| 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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| anfractuous | (adjective) full of twists and turns | - |
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| anthracitic | (adjective) relating to or resembling anthracite coal | - |
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| apractic | (adjective) having uncoordinated muscular movements, symptomatic of a CNS disorder | Synonyms: apraxic |
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| araceous | (adjective) relating to a plant of the family Araceae | Synonyms: aroid |
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| arachnidian | (adjective) relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida | Synonyms: arachnoid, spiderlike, spiderly, spidery |
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| arachnoid | (adjective) relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida | Synonyms: arachnidian, spiderlike, spiderly, spidery |
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| arboraceous | (adjective) abounding in trees | Synonyms: arboreous, woodsy, woody |
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| ataractic | (adjective) tending to soothe or tranquilize | Synonyms: ataraxic, sedative, tranquilising, tranquilizing, tranquillising, tranquillizing |
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| attractable | (adjective) capable of being magnetized or attracted by a magnet | - |
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| attractive | (adjective) pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm | - |
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| (adjective) having the properties of a magnet; the ability to draw or pull | - |
| (adjective) having power to arouse interest | - |
| batrachian | (adjective) relating to frogs and toads | Synonyms: anuran, salientian |
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| biracial | (adjective) consisting of or combining two races | - |
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| boracic | (adjective) of or relating to or derived from or containing boron | Synonyms: boric |
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| braced | (adjective) positioned so as to be ready for confrontation or danger | - |
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| (adjective) held up by braces or buttresses | Synonyms: buttressed |
| brachial | (adjective) of or relating to an arm | - |
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| brachiate | (adjective) having arms or armlike appendages | - |
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| (adjective) having widely spreading paired branches | - |
| brachiopod | (adjective) of or belonging to the phylum Brachiopoda | Synonyms: brachiopodous |
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| brachiopodous | (adjective) of or belonging to the phylum Brachiopoda | Synonyms: brachiopod |
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| brachycephalic | (adjective) having a short broad head with a cephalic index of over 80 | Synonyms: brachycranial, brachycranic |
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| brachycranial | (adjective) having a short broad head with a cephalic index of over 80 | Synonyms: brachycephalic, brachycranic |
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| brachycranic | (adjective) having a short broad head with a cephalic index of over 80 | Synonyms: brachycephalic, brachycranial |
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| brachydactylic | (adjective) having abnormally short finger or toes | Synonyms: brachydactylous |
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| brachydactylous | (adjective) having abnormally short finger or toes | Synonyms: brachydactylic |
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| brachypterous | (adjective) (especially of certain insects) having very short or rudimentary wings | Synonyms: short-winged |
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| brachyurous | (adjective) of or belonging to the suborder Brachyura | - |
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| bracing | (adjective) imparting vitality and energy | Synonyms: brisk, fresh, refreshful, refreshing, tonic |
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| brackish | (adjective) slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water) | Synonyms: briny |
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| (adjective) distasteful and unpleasant; spoiled by mixture | - |
| bracteal | (adjective) pertaining to or resembling or functioning as a bract | - |
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| bracteate | (adjective) having bracts | Synonyms: bracted |
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| bracted | (adjective) having bracts | Synonyms: bracteate |
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| bracteolate | (adjective) having bracteoles | - |
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| butyraceous | (adjective) having the qualities of butter or yielding or containing a substance like butter | - |
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| camphoraceous | (adjective) being or having the properties of camphor | - |
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| characteristic | (adjective) typical or distinctive | - |
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| characterless | (adjective) lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting | Synonyms: nondescript |
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| contraceptive | (adjective) capable of preventing conception or impregnation | Synonyms: antifertility, prophylactic |
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| contraclockwise | (adjective) in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock | Synonyms: anticlockwise, counterclockwise |
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| contractable | (adjective) (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection | Synonyms: catching, communicable, contagious, transmissible, transmittable |
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| contracted | (adjective) reduced in size or pulled together | - |
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| contractile | (adjective) capable of contracting or being contracted | - |
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| contractual | (adjective) relating to or part of a binding legal agreement | - |
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| counteractive | (adjective) opposing or neutralizing or mitigating an effect by contrary action | - |
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| crack | (adjective) of the highest quality | Synonyms: A-one, ace, first-rate, super, tiptop, top-notch, topnotch, tops |
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| crackbrained | (adjective) insanely irresponsible | Synonyms: idiotic |
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| cracked | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| (adjective) of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide | Synonyms: alligatored |
| (adjective) used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure | Synonyms: chapped, roughened |
| crackers | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| cracking | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
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| crackle | (adjective) having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware | - |
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| detractive | (adjective) causing to decrease in importance or value | - |
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| disgraced | (adjective) suffering shame | Synonyms: discredited, dishonored, shamed |
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| disgraceful | (adjective) (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame | Synonyms: black, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful |
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| (adjective) giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation | Synonyms: scandalous, shameful, shocking |
| distracted | (adjective) having the attention diverted especially because of anxiety | Synonyms: distrait |
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| ebracteate | (adjective) without bracts | - |
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| extracellular | (adjective) located or occurring outside a cell or cells | - |
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| extractable | (adjective) capable of being extracted | Synonyms: extractible |
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| extractible | (adjective) capable of being extracted | Synonyms: extractable |
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| extracurricular | (adjective) characterized by adultery | Synonyms: adulterous, extramarital |
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| (adjective) outside the regular duties of your job or profession | - |
| (adjective) outside the regular academic curriculum | - |
| fractional | (adjective) constituting or comprising a part or fraction of a possible whole or entirety | Synonyms: partial |
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| (adjective) constituting a division or an aliquot part of the basic monetary unit | Synonyms: divisional |
| fractious | (adjective) unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome | - |
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| (adjective) stubbornly resistant to authority or control | Synonyms: recalcitrant, refractory |
| (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
| gimcrack | (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
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| graceful | (adjective) characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution | - |
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| (adjective) suggesting taste, ease, and wealth | Synonyms: elegant, refined |
| graceless | (adjective) lacking grace; clumsy | Synonyms: ungraceful |
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| (adjective) lacking social polish | Synonyms: gauche, unpolished |
| (adjective) lacking graciousness | - |
| gracile | (adjective) slender and graceful | Synonyms: willowy |
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| gracious | (adjective) characterized by charm, good taste, and generosity of spirit | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by kindness and warm courtesy especially of a king to his subjects | Synonyms: benignant |
| (adjective) exhibiting courtesy and politeness | Synonyms: courteous, nice |
| (adjective) disposed to bestow favors | - |
| hyperactive | (adjective) more active than normal | Synonyms: overactive |
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| impracticable | (adjective) not capable of being carried out or put into practice | Synonyms: infeasible, unfeasible, unworkable |
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| impractical | (adjective) not practical; not workable or not given to practical matters | - |
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| (adjective) not practical or realizable; speculative | Synonyms: airy, Laputan, visionary, windy |
| interactional | (adjective) capable of acting on or influencing each other | Synonyms: interactive |
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| interactive | (adjective) used especially of drugs or muscles that work together so the total effect is greater than the sum of the two (or more) | Synonyms: synergistic |
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| (adjective) capable of acting on or influencing each other | Synonyms: interactional |
| interracial | (adjective) involving or composed of different races | Synonyms: mixed |
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| (adjective) between races | - |
| intracellular | (adjective) located or occurring within a cell or cells | - |
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| intracerebral | (adjective) within the brain | - |
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| intracranial | (adjective) within the skull | - |
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| intractable | (adjective) not tractable; difficult to manage or mold | - |
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| intracutaneous | (adjective) relating to areas between the layers of the skin | Synonyms: intradermal, intradermic |
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| miraculous | (adjective) peculiarly fortunate or appropriate; as if by divine intervention | Synonyms: heaven-sent, providential |
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| (adjective) being or having the character of a miracle | Synonyms: marvellous, marvelous |
| moraceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Moraceae | - |
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| multiracial | (adjective) made up of or involving or acting on behalf of various races | - |
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| nonprotractile | (adjective) not extensile | Synonyms: inextensible, nonextensile |
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| nonracial | (adjective) not racial; having nothing to do with race or races | - |
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| nonracist | (adjective) unprejudiced about race | Synonyms: color-blind, colour-blind |
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| nonretractable | (adjective) not capable of being retracted | Synonyms: nonretractile |
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| nonretractile | (adjective) not capable of being retracted | Synonyms: nonretractable |
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| oracular | (adjective) of or relating to an oracle | - |
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| (adjective) resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought | Synonyms: enigmatic |
| (adjective) obscurely prophetic | Synonyms: Delphic |
| overactive | (adjective) more active than normal | Synonyms: hyperactive |
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| practicable | (adjective) capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are | Synonyms: executable, feasible, viable, workable |
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| (adjective) usable for a specific purpose | Synonyms: operable |
| practical | (adjective) concerned with actual use or practice | - |
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| (adjective) having or put to a practical purpose or use | - |
| (adjective) guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory | Synonyms: hard-nosed, hardheaded, pragmatic |
| (adjective) being actually such in almost every respect | Synonyms: virtual |
| practiced | (adjective) skillful after much practice | Synonyms: practised |
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| (adjective) having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude | Synonyms: adept, expert, good, proficient, skilful, skillful |
| practised | (adjective) skillful after much practice | Synonyms: practiced |
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| protracted | (adjective) relatively long in duration; tediously protracted | Synonyms: drawn-out, extended, lengthy, prolonged |
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| protractible | (adjective) able to be extended | Synonyms: protractile |
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| protractile | (adjective) able to be extended | Synonyms: protractible |
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| racemose | (adjective) having stalked flowers along an elongated stem that continue to open in succession from below as the stem continues to grow | - |
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| rachitic | (adjective) affected with, suffering from, or characteristic of rickets | Synonyms: rickety |
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| racial | (adjective) of or characteristic of race or races or arising from differences among groups | - |
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| (adjective) of or related to genetically distinguished groups of people | - |
| racist | (adjective) discriminatory especially on the basis of race or religion | Synonyms: anti-Semite, antiblack |
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| (adjective) based on racial intolerance | - |