| abasic | (adjective) of or relating to abasia (inability to walk) | Synonyms: abatic |
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| abdominovesical | (adjective) of or relating to the abdomen and the urinary bladder | - |
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| abrasive | (adjective) sharply disagreeable; rigorous | Synonyms: harsh |
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| (adjective) causing abrasion | Synonyms: scratchy |
| abusive | (adjective) characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment | - |
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| (adjective) expressing offensive reproach | Synonyms: opprobrious, scurrilous |
| accessible | (adjective) capable of being reached | - |
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| (adjective) easy to get along with or talk to; friendly | - |
| (adjective) easily obtained | - |
| (adjective) capable of being read with comprehension | Synonyms: approachable |
| accessional | (adjective) of or constituting an accession | - |
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| accusing | (adjective) containing or expressing accusation | Synonyms: accusative, accusatory, accusive |
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| accusive | (adjective) containing or expressing accusation | Synonyms: accusative, accusatory, accusing |
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| acquisitive | (adjective) eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas | - |
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| adhesive | (adjective) tending to adhere | - |
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| admissible | (adjective) deserving to be admitted | - |
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| admissive | (adjective) characterized by or allowing admission | - |
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| aggressive | (adjective) having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight | Synonyms: belligerent |
| (adjective) tending to spread quickly | Synonyms: fast-growing, strong-growing |
| agonising | (adjective) extremely painful | Synonyms: agonizing, excruciating, harrowing, torturesome, torturing, torturous |
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| airsick | (adjective) experiencing motion sickness | Synonyms: air sick, carsick, seasick |
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| allusive | (adjective) characterized by indirect references | - |
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| altissimo | (adjective) very high | - |
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| ambiversive | (adjective) intermediate between introversive and extroversive | - |
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| ambrosial | (adjective) worthy of the gods | Synonyms: ambrosian |
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| (adjective) extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant | Synonyms: ambrosian, nectarous |
| ambrosian | (adjective) worthy of the gods | Synonyms: ambrosial |
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| (adjective) extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant | Synonyms: ambrosial, nectarous |
| amnesiac | (adjective) suffering from a partial loss of memory | Synonyms: amnesic |
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| amnesic | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by amnesia | Synonyms: amnestic |
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| (adjective) suffering from a partial loss of memory | Synonyms: amnesiac |
| amusing | (adjective) arousing or provoking laughter | Synonyms: comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible |
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| (adjective) providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining | Synonyms: amusive, diverting |
| amusive | (adjective) providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining | Synonyms: amusing, diverting |
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| analgesic | (adjective) capable of relieving pain | Synonyms: analgetic, anodyne |
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| anaphasic | (adjective) of or related to the stage of mitosis known as anaphase | - |
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| anaphrodisiac | (adjective) tending to diminish sexual desire | - |
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| aphasic | (adjective) related to or affected by aphasia | - |
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| (adjective) unable to speak because of a brain lesion | - |
| aphrodisiac | (adjective) stimulating sexual desire | Synonyms: aphrodisiacal, sexy |
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| aphrodisiacal | (adjective) stimulating sexual desire | Synonyms: aphrodisiac, sexy |
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| aposiopetic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of aposiopesis | - |
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| appeasing | (adjective) intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions | Synonyms: placating, placative, placatory |
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| appetising | (adjective) appealing to or stimulating the appetite especially in appearance or aroma | Synonyms: appetizing |
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| apposite | (adjective) being of striking appropriateness and pertinence | Synonyms: apt, pertinent |
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| appositional | (adjective) relating to or being in apposition | Synonyms: appositive |
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| appositive | (adjective) relating to or being in apposition | Synonyms: appositional |
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| appraising | (adjective) exercising or involving careful evaluations | Synonyms: evaluative |
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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 |
| apsidal | (adjective) of or relating to an apse | - |
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| artesian | (adjective) (of water) rising to the surface under internal hydrostatic pressure | - |
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| ascensional | (adjective) tending to rise | - |
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| ascensive | (adjective) tending or directed upward | Synonyms: ascendant, ascendent |
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| asinine | (adjective) extremely silly or stupid | Synonyms: fatuous, inane |
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| assassinated | (adjective) murdered by surprise attack for political reasons | - |
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| assiduous | (adjective) marked by care and persistent effort | Synonyms: sedulous |
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| assignable | (adjective) legally transferable to the ownership of another | Synonyms: conveyable, negotiable, transferable, transferrable |
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| assigned | (adjective) appointed to a post or duty | - |
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| assimilable | (adjective) able to be absorbed and incorporated into body tissues | - |
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| assimilating | (adjective) capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution | Synonyms: assimilative, assimilatory |
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| assimilative | (adjective) capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution | Synonyms: assimilating, assimilatory |
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| (adjective) capable of mentally absorbing | - |
| assimilatory | (adjective) capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution | Synonyms: assimilating, assimilative |
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| assistant | (adjective) of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another | Synonyms: adjunct |
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| assisted | (adjective) having help; often used as a combining form | Synonyms: aided |
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| assistive | (adjective) giving assistance | - |
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| assuasive | (adjective) freeing from fear and anxiety | Synonyms: soothing |
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| astrophysical | (adjective) of or concerned with astrophysics | - |
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| aversive | (adjective) tending to repel or dissuade | - |
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| banausic | (adjective) (formal) ordinary and not refined | - |
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| basic | (adjective) pertaining to or constituting a base or basis | - |
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| (adjective) of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base | - |
| (adjective) reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality | Synonyms: canonic, canonical |
| (adjective) serving as a base or starting point | Synonyms: introductory |
| basidial | (adjective) relating to or characterized by basidia | - |
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| basidiomycetous | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of fungi of the class Basidiomycetes | - |
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| basidiosporous | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by spores produced by basidia | - |
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| basifixed | (adjective) attached by its base (as certain anthers to their filaments or stalks) | - |
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| basilar | (adjective) of or relating to or located at the base | Synonyms: basilary |
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| basilary | (adjective) of or relating to or located at the base | Synonyms: basilar |
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| basilican | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a basilica | - |
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| basinal | (adjective) of or relating to a basin | - |
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| basined | (adjective) enclosed in a basin | - |
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| basipetal | (adjective) of leaves or flowers; developing or opening in succession from apex to base | - |
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| basiscopic | (adjective) facing or on the side toward the base | - |
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| besieged | (adjective) surrounded by hostile forces | - |
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| brainsick | (adjective) affected with madness or insanity | Synonyms: crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged |
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| broadside | (adjective) toward a full side | - |
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| bruising | (adjective) brutally forceful and compelling | - |
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| (adjective) causing mental or emotional injury | - |
| bursiform | (adjective) shaped like a pouch | Synonyms: pouch-shaped, pouchlike, saclike |
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| businesslike | (adjective) exhibiting methodical and systematic characteristics that would be useful in business | - |
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| (adjective) not distracted by anything unrelated to the goal | Synonyms: earnest |
| carnassial | (adjective) (of a tooth) adapted for shearing flesh | - |
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| carousing | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalian, bacchic, orgiastic |
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| carsick | (adjective) experiencing motion sickness | Synonyms: air sick, airsick, seasick |
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| cellulosid | (adjective) of or containing or made from cellulose | - |
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| centesimal | (adjective) relating to or divided into hundredths | - |
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| (adjective) the ordinal number of one hundred in counting order | Synonyms: 100th, hundredth |
| centralising | (adjective) tending to draw to a central point | Synonyms: centralizing |
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| classic | (adjective) of or relating to the first significant period of a civilization, culture, area of study, etc. | Synonyms: classical |
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| (adjective) considered of the highest quality and lasting significance or worth | - |
| (adjective) well-known and long-established in form or style | Synonyms: classical |
| (adjective) of a well-known type; remarkably typical | - |
| classical | (adjective) of or relating to the first significant period of a civilization, culture, area of study, etc. | Synonyms: classic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to the languages used by ancient standard authors | - |
| (adjective) well-known and long-established in form or style | Synonyms: classic |
| (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially their art, literature, or culture | Synonyms: Graeco-Roman, Greco-Roman |
| (adjective) of or relating to music in the European tradition, such as symphonies and operas | - |
| (adjective) (physics) relating to or based on concepts that preceded the theories of relativity and quantum mechanics | - |
| classicistic | (adjective) of or relating to classicism | - |
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| classifiable | (adjective) capable of being classified | Synonyms: distinctive |
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| classificatory | (adjective) relating to or involving classification | - |
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| classified | (adjective) arranged into classes | - |
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| (adjective) official classification of information or documents; withheld from general circulation | - |
| cleansing | (adjective) acting like an antiseptic | Synonyms: purifying |
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| (adjective) cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of e.g. hands | Synonyms: ablutionary |
| closing | (adjective) final or ending | - |
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| coextensive | (adjective) being of equal extent or scope or duration | Synonyms: conterminous, coterminous |
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| cohesive | (adjective) causing cohesion | - |
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| (adjective) cohering or tending to cohere; well integrated | - |
| collapsible | (adjective) capable of collapsing or being collapsed | Synonyms: collapsable |
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| collusive | (adjective) acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end | Synonyms: conniving |
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| commissioned | (adjective) (of military officers) holding by virtue of a commission a rank of second lieutenant or ensign or above | - |
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| (adjective) given official approval to act | Synonyms: accredited, licenced, licensed |
| commonsensible | (adjective) exhibiting native good judgment | Synonyms: commonsense, commonsensical |
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| commonsensical | (adjective) exhibiting native good judgment | Synonyms: commonsense, commonsensible |
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| compassionate | (adjective) showing or having compassion | - |
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| composite | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Compositae | - |
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| (adjective) consisting of separate interconnected parts | - |