (adjective) dearly loved | Synonyms: beloved, dear |
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| dazzling | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blazing, blinding, fulgent, glaring, glary |
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| (adjective) amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning | Synonyms: eye-popping, fulgurant, fulgurous |
| delineate | (adjective) represented accurately or precisely | Synonyms: delineated, represented |
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| delineated | (adjective) represented accurately or precisely | Synonyms: delineate, represented |
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| delineative | (adjective) depicted in a recognizable manner | Synonyms: depictive |
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| delinquent | (adjective) past due; not paid at the scheduled time | Synonyms: overdue |
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| (adjective) guilty of a misdeed | - |
| (adjective) failing in what duty requires | Synonyms: derelict, neglectful, remiss |
| diclinous | (adjective) having pistils and stamens in separate flowers | - |
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| disabling | (adjective) depriving of legal right; rendering legally disqualified | Synonyms: disqualifying |
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| (adjective) that cripples or disables or incapacitates | Synonyms: crippling, incapacitating |
| disciplinal | (adjective) designed to promote discipline | Synonyms: corrective, disciplinary |
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| disciplinary | (adjective) relating to a specific field of academic study | - |
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| (adjective) relating to discipline in behavior | - |
| (adjective) designed to promote discipline | Synonyms: corrective, disciplinal |
| disciplined | (adjective) obeying the rules | - |
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| (adjective) trained mentally or physically by instruction or exercise | - |
| disinclined | (adjective) unwilling because of mild dislike or disapproval | - |
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| drizzling | (adjective) (of rain) falling lightly in very small drops | - |
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| dwindling | (adjective) gradually decreasing until little remains | Synonyms: tapering, tapering off |
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| enabling | (adjective) providing legal power or sanction | - |
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| encircling | (adjective) being all around the edges; enclosing | Synonyms: skirting |
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| enfeebling | (adjective) causing debilitation | Synonyms: debilitative, enervating, weakening |
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| ennobling | (adjective) tending to exalt | Synonyms: exalting |
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| (adjective) investing with dignity or honor | Synonyms: dignifying |
| enthralling | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: bewitching, captivating, enchanting, entrancing, fascinating |
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| extralinguistic | (adjective) not included within the realm of language | - |
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| failing | (adjective) below acceptable in performance | - |
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| falling | (adjective) becoming lower or less in degree or value | - |
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| (adjective) decreasing in amount or degree | - |
| (adjective) coming down freely under the influence of gravity | Synonyms: dropping |
| feline | (adjective) of or relating to cats | - |
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| fiddling | (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial |
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| fledgeling | (adjective) (of a young bird) having acquired its flight feathers | Synonyms: fledgling |
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| fledgling | (adjective) (of a young bird) having acquired its flight feathers | Synonyms: fledgeling |
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| (adjective) young and inexperienced | Synonyms: callow, unfledged |
| flint | (adjective) showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings | Synonyms: flinty, granitic, obdurate, stony |
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| flinty | (adjective) containing flint | - |
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| (adjective) showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings | Synonyms: flint, granitic, obdurate, stony |
| fooling | (adjective) characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility | Synonyms: casual |
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| footling | (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial |
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| freewheeling | (adjective) cheerfully irresponsible | Synonyms: carefree, devil-may-care, happy-go-lucky, harum-scarum, slaphappy |
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| (adjective) free of restraints or rules | - |
| fumbling | (adjective) showing lack of skill or aptitude | Synonyms: bungling, clumsy, incompetent |
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| gallinaceous | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a gallinacean | - |
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| galling | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| gambling | (adjective) preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance | Synonyms: betting, card-playing, dissipated, sporting |
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| gangling | (adjective) tall and thin and having long slender limbs | Synonyms: gangly, lanky, rangy |
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| (adjective) tall and thin | Synonyms: gangly, lanky |
| glinting | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| groveling | (adjective) totally submissive | Synonyms: cringing, grovelling, wormlike, wormy |
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| grovelling | (adjective) totally submissive | Synonyms: cringing, groveling, wormlike, wormy |
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| grueling | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
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| gruelling | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
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| grumbling | (adjective) continuous full and low-pitched throbbing sound | Synonyms: rumbling |
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| hardline | (adjective) firm and uncompromising | Synonyms: hard-line |
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