| anagrammatical | (adjective) related to anagrams or containing or making an anagram | Synonyms: anagrammatic |
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| anal | (adjective) a stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is concentrated on the anal region; fixation at this stage is said to result in orderliness, meanness, stubbornness, compulsiveness, etc. | Synonyms: anal retentive |
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| (adjective) of or related to the anus | - |
| analeptic | (adjective) stimulating the central nervous system | - |
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| analgesic | (adjective) capable of relieving pain | Synonyms: analgetic, anodyne |
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| analgetic | (adjective) capable of relieving pain | Synonyms: analgesic, anodyne |
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| analog | (adjective) of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input | Synonyms: analogue, linear |
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| analogical | (adjective) expressing, composed of, or based on an analogy | - |
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| analogous | (adjective) corresponding in function but not in evolutionary origin | - |
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| (adjective) similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar | Synonyms: correspondent |
| analogue | (adjective) of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input | Synonyms: analog, linear |
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| analphabetic | (adjective) not alphabetic | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or expressed by a writing system that is not alphabetic | - |
| (adjective) having little acquaintance with writing | Synonyms: unlettered |
| analytic | (adjective) of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience | Synonyms: analytical |
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| (adjective) expressing a grammatical category by using two or more words rather than inflection | Synonyms: uninflected |
| (adjective) using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles) | Synonyms: analytical |
| (adjective) using or subjected to a methodology using algebra and calculus | - |
| analytical | (adjective) using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles) | Synonyms: analytic |
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| (adjective) of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience | Synonyms: analytic |
| analyzable | (adjective) capable of being partitioned | Synonyms: decomposable |
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| analyzed | (adjective) examined carefully and methodically; broken down for consideration of constituent parts | - |
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| anamnestic | (adjective) of or relating to anamnesis; aiding the memory | - |
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| anamorphic | (adjective) pertaining to a kind of distorting optical system | - |
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| (adjective) pertaining to gradual evolution from one type of organism to another | - |
| anapaestic | (adjective) (of a metric foot) characterized by two short syllables followed by a long one | Synonyms: anapestic |
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| anapestic | (adjective) (of a metric foot) characterized by two short syllables followed by a long one | Synonyms: anapaestic |
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| anaphasic | (adjective) of or related to the stage of mitosis known as anaphase | - |
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| anaphoric | (adjective) relating to anaphora | - |
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| anaphrodisiac | (adjective) tending to diminish sexual desire | - |
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| anaphylactic | (adjective) related to the hypersensitivity known as anaphylaxis | - |
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| anaplastic | (adjective) of or relating to anaplasia | - |
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| anarchic | (adjective) without law or control | Synonyms: anarchical, lawless |
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| anarchical | (adjective) without law or control | Synonyms: anarchic, lawless |
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| anarchistic | (adjective) of or related to anarchism or tending toward anarchism | - |
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| anasarcous | (adjective) characterized by or affected by dropsy | - |
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| anastigmatic | (adjective) not astigmatic | Synonyms: stigmatic |
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| (adjective) pertaining to a lens or lens system free of astigmatism (able to form point images) | Synonyms: stigmatic |
| anastomotic | (adjective) of or relating to or exhibiting anastomosis | - |
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| anatomic | (adjective) of or relating to the structure of the body | Synonyms: anatomical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the branch of morphology that studies the structure of organisms | Synonyms: anatomical |
| anatomical | (adjective) of or relating to the structure of the body | Synonyms: anatomic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the branch of morphology that studies the structure of organisms | Synonyms: anatomic |
| anatropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) completely inverted; turned back 180 degrees on its stalk | Synonyms: inverted |
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| ancestral | (adjective) of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor | - |
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| (adjective) inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent | Synonyms: hereditary, patrimonial, transmissible |
| anchoritic | (adjective) characterized by ascetic solitude | Synonyms: eremitic, eremitical, hermitic, hermitical |
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| ancient | (adjective) very old | - |
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| (adjective) belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire | - |
| ancillary | (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjunct, adjuvant, appurtenant, auxiliary |
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| andante | (adjective) (of tempo) moderately slow | - |
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| andantino | (adjective) (of tempo) moderately fast | - |
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| androgenetic | (adjective) of or related to androgenesis | Synonyms: androgenous |
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| androgenic | (adjective) of or related to the male hormone androgen | - |
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| androgenous | (adjective) of or related to androgenesis | Synonyms: androgenetic |
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| androgynous | (adjective) having both male and female characteristics | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or exhibiting both female and male sex organs but with a predominantly female appearance | - |
| ane | (adjective) used of a single unit or thing; not two or more | Synonyms: 1, i, one |
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| anecdotal | (adjective) having the character of an anecdote | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by or given to telling anecdotes | Synonyms: anecdotic, anecdotical |
| anecdotic | (adjective) characterized by or given to telling anecdotes | Synonyms: anecdotal, anecdotical |
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| anecdotical | (adjective) characterized by or given to telling anecdotes | Synonyms: anecdotal, anecdotic |
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| anechoic | (adjective) not having or producing echoes; sound-absorbent | - |
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| anemic | (adjective) relating to anemia or suffering from anemia | Synonyms: anaemic |
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| (adjective) lacking vigor or energy | Synonyms: anaemic |
| anemographic | (adjective) pertaining to the recording of wind measurements | - |
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| anemometric | (adjective) pertaining to the measurement of wind speed and direction | Synonyms: anemometrical |
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| anemometrical | (adjective) pertaining to the measurement of wind speed and direction | Synonyms: anemometric |
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| anemophilous | (adjective) of flowering plants (especially grasses etc) that are pollinated by the wind | - |
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| anencephalic | (adjective) characterized by partial or total absence of a brain | Synonyms: anencephalous |
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| anencephalous | (adjective) characterized by partial or total absence of a brain | Synonyms: anencephalic |
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| aneroid | (adjective) containing no liquid or actuated without the use of liquid | - |
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| anesthetic | (adjective) relating to or producing insensibility | Synonyms: anaesthetic |
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| (adjective) characterized by insensibility | Synonyms: anaesthetic |
| anestric | (adjective) of or relating to anestrus | Synonyms: anestrous, anoestrous |
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| anestrous | (adjective) (of lower mammals) not in a state of estrus; not in heat | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to anestrus | Synonyms: anestric, anoestrous |
| aneuploid | (adjective) having a chromosome number that is not an exact multiple of the haploid number | - |
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| aneurismal | (adjective) relating to or affected by an aneurysm | Synonyms: aneurismatic, aneurysmal, aneurysmatic |
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| aneurismatic | (adjective) relating to or affected by an aneurysm | Synonyms: aneurismal, aneurysmal, aneurysmatic |
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| aneurysmal | (adjective) relating to or affected by an aneurysm | Synonyms: aneurismal, aneurismatic, aneurysmatic |
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| aneurysmatic | (adjective) relating to or affected by an aneurysm | Synonyms: aneurismal, aneurismatic, aneurysmal |
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| anfractuous | (adjective) full of twists and turns | - |
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| angelic | (adjective) of or relating to angels | Synonyms: angelical |
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| (adjective) marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint | Synonyms: angelical, beatific, sainted, saintlike, saintly |
| (adjective) having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub | Synonyms: angelical, cherubic, seraphic, sweet |
| angelical | (adjective) of or relating to angels | Synonyms: angelic |
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| (adjective) marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint | Synonyms: angelic, beatific, sainted, saintlike, saintly |
| (adjective) having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub | Synonyms: angelic, cherubic, seraphic, sweet |
| angered | (adjective) marked by extreme anger | Synonyms: enraged, furious, infuriated, maddened |
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| anginal | (adjective) of or related to the pain of angina pectoris | Synonyms: anginose, anginous |
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| anginose | (adjective) of or related to the pain of angina pectoris | Synonyms: anginal, anginous |
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| anginous | (adjective) of or related to the pain of angina pectoris | Synonyms: anginal, anginose |
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| angiocarpic | (adjective) having or being fruit enclosed in a shell or husk | Synonyms: angiocarpous |
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| angiocarpous | (adjective) having or being fruit enclosed in a shell or husk | Synonyms: angiocarpic |
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| angiomatous | (adjective) of or related to or having a tumor of the kind known as an angioma | - |
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| angiospermous | (adjective) of or related to or characteristic of plants that are angiosperms | - |
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| angled | (adjective) forming or set at an angle | - |
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| angry | (adjective) feeling or showing anger | - |
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| (adjective) (of the elements) as if showing violent anger | Synonyms: furious, raging, tempestuous, wild |
| (adjective) severely inflamed and painful | - |
| anguine | (adjective) of or related to or resembling a snake | - |
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| anguished | (adjective) experiencing intense pain especially mental pain | Synonyms: tormented, tortured |
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| angular | (adjective) having angles or an angular shape | Synonyms: angulate |
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| (adjective) measured by an angle or by the rate of change of an angle | - |
| angulate | (adjective) having angles or an angular shape | Synonyms: angular |
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| anhydrous | (adjective) without water; especially without water of crystallization | - |
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| anicteric | (adjective) without jaundice | - |
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| (adjective) not affected by jaundice | - |
| anile | (adjective) of or like a feeble old woman | - |
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| animal | (adjective) marked by the appetites and passions of the body | Synonyms: carnal, fleshly, sensual |
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| animalistic | (adjective) of or pertaining to animalism | - |
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| animate | (adjective) endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life | - |
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| (adjective) belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings | - |
| (adjective) endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness | Synonyms: sentient |
| animated | (adjective) having life or vigor or spirit | Synonyms: alive |
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| (adjective) made to appear to move as living creatures do | - |
| animating | (adjective) giving spirit and vivacity | Synonyms: enlivening |
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| animatistic | (adjective) of or pertaining to animatism | - |
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| animist | (adjective) of or pertaining to the doctrine of animism | Synonyms: animistic |
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| animistic | (adjective) of or pertaining to the doctrine of animism | Synonyms: animist |
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| anionic | (adjective) of or relating to anions | - |
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| aniseikonic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the visual defect aniseikonia | - |
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| anisogametic | (adjective) relating to either of a pair of dissimilar (anisogamic) gametes combining in sexual reproduction | - |
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| anisogamic | (adjective) relating to a type of sexual reproduction in which the gametes are dissimilar in some respect (as size or shape) | Synonyms: anisogamous |
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| anisogamous | (adjective) relating to a type of sexual reproduction in which the gametes are dissimilar in some respect (as size or shape) | Synonyms: anisogamic |
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| anisometric | (adjective) having unsymmetrical parts or unequal dimensions or measurements | Synonyms: unsymmetrical |
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| anisometropic | (adjective) relating to a difference in the refractive power of the two eyes | - |
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| anisotropic | (adjective) not invariant with respect to direction | - |
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| ankylotic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the abnormality ankylosis | - |
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