accretionary | (adjective) marked or produced by accretion | - |
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accretive | (adjective) growing by accretion | - |
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aforethought | (adjective) with planning and intention | Synonyms: planned, plotted |
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allegretto | (adjective) (of tempo) faster than allegro | - |
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antiheretical | (adjective) opposed to heresy | - |
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antipyretic | (adjective) preventing or alleviating fever | - |
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anuretic | (adjective) of or relating to an inability to urinate | Synonyms: anuric |
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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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cataphoretic | (adjective) of or relating to electrophoresis | Synonyms: electrophoretic |
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concrete | (adjective) capable of being perceived by the senses; not abstract or imaginary | - |
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(adjective) formed by the coalescence of particles | - |
concretistic | (adjective) of or relating to concrete representations of abstractions | - |
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cretaceous | (adjective) abounding in chalk | - |
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cretinous | (adjective) afflicted with cretinism | - |
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diaphoretic | (adjective) inducing perspiration | Synonyms: sudorific |
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discrete | (adjective) constituting a separate entity or part | Synonyms: distinct |
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discretional | (adjective) having or using the ability to act or decide according to your own discretion or judgment | Synonyms: discretionary |
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discretionary | (adjective) having or using the ability to act or decide according to your own discretion or judgment | Synonyms: discretional |
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(adjective) (especially of funds) not earmarked; available for use as needed | - |
electrophoretic | (adjective) of or relating to electrophoresis | Synonyms: cataphoretic |
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excretory | (adjective) of or relating to the process of excretion | - |
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forethoughtful | (adjective) thoughtful of the future | - |
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fretful | (adjective) habitually complaining | Synonyms: querulous, whiney, whiny |
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(adjective) nervous and unable to relax | Synonyms: antsy, fidgety, itchy, restless |
fretted | (adjective) having frets | - |
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(adjective) having a pattern of fretwork or latticework | Synonyms: interlaced, latticed, latticelike |
heretical | (adjective) characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards | Synonyms: dissident, heterodox |
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indiscrete | (adjective) not divided or divisible into parts | - |
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interpretable | (adjective) capable of being understood | Synonyms: explainable |
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interpretative | (adjective) that provides interpretation | Synonyms: interpretive |
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interpreted | (adjective) understood in a certain way; made sense of | Synonyms: taken |
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interpretive | (adjective) that provides interpretation | Synonyms: interpretative |
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irretrievable | (adjective) impossible to recover or recoup or overcome | Synonyms: unretrievable |
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meretricious | (adjective) like or relating to a prostitute | - |
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(adjective) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing | Synonyms: gilded, glossy, specious |
(adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
natriuretic | (adjective) of or relating to natriuresis | - |
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nonreticulate | (adjective) not resembling or forming a network | - |
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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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nonreturnable | (adjective) that may not be returned | - |
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outstretched | (adjective) fully extended especially in length | - |
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preteen | (adjective) of or relating to or designed for children between the ages of 9 and 12 | Synonyms: preadolescent |
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pretend | (adjective) imagined as in a play | Synonyms: make-believe |
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pretended | (adjective) adopted in order to deceive | Synonyms: assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, put on, sham |
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pretentious | (adjective) making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction | - |
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(adjective) intended to attract notice and impress others | Synonyms: ostentatious |
(adjective) (of a display) tawdry or vulgar | Synonyms: ostentatious |
preternatural | (adjective) surpassing the ordinary or normal | Synonyms: uncanny |
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(adjective) existing outside of or not in accordance with nature | Synonyms: nonnatural, otherworldly, transcendental |
pretorial | (adjective) of or relating to a Roman praetor | Synonyms: praetorial, praetorian, pretorian |
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pretorian | (adjective) of or relating to a Roman praetor | Synonyms: praetorial, praetorian, pretorial |
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pretty | (adjective) (used ironically) unexpectedly bad | - |
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(adjective) pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing | - |
pyretic | (adjective) causing fever | - |
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regretful | (adjective) feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone | Synonyms: bad, sorry |
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regrettable | (adjective) deserving regret | Synonyms: too bad |
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retained | (adjective) continued in your keeping or use or memory | Synonyms: maintained |
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retaliative | (adjective) of or relating to or having the nature of retribution | Synonyms: retaliatory, retributive, retributory, vindicatory |
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retaliatory | (adjective) of or relating to or having the nature of retribution | Synonyms: retaliative, retributive, retributory, vindicatory |
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retarded | (adjective) relatively slow in mental or emotional or physical development | - |
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retentive | (adjective) good at remembering | Synonyms: long, recollective, tenacious |
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(adjective) having the capacity to retain something | - |
(adjective) having the power, capacity, or quality of retaining water | - |
reticent | (adjective) temperamentally disinclined to talk | Synonyms: untalkative |
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(adjective) reluctant to draw attention to yourself | Synonyms: retiring, self-effacing |
(adjective) cool and formal in manner | Synonyms: restrained, unemotional |
reticular | (adjective) resembling or forming a network | Synonyms: reticulate |
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reticulate | (adjective) resembling or forming a network | Synonyms: reticular |
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retinal | (adjective) in or relating to the retina of the eye | - |
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retired | (adjective) no longer active in your work or profession | - |
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retiring | (adjective) not arrogant or presuming | Synonyms: unassuming |
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(adjective) of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office | Synonyms: past, preceding |
(adjective) reluctant to draw attention to yourself | Synonyms: reticent, self-effacing |
retractable | (adjective) capable of being retracted | - |
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retracted | (adjective) drawn back and in | - |
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retractile | (adjective) capable of retraction; capable of being drawn back | - |
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retral | (adjective) moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction | Synonyms: retrograde |
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(adjective) at or near or toward the posterior | - |
retributive | (adjective) given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts | Synonyms: retributory, vindicatory |
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(adjective) of or relating to or having the nature of retribution | Synonyms: retaliative, retaliatory, retributory, vindicatory |
retributory | (adjective) given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts | Synonyms: retributive, vindicatory |
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(adjective) of or relating to or having the nature of retribution | Synonyms: retaliative, retaliatory, retributive, vindicatory |
retrievable | (adjective) capable of being regained especially with effort | - |
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retro | (adjective) affecting things past | Synonyms: ex post facto, retroactive |
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retroactive | (adjective) descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on the effects of events or stimuli or process that occurred previously | - |
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(adjective) affecting things past | Synonyms: ex post facto, retro |
retroflex | (adjective) bent or curved backward | Synonyms: retroflexed |
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(adjective) pronounced with the tip of the tongue turned back toward the hard palate | Synonyms: cacuminal |
retroflexed | (adjective) bent or curved backward | Synonyms: retroflex |
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retrograde | (adjective) of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma | - |
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(adjective) moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth | - |
(adjective) going from better to worse | Synonyms: retrogressive |
(adjective) moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction | Synonyms: retral |
retrogressive | (adjective) going from better to worse | Synonyms: retrograde |
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retrorse | (adjective) bent or curved backward or downward | - |
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retrospective | (adjective) concerned with or related to the past | - |
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retrousse | (adjective) (used of noses) turned up at the end | Synonyms: tip-tilted, upturned |
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returnable | (adjective) that may be returned | - |
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returning | (adjective) tending to be turned back | Synonyms: reversive |
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(adjective) tending to return to an earlier state | Synonyms: reverting |
secret | (adjective) the next to highest level of official classification for documents | - |
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(adjective) not open or public; kept private or not revealed | - |
(adjective) having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding | Synonyms: mysterious, mystic, mystical, occult, orphic |
(adjective) not expressed | Synonyms: private |
(adjective) (of information) given in confidence or in secret | Synonyms: confidential |
(adjective) not openly made known | Synonyms: unavowed |
(adjective) conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods | Synonyms: clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, surreptitious, undercover, underground |
(adjective) designed to elude detection | Synonyms: hidden |
(adjective) indulging only covertly | - |
(adjective) hidden from general view or use | Synonyms: privy, secluded |
(adjective) communicated covertly | - |
secretarial | (adjective) of or relating to a secretary or to a secretary's work | - |
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secretive | (adjective) inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information | Synonyms: close, closelipped, closemouthed, tightlipped |
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secretory | (adjective) of or relating to or producing a secretion | - |
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stretch | (adjective) easily stretched | - |
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(adjective) having an elongated seating area | - |
stretchable | (adjective) capable of being easily stretched and resuming former size or shape | Synonyms: stretchy |
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stretched | (adjective) (of muscles) relieved of stiffness by stretching | - |
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(adjective) extended or spread over a wide area or distance | - |
stretchy | (adjective) capable of being easily stretched and resuming former size or shape | Synonyms: stretchable |
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sulfuretted | (adjective) treated or impregnated with sulfur | Synonyms: sulfurized, sulphuretted |
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sulphuretted | (adjective) treated or impregnated with sulfur | Synonyms: sulfuretted, sulfurized |
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syncretic | (adjective) of or characterized by syncretism | Synonyms: syncretical, syncretistic, syncretistical |
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(adjective) relating to a historical tendency for a language to reduce its use of inflections | Synonyms: syncretical, syncretistic, syncretistical |
syncretical | (adjective) of or characterized by syncretism | Synonyms: syncretic, syncretistic, syncretistical |
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(adjective) relating to a historical tendency for a language to reduce its use of inflections | Synonyms: syncretic, syncretistic, syncretistical |
syncretistic | (adjective) of or characterized by syncretism | Synonyms: syncretic, syncretical, syncretistical |
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(adjective) relating to a historical tendency for a language to reduce its use of inflections | Synonyms: syncretic, syncretical, syncretistical |
syncretistical | (adjective) of or characterized by syncretism | Synonyms: syncretic, syncretical, syncretistic |
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(adjective) relating to a historical tendency for a language to reduce its use of inflections | Synonyms: syncretic, syncretical, syncretistic |
terete | (adjective) especially of plant parts; cylindrical and tapering | - |
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theoretic | (adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations | Synonyms: theoretical |
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theoretical | (adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations | Synonyms: theoretic |
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(adjective) concerned with theories rather than their practical applications | - |
unforethoughtful | (adjective) lacking forethought | - |
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unfretted | (adjective) without frets | - |
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unpretending | (adjective) not ostentatious | Synonyms: unostentatious, unpretentious |
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unpretentious | (adjective) lacking pretension or affectation | - |
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(adjective) not ostentatious | Synonyms: unostentatious, unpretending |
(adjective) exhibiting restrained good taste | Synonyms: understated, unostentatious |
unregretful | (adjective) feeling no regret | Synonyms: unregretting |
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unregretting | (adjective) feeling no regret | Synonyms: unregretful |
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