| alcoholic | (adjective) characteristic of or containing alcohol | - |
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| (adjective) addicted to alcohol | Synonyms: alcohol-dependent |
| ametabolic | (adjective) undergoing slight or no metamorphosis | Synonyms: ametabolous |
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| (adjective) undergoing no (or only slight) metamorphosis | - |
| anabolic | (adjective) characterized by or promoting constructive metabolism | - |
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| (adjective) of or related to the synthetic phase of metabolism | - |
| apostolic | (adjective) of or relating to or deriving from the Apostles or their teachings | Synonyms: apostolical |
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| (adjective) proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles | Synonyms: apostolical, papal, pontifical |
| apostolical | (adjective) of or relating to or deriving from the Apostles or their teachings | Synonyms: apostolic |
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| (adjective) proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles | Synonyms: apostolic, papal, pontifical |
| bibliopolic | (adjective) of or relating to bibliopoles | - |
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| bucolic | (adjective) relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle | Synonyms: pastoral |
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| (adjective) (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic | Synonyms: arcadian, pastoral |
| catabolic | (adjective) characterized by destructive metabolism | Synonyms: katabolic |
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| (adjective) relating to or characterized by catabolism | Synonyms: katabolic |
| catholic | (adjective) free from provincial prejudices or attachments | - |
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| colicky | (adjective) suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal | Synonyms: flatulent, gassy |
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| diabolic | (adjective) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | Synonyms: demonic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy |
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| (adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: devilish, diabolical, mephistophelean, mephistophelian |
| diabolical | (adjective) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | Synonyms: demonic, diabolic, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy |
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| (adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: devilish, diabolic, mephistophelean, mephistophelian |
| diastolic | (adjective) of or relating to a diastole or happening during a diastole | - |
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| dolichocephalic | (adjective) having a relatively long head with a cephalic index of under 75 | Synonyms: dolichocranial, dolichocranic |
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| dolichocranial | (adjective) having a relatively long head with a cephalic index of under 75 | Synonyms: dolichocephalic, dolichocranic |
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| dolichocranic | (adjective) having a relatively long head with a cephalic index of under 75 | Synonyms: dolichocephalic, dolichocranial |
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| embolic | (adjective) of or relating to an embolism or embolus | - |
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| enolic | (adjective) of or relating to or consisting of enol | - |
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| extrasystolic | (adjective) of or relating to or happening during an extrasystole | - |
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| frolicky | (adjective) given to merry frolicking | Synonyms: coltish, frolicsome, rollicking, sportive |
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| frolicsome | (adjective) given to merry frolicking | Synonyms: coltish, frolicky, rollicking, sportive |
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| hemimetabolic | (adjective) (of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult | Synonyms: hemimetabolous, hemimetamorphic, hemimetamorphous |
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| heterometabolic | (adjective) (of an insect) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the nymph is essentially like the adult and there is no pupal stage | Synonyms: heterometabolous |
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| holometabolic | (adjective) (of an insect) undergoing complete metamorphosis | Synonyms: holometabolous |
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| hyperbolic | (adjective) of or relating to a hyperbola | - |
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| (adjective) enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness | Synonyms: inflated |
| katabolic | (adjective) characterized by destructive metabolism | Synonyms: catabolic |
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| (adjective) relating to or characterized by catabolism | Synonyms: catabolic |
| melancholic | (adjective) characterized by or causing or expressing sadness | Synonyms: melancholy |
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| metabolic | (adjective) undergoing metamorphosis | Synonyms: metabolous |
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| (adjective) of or relating to metabolism | - |
| nonalcoholic | (adjective) characterized by the absence of alcohol | - |
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| oversolicitous | (adjective) excessively solicitous | - |
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| parabolic | (adjective) resembling or expressed by parables | Synonyms: parabolical |
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| (adjective) having the form of a parabola | Synonyms: parabolical |
| parabolical | (adjective) resembling or expressed by parables | Synonyms: parabolic |
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| (adjective) having the form of a parabola | Synonyms: parabolic |
| shambolic | (adjective) (British slang) disorderly or chaotic | - |
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| solicitous | (adjective) showing hovering attentiveness | - |
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| (adjective) full of anxiety and concern | - |
| symbolic | (adjective) relating to or using or proceeding by means of symbols | Synonyms: symbolical |
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| (adjective) using symbolism | - |
| (adjective) serving as a visible symbol for something abstract | Synonyms: emblematic, emblematical, symbolical |
| symbolical | (adjective) relating to or using or proceeding by means of symbols | Synonyms: symbolic |
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| (adjective) serving as a visible symbol for something abstract | Synonyms: emblematic, emblematical, symbolic |
| systolic | (adjective) of or relating to a systole or happening during a systole | - |
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| unsolicited | (adjective) not requested or sought | Synonyms: unasked-for |
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| unsymbolic | (adjective) not standing for something else | Synonyms: nonrepresentative |
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| variolic | (adjective) relating to small pox | Synonyms: variolar, variolous |
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| vitriolic | (adjective) of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action | Synonyms: caustic, corrosive, erosive, mordant |
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| (adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent |