| abducting | (adjective) especially of muscles; drawing away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part | Synonyms: abducent |
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| abiding | (adjective) lasting a long time | Synonyms: enduring, imperishable |
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| abounding | (adjective) existing in abundance | Synonyms: galore |
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| absorbing | (adjective) capable of arousing and holding the attention | Synonyms: engrossing, fascinating, gripping, riveting |
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| accepting | (adjective) tolerating without protest | - |
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| accommodating | (adjective) helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation | Synonyms: accommodative |
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| (adjective) obliging; willing to do favors | - |
| accompanying | (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: attendant, collateral, concomitant, consequent, ensuant, incidental, resultant, sequent |
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| according | (adjective) (followed by `to') in agreement with or accordant with | - |
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| (adjective) (followed by `to') as reported or stated by | - |
| accusing | (adjective) containing or expressing accusation | Synonyms: accusative, accusatory, accusive |
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| aching | (adjective) causing a dull and steady pain | Synonyms: achy |
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| acting | (adjective) serving temporarily especially as a substitute | - |
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| activating | (adjective) causing motion or action or change | Synonyms: actuating |
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| actuating | (adjective) causing motion or action or change | Synonyms: activating |
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| adducting | (adjective) especially of muscles; bringing together or drawing toward the midline of the body or toward an adjacent part | Synonyms: adducent, adductive |
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| admonishing | (adjective) expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective | Synonyms: admonitory, reproachful, reproving |
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| adoring | (adjective) extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent | Synonyms: doting, fond |
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| (adjective) showing adoration | Synonyms: worshipful |
| adulterating | (adjective) making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials | Synonyms: adulterant |
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| advancing | (adjective) moving forward | Synonyms: forward-moving, forward |
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| affecting | (adjective) arousing affect | Synonyms: poignant, touching |
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| ageing | (adjective) growing old | Synonyms: aging, senescent |
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| agelong | (adjective) lasting through all time | - |
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| aggravating | (adjective) making worse | Synonyms: exacerbating, exasperating |
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| aging | (adjective) growing old | Synonyms: ageing, senescent |
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| agitating | (adjective) causing or tending to cause anger or resentment | Synonyms: agitative, provoking |
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| agonising | (adjective) extremely painful | Synonyms: agonizing, excruciating, harrowing, torturesome, torturing, torturous |
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| agonizing | (adjective) extremely painful | Synonyms: agonising, excruciating, harrowing, torturesome, torturing, torturous |
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| ailing | (adjective) somewhat ill or prone to illness | Synonyms: indisposed, peaked, poorly, seedy, sickly, under the weather, unwell |
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| alarming | (adjective) frightening because of an awareness of danger | - |
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| alienating | (adjective) causing hostility or loss of friendliness | - |
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| aligning | (adjective) causing to fall into line or into position | Synonyms: positioning |
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| alluring | (adjective) highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire | Synonyms: beguiling, enticing, tempting |
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| alternating | (adjective) (of a current) reversing direction | - |
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| (adjective) occurring by turns; first one and then the other | Synonyms: alternate |
| amazing | (adjective) inspiring awe or admiration or wonder | Synonyms: awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing |
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| (adjective) surprising greatly | Synonyms: astonishing |
| ameliorating | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorative, amelioratory, meliorative |
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| amusing | (adjective) arousing or provoking laughter | Synonyms: comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible |
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| (adjective) providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining | Synonyms: amusive, diverting |
| 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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| animating | (adjective) giving spirit and vivacity | Synonyms: enlivening |
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| annihilating | (adjective) wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction | Synonyms: annihilative, devastating, withering |
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| (adjective) making light of | Synonyms: devastating, withering |
| annoying | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| answering | (adjective) replying | Synonyms: respondent |
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| antifungal | (adjective) capable of destroying fungi | Synonyms: fungicidal |
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| antiknocking | (adjective) suppressing or eliminating engine knock in combustion engines | Synonyms: antiknock |
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| appalling | (adjective) causing consternation | Synonyms: dismaying |
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| appealing | (adjective) able to attract interest or draw favorable attention | - |
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| (adjective) (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings | Synonyms: likable, likeable, sympathetic |
| appeasing | (adjective) intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions | Synonyms: placating, placative, placatory |
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| appetising | (adjective) appealing to or stimulating the appetite especially in appearance or aroma | Synonyms: appetizing |
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| appetizing | (adjective) appealing to or stimulating the appetite especially in appearance or aroma | Synonyms: appetising |
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| appraising | (adjective) exercising or involving careful evaluations | Synonyms: evaluative |
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| approaching | (adjective) of the relatively near future | Synonyms: coming, forthcoming, upcoming |
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| approving | (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: affirmative, approbative, approbatory, plausive |
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| archangelic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling archangels | Synonyms: archangelical |
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| archangelical | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling archangels | Synonyms: archangelic |
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| arching | (adjective) forming or resembling an arch | Synonyms: arced, arched, arciform, arcuate, bowed |
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| arranged | (adjective) disposed or placed in a particular kind of order | Synonyms: ordered |
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| (adjective) deliberately arranged for effect | Synonyms: staged |
| (adjective) organized or planned for | - |
| arresting | (adjective) commanding attention | Synonyms: sensational, stunning |
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| ascending | (adjective) moving or going or growing upward | - |
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| asphyxiating | (adjective) tending to deprive of oxygen | - |
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| aspiring | (adjective) desiring or striving for recognition or advancement | Synonyms: aspirant, wishful |
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| assenting | (adjective) expressing agreement or consent | Synonyms: assentient |
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| asserting | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration | Synonyms: declarative, declaratory |
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| assimilating | (adjective) capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution | Synonyms: assimilative, assimilatory |
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| assuming | (adjective) excessively forward | Synonyms: assumptive, presumptuous |
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| assuring | (adjective) giving confidence | - |
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| astonishing | (adjective) so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm | Synonyms: astounding, staggering, stupefying |
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| (adjective) surprising greatly | Synonyms: amazing |
| astounding | (adjective) so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm | Synonyms: astonishing, staggering, stupefying |
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| (adjective) bewildering or striking dumb with wonder | Synonyms: dumbfounding, dumfounding |
| astringent | (adjective) tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue | - |
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| (adjective) sour or bitter in taste | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic |
| attacking | (adjective) disposed to attack | Synonyms: assaultive |
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| attending | (adjective) giving practical help to | Synonyms: ministrant |
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| autoloading | (adjective) (of firearms) capable of automatic loading and firing continuously | Synonyms: self-loading, semiautomatic |
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| avenged | (adjective) for which vengeance has been taken | - |
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| awing | (adjective) inspiring awe or admiration or wonder | Synonyms: amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful |
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| awninged | (adjective) covered with an awning | - |
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| backbreaking | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
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| baffling | (adjective) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | Synonyms: elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough |
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| baking | (adjective) as hot as if in an oven | Synonyms: baking hot |
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| balding | (adjective) getting bald | - |
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| balking | (adjective) refusing to proceed, act or work | Synonyms: balky |
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| banging | (adjective) (used informally) very large | Synonyms: humongous, thumping, walloping, whopping |
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| bantering | (adjective) cleverly amusing in tone | Synonyms: facetious, tongue-in-cheek |
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| batwing | (adjective) formed or shaped like a bat's wing | - |
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| beaming | (adjective) radiating or as if radiating light | Synonyms: beamy, effulgent, radiant, refulgent |
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| (adjective) cheerful and bright | Synonyms: glad |
| (adjective) pleased and proud | - |
| bearing | (adjective) (of a structural member) withstanding a weight or strain | - |
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| becoming | (adjective) displaying or setting off to best advantage | - |
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| (adjective) according with custom or propriety | Synonyms: comely, comme il faut, decorous, seemly |
| beetling | (adjective) jutting or overhanging | Synonyms: beetle |
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| befitting | (adjective) appropriate to | - |
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