| abstractionist | (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstract, nonfigurative, nonobjective |
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| administrable | (adjective) capable of being administered or managed | - |
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| administrative | (adjective) of or relating to or responsible for administration | - |
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| admonishing | (adjective) expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective | Synonyms: admonitory, reproachful, reproving |
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| agonised | (adjective) expressing pain or agony | Synonyms: agonized |
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| agonising | (adjective) extremely painful | Synonyms: agonizing, excruciating, harrowing, torturesome, torturing, torturous |
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| agonistic | (adjective) of or relating to the athletic contests held in ancient Greece | - |
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| (adjective) struggling for effect | Synonyms: strained |
| (adjective) striving to overcome in argument | Synonyms: agonistical, combative |
| agonistical | (adjective) striving to overcome in argument | Synonyms: agonistic, combative |
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| albinistic | (adjective) of or pertaining to or affected by albinism | Synonyms: albinal, albinic, albinotic |
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| anachronistic | (adjective) chronologically misplaced | Synonyms: anachronic, anachronous |
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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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| antagonistic | (adjective) arousing animosity or hostility | - |
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| (adjective) used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other's effect | Synonyms: incompatible |
| (adjective) characterized by antagonism or antipathy | Synonyms: antipathetic, antipathetical |
| (adjective) incapable of harmonious association | - |
| (adjective) indicating opposition or resistance | Synonyms: counter |
| astonished | (adjective) filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock | Synonyms: amazed, astonied, astounded, stunned |
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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 |
| avifaunistic | (adjective) of or relating to birds of a particular region or period | Synonyms: avifaunal |
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| baboonish | (adjective) resembling a baboon | - |
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| brainish | (adjective) characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | Synonyms: hotheaded, impetuous, impulsive, madcap, tearaway |
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| brownish | (adjective) of a color similar to that of wood or earth | Synonyms: brown, chocolate-brown, dark-brown |
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| buffoonish | (adjective) like a clown | Synonyms: clownish, clownlike, zany |
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| burnished | (adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: bright, lustrous, shining, shiny |
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| canonised | (adjective) accorded sacrosanct or authoritative standing | Synonyms: canonized, glorified |
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| canonist | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of a body of rules and principles accepted as axiomatic; e.g. "canonist communism" | - |
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| chauvinistic | (adjective) of or relating to persons convinced of the superiority of their own gender or kind | - |
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| (adjective) fanatically patriotic | Synonyms: flag-waving, jingoistic, nationalistic, superpatriotic, ultranationalistic |
| clannish | (adjective) characteristic of a clan especially in being unified | - |
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| (adjective) befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior | Synonyms: cliquish, clubby, snobbish, snobby |
| clownish | (adjective) like a clown | Synonyms: buffoonish, clownlike, zany |
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| cognisable | (adjective) capable of being known | Synonyms: cognizable, cognoscible, knowable |
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| cognisant | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception | Synonyms: aware, cognizant |
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| colonised | (adjective) inhabited by colonists | Synonyms: colonized, settled |
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| communist | (adjective) relating to or marked by communism | Synonyms: communistic |
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| communistic | (adjective) relating to or marked by communism | Synonyms: communist |
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| deconstructionist | (adjective) of or concerned with the philosophical theory of literature known as deconstructionism | - |
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| dehumanised | (adjective) divested of human qualities or attributes | Synonyms: dehumanized, unhuman |
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| deterministic | (adjective) an inevitable consequence of antecedent sufficient causes | - |
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| diminished | (adjective) (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use | Synonyms: atrophied, wasted |
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| (adjective) impaired by diminution | Synonyms: lessened, vitiated, weakened |
| (adjective) made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth) | Synonyms: belittled, small |
| (adjective) (of musical intervals) reduction by a semitone of any perfect or minor musical interval | - |
| diminishing | (adjective) becoming smaller or less or appearing to do so | - |
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| disorganised | (adjective) lacking order or methodical arrangement or function | Synonyms: disorganized |
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| donnish | (adjective) marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects | Synonyms: academic, pedantic |
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| exhibitionistic | (adjective) compulsively attracting attention to yourself especially by public exposure or exaggerated behavior | - |
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| expansionist | (adjective) of or involving or guided by expansionism | - |
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| expressionist | (adjective) of or relating to expressionism | Synonyms: expressionistic |
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| expressionistic | (adjective) of or relating to expressionism | Synonyms: expressionist |
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| feminist | (adjective) of or relating to or advocating equal rights for women | - |
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| finished | (adjective) ended or brought to an end | - |
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| (adjective) (of materials or goods) brought to the desired final state | - |
| (adjective) brought to ruin | Synonyms: ruined |
| (adjective) having a surface coating or finish applied | - |
| (adjective) (of skills or the products of skills) brought to or having the greatest excellence; perfected | - |
| furnished | (adjective) provided with whatever is necessary for a purpose (as furniture or equipment or authority) | Synonyms: equipped |
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| galvanising | (adjective) affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling | Synonyms: electric, galvanic, galvanizing |
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| greenish | (adjective) of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass | Synonyms: dark-green, green, light-green |
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| harmonised | (adjective) involving or characterized by harmony | Synonyms: consonant, harmonic, harmonical, harmonized |
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| heathenish | (adjective) not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam | Synonyms: ethnic, heathen, pagan |
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| hedonistic | (adjective) devoted to pleasure | Synonyms: epicurean, hedonic |
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| homogenised | (adjective) formed by blending unlike elements especially by reducing one element to particles and dispersing them throughout another substance | Synonyms: homogenized |
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| (adjective) made homogeneous | Synonyms: homogenized |
| hoydenish | (adjective) used of girls; wild and boisterous | Synonyms: tomboyish |
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| humanist | (adjective) pertaining to or concerned with the humanities | Synonyms: humane, humanistic |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to a philosophy asserting human dignity and man's capacity for fulfillment through reason and scientific method and often rejecting religion | Synonyms: humanistic |
| (adjective) of or pertaining to Renaissance humanism | Synonyms: humanistic |
| (adjective) marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare | Synonyms: human-centered, human-centred, humanistic, humanitarian |
| humanistic | (adjective) pertaining to or concerned with the humanities | Synonyms: humane, humanist |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to a philosophy asserting human dignity and man's capacity for fulfillment through reason and scientific method and often rejecting religion | Synonyms: humanist |
| (adjective) of or pertaining to Renaissance humanism | Synonyms: humanist |
| (adjective) marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare | Synonyms: human-centered, human-centred, humanist, humanitarian |
| immunised | (adjective) having been rendered unsusceptible to a disease | Synonyms: immunized, vaccinated |
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| impressionist | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of Impressionism | Synonyms: impressionistic |
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| impressionistic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of Impressionism | Synonyms: impressionist |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or based on an impression rather than on facts or reasoning | - |
| intuitionist | (adjective) of or relating to intuitionism | - |
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| ionised | (adjective) converted totally or partly into ions | Synonyms: ionized |
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| isolationist | (adjective) of or relating to isolationism | Synonyms: isolationistic |
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| isolationistic | (adjective) of or relating to isolationism | Synonyms: isolationist |
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| kittenish | (adjective) playful like a lively kitten | Synonyms: frisky |
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| lunisolar | (adjective) relating to or attributed to the moon and the sun or their mutual relations | - |
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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 | - |
| mechanised | (adjective) equipped with machinery | Synonyms: mechanized |
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| (adjective) using vehicles | Synonyms: mechanized, motorized |
| mechanistic | (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical theory of mechanism | - |
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| (adjective) explained in terms of physical forces | - |
| miniscule | (adjective) extremely small | Synonyms: minuscule |
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| ministerial | (adjective) of or relating to a government minister or ministry | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a minister of religion or the minister's office | - |
| ministrant | (adjective) giving practical help to | Synonyms: attending |
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| misogynistic | (adjective) hating women in particular | Synonyms: misogynous |
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| modernised | (adjective) brought up to date | Synonyms: modernized |
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| modernistic | (adjective) relating to a recently developed fashion or style | Synonyms: mod, modern |
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| monistic | (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of monism | - |
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| nisi | (adjective) not final or absolute | - |
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| nonionised | (adjective) not converted into ions | Synonyms: nonionic, nonionized, unionised, unionized |
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| nonmechanistic | (adjective) not mechanistic | - |
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| nonunionised | (adjective) not affiliated in a trade union | Synonyms: nonunionized, unorganised, unorganized |
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| omniscient | (adjective) infinitely wise | Synonyms: all-knowing |
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| opportunist | (adjective) taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit | Synonyms: opportunistic, timeserving |
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| opportunistic | (adjective) taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit | Synonyms: opportunist, timeserving |
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| organisational | (adjective) of or relating to an organization | Synonyms: organizational |
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| organised | (adjective) being a member of or formed into a labor union | Synonyms: organized, unionised, unionized |
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| organismal | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to an organism (considered as a whole) | Synonyms: organismic |
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| organismic | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to an organism (considered as a whole) | Synonyms: organismal |
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| patronised | (adjective) having patronage or clients | Synonyms: patronized |
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| patronising | (adjective) (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension | Synonyms: arch, condescending, patronizing |
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| pianissimo | (adjective) (chiefly a direction or description in music) very soft | - |
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| pianistic | (adjective) skilled at or adapted for the piano | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the piano | - |
| postmodernist | (adjective) of or relating to postmodernism | Synonyms: postmodern |
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| punishable | (adjective) liable to or deserving punishment | - |
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| (adjective) (of an act or offense) subject to punishment by law | Synonyms: penal |
| punished | (adjective) subjected to a penalty (as pain or shame or restraint or loss) for an offense or fault or in order to coerce some behavior (as a confession or obedience) | - |
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| punishing | (adjective) resulting in punishment | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, toilsome |
| reactionist | (adjective) opposed to political or social liberalism or reform | Synonyms: far-right, reactionary |
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| recognisable | (adjective) capable of being recognized | Synonyms: placeable, recognizable |
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| recognised | (adjective) generally approved or compelling recognition | Synonyms: accepted, recognized |
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| (adjective) provided with a secure reputation | Synonyms: recognized |