| anterior | (adjective) of or near the head end or toward the front plane of a body | - |
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| (adjective) earlier in time | Synonyms: prior |
| aperiodic | (adjective) not recurring at regular intervals | Synonyms: nonperiodic |
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| ariose | (adjective) having a melody (as distinguished from recitative) | Synonyms: songlike |
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| arteriolar | (adjective) of or relating to or involving arterioles | - |
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| arteriosclerotic | (adjective) affected by arteriosclerosis | - |
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| arteriovenous | (adjective) connecting an artery to a vein | - |
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| atrioventricular | (adjective) relating to or affecting the atria and ventricles of the heart | Synonyms: auriculoventricular |
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| bacterioid | (adjective) resembling bacteria | Synonyms: bacterioidal, bacteroid, bacteroidal |
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| bacterioidal | (adjective) resembling bacteria | Synonyms: bacterioid, bacteroid, bacteroidal |
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| bacteriologic | (adjective) of or relating to bacteriology | Synonyms: bacteriological |
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| bacteriological | (adjective) of or relating to bacteriology | Synonyms: bacteriologic |
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| bacteriolytic | (adjective) of or relating to or causing bacteriolysis | - |
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| bacteriophagic | (adjective) of or relating to bacteriophages | Synonyms: bacteriophagous |
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| bacteriophagous | (adjective) of or relating to bacteriophages | Synonyms: bacteriophagic |
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| bacteriostatic | (adjective) of or relating to or causing bacteriostasis | - |
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| burglarious | (adjective) involving or resembling burglary | - |
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| carious | (adjective) (of teeth) affected with cavities or decay | - |
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| censorious | (adjective) harshly critical or expressing censure | - |
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| chorionic | (adjective) of or relating to a chorion | - |
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| clarion | (adjective) loud and clear | - |
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| contrarious | (adjective) characterized by self-willed opposition | Synonyms: cross-grained |
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| criterional | (adjective) serving as a basis for evaluation | Synonyms: criterial |
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| curious | (adjective) eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns) | - |
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| (adjective) beyond or deviating from the usual or expected | Synonyms: funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular |
| deleterious | (adjective) harmful to living things | Synonyms: hurtful, injurious |
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| delirious | (adjective) experiencing delirium | Synonyms: hallucinating |
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| (adjective) marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion | Synonyms: excited, frantic, mad, unrestrained |
| exterior | (adjective) situated in or suitable for the outdoors or outside of a building | - |
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| furious | (adjective) marked by extreme anger | Synonyms: angered, enraged, infuriated, maddened |
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| (adjective) (of the elements) as if showing violent anger | Synonyms: angry, raging, tempestuous, wild |
| (adjective) marked by extreme and violent energy | Synonyms: ferocious, fierce, savage |
| glorious | (adjective) having or deserving or conferring glory | - |
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| (adjective) having great beauty and splendor | Synonyms: resplendent, splendid, splendiferous |
| (adjective) characterized by grandeur | Synonyms: brilliant, magnificent, splendid |
| gregarious | (adjective) (of animals) tending to form a group with others of the same species | - |
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| (adjective) (of plants) growing in groups that are close together | - |
| (adjective) instinctively or temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others | - |
| hilarious | (adjective) marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter | Synonyms: screaming, uproarious |
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| histrionic | (adjective) characteristic of acting or a stage performance; often affected | Synonyms: melodramatic |
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| illustrious | (adjective) having or conferring glory | - |
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| (adjective) widely known and esteemed | Synonyms: celebrated, famed, famous, far-famed, notable, noted, renowned |
| imperious | (adjective) having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy | Synonyms: disdainful, haughty, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering |
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| incurious | (adjective) showing absence of intellectual inquisitiveness or natural curiosity | - |
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| industrious | (adjective) characterized by hard work and perseverance | Synonyms: hardworking, tireless, untiring |
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| (adjective) working hard to promote an enterprise | Synonyms: energetic, gumptious, up-and-coming |
| inferior | (adjective) written or printed below and to one side of another character | Synonyms: subscript |
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| (adjective) of or characteristic of low rank or importance | - |
| (adjective) of low or inferior quality | - |
| (adjective) having an orbit between the sun and the Earth's orbit | - |
| (adjective) lower than a given reference point | - |
| (adjective) falling short of some prescribed norm | Synonyms: deficient, substandard |
| inglorious | (adjective) not bringing honor and glory | - |
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| (adjective) (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame | Synonyms: black, disgraceful, ignominious, opprobrious, shameful |
| injurious | (adjective) harmful to living things | Synonyms: deleterious, hurtful |
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| insalubrious | (adjective) detrimental to health | Synonyms: unhealthful, unhealthy |
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| interior | (adjective) situated within or suitable for inside a building | - |
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| (adjective) inside the country | Synonyms: home, internal, national |
| (adjective) of or coming from the middle of a region or country | Synonyms: midland, upcountry |
| (adjective) inside and toward a center | - |
| (adjective) located inward | Synonyms: inner, internal |
| laborious | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, operose, punishing, toilsome |
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| lugubrious | (adjective) excessively mournful | - |
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| luxurious | (adjective) displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses | Synonyms: epicurean, luxuriant, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous |
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| (adjective) ostentatiously rich and superior in quality | Synonyms: deluxe, gilded, grand, lush, opulent, princely, sumptuous |
| meritorious | (adjective) deserving reward or praise | Synonyms: meritable |
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| multifarious | (adjective) having many aspects or qualities | Synonyms: many-sided, miscellaneous, multifaceted |
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| mysterious | (adjective) having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding | Synonyms: mystic, mystical, occult, orphic, secret |
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| (adjective) of an obscure nature | Synonyms: cryptic, cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mystifying |
| nefarious | (adjective) extremely wicked | Synonyms: villainous |
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| nongregarious | (adjective) of plants and animals; not growing or living in groups or colonies | Synonyms: nonsocial, solitary |
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| nonperiodic | (adjective) not recurring at regular intervals | Synonyms: aperiodic |
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| notorious | (adjective) known widely and usually unfavorably | Synonyms: ill-famed, infamous |
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| omnifarious | (adjective) of all varieties or forms or kinds | - |
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| opprobrious | (adjective) (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame | Synonyms: black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, shameful |
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| (adjective) expressing offensive reproach | Synonyms: abusive, scurrilous |
| overcurious | (adjective) showing excessive curiosity | - |
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| overserious | (adjective) excessively serious | - |
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| patriotic | (adjective) inspired by love for your country | Synonyms: loyal |
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| penurious | (adjective) not having enough money to pay for necessities | Synonyms: hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, pinched |
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| (adjective) excessively unwilling to spend | Synonyms: parsimonious |
| periodic | (adjective) happening or recurring at regular intervals | Synonyms: periodical |
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| (adjective) recurring or reappearing from time to time | Synonyms: occasional |
| periodical | (adjective) happening or recurring at regular intervals | Synonyms: periodic |
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| periodontal | (adjective) of or relating to or involving or practicing periodontics | Synonyms: periodontic |
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| periodontic | (adjective) of or relating to or involving or practicing periodontics | Synonyms: periodontal |
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| posterior | (adjective) located at or near or behind a part or near the end of a structure | - |
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| (adjective) coming at a subsequent time or stage | Synonyms: later, ulterior |
| precarious | (adjective) fraught with danger | Synonyms: parlous, perilous, touch-and-go |
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| (adjective) not secure; beset with difficulties | Synonyms: shaky |
| (adjective) affording no ease or reassurance | Synonyms: unstable |
| prior | (adjective) earlier in time | Synonyms: anterior |
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| proprioceptive | (adjective) of or relating to proprioception | - |
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| riotous | (adjective) produced or growing in extreme abundance | Synonyms: exuberant, lush, luxuriant, profuse |
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| (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, profligate |
| (adjective) characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination | Synonyms: disruptive, troubled, tumultuous, turbulent |
| salubrious | (adjective) promoting health; healthful | Synonyms: good for you, healthy |
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| (adjective) favorable to health of mind or body | - |
| septrional | (adjective) of northern regions; from the seven stars (or seven plowing oxen) of Ursa Major | - |
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| seriocomic | (adjective) mixing the serious with the comic with comic predominating | Synonyms: seriocomical |
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| seriocomical | (adjective) mixing the serious with the comic with comic predominating | Synonyms: seriocomic |
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| serious | (adjective) concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities | - |
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| (adjective) completely lacking in playfulness | Synonyms: sober, unplayful |
| (adjective) causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm | Synonyms: dangerous, grave, grievous, life-threatening, severe |
| (adjective) requiring effort or concentration; complex and not easy to answer or solve | - |
| (adjective) of great consequence | - |
| (adjective) appealing to the mind | Synonyms: good |
| soteriological | (adjective) of or relating to soteriology | - |
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| spurious | (adjective) false or fake; not what it appears to be | Synonyms: inauthentic, unauthentic |
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| (adjective) plausible but false | Synonyms: specious |
| (adjective) born out of wedlock | Synonyms: bastardly, misbegot, misbegotten |
| (adjective) ostensibly valid, but not actually valid | - |
| superior | (adjective) written or printed above and to one side of another character | Synonyms: superscript |
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| (adjective) of or characteristic of high rank or importance | - |
| (adjective) of high or superior quality or performance | - |
| (adjective) having an orbit farther from the sun than the Earth's orbit | - |
| (adjective) (sometimes followed by `to') not subject to or influenced by | - |
| (adjective) having a higher rank | Synonyms: higher-ranking, ranking |
| (adjective) (often followed by `to') above being affected or influenced by | - |
| superpatriotic | (adjective) fanatically patriotic | Synonyms: chauvinistic, flag-waving, jingoistic, nationalistic, ultranationalistic |
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| temerarious | (adjective) presumptuously daring | Synonyms: daredevil |
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| tenebrious | (adjective) dark and gloomy | Synonyms: tenebrific, tenebrous |
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| ulterior | (adjective) lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed) | Synonyms: subterranean, subterraneous |
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| (adjective) beyond or outside an area of immediate interest; remote | - |
| (adjective) coming at a subsequent time or stage | Synonyms: later, posterior |
| ungregarious | (adjective) (of animals) not gregarious | - |
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| (adjective) (of plants) growing together in groups that are not close together | - |
| (adjective) not disposed to seek company | - |
| unmeritorious | (adjective) without merit | - |
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| unpatriotic | (adjective) showing lack of love for your country | Synonyms: disloyal |
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| uproarious | (adjective) marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter | Synonyms: hilarious, screaming |
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| (adjective) uncontrollably noisy | Synonyms: rackety, rip-roaring |
| usurious | (adjective) greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation | Synonyms: exorbitant, extortionate, outrageous, steep, unconscionable |
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| uxorious | (adjective) foolishly fond of or submissive to your wife | - |
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| vainglorious | (adjective) feeling self-importance | Synonyms: big, swelled |
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| variolar | (adjective) relating to small pox | Synonyms: variolic, variolous |
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| variolic | (adjective) relating to small pox | Synonyms: variolar, variolous |
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| variolous | (adjective) relating to small pox | Synonyms: variolar, variolic |
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| various | (adjective) distinctly dissimilar or unlike | Synonyms: diverse |
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| (adjective) considered individually | Synonyms: respective, several |
| (adjective) of many different kinds purposefully arranged but lacking any uniformity | Synonyms: assorted |
| (adjective) having great diversity or variety | Synonyms: versatile |
| vibrionic | (adjective) caused by bacteria of the genus Vibrio | - |
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| vicarious | (adjective) occurring in an abnormal part of the body instead of the usual site involved in that function | - |
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| (adjective) suffered or done by one person as a substitute for another | - |
| (adjective) experienced at secondhand | - |
| victorious | (adjective) having won | Synonyms: winning |
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| (adjective) experiencing triumph | Synonyms: triumphant |
| vitriolic | (adjective) of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action | Synonyms: caustic, corrosive, erosive, mordant |
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| (adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent |
| warriorlike | (adjective) (of persons) befitting a warrior | Synonyms: martial, soldierlike, soldierly |
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