| abolitionary | (adjective) relating to or favoring abolition, especially abolition of slavery | - |
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| aerolitic | (adjective) of or pertaining to certain stony meteorites | - |
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| aglitter | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| alliterative | (adjective) having the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable | - |
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| anaclitic | (adjective) of or related to relationships that are characterized by the strong dependence of one person on another | - |
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| antifertility | (adjective) capable of preventing conception or impregnation | Synonyms: contraceptive, prophylactic |
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| antisatellite | (adjective) of or relating to a system to destroy satellites in orbit | Synonyms: ASAT |
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| aplitic | (adjective) of or related to aplite | - |
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| apolitical | (adjective) politically neutral | Synonyms: unpolitical |
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| batholithic | (adjective) of or relating to a batholith | Synonyms: batholitic |
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| batholitic | (adjective) of or relating to a batholith | Synonyms: batholithic |
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| belittled | (adjective) made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth) | Synonyms: diminished, small |
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| belittling | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
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| blithe | (adjective) carefree and happy and lighthearted | Synonyms: blithesome, light-hearted, lighthearted, lightsome |
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| (adjective) lacking or showing a lack of due concern | - |
| blithesome | (adjective) carefree and happy and lighthearted | Synonyms: blithe, light-hearted, lighthearted, lightsome |
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| callithumpian | (adjective) of or relating to a callithump | - |
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| clitoral | (adjective) of or relating to the clitoris | Synonyms: clitoric |
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| clitoric | (adjective) of or relating to the clitoris | Synonyms: clitoral |
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| cosmopolitan | (adjective) growing or occurring in many parts of the world | Synonyms: widely distributed |
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| (adjective) composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests | - |
| (adjective) of worldwide scope or applicability | Synonyms: ecumenical, general, oecumenical, universal, world-wide, worldwide |
| debilitated | (adjective) lacking energy or vitality | Synonyms: adynamic, asthenic, enervated |
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| debilitating | (adjective) impairing the strength and vitality | - |
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| debilitative | (adjective) causing debilitation | Synonyms: enervating, enfeebling, weakening |
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| earsplitting | (adjective) loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss | Synonyms: deafening, thunderous, thundery |
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| egalitarian | (adjective) favoring social equality | Synonyms: classless |
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| elite | (adjective) selected as the best | Synonyms: elect |
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| eolithic | (adjective) of or relating to the earliest period of the Stone Age (characterized by the use of eoliths) | - |
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| epilithic | (adjective) growing on stone | - |
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| facilitative | (adjective) freeing from difficulty or impediment | - |
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| facilitatory | (adjective) inducing or aiding in facilitating neural activity | - |
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| floodlit | (adjective) illuminated by means of floodlights | Synonyms: floodlighted |
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| geopolitical | (adjective) of or relating to geopolitics | - |
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| glittering | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| glittery | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| hairsplitting | (adjective) developed in excessively fine detail | Synonyms: finespun |
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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 |
| impolite | (adjective) not polite | - |
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| impolitic | (adjective) not politic | - |
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| lamplit | (adjective) lighted by a lamp | - |
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| lit | (adjective) set afire or burning | Synonyms: lighted |
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| (adjective) provided with artificial light | Synonyms: illuminated, lighted, well-lighted |
| 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 | - |
| lithe | (adjective) gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease | Synonyms: lissom, lissome, lithesome, sinuous, supple |
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| lithesome | (adjective) gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease | Synonyms: lissom, lissome, lithe, sinuous, supple |
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| lithic | (adjective) relating to or composed of stone | - |
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| (adjective) of or containing lithium | - |
| lithographic | (adjective) of or produced by or involved in lithography | - |
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| lithomantic | (adjective) of or relating to lithomancy | - |
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| lithophytic | (adjective) of or relating to lithophytes | - |
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| litigious | (adjective) of or relating to litigation | - |
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| (adjective) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits | Synonyms: combative, contentious, disputatious, disputative |
| littered | (adjective) filled or scattered with a disorderly accumulation of objects or rubbish | Synonyms: cluttered |
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| little | (adjective) low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal | Synonyms: short |
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| (adjective) limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent | Synonyms: small |
| (adjective) (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some | Synonyms: slight |
| (adjective) small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context) | - |
| (adjective) lowercase | Synonyms: minuscule, small |
| (adjective) (of a voice) faint | Synonyms: small |
| (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial |
| (adjective) (of children and animals) young, immature | Synonyms: small |
| littler | (adjective) small or little relative to something else | Synonyms: smaller |
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| littoral | (adjective) of or relating to a coastal or shore region | - |
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| liturgical | (adjective) of or relating to or in accord with liturgy | - |
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| megalithic | (adjective) of or relating to megaliths or the people who erected megaliths | - |
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| mesolithic | (adjective) of or relating to a middle period of the Stone Age (following the paleolithic) | - |
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| metropolitan | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of a metropolis | - |
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| militant | (adjective) showing a fighting disposition | Synonyms: competitive |
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| (adjective) disposed to warfare or hard-line policies | Synonyms: hawkish, warlike |
| (adjective) engaged in war | Synonyms: belligerent, war-ridden, warring |
| militarised | (adjective) issued military arms | Synonyms: militarized |
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| militaristic | (adjective) imbued with militarism | - |
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| militarized | (adjective) issued military arms | Synonyms: militarised |
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| military | (adjective) associated with or performed by members of the armed services as contrasted with civilians | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of or associated with soldiers or the military | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to the study of the principles of warfare | - |
| monolithic | (adjective) imposing in size or bulk or solidity | Synonyms: massive, monumental |
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| (adjective) characterized by massiveness and rigidity and total uniformity | - |
| moonlit | (adjective) lighted by moonlight | Synonyms: moony |
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| neolithic | (adjective) of or relating to the most recent period of the Stone Age (following the mesolithic) | - |
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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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| nonmilitary | (adjective) not associated with soldiers or the military | Synonyms: unmilitary |
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| nonpolitical | (adjective) not political | - |
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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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| palaeolithic | (adjective) of or relating to the second period of the Stone Age (following the eolithic) | Synonyms: paleolithic |
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| paleolithic | (adjective) of or relating to the second period of the Stone Age (following the eolithic) | Synonyms: palaeolithic |
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| paramilitary | (adjective) of or relating to a group of civilians organized to function like or to assist a military unit | - |
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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 |
| politic | (adjective) marked by artful prudence, expedience, and shrewdness | - |
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| (adjective) smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication | Synonyms: bland, smooth, suave |
| political | (adjective) involving or characteristic of politics or parties or politicians | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to your views about social relationships involving authority or power | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to the profession of governing | - |
| 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 |
| qualitative | (adjective) involving distinctions based on qualities | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or involving comparisons based on qualities | - |
| quality | (adjective) of superior grade | Synonyms: choice, prime, prize, select |
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| (adjective) of high social status | - |
| rehabilitative | (adjective) designed to accomplish rehabilitation | - |
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| (adjective) helping to restore to good condition | Synonyms: reconstructive |
| 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 | - |
| semipolitical | (adjective) political in some (but not all) aspects | - |
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| sidesplitting | (adjective) very funny | Synonyms: killing |
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| slithering | (adjective) moving as on a slippery surface | Synonyms: slipping |
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| slithery | (adjective) having a slippery surface or quality | - |
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| solitary | (adjective) being the only one; single and isolated from others | Synonyms: lone, lonesome, only, sole |
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| (adjective) lacking companions or companionship | Synonyms: alone, lone, lonely |
| (adjective) of plants and animals; not growing or living in groups or colonies | Synonyms: nongregarious, nonsocial |
| (adjective) devoid of creatures | Synonyms: lonely, unfrequented |
| (adjective) characterized by or preferring solitude | Synonyms: lone, lonely |
| split | (adjective) (especially of wood) cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain | - |
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| (adjective) having been divided; having the unity destroyed | Synonyms: disconnected, disunited, fragmented |
| splitting | (adjective) resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree | Synonyms: rending, ripping |
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| starlit | (adjective) lighted only by stars | - |
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| subliterary | (adjective) not written as or intended to be literature | - |
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| sublittoral | (adjective) of or relating to the region of the continental shelf (between the seashore and the edge of the continental shelf) or the marine organisms situated there | - |
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| sunlit | (adjective) lighted by sunlight | Synonyms: sunstruck |
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| syphilitic | (adjective) of or relating to or infected with syphilis | - |
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| totalitarian | (adjective) of or relating to the principles of totalitarianism according to which the state regulates every realm of life | Synonyms: totalistic |
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| (adjective) characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control | - |