| springless | (adjective) lacking in elasticity or vitality | - |
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| springlike | (adjective) resembling a spring or the action of a spring | - |
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| springy | (adjective) (of movements) light and confidently active | - |
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| (adjective) elastic; rebounds readily | Synonyms: bouncy, live, lively, resilient |
| staggering | (adjective) so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm | Synonyms: astonishing, astounding, stupefying |
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| staring | (adjective) (used of eyes) open and fixed as if in fear or wonder | Synonyms: agaze |
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| (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
| starring | (adjective) indicating the most important performer or role | Synonyms: leading, prima, star, stellar |
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| stirring | (adjective) exciting strong but not unpleasant emotions | Synonyms: soul-stirring |
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| (adjective) capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement | Synonyms: rousing |
| stringent | (adjective) demanding strict attention to rules and procedures | Synonyms: rigorous, tight |
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| stringy | (adjective) consisting of or containing string or strings | - |
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| (adjective) forming viscous or glutinous threads | Synonyms: ropey, ropy, thready |
| (adjective) lean and sinewy | Synonyms: wiry |
| (adjective) (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew | Synonyms: fibrous, sinewy, unchewable |
| suffering | (adjective) troubled by pain or loss | - |
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| (adjective) very unhappy; full of misery | Synonyms: miserable, wretched |
| swaggering | (adjective) flamboyantly adventurous | Synonyms: swashbuckling |
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| (adjective) having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy | Synonyms: disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious |
| sweltering | (adjective) excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and faintness | Synonyms: sweltry |
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| talebearing | (adjective) prone to communicate confidential information | Synonyms: blabbermouthed, leaky, tattling |
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| tapering | (adjective) gradually decreasing until little remains | Synonyms: dwindling, tapering off |
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| (adjective) becoming gradually narrower | Synonyms: narrowing, tapered |
| tearing | (adjective) marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid | Synonyms: fierce, trigger-happy, vehement, violent |
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| tempering | (adjective) moderating by making more temperate | - |
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| thundering | (adjective) extraordinarily big or impressive | - |
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| (adjective) sounding like thunder | - |
| tiring | (adjective) producing exhaustion | Synonyms: exhausting, wearing, wearying |
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| tittering | (adjective) being or sounding of nervous or suppressed laughter | Synonyms: thoriated |
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| torturing | (adjective) extremely painful | Synonyms: agonising, agonizing, excruciating, harrowing, torturesome, torturous |
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| tottering | (adjective) (of structures or institutions) having lost stability; failing or on the point of collapse | - |
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| (adjective) unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age | Synonyms: tottery |
| towering | (adjective) of imposing height; especially standing out above others | Synonyms: eminent, lofty, soaring |
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| transpiring | (adjective) that is passing through | - |
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| uncaring | (adjective) without care or thought for others | Synonyms: thoughtless, unthinking |
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| (adjective) lacking affection or warm feeling | Synonyms: detached, unaffectionate |
| undesiring | (adjective) having or feeling no desire | Synonyms: undesirous |
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| unerring | (adjective) not liable to error | Synonyms: inerrable, inerrant |
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| unfaltering | (adjective) marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable | Synonyms: firm, steadfast, steady, stiff, unbendable, unshakable, unwavering |
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| unfearing | (adjective) invulnerable to fear or intimidation | Synonyms: audacious, brave, dauntless, fearless, hardy, intrepid |
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| unflattering | (adjective) showing or representing unfavorably | Synonyms: uncomplimentary |
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| unforbearing | (adjective) unwilling to endure | - |
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| unhearing | (adjective) totally deaf; unable to hear anything | Synonyms: deaf as a post, profoundly deaf, stone-deaf |
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| uninquiring | (adjective) not inquiring | Synonyms: uninquisitive |
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| (adjective) deficient in curiosity | Synonyms: uninquisitive |
| uninspiring | (adjective) depressing to the spirit | - |
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| unreassuring | (adjective) not reassuring; tending to cause anxiety | Synonyms: worrisome |
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| unsparing | (adjective) very generous | Synonyms: lavish, munificent, overgenerous, too-generous, unstinted, unstinting |
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| (adjective) not forbearing; ruthless | - |
| untiring | (adjective) characterized by hard work and perseverance | Synonyms: hardworking, industrious, tireless |
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| unwavering | (adjective) marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable | Synonyms: firm, steadfast, steady, stiff, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable |
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| (adjective) not showing abrupt variations | Synonyms: level |
| wandering | (adjective) of a path e.g. | Synonyms: meandering, rambling, winding |
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| (adjective) having no fixed course | Synonyms: erratic, planetary |
| (adjective) migratory | Synonyms: mobile, nomadic, peregrine, roving |
| warring | (adjective) engaged in war | Synonyms: belligerent, militant, war-ridden |
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| wavering | (adjective) uncertain in purpose or action | Synonyms: vacillant, vacillating |
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| wayfaring | (adjective) traveling especially on foot | Synonyms: peripatetic |
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| wearing | (adjective) producing exhaustion | Synonyms: exhausting, tiring, wearying |
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| whirring | (adjective) like the sound of rapidly vibrating wings | - |
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| whispering | (adjective) making a low continuous indistinct sound | Synonyms: murmuring, susurrant |
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| withering | (adjective) wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction | Synonyms: annihilating, annihilative, devastating |
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| (adjective) making light of | Synonyms: annihilating, devastating |
| wondering | (adjective) showing curiosity | Synonyms: inquisitive, questioning, speculative |
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| woolgathering | (adjective) dreamy in mood or nature | Synonyms: dreamy, moony |
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