achromous | (adjective) having no color | Synonyms: achromic |
---|
acronymous | (adjective) characterized by the use of acronyms | Synonyms: acronymic |
---|
agamous | (adjective) (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction | Synonyms: agamic, agamogenetic, apomictic, parthenogenetic |
---|
allogamous | (adjective) relating to cross-fertilization in plants | - |
---|
anadromous | (adjective) migrating from the sea to fresh water to spawn | - |
---|
angiospermous | (adjective) of or related to or characteristic of plants that are angiosperms | - |
---|
anisogamous | (adjective) relating to a type of sexual reproduction in which the gametes are dissimilar in some respect (as size or shape) | Synonyms: anisogamic |
---|
anonymous | (adjective) having no known name or identity or known source | Synonyms: anon. |
---|
(adjective) not known or lacking marked individuality | - |
antitumour | (adjective) used in the treatment of cancer | Synonyms: anticancer, antineoplastic, antitumor |
---|
antonymous | (adjective) of words: having opposite meanings | - |
---|
apogamous | (adjective) of or relating to the development of an embryo in the absence of fertilization | Synonyms: apogametic, apogamic |
---|
armoured | (adjective) protected by armor (used of persons or things military) | Synonyms: armored |
---|
(adjective) used of animals; provided with protective covering | Synonyms: armored |
autogamous | (adjective) characterized by or fit for autogamy | Synonyms: autogamic |
---|
autonomous | (adjective) (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces | Synonyms: independent, self-governing, sovereign |
---|
(adjective) (of persons) free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment | Synonyms: self-directed, self-reliant |
(adjective) existing as an independent entity | - |
bigamous | (adjective) of illegal marriage to a second person while legally married to a first | - |
---|
bigmouthed | (adjective) unwisely talking too much | Synonyms: blabbermouthed, blabby, talkative |
---|
biramous | (adjective) resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches | Synonyms: bifurcate, branched, forficate, fork-like, forked, pronged, prongy |
---|
blabbermouthed | (adjective) prone to communicate confidential information | Synonyms: leaky, talebearing, tattling |
---|
(adjective) unwisely talking too much | Synonyms: bigmouthed, blabby, talkative |
blasphemous | (adjective) characterized by profanity or cursing | Synonyms: blue, profane |
---|
(adjective) grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred | Synonyms: profane, sacrilegious |
brumous | (adjective) filled or abounding with fog or mist | Synonyms: foggy, hazy, misty |
---|
camouflaged | (adjective) made invisible by means of protective coloring | - |
---|
catadromous | (adjective) migrating from fresh water to the sea to spawn | - |
---|
cleistogamous | (adjective) exhibiting or relating to cleistogamy | Synonyms: cleistogamic |
---|
closemouthed | (adjective) inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information | Synonyms: close, closelipped, secretive, tightlipped |
---|
cormous | (adjective) having or producing corms | Synonyms: cormose |
---|
cryptogamous | (adjective) of or relating to a cryptogam | Synonyms: cryptogamic |
---|
diadromous | (adjective) (used of fish) migratory between fresh and salt waters | - |
---|
dichotomous | (adjective) divided or dividing into two sharply distinguished parts or classifications | - |
---|
endogamous | (adjective) pertaining to or characterized by the custom of marrying only within the limits of a clan or tribe | Synonyms: endogamic |
---|
(adjective) characterized by or fit for fertilization by pollen from another flower of the same kind | Synonyms: endogamic |
enormous | (adjective) extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree | Synonyms: tremendous |
---|
eponymous | (adjective) being or relating to or bearing the name of an eponym | Synonyms: eponymic |
---|
equanimous | (adjective) in full control of your faculties | Synonyms: collected, poised, self-collected, self-contained, self-possessed |
---|
exogamous | (adjective) pertaining to or characterized by the custom of marrying only outside the limits of a clan or tribe | Synonyms: exogamic |
---|
(adjective) characterized by or fit for fertilization by a flower that is not closely related | Synonyms: exogamic |
famous | (adjective) widely known and esteemed | Synonyms: celebrated, famed, far-famed, illustrious, notable, noted, renowned |
---|
glamourous | (adjective) having an air of allure, romance and excitement | Synonyms: glamorous |
---|
grumous | (adjective) transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass | Synonyms: coagulate, coagulated, curdled, grumose |
---|
gymnospermous | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of plants of the class Gymnospermae | - |
---|
homonymous | (adjective) of or related to or being homonyms | Synonyms: homonymic |
---|
humourless | (adjective) lacking humor | Synonyms: humorless, unhumorous |
---|
humourous | (adjective) full of or characterized by humor | Synonyms: humorous |
---|
infamous | (adjective) known widely and usually unfavorably | Synonyms: ill-famed, notorious |
---|
insurmountable | (adjective) not capable of being surmounted or overcome | Synonyms: unsurmountable |
---|
(adjective) impossible to surmount | Synonyms: insuperable |
longanimous | (adjective) showing patient and unruffled self-control and restraint under adversity; slow to retaliate or express resentment | Synonyms: forbearing |
---|
magnanimous | (adjective) generous and understanding and tolerant | Synonyms: big, large |
---|
(adjective) noble and generous in spirit | Synonyms: greathearted |
mealymouthed | (adjective) hesitant to state facts or opinions simply and directly as from e.g. timidity or hypocrisy | Synonyms: mealy-mouthed |
---|
monochromous | (adjective) having or appearing to have only one color | Synonyms: monochromatic, monochrome, monochromic |
---|
monogamous | (adjective) (used of relationships and of individuals) having one mate | - |
---|
monosemous | (adjective) having only one meaning | - |
---|
mouldy | (adjective) covered with or smelling of mold | Synonyms: moldy, musty |
---|
mountainous | (adjective) like a mountain in size and impressiveness | - |
---|
(adjective) having hills and crags | Synonyms: cragged, craggy, hilly |
(adjective) containing many mountains | - |
mounted | (adjective) decorated with applied ornamentation; often used in combination | - |
---|
(adjective) assembled for use; especially by being attached to a support | - |
mournful | (adjective) filled with or evoking sadness | Synonyms: doleful |
---|
(adjective) expressing sorrow | Synonyms: plaintive |
mourning | (adjective) sorrowful through loss or deprivation | Synonyms: bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, sorrowing |
---|
mouselike | (adjective) of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse | Synonyms: mouse-colored, mousey, mousy |
---|
mousey | (adjective) infested with mice | Synonyms: mousy |
---|
(adjective) of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse | Synonyms: mouse-colored, mouselike, mousy |
(adjective) quiet and timid and ineffectual | Synonyms: mousy |
mousy | (adjective) infested with mice | Synonyms: mousey |
---|
(adjective) of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse | Synonyms: mouse-colored, mouselike, mousey |
(adjective) quiet and timid and ineffectual | Synonyms: mousey |
mouthless | (adjective) having no mouth or mouthlike opening | Synonyms: astomatous |
---|
mouthlike | (adjective) of an opening that resembles a mouth | - |
---|
nonautonomous | (adjective) (of peoples and political bodies) controlled by outside forces | Synonyms: nonsovereign |
---|
nonvenomous | (adjective) not producing venom | - |
---|
onymous | (adjective) bearing a name | - |
---|
openmouthed | (adjective) with eyes or mouth open in surprise | Synonyms: goggle-eyed, popeyed |
---|
pachydermous | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of pachyderms | Synonyms: pachydermal, pachydermatous, pachydermic |
---|
paramount | (adjective) having superior power and influence | Synonyms: overriding, predominant, predominate, preponderant, preponderating |
---|
poikilothermous | (adjective) of animals except birds and mammals; having body temperature that varies with the environment | Synonyms: ectothermic, heterothermic, poikilothermic |
---|
polygamous | (adjective) having more than one mate at a time; used of relationships and individuals | - |
---|
(adjective) having several forms of gametoecia on the same plant | Synonyms: heteroicous, polyoicous |
polysemous | (adjective) of words; having many meanings | Synonyms: polysemantic |
---|
posthumous | (adjective) occurring or coming into existence after a person's death | - |
---|
pseudonymous | (adjective) bearing or identified by an assumed (often pen) name | - |
---|
pusillanimous | (adjective) lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful | Synonyms: poor-spirited, unmanly |
---|
ramous | (adjective) having branches | Synonyms: branched, branching, ramate, ramose |
---|
smouldering | (adjective) showing scarcely suppressed anger | Synonyms: smoldering |
---|
spermous | (adjective) consisting of or resembling spermatozoa | Synonyms: spermatic |
---|
surmountable | (adjective) capable of being surmounted or overcome | - |
---|
(adjective) capable of being surmounted | Synonyms: climbable |
surmounted | (adjective) having something on top | - |
---|
synonymous | (adjective) (of words) meaning the same or nearly the same | - |
---|
tantamount | (adjective) being essentially equal to something | Synonyms: equivalent |
---|
unanimous | (adjective) in complete agreement | Synonyms: consentaneous, consentient |
---|
(adjective) acting together as a single undiversified whole | Synonyms: solid, whole |
unarmoured | (adjective) (used of persons or things military) without protective armor | Synonyms: unarmored |
---|
(adjective) used of animals; without protective covering | Synonyms: unarmored |
unglamourous | (adjective) not challenging; dull and lacking excitement | Synonyms: commonplace, humdrum, prosaic, unglamorous |
---|
unmourned | (adjective) not grieved for; causing no mourning | Synonyms: unlamented |
---|
unsurmountable | (adjective) not capable of being surmounted or overcome | Synonyms: insurmountable |
---|
(adjective) incapable of being surmounted or climbed | Synonyms: unclimbable |
venomous | (adjective) marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful | Synonyms: poisonous, vicious |
---|
(adjective) extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom | Synonyms: deadly, virulent |