| acarpellous | (adjective) having no carpels | Synonyms: acarpelous |
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| acarpelous | (adjective) having no carpels | Synonyms: acarpellous |
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| acropetal | (adjective) of leaves or flowers; developing or opening in succession from base to apex | - |
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| agape | (adjective) with the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe | Synonyms: gaping |
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| alopecic | (adjective) pertaining to loss of hair or wool or feathers | - |
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| alpestrine | (adjective) growing at high altitudes | Synonyms: subalpine |
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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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| angiospermous | (adjective) of or related to or characteristic of plants that are angiosperms | - |
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| anoperineal | (adjective) relating to the anus and surrounding perineum | - |
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| antepenultimate | (adjective) third from last | - |
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| antipersonnel | (adjective) designed to inflict death or personal injury rather than material destruction | - |
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| apelike | (adjective) being or given to servile imitation | Synonyms: apish |
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| (adjective) resembling apes | Synonyms: anthropoid, anthropoidal |
| aperient | (adjective) mildly laxative | - |
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| aperiodic | (adjective) not recurring at regular intervals | Synonyms: nonperiodic |
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| apetalous | (adjective) (of flowers) having no petals | Synonyms: petalless |
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| apopemptic | (adjective) addressed to one who is departing | - |
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| aposiopetic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of aposiopesis | - |
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| appealable | (adjective) capable of being appealed especially to a higher tribunal | - |
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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 |
| appeasable | (adjective) capable of being pacified | Synonyms: conciliable |
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| appeasing | (adjective) intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions | Synonyms: placating, placative, placatory |
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| appellant | (adjective) of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals) | Synonyms: appellate |
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| appellate | (adjective) of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals) | Synonyms: appellant |
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| appellative | (adjective) pertaining to or dealing with or used as a common noun | - |
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| (adjective) inclined to or serving for the giving of names | Synonyms: naming |
| appendaged | (adjective) having an appendage | - |
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| appendant | (adjective) affixed as an appendage | - |
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| appendicular | (adjective) relating to or consisting of an appendage or appendages; especially the limbs | - |
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| apperceptive | (adjective) able to relate new percepts to past experience | - |
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| appetent | (adjective) marked by eager desire | - |
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| appetising | (adjective) appealing to or stimulating the appetite especially in appearance or aroma | Synonyms: appetizing |
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| appetitive | (adjective) of or relating to appetite | - |
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| appetizing | (adjective) appealing to or stimulating the appetite especially in appearance or aroma | Synonyms: appetising |
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| archipelagic | (adjective) relating to or part of an archipelago | - |
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| aslope | (adjective) having an oblique or slanted direction | Synonyms: aslant, diagonal, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping |
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| aspectual | (adjective) of or belonging to an aspect (as an aspect of the verb) | - |
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| basipetal | (adjective) of leaves or flowers; developing or opening in succession from apex to base | - |
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| bespectacled | (adjective) wearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an eyeglass | Synonyms: monocled, spectacled |
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| biped | (adjective) having two feet | Synonyms: bipedal, two-footed |
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| bipedal | (adjective) having two feet | Synonyms: biped, two-footed |
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| campestral | (adjective) of fields or open country | - |
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| capped | (adjective) covered as if with a cap or crown especially of a specified kind | - |
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| (adjective) used especially of front teeth having (artificial) crowns | - |
| carpellary | (adjective) belonging to or forming or containing carpels | - |
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| carpellate | (adjective) bearing or consisting of carpels | Synonyms: pistillate |
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| carpetbag | (adjective) following the practices or characteristic of carpetbaggers | - |
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| (adjective) presumptuously seeking success or a position in a new locality | Synonyms: carpetbagging |
| carpetbagging | (adjective) presumptuously seeking success or a position in a new locality | Synonyms: carpetbag |
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| carpeted | (adjective) covered with or as if with carpeting or with carpeting as specified; often used in combination | - |
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| catchpenny | (adjective) designed to sell quickly without concern for quality | - |
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| centripetal | (adjective) tending to move toward a center | - |
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| (adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system | Synonyms: receptive, sensory |
| (adjective) tending to unify | Synonyms: unifying |
| chapped | (adjective) used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure | Synonyms: cracked, roughened |
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| chemotherapeutic | (adjective) of or relating to chemotherapy | Synonyms: chemotherapeutical |
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| chemotherapeutical | (adjective) of or relating to chemotherapy | Synonyms: chemotherapeutic |
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| chipper | (adjective) having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air | Synonyms: debonair, debonaire, jaunty |
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| chopped | (adjective) prepared by cutting | Synonyms: shredded, sliced |
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| circumspect | (adjective) heedful of potential consequences | Synonyms: discreet |
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| clipped | (adjective) (of speech) having quick short sounds | - |
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| (adjective) cut or trimmed by clipping | - |
| closelipped | (adjective) inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information | Synonyms: close, closemouthed, secretive, tightlipped |
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| compelling | (adjective) tending to persuade by forcefulness of argument | - |
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| (adjective) driving or forcing | - |
| compendious | (adjective) briefly giving the gist of something | Synonyms: compact, succinct, summary |
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| compensable | (adjective) for which money is paid | Synonyms: paying, remunerative, salaried, stipendiary |
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| compensated | (adjective) receiving or eligible for compensation | Synonyms: remunerated, salaried, stipendiary |
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| competent | (adjective) properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient | - |
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| (adjective) legally qualified or sufficient | - |
| (adjective) adequate, but not outstanding or exceptional | - |
| competitive | (adjective) involving competition or competitiveness | Synonyms: competitory |
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| (adjective) showing a fighting disposition | Synonyms: militant |
| (adjective) subscribing to capitalistic competition | Synonyms: free-enterprise, private-enterprise |
| competitory | (adjective) involving competition or competitiveness | Synonyms: competitive |
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| conspecific | (adjective) belonging to the same species | - |
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| cooperative | (adjective) done with or working with others for a common purpose or benefit | - |
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| (adjective) involving the joint activity of two or more | Synonyms: concerted, conjunct, conjunctive, united |
| (adjective) willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement | Synonyms: accommodative |
| copesetic | (adjective) completely satisfactory | Synonyms: copacetic, copasetic, copesettic |
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| copesettic | (adjective) completely satisfactory | Synonyms: copacetic, copasetic, copesetic |
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| coppery | (adjective) of something having the color of copper | Synonyms: copper colored |
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| corticipetal | (adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticoafferent |
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| cramped | (adjective) constricted in size | - |
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| cropped | (adjective) (of land or soil) used for growing crops | - |
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| cusped | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspate, cuspated, cuspidal, cuspidate, cuspidated |
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| cyclopean | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling the Cyclops | - |
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| dapper | (adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | Synonyms: dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, snappy, spiffy, spruce |
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| deepening | (adjective) accumulating and becoming more intense | Synonyms: thickening |
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| dependable | (adjective) worthy of reliance or trust | Synonyms: reliable |
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| (adjective) financially safe | Synonyms: good, safe, secure |
| (adjective) consistent in performance or behavior | Synonyms: rock-steady, steady-going |
| (adjective) worthy of being depended on | Synonyms: honest, reliable, true |
| dependant | (adjective) addicted to a drug | Synonyms: dependent, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out |
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| (adjective) contingent on something else | Synonyms: dependent, qualified |
| dependent | (adjective) relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed | - |
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| (adjective) (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence | Synonyms: subordinate |
| (adjective) addicted to a drug | Synonyms: dependant, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out |
| (adjective) contingent on something else | Synonyms: dependant, qualified |
| (adjective) being under the power or sovereignty of another or others | Synonyms: subject |
| (adjective) held from above and hanging down | Synonyms: pendant, pendent |
| desperate | (adjective) showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort | Synonyms: heroic |
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| (adjective) fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless | Synonyms: dire |
| (adjective) arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope | Synonyms: despairing |
| (adjective) showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire | - |
| (adjective) desperately determined | Synonyms: do-or-die |
| (adjective) (of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair | - |
| developed | (adjective) being changed over time so as to be e.g. stronger or more complete or more useful | - |
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| (adjective) (of real estate) made more useful and profitable as by building or laying out roads | - |
| (adjective) (used of societies) having high industrial development | Synonyms: highly-developed |
| dipped | (adjective) having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses) | Synonyms: lordotic, swayback, swaybacked |
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| dispensable | (adjective) capable of being dispensed with or done without | - |
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| dispensed | (adjective) distributed or weighted out in carefully determined portions | - |
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| dispersed | (adjective) distributed or spread over a considerable extent | Synonyms: spread |
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| dispersive | (adjective) spreading by diffusion | Synonyms: diffusing, diffusive, disseminative |
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| disrespectful | (adjective) exhibiting lack of respect; rude and discourteous | - |
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| (adjective) neither feeling nor showing respect | Synonyms: aweless, awless |
| doped | (adjective) under the influence of narcotics | Synonyms: drugged, narcotised, narcotized |
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| (adjective) treated or impregnated with a foreign substance | - |
| dopey | (adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: anserine, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosey, goosy, jerky |
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| draped | (adjective) covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak | Synonyms: cloaked, clothed, mantled, wrapped |
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| (adjective) covered in folds of cloth | - |
| dyspeptic | (adjective) irritable as if suffering from indigestion | Synonyms: atrabilious, bilious, liverish |
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| (adjective) suffering from dyspepsia | - |
| eightpenny | (adjective) used of nail size; 2 1/2 in or 6.4 cm long | - |
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| encyclopedic | (adjective) comprehensive in scope or content (as an encyclopedia) | Synonyms: encyclopaedic |
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| enwrapped | (adjective) giving or marked by complete attention to | Synonyms: absorbed, captive, engrossed, intent, rapt, wrapped |
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| epenthetic | (adjective) of or pertaining to epenthesis | Synonyms: parasitic |
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| equipped | (adjective) provided or fitted out with what is necessary or useful or appropriate | Synonyms: equipt |
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| (adjective) provided with whatever is necessary for a purpose (as furniture or equipment or authority) | Synonyms: furnished |
| (adjective) carrying weapons | Synonyms: weaponed |
| (adjective) prepared with proper equipment | Synonyms: fitted out |
| escaped | (adjective) having escaped, especially from confinement | Synonyms: at large, loose, on the loose |
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| especial | (adjective) surpassing what is common or usual or expected | Synonyms: exceptional, particular, special |
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| exasperated | (adjective) greatly annoyed; out of patience | Synonyms: browned off, cheesed off |
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| exasperating | (adjective) extremely annoying or displeasing | Synonyms: infuriating, maddening, vexing |
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| (adjective) making worse | Synonyms: aggravating, exacerbating |
| expectable | (adjective) to be expected | - |
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