| ablutionary | (adjective) cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of e.g. hands | Synonyms: cleansing |
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| absolute | (adjective) perfect or complete or pure | - |
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| (adjective) not limited by law | - |
| (adjective) not capable of being violated or infringed | Synonyms: infrangible, inviolable |
| (adjective) expressing finality with no implication of possible change | - |
| (adjective) complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: downright, out-and-out, rank, right-down, sheer |
| absolutist | (adjective) pertaining to the principle of totalitarianism | Synonyms: absolutistic |
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| absolutistic | (adjective) pertaining to the principle of totalitarianism | Synonyms: absolutist |
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| acellular | (adjective) not made up of or divided into cells | Synonyms: noncellular |
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| affluent | (adjective) having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value | Synonyms: flush, loaded, moneyed, substantial, wealthy |
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| aflutter | (adjective) excited in anticipation | Synonyms: nervous |
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| agglutinate | (adjective) united as if by glue | Synonyms: agglutinative |
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| agglutinative | (adjective) united as if by glue | Synonyms: agglutinate |
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| (adjective) forming derivative or compound words by putting together constituents each of which expresses a single definite meaning | Synonyms: polysynthetic |
| alluring | (adjective) highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire | Synonyms: beguiling, enticing, tempting |
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| allusive | (adjective) characterized by indirect references | - |
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| alluvial | (adjective) of or relating to alluvium | - |
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| alular | (adjective) pertaining to alulae | - |
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| aluminiferous | (adjective) containing alum or aluminum | - |
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| aluminous | (adjective) pertaining to or containing aluminum or alum | - |
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| anacoluthic | (adjective) of or related to syntactic inconsistencies of the sort known as anacoluthons | - |
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| antebellum | (adjective) belonging to a period before a war especially the American Civil War | - |
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| antediluvial | (adjective) of or relating to the period before the biblical flood | Synonyms: antediluvian |
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| antediluvian | (adjective) of or relating to the period before the biblical flood | Synonyms: antediluvial |
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| (adjective) so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period | Synonyms: antiquated, archaic |
| antipollution | (adjective) intended to reduce pollution | - |
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| autofluorescent | (adjective) emitting light via self-induced fluorescence | - |
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| bioluminescent | (adjective) (of living organisms) emitting light | - |
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| blubbery | (adjective) swollen with fat | - |
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| blue | (adjective) of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky | Synonyms: blueish, bluish |
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| (adjective) filled with melancholy and despondency | Synonyms: depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low-spirited, low |
| (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry |
| (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy | Synonyms: aristocratic, aristocratical, blue-blooded, gentle, patrician |
| (adjective) morally rigorous and strict | Synonyms: puritanic, puritanical |
| (adjective) used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms) | - |
| (adjective) suggestive of sexual impropriety | Synonyms: gamey, gamy, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy |
| (adjective) characterized by profanity or cursing | Synonyms: blasphemous, profane |
| blueish | (adjective) of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky | Synonyms: blue, bluish |
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| bluff | (adjective) very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front | Synonyms: bold, sheer |
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| (adjective) bluntly direct and outspoken but good-natured | - |
| bluish | (adjective) of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky | Synonyms: blue, blueish |
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| blunt | (adjective) characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion | Synonyms: candid, forthright, frank, free-spoken, outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank, straight-from-the-shoulder |
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| (adjective) used of a knife or other blade; not sharp | - |
| (adjective) having a broad or rounded end | - |
| (adjective) devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment | Synonyms: crude, stark |
| blunted | (adjective) made dull or blunt | Synonyms: dulled |
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| blurred | (adjective) indistinct or hazy in outline | Synonyms: bleary, blurry, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, muzzy |
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| (adjective) unclear in form or expression | Synonyms: clouded |
| blurry | (adjective) indistinct or hazy in outline | Synonyms: bleary, blurred, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, muzzy |
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| blushful | (adjective) of blush color | Synonyms: rosy |
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| (adjective) having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset | Synonyms: blushing, red-faced |
| blushing | (adjective) having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset | Synonyms: blushful, red-faced |
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| blustering | (adjective) blowing in violent and abrupt bursts | Synonyms: blusterous, blustery |
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| blusterous | (adjective) blowing in violent and abrupt bursts | Synonyms: blustering, blustery |
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| blustery | (adjective) noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others | Synonyms: bullying |
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| (adjective) blowing in violent and abrupt bursts | Synonyms: blustering, blusterous |
| calumniatory | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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| calumnious | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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| cellular | (adjective) characterized by or divided into or containing cells or compartments (the smallest organizational or structural unit of an organism or organization) | - |
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| (adjective) relating to cells | - |
| celluloid | (adjective) artificial as if portrayed in a film | Synonyms: synthetic |
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| cellulosid | (adjective) of or containing or made from cellulose | - |
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| chemiluminescent | (adjective) relating to the phenomenon of chemiluminescence | - |
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| cislunar | (adjective) situated between the earth and the moon | Synonyms: sublunar, sublunary |
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| clubable | (adjective) inclined to club together | Synonyms: clubbable |
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| clubbable | (adjective) inclined to club together | Synonyms: clubable |
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| clubbish | (adjective) effusively sociable | Synonyms: clubby |
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| clubby | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior | Synonyms: clannish, cliquish, snobbish, snobby |
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| (adjective) effusively sociable | Synonyms: clubbish |
| clubfooted | (adjective) having a deformed foot | Synonyms: taliped |
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| clueless | (adjective) totally uninformed about what is going on; not having even a clue from which to infer what is occurring | - |
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| clumsy | (adjective) lacking grace in movement or posture | Synonyms: clunky, gawky, ungainly, unwieldy |
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| (adjective) not elegant or graceful in expression | Synonyms: awkward, cumbersome, ill-chosen, inapt, inept |
| (adjective) showing lack of skill or aptitude | Synonyms: bungling, fumbling, incompetent |
| (adjective) difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape | Synonyms: awkward, bunglesome, ungainly |
| clunky | (adjective) making a clunking sound | - |
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| (adjective) lacking grace in movement or posture | Synonyms: clumsy, gawky, ungainly, unwieldy |
| clustered | (adjective) clustered together but not coherent | Synonyms: agglomerate, agglomerated, agglomerative |
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| (adjective) growing close together but not in dense mats | - |
| cluttered | (adjective) filled or scattered with a disorderly accumulation of objects or rubbish | Synonyms: littered |
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| collusive | (adjective) acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end | Synonyms: conniving |
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| columnar | (adjective) characterized by columns | - |
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| (adjective) having the form of a column | Synonyms: columniform, columnlike |
| columned | (adjective) having or resembling columns; having columns of a specified kind (often used as a combining form) | - |
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| columniform | (adjective) having the form of a column | Synonyms: columnar, columnlike |
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| columnlike | (adjective) having the form of a column | Synonyms: columnar, columniform |
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| concluded | (adjective) having come or been brought to a conclusion | Synonyms: all over, complete, ended, over, terminated |
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| concluding | (adjective) occurring at or forming an end or termination | Synonyms: final, last, terminal |
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| conclusive | (adjective) forming an end or termination; especially putting an end to doubt or question | - |
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| confluent | (adjective) flowing together | Synonyms: merging |
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| convolute | (adjective) rolled longitudinally upon itself | Synonyms: convoluted |
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| convoluted | (adjective) rolled longitudinally upon itself | Synonyms: convolute |
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| (adjective) highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious | Synonyms: Byzantine, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, tangled, tortuous |
| counterrevolutionary | (adjective) marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or being a counterrevolution | - |
| cumulus | (adjective) of or related to cumulous clouds | Synonyms: cumulous |
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| delusional | (adjective) suffering from or characterized by delusions | - |
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| delusive | (adjective) inappropriate to reality or facts | Synonyms: false |
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| delusory | (adjective) causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true | Synonyms: deceptive |
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| deluxe | (adjective) elegant and sumptuous | Synonyms: de luxe, luxe |
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| (adjective) ostentatiously rich and superior in quality | Synonyms: gilded, grand, lush, luxurious, opulent, princely, sumptuous |
| devalued | (adjective) lowered in value | Synonyms: debased, degraded |
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| dilute | (adjective) reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity | Synonyms: diluted |
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| diluted | (adjective) reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity | Synonyms: dilute |
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| diluvial | (adjective) of or connected with a deluge | Synonyms: diluvian |
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| diluvian | (adjective) of or connected with a deluge | Synonyms: diluvial |
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| disillusioned | (adjective) freed from illusion | - |
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| disillusioning | (adjective) freeing from illusion or false belief | Synonyms: disenchanting |
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| dissoluble | (adjective) capable of dissolving | Synonyms: dissolvable |
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| dissolute | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous |
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| effluent | (adjective) that is flowing outward | Synonyms: outflowing |
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| elucidative | (adjective) that makes clear | Synonyms: clarifying |
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| elusive | (adjective) skillful at eluding capture | - |
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| (adjective) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | Synonyms: baffling, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough |
| (adjective) difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze | Synonyms: subtle |
| (adjective) difficult to describe | - |
| evaluative | (adjective) exercising or involving careful evaluations | Synonyms: appraising |
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| evolutionary | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by evolution | - |
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| exclusive | (adjective) excluding much or all; especially all but a particular group or minority | - |
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| (adjective) not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective | Synonyms: single, undivided |
| (adjective) not divided or shared with others | Synonyms: sole |
| extracellular | (adjective) located or occurring outside a cell or cells | - |
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| fluctuating | (adjective) having unpredictable ups and downs | - |
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| fluent | (adjective) expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively | Synonyms: eloquent, facile, silver-tongued, silver, smooth-spoken |
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| (adjective) smooth and unconstrained in movement | Synonyms: fluid, liquid, smooth |
| fluffy | (adjective) like down or as soft as down | Synonyms: downlike, downy, flossy |
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| fluid | (adjective) subject to change; variable | Synonyms: unstable |
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| (adjective) in cash or easily convertible to cash | Synonyms: liquid |
| (adjective) smooth and unconstrained in movement | Synonyms: fluent, liquid, smooth |
| (adjective) characteristic of a fluid; capable of flowing and easily changing shape | Synonyms: runny |
| (adjective) affording change (especially in social status) | Synonyms: mobile |
| flukey | (adjective) subject to accident or chance or change | Synonyms: chancy, fluky, iffy |
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| fluky | (adjective) subject to accident or chance or change | Synonyms: chancy, flukey, iffy |
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| fluorescent | (adjective) brilliantly colored and apparently giving off light | - |
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| (adjective) emitting light during exposure to radiation from an external source | - |
| flush | (adjective) of a surface exactly even with an adjoining one, forming the same plane | - |
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| (adjective) having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value | Synonyms: affluent, loaded, moneyed, substantial, wealthy |
| flushed | (adjective) (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion | Synonyms: crimson, red-faced, red, reddened |
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| (adjective) having the pinkish flush of health | Synonyms: rose-cheeked, rosy-cheeked, rosy |
| flustered | (adjective) thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term) | Synonyms: hot and bothered, perturbed, rattled |
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| fluvial | (adjective) of or relating to or happening in a river | - |
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| glued | (adjective) affixed or as if affixed with glue or paste | Synonyms: pasted |
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| gluey | (adjective) having the sticky properties of an adhesive | Synonyms: glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous |
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| glum | (adjective) moody and melancholic | - |
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| (adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, dour, glowering, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen |