| maiden | (adjective) serving to set in motion | Synonyms: first, inaugural, initiative, initiatory |
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| maidenlike | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a maiden | Synonyms: maidenly |
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| maidenly | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a maiden | Synonyms: maidenlike |
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| mailed | (adjective) wearing protective mail | Synonyms: mail-clad |
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| maimed | (adjective) having a part of the body crippled or disabled | Synonyms: mutilated |
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| main | (adjective) (of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence | Synonyms: independent |
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| (adjective) most important element | Synonyms: chief, master, primary, principal |
| (adjective) of force; of the greatest possible intensity | - |
| mainstreamed | (adjective) (of the handicapped) placed in regular school classes | - |
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| maintainable | (adjective) capable of being maintained | - |
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| maintained | (adjective) kept in good condition | Synonyms: kept up, well-kept |
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| (adjective) continued in your keeping or use or memory | Synonyms: retained |
| majestic | (adjective) having or displaying great dignity or nobility | Synonyms: gallant, lofty, proud |
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| (adjective) belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler | Synonyms: imperial, purple, regal, royal |
| (adjective) majestic in manner or bearing; superior to mundane matters | Synonyms: olympian |
| major | (adjective) greater in number or size or amount | - |
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| (adjective) greater in scope or effect | - |
| (adjective) of full legal age | - |
| (adjective) (of a scale or mode) having half steps between the third and fourth degrees and the seventh and eighth degrees | - |
| (adjective) of the field of academic study in which one concentrates or specializes | - |
| (adjective) of greater importance or stature or rank | - |
| (adjective) of greater seriousness or danger | - |
| (adjective) of the elder of two boys with the same family name | - |
| majuscular | (adjective) of the nature of a majuscule or written in majuscules | - |
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| majuscule | (adjective) of or relating to a style of writing characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters; 4th to 8th centuries | - |
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| (adjective) uppercase | Synonyms: capital, great |
| makeshift | (adjective) done or made using whatever is available | Synonyms: improvised, jury-rigged |
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| maladaptive | (adjective) showing faulty adaptation | - |
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| maladjusted | (adjective) poorly adjusted to demands and stresses of daily living | - |
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| (adjective) emotionally unstable and having difficulty coping with personal relationships | Synonyms: disturbed |
| (adjective) not well adjusted | - |
| maladjustive | (adjective) poorly adjusted | - |
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| maladroit | (adjective) not adroit | - |
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| malapropos | (adjective) of an inappropriate or incorrectly applied nature | - |
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| malarial | (adjective) of or infected by or resembling malaria | - |
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| malcontent | (adjective) discontented as toward authority | Synonyms: disaffected, ill-affected, rebellious |
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| male | (adjective) being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation | - |
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| (adjective) for or pertaining to or composed of men or boys | - |
| (adjective) characteristic of a man | Synonyms: manful, manlike, manly, virile |
| maledict | (adjective) under a curse | Synonyms: accursed, accurst |
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| malefic | (adjective) having or exerting a malignant influence | Synonyms: evil, malevolent, malign |
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| maleficent | (adjective) harmful or evil in intent or effect | - |
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| malevolent | (adjective) having or exerting a malignant influence | Synonyms: evil, malefic, malign |
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| (adjective) wishing or appearing to wish evil to others; arising from intense ill will or hatred | - |
| malformed | (adjective) so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly | Synonyms: deformed, distorted, ill-shapen, misshapen |
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| malfunctioning | (adjective) not performing or able to perform its regular function | Synonyms: nonfunctional |
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| malicious | (adjective) having the nature of or resulting from malice | - |
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| malign | (adjective) evil or harmful in nature or influence | - |
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| (adjective) having or exerting a malignant influence | Synonyms: evil, malefic, malevolent |
| malignant | (adjective) dangerous to health; characterized by progressive and uncontrolled growth (especially of a tumor) | - |
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| malleable | (adjective) capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out | Synonyms: ductile, pliable, pliant, tensile, tractile |
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| (adjective) easily influenced | Synonyms: ductile |
| malnourished | (adjective) not being provided with adequate nourishment | - |
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| malodorous | (adjective) having an unpleasant smell | Synonyms: ill-smelling, malodourous, stinky, unpleasant-smelling |
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| malodourous | (adjective) having an unpleasant smell | Synonyms: ill-smelling, malodorous, stinky, unpleasant-smelling |
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| malposed | (adjective) characterized by malposition | - |
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| malted | (adjective) of grain that has been converted into malt | - |
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| maltreated | (adjective) subjected to cruel treatment | Synonyms: abused, ill-treated, mistreated |
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| mammalian | (adjective) of or relating to the class Mammalia | - |
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| mammary | (adjective) of or relating to the milk-giving gland of the female | - |
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| mammoth | (adjective) so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth | Synonyms: gigantic |
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| manageable | (adjective) capable of being managed or controlled | - |
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| (adjective) capable of existing or taking place or proving true; possible to do | Synonyms: accomplishable, achievable, doable, realizable |
| managerial | (adjective) of or relating to the function or responsibility or activity of management | - |
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| mandatory | (adjective) required by rule | Synonyms: compulsory, required |
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| mandibular | (adjective) relating to the lower jaw | Synonyms: inframaxillary |
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| mandibulate | (adjective) having mandibles | - |
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| mandibulofacial | (adjective) of or relating to the lower jaw and face | - |
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| maneuverable | (adjective) capable of maneuvering or changing position | Synonyms: manoeuvrable |
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| manful | (adjective) possessing qualities befitting a man | Synonyms: manlike, manly |
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| (adjective) characteristic of a man | Synonyms: male, manlike, manly, virile |
| mangey | (adjective) having many worn or threadbare spots in the nap | Synonyms: mangy |
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| mangled | (adjective) having edges that are jagged from injury | Synonyms: lacerate, lacerated, torn |
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| mangy | (adjective) having many worn or threadbare spots in the nap | Synonyms: mangey |
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| maniac | (adjective) wildly disordered | Synonyms: maniacal |
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| maniacal | (adjective) wildly disordered | Synonyms: maniac |
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| manic | (adjective) affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason | Synonyms: frenzied |
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| maniclike | (adjective) resembling the mania of manic-depressive illness | - |
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| manifest | (adjective) clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment | Synonyms: apparent, evident, palpable, patent, plain, unmistakable |
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| manifold | (adjective) many and varied; having many features or forms | Synonyms: multiplex |
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| manipulable | (adjective) easily managed (controlled or taught or molded) | Synonyms: tractable |
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| manipulative | (adjective) skillful in influencing or controlling others to your own advantage | - |
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| manky | (adjective) inferior and worthless | - |
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| manlike | (adjective) possessing qualities befitting a man | Synonyms: manful, manly |
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| (adjective) resembling human beings | Synonyms: anthropoid |
| (adjective) characteristic of a man | Synonyms: male, manful, manly, virile |
| manly | (adjective) possessing qualities befitting a man | Synonyms: manful, manlike |
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| (adjective) characteristic of a man | Synonyms: male, manful, manlike, virile |
| manned | (adjective) having a crew | - |
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| mannered | (adjective) having unnatural mannerisms | - |
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| mannerly | (adjective) socially correct in behavior | Synonyms: well-mannered |
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| mannish | (adjective) characteristic of a man as distinguished from a woman | - |
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| (adjective) resembling or imitative of or suggestive of a man rather than a woman | - |
| manoeuvrable | (adjective) capable of maneuvering or changing position | Synonyms: maneuverable |
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| manorial | (adjective) of or relating to or based on the manor | - |
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| manque | (adjective) unfulfilled or frustrated in realizing an ambition | Synonyms: would-be |
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| mansard | (adjective) (of a roof) having two slopes on all sides with the lower slope steeper than the upper | - |
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| mantic | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy | Synonyms: divinatory, sibyllic, sibylline, vatic, vatical |
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| mantled | (adjective) covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak | Synonyms: cloaked, clothed, draped, wrapped |
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| manual | (adjective) requiring human effort | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the hands | - |
| (adjective) doing or requiring physical work | - |
| manufactured | (adjective) produced in a large-scale industrial operation | - |
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| many | (adjective) a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `as' or `too' or `so' or `that'; amounting to a large but indefinite number; quantifier, plural pronoun; quantifier, plural | - |
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| maplelike | (adjective) resembling maple | Synonyms: maple-like |
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| marauding | (adjective) characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding | Synonyms: predatory, raiding |
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| marbled | (adjective) patterned with veins or streaks or color resembling marble | Synonyms: marbleised, marbleized |
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| marbleised | (adjective) patterned with veins or streaks or color resembling marble | Synonyms: marbled, marbleized |
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| marbleized | (adjective) patterned with veins or streaks or color resembling marble | Synonyms: marbled, marbleised |
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| marginal | (adjective) of questionable or minimal quality | Synonyms: borderline |
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| (adjective) just barely adequate or within a lower limit | Synonyms: bare |
| (adjective) at or constituting a border or edge | Synonyms: fringy |
| (adjective) producing at a rate that barely covers production costs | - |
| marine | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or occurring on or in the sea | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the sea | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to military personnel who serve both on land and at sea (specifically the U.S. Marine Corps) | - |
| (adjective) relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen | Synonyms: maritime, nautical |
| (adjective) native to or inhabiting the sea | - |
| marital | (adjective) of or relating to the state of marriage | Synonyms: married, matrimonial |
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| maritime | (adjective) relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen | Synonyms: marine, nautical |
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| (adjective) bordering on or living or characteristic of those near the sea | - |
| marked | (adjective) having or as if having an identifying mark or a mark as specified; often used in combination | - |
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| (adjective) singled out for notice or especially for a dire fate | - |
| (adjective) strongly marked; easily noticeable | Synonyms: pronounced |
| marketable | (adjective) capable of being marketed | - |
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| (adjective) being in demand by especially employers | - |
| (adjective) fit to be offered for sale | Synonyms: merchantable, sellable, vendable, vendible |
| marly | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling or abounding in marl | - |
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| marmoreal | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of marble | Synonyms: marmorean |
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| marmorean | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of marble | Synonyms: marmoreal |
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| maroon | (adjective) of dark brownish to purplish red | Synonyms: brownish-red |
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| marooned | (adjective) cut off or left behind | Synonyms: isolated, stranded |
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| marred | (adjective) blemished by injury or rough wear | Synonyms: scarred |
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| marriageable | (adjective) of girls or women who are eligible to marry | Synonyms: nubile |
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| married | (adjective) joined in matrimony | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the state of marriage | Synonyms: marital, matrimonial |
| marshy | (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged |
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| marsupial | (adjective) of or relating to the marsupials | - |
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| martial | (adjective) of or relating to the armed forces | - |
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| (adjective) suggesting war or military life | Synonyms: warlike |
| (adjective) (of persons) befitting a warrior | Synonyms: soldierlike, soldierly, warriorlike |
| marvellous | (adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: fantastic, grand, howling, marvelous, phenomenal, rattling, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous |
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| (adjective) too improbable to admit of belief | Synonyms: improbable, marvelous, tall |
| (adjective) being or having the character of a miracle | Synonyms: marvelous, miraculous |
| marvelous | (adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: fantastic, grand, howling, marvellous, phenomenal, rattling, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous |
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| (adjective) too improbable to admit of belief | Synonyms: improbable, marvellous, tall |
| (adjective) being or having the character of a miracle | Synonyms: marvellous, miraculous |