| anthropoid | (adjective) resembling human beings | Synonyms: manlike |
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| (adjective) resembling apes | Synonyms: anthropoidal, apelike |
| anthropoidal | (adjective) resembling apes | Synonyms: anthropoid, apelike |
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| anthropological | (adjective) of or concerned with the science of anthropology | - |
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| anthropometric | (adjective) of or relating to anthropometry | Synonyms: anthropometrical |
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| anthropometrical | (adjective) of or relating to anthropometry | Synonyms: anthropometric |
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| anthropomorphic | (adjective) suggesting human characteristics for animals or inanimate things | Synonyms: anthropomorphous, humanlike |
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| anthropomorphous | (adjective) suggesting human characteristics for animals or inanimate things | Synonyms: anthropomorphic, humanlike |
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| anthropophagous | (adjective) of or relating to eaters of human flesh | - |
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| antiadrenergic | (adjective) relating to blocking or reducing adrenergic effects in the body | - |
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| antiaircraft | (adjective) designed for defense from a surface position against air attack | - |
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| antiapartheid | (adjective) opposing the policy of apartheid in South Africa | - |
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| antiauthoritarian | (adjective) opposed to authoritarianism | - |
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| antibacterial | (adjective) destroying bacteria or inhibiting their growth | - |
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| anticancer | (adjective) used in the treatment of cancer | Synonyms: antineoplastic, antitumor, antitumour |
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| anticholinergic | (adjective) inhibiting or blocking the action of acetylcholine at a receptor site | - |
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| anticipatory | (adjective) in anticipation | Synonyms: prevenient |
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| antidromic | (adjective) conducting nerve impulses in a direction opposite to normal | - |
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| antiferromagnetic | (adjective) relating to antiferromagnetism | - |
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| antifertility | (adjective) capable of preventing conception or impregnation | Synonyms: contraceptive, prophylactic |
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| antiheretical | (adjective) opposed to heresy | - |
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| antimicrobial | (adjective) capable of destroying or inhibiting the growth of disease-causing microorganisms | Synonyms: antimicrobic |
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| antimicrobic | (adjective) capable of destroying or inhibiting the growth of disease-causing microorganisms | Synonyms: antimicrobial |
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| antiparallel | (adjective) (especially of vectors) parallel but oppositely directed | - |
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| antipersonnel | (adjective) designed to inflict death or personal injury rather than material destruction | - |
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| antiphonary | (adjective) relating to or resembling an antiphon or antiphony | Synonyms: antiphonal |
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| antipyretic | (adjective) preventing or alleviating fever | - |
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| antiquarian | (adjective) of or relating to antiques or antiquities | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to persons who study or deal in antiques or antiquities | - |
| antistrophic | (adjective) of or relating to an antistrophe | - |
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| antisubmarine | (adjective) defensive against enemy submarines | - |
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| antithyroid | (adjective) having the effect of counteracting excessive thyroid activity | - |
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| antitrust | (adjective) of laws and regulations; designed to protect trade and commerce from unfair business practices | Synonyms: antimonopoly |
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| antitumor | (adjective) used in the treatment of cancer | Synonyms: anticancer, antineoplastic, antitumour |
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| antitumour | (adjective) used in the treatment of cancer | Synonyms: anticancer, antineoplastic, antitumor |
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| antiviral | (adjective) inhibiting or stopping the growth and reproduction of viruses | - |
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| antlered | (adjective) having antlers | - |
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| antrorse | (adjective) bent or curved forward or upward | - |
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| anuran | (adjective) relating to frogs and toads | Synonyms: batrachian, salientian |
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| anuretic | (adjective) of or relating to an inability to urinate | Synonyms: anuric |
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| anuric | (adjective) of or relating to an inability to urinate | Synonyms: anuretic |
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| anurous | (adjective) not having a tail | Synonyms: tailless |
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| aoristic | (adjective) of or relating to the aorist tense | - |
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| aortal | (adjective) of or relating to the aorta | Synonyms: aortic |
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| aortic | (adjective) of or relating to the aorta | Synonyms: aortal |
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| apart | (adjective) having characteristics not shared by others | - |
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| (adjective) remote and separate physically or socially | Synonyms: isolated, obscure |
| aperient | (adjective) mildly laxative | - |
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| aperiodic | (adjective) not recurring at regular intervals | Synonyms: nonperiodic |
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| aphaeretic | (adjective) relating to or formed by or consisting of aphaeresis | Synonyms: apheretic |
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| apheretic | (adjective) relating to or formed by or consisting of aphaeresis | Synonyms: aphaeretic |
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| aphoristic | (adjective) containing aphorisms or maxims | Synonyms: axiomatic |
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| (adjective) terse and witty and like a maxim | Synonyms: apothegmatic, epigrammatic |
| aphrodisiac | (adjective) stimulating sexual desire | Synonyms: aphrodisiacal, sexy |
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| aphrodisiacal | (adjective) stimulating sexual desire | Synonyms: aphrodisiac, sexy |
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| apiarian | (adjective) relating to bees or beekeeping | - |
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| apicultural | (adjective) relating to the care and breeding of bees | - |
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| apivorous | (adjective) feeding on bees | - |
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| apocarpous | (adjective) (of ovaries of flowering plants) consisting of carpels that are free from one another as in buttercups or roses | - |
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| apochromatic | (adjective) corrected for both chromatic and spherical aberration | - |
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| apocrine | (adjective) (of exocrine glands) producing a secretion in which part of the secreting cell is released with the secretion | - |
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| apocryphal | (adjective) being of questionable authenticity | - |
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| aponeurotic | (adjective) of or relating to an aponeurosis | - |
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| apoplectiform | (adjective) resembling apoplexy | Synonyms: apoplectoid |
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| apostrophic | (adjective) of or characteristic of apostrophe | - |
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| apotropaic | (adjective) having the power to prevent evil or bad luck | - |
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| appareled | (adjective) dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination | Synonyms: attired, dressed, garbed, garmented, habilimented, robed |
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| apparent | (adjective) clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment | Synonyms: evident, manifest, palpable, patent, plain, unmistakable |
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| (adjective) appearing as such but not necessarily so | Synonyms: ostensible, seeming |
| apparitional | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a phantom | Synonyms: ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual |
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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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| applicatory | (adjective) readily applicable or practical | Synonyms: applicative |
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| apportionable | (adjective) capable of being distributed | Synonyms: allocable, allocatable |
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| apportioned | (adjective) given out in portions | Synonyms: dealt out, doled out, meted out, parceled out |
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| appraising | (adjective) exercising or involving careful evaluations | Synonyms: evaluative |
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| appreciable | (adjective) enough to be estimated or measured | - |
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| appreciated | (adjective) fully understood or grasped | Synonyms: apprehended, comprehended |
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| appreciative | (adjective) having or showing appreciation or a favorable critical judgment or opinion | - |
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| (adjective) feeling or expressive of gratitude | - |
| apprehended | (adjective) fully understood or grasped | Synonyms: appreciated, comprehended |
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| apprehensible | (adjective) capable of being apprehended or understood | Synonyms: graspable, intelligible, perceivable, understandable |
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| apprehensive | (adjective) in fear or dread of possible evil or harm | - |
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| (adjective) quick to understand | Synonyms: discerning |
| (adjective) mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc | Synonyms: worried |
| apprenticed | (adjective) bound by contract | Synonyms: articled, bound, indentured |
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| appressed | (adjective) pressed close to or lying flat against something | Synonyms: adpressed |
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| approachable | (adjective) easy to meet or converse or do business with | - |
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| (adjective) easily approached | Synonyms: reachable |
| (adjective) capable of being read with comprehension | Synonyms: accessible |
| approaching | (adjective) of the relatively near future | Synonyms: coming, forthcoming, upcoming |
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| approbative | (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: affirmative, approbatory, approving, plausive |
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| approbatory | (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: affirmative, approbative, approving, plausive |
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| appropriable | (adjective) that can be appropriated | - |
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| appropriate | (adjective) suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc | - |
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| (adjective) meant or adapted for an occasion or use | Synonyms: suitable, suited |
| appropriative | (adjective) of or relating to or given to the act of taking for yourself | - |
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| approved | (adjective) established by authority; given authoritative approval | Synonyms: sanctioned |
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| approving | (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: affirmative, approbative, approbatory, plausive |
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| approximate | (adjective) located close together | Synonyms: close together |
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| (adjective) very close in resemblance | Synonyms: near |
| (adjective) not quite exact or correct | Synonyms: approximative, rough |
| approximative | (adjective) not quite exact or correct | Synonyms: approximate, rough |
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| appurtenant | (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjunct, adjuvant, ancillary, auxiliary |
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| apractic | (adjective) having uncoordinated muscular movements, symptomatic of a CNS disorder | Synonyms: apraxic |
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| apraxic | (adjective) having uncoordinated muscular movements, symptomatic of a CNS disorder | Synonyms: apractic |
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| apropos | (adjective) of an appropriate or pertinent nature | - |
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| apteral | (adjective) having columns at one or both ends but not along the sides | - |
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| (adjective) (of insects) without wings | Synonyms: apterous |
| apterous | (adjective) (of insects) without wings | Synonyms: apteral |
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| aquacultural | (adjective) of or relating to aquiculture | Synonyms: aquicultural, hydroponic |
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| aquicultural | (adjective) of or relating to aquiculture | Synonyms: aquacultural, hydroponic |
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| aquiferous | (adjective) of or relating to an aquifer | - |
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| arable | (adjective) (of farmland) capable of being farmed productively | Synonyms: cultivable, cultivatable, tillable |
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