abbreviated | (adjective) (of clothing) very short | Synonyms: brief |
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(adjective) cut short in duration | Synonyms: shortened, truncated |
abecedarian | (adjective) alphabetically arranged (as for beginning readers) | - |
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aberrant | (adjective) markedly different from an accepted norm | Synonyms: deviant, deviate |
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abhorrent | (adjective) offensive to the mind | Synonyms: detestable, obscene, repugnant, repulsive |
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ablutionary | (adjective) cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of e.g. hands | Synonyms: cleansing |
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abnormal | (adjective) not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm | Synonyms: unnatural |
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(adjective) departing from the normal in e.g. intelligence and development | - |
(adjective) much greater than the normal | - |
abolitionary | (adjective) relating to or favoring abolition, especially abolition of slavery | - |
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aboral | (adjective) opposite to or away from the mouth | - |
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aboriginal | (adjective) characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning | Synonyms: native |
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(adjective) having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state | Synonyms: primaeval, primal, primeval, primordial |
abortifacient | (adjective) causing abortion | - |
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abortive | (adjective) failing to accomplish an intended result | Synonyms: stillborn, unsuccessful |
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aboveboard | (adjective) without concealment or deception; honest | Synonyms: straightforward |
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aboveground | (adjective) on or above the surface of the ground | - |
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abranchial | (adjective) having no gills | Synonyms: abranchiate, abranchious, gill-less |
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abranchiate | (adjective) having no gills | Synonyms: abranchial, abranchious, gill-less |
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abranchious | (adjective) having no gills | Synonyms: abranchial, abranchiate, gill-less |
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abrasive | (adjective) sharply disagreeable; rigorous | Synonyms: harsh |
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(adjective) causing abrasion | Synonyms: scratchy |
abreast | (adjective) being up to particular standard or level especially in being up to date in knowledge | Synonyms: au courant, au fait, up on |
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abridged | (adjective) (used of texts) shortened by condensing or rewriting | - |
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abroach | (adjective) of a cask or barrel | Synonyms: broached |
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abroad | (adjective) in a foreign country | Synonyms: overseas |
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abrupt | (adjective) surprisingly and unceremoniously brusque in manner | - |
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(adjective) marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions | Synonyms: disconnected |
(adjective) dangerously steep | Synonyms: precipitous, sharp |
(adjective) exceedingly sudden and unexpected | - |
absolvitory | (adjective) providing absolution | Synonyms: exonerative, forgiving |
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absorbable | (adjective) capable of being absorbed or taken in through the pores of a surface | - |
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absorbed | (adjective) giving or marked by complete attention to | Synonyms: captive, engrossed, enwrapped, intent, rapt, wrapped |
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(adjective) retained without reflection | - |
absorbefacient | (adjective) inducing or promoting absorption | Synonyms: sorbefacient |
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absorbent | (adjective) having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.) | Synonyms: absorptive |
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absorbing | (adjective) capable of arousing and holding the attention | Synonyms: engrossing, fascinating, gripping, riveting |
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absorptive | (adjective) having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.) | Synonyms: absorbent |
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abstract | (adjective) existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment | - |
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(adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstractionist, nonfigurative, nonobjective |
(adjective) dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention | - |
abstracted | (adjective) lost in thought; showing preoccupation | Synonyms: absent, absentminded, scatty |
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abstractionist | (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstract, nonfigurative, nonobjective |
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abstractive | (adjective) of an abstracting nature or having the power of abstracting | - |
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abstruse | (adjective) difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge | Synonyms: deep, recondite |
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absurd | (adjective) so unreasonable as to invite derision | Synonyms: cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous |
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(adjective) inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense | - |
acarpellous | (adjective) having no carpels | Synonyms: acarpelous |
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acarpelous | (adjective) having no carpels | Synonyms: acarpellous |
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acarpous | (adjective) producing no fruit | - |
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accelerando | (adjective) (music) gradually increasing in tempo | - |
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accelerated | (adjective) speeded up, as of an academic course | - |
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accelerative | (adjective) tending to increase velocity | Synonyms: acceleratory |
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acceleratory | (adjective) tending to increase velocity | Synonyms: accelerative |
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accessary | (adjective) aiding and abetting in a crime | Synonyms: accessory |
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accessorial | (adjective) nonessential but helpful | - |
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accessory | (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: adjunct, adjuvant, ancillary, appurtenant, auxiliary |
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(adjective) aiding and abetting in a crime | Synonyms: accessary |
accipitrine | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the genus Accipiter (or to typical hawks) | - |
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accordant | (adjective) being in agreement or harmony; often followed by `with' | - |
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(adjective) in keeping | Synonyms: agreeable, concordant, conformable, consonant |
according | (adjective) (followed by `to') in agreement with or accordant with | - |
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(adjective) (followed by `to') as reported or stated by | - |
accoutered | (adjective) provided with necessary articles of equipment for a specialized purpose (especially military) | Synonyms: accoutred |
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accoutred | (adjective) provided with necessary articles of equipment for a specialized purpose (especially military) | Synonyms: accoutered |
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accredited | (adjective) given official approval to act | Synonyms: commissioned, licenced, licensed |
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accretionary | (adjective) marked or produced by accretion | - |
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accretive | (adjective) growing by accretion | - |
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accrued | (adjective) periodically accumulated over time | Synonyms: accumulated |
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acculturational | (adjective) of or relating to acculturation | Synonyms: acculturative |
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acculturative | (adjective) of or relating to acculturation | Synonyms: acculturational |
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accurate | (adjective) conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy | - |
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(adjective) (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct | Synonyms: exact, precise |
accursed | (adjective) under a curse | Synonyms: accurst, maledict |
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accurst | (adjective) under a curse | Synonyms: accursed, maledict |
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accusatorial | (adjective) specifically indicating a form of prosecution in which one is publicly accused of and tried for a crime and in which the judge is not also the prosecutor | - |
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accusatory | (adjective) containing or expressing accusation | Synonyms: accusative, accusing, accusive |
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acellular | (adjective) not made up of or divided into cells | Synonyms: noncellular |
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acentric | (adjective) lacking a centromere | - |
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(adjective) not centered or having no center | - |
acerate | (adjective) narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves | Synonyms: acerose, acicular, needle-shaped |
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acerb | (adjective) sour or bitter in taste | Synonyms: acerbic, astringent |
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(adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic |
acerbic | (adjective) sour or bitter in taste | Synonyms: acerb, astringent |
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(adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic |
acerose | (adjective) narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves | Synonyms: acerate, acicular, needle-shaped |
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acervate | (adjective) pertaining to a growth of fungi that forms a heaped-up mass | - |
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acetabular | (adjective) of the cup-shaped socket that receives the head of the thigh bone | Synonyms: cotyloid, cotyloidal |
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achlorhydric | (adjective) lacking hydrochloric acid | - |
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achondritic | (adjective) not having a granular structure | - |
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(adjective) of or related to an achondrite | - |
achondroplastic | (adjective) of or relating to achondroplasia | - |
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achromatic | (adjective) having no hue | Synonyms: neutral |
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achromatinic | (adjective) (of substance of a cell nucleus) not readily colored by stains | - |
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achromatous | (adjective) having little or inadequate color | - |
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achromic | (adjective) having no color | Synonyms: achromous |
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achromous | (adjective) having no color | Synonyms: achromic |
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acicular | (adjective) narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves | Synonyms: acerate, acerose, needle-shaped |
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acidimetric | (adjective) involving or related to acidimetry | - |
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aciduric | (adjective) especially of some bacteria; growing well in an acid medium | Synonyms: acidophilic, acidophilous |
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acinar | (adjective) pertaining to the individual parts making up an aggregate fruit like a blackberry | - |
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(adjective) pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland) | Synonyms: acinic, acinose, acinous |
acneiform | (adjective) resembling acne | - |
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acquirable | (adjective) capable of being acquired | - |
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acquired | (adjective) gotten through environmental forces | - |
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acrid | (adjective) strong and sharp | Synonyms: pungent |
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(adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic |
acrimonious | (adjective) marked by strong resentment or cynicism | Synonyms: bitter |
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acritical | (adjective) without a crisis (as of some diseases) | - |
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acrobatic | (adjective) vigorously active | Synonyms: athletic, gymnastic |
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acrocarpous | (adjective) (of mosses) having the archegonia at the top of the stem | - |
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acrocentric | (adjective) having a subterminal centromere | - |
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acrogenic | (adjective) pertaining to flowerless plants (ferns or mosses) in which growth occurs only at the tip of the main stem | Synonyms: acrogenous |
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acrogenous | (adjective) pertaining to flowerless plants (ferns or mosses) in which growth occurs only at the tip of the main stem | Synonyms: acrogenic |
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acromegalic | (adjective) marked or affected by enlargement or hypertrophy of the extremities or the face | - |
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acronymic | (adjective) characterized by the use of acronyms | Synonyms: acronymous |
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acronymous | (adjective) characterized by the use of acronyms | Synonyms: acronymic |
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acropetal | (adjective) of leaves or flowers; developing or opening in succession from base to apex | - |
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acrophobic | (adjective) suffering from acrophobia; abnormally afraid of high places | - |
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acroscopic | (adjective) facing or on the side toward the apex | - |
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actinometric | (adjective) of or related to actinometry | Synonyms: actinometrical |
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actinometrical | (adjective) of or related to actinometry | Synonyms: actinometric |
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