| 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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| abstruse | (adjective) difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge | Synonyms: deep, recondite |
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| administrable | (adjective) capable of being administered or managed | - |
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| administrative | (adjective) of or relating to or responsible for administration | - |
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| alabastrine | (adjective) of or resembling alabaster | Synonyms: alabaster |
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| alpestrine | (adjective) growing at high altitudes | Synonyms: subalpine |
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| ancestral | (adjective) of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor | - |
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| (adjective) inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent | Synonyms: hereditary, patrimonial, transmissible |
| anestric | (adjective) of or relating to anestrus | Synonyms: anestrous, anoestrous |
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| anestrous | (adjective) (of lower mammals) not in a state of estrus; not in heat | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to anestrus | Synonyms: anestric, anoestrous |
| anoestrous | (adjective) of or relating to anestrus | Synonyms: anestric, anestrous |
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| antistrophic | (adjective) of or relating to an antistrophe | - |
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| apostrophic | (adjective) of or characteristic of apostrophe | - |
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| astragalar | (adjective) of or relating to the anklebone | - |
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| astral | (adjective) being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars | Synonyms: stellar |
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| astringent | (adjective) tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue | - |
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| (adjective) sour or bitter in taste | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic |
| astrocytic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing large star-shaped cells in the neuroglia | - |
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| astrological | (adjective) relating to or concerned with astrology | - |
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| astronautic | (adjective) of or belonging to astronauts or the science of astronautics | Synonyms: astronautical |
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| astronautical | (adjective) of or belonging to astronauts or the science of astronautics | Synonyms: astronautic |
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| astronomic | (adjective) relating or belonging to the science of astronomy | Synonyms: astronomical |
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| (adjective) inconceivably large | Synonyms: astronomical, galactic |
| astronomical | (adjective) relating or belonging to the science of astronomy | Synonyms: astronomic |
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| (adjective) inconceivably large | Synonyms: astronomic, galactic |
| astrophysical | (adjective) of or concerned with astrophysics | - |
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| austral | (adjective) of the south or coming from the south | - |
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| australopithecine | (adjective) of or belonging to the hominid genus Australopithecus | - |
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| awestricken | (adjective) having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread | Synonyms: awed, awestruck |
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| awestruck | (adjective) having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread | Synonyms: awed, awestricken |
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| bimestrial | (adjective) two months long; lasting two months | - |
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| (adjective) occurring every two months | Synonyms: bimonthly |
| bistred | (adjective) colored with or as if with bister | Synonyms: bistered |
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| bistroic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a bistro | - |
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| boustrophedonic | (adjective) of or relating to writing alternate lines in opposite directions | - |
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| cadastral | (adjective) of or relating to the records of a cadastre | - |
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| campestral | (adjective) of fields or open country | - |
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| castrated | (adjective) deprived of sexual capacity or sexual attributes | Synonyms: unsexed |
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| catastrophic | (adjective) extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin | Synonyms: ruinous |
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| claustrophobic | (adjective) suffering from claustrophobia; abnormally afraid of closed-in places | - |
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| (adjective) uncomfortably closed or hemmed in | - |
| cloistral | (adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistered, conventual, monastic, monastical |
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| constrained | (adjective) lacking spontaneity; not natural | Synonyms: forced, strained |
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| constraining | (adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: confining, constrictive, limiting, restricting |
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| constricted | (adjective) drawn together or squeezed physically or by extension psychologically | - |
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| (adjective) especially tense; especially in some dialects | - |
| constricting | (adjective) (of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom | Synonyms: constrictive, narrowing |
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| constrictive | (adjective) (of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom | Synonyms: constricting, narrowing |
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| (adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: confining, constraining, limiting, restricting |
| constructive | (adjective) constructing or tending to construct or improve or promote development | - |
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| (adjective) emphasizing what is laudable or hopeful or to the good | - |
| deconstructionist | (adjective) of or concerned with the philosophical theory of literature known as deconstructionism | - |
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| demonstrable | (adjective) necessarily or demonstrably true | Synonyms: incontrovertible |
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| (adjective) capable of being demonstrated or proved | Synonyms: provable |
| demonstrated | (adjective) having been demonstrated or verified beyond doubt | - |
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| demonstrative | (adjective) given to or marked by the open expression of emotion | - |
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| (adjective) serving to demonstrate | Synonyms: illustrative |
| destroyable | (adjective) capable of being destroyed | - |
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| destroyed | (adjective) spoiled or ruined or demolished | - |
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| (adjective) destroyed physically or morally | Synonyms: ruined |
| destructible | (adjective) easily destroyed | - |
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| destructive | (adjective) causing destruction or much damage | - |
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| diestrous | (adjective) (of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity | Synonyms: diestrual, dioestrous, dioestrual |
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| diestrual | (adjective) (of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity | Synonyms: diestrous, dioestrous, dioestrual |
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| dioestrous | (adjective) (of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity | Synonyms: diestrous, diestrual, dioestrual |
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| dioestrual | (adjective) (of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity | Synonyms: diestrous, diestrual, dioestrous |
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| disastrous | (adjective) (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin | Synonyms: black, calamitous, fatal, fateful |
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| distracted | (adjective) having the attention diverted especially because of anxiety | Synonyms: distrait |
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| distrait | (adjective) having the attention diverted especially because of anxiety | Synonyms: distracted |
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| distraught | (adjective) deeply agitated especially from emotion | Synonyms: overwrought |
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| distressed | (adjective) generalized feeling of distress | Synonyms: dysphoric, unhappy |
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| (adjective) facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty | Synonyms: hard-pressed, hard put, in a bad way |
| (adjective) afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief | Synonyms: disquieted, disturbed, upset, worried |
| (adjective) suffering severe physical strain or distress | Synonyms: stressed |
| distressful | (adjective) causing distress or worry or anxiety | Synonyms: distressing, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying |
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| distressing | (adjective) bad; unfortunate | Synonyms: deplorable, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry |
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| (adjective) causing distress or worry or anxiety | Synonyms: distressful, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying |
| distributed | (adjective) spread out or scattered about or divided up | - |
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| distributional | (adjective) of or relating to spatial distribution | - |
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| distributive | (adjective) serving to distribute or allot or disperse | - |
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| distrustful | (adjective) having or showing distrust | - |
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| downstream | (adjective) in the direction of a stream's current | - |
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| dumbstricken | (adjective) as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise | Synonyms: dumbfounded, dumbstruck, dumfounded, flabbergasted, stupefied, thunderstruck |
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| dumbstruck | (adjective) as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise | Synonyms: dumbfounded, dumbstricken, dumfounded, flabbergasted, stupefied, thunderstruck |
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| epigastric | (adjective) lying on or over the stomach | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the anterior walls of the abdomen | - |
| equestrian | (adjective) of or relating to or featuring horseback riding | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or composed of knights | - |
| estranged | (adjective) caused to be unloved | Synonyms: alienated |
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| estranging | (adjective) making one feel out of place or alienated | - |
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| estrogenic | (adjective) relating to or caused by estrogen | - |
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| estrous | (adjective) (of lower mammals) showing or in a state of estrus; in heat | - |
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| extraterrestrial | (adjective) originating or located or occurring outside Earth or its atmosphere | - |
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| fenestral | (adjective) of or relating to windows | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or having a fenestra | - |
| frustrated | (adjective) disappointingly unsuccessful | Synonyms: defeated, disappointed, discomfited, foiled, thwarted |
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| frustrating | (adjective) discouraging by hindering | - |
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| (adjective) preventing realization or attainment of a desire | Synonyms: frustrative, thwarting |
| frustrative | (adjective) preventing realization or attainment of a desire | Synonyms: frustrating, thwarting |
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| gastric | (adjective) relating to or involving the stomach | Synonyms: stomachal, stomachic |
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| gastroduodenal | (adjective) of or relating to the stomach and the duodenum | - |
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| gastroesophageal | (adjective) of or relating to or involving the stomach and esophagus | - |
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| gastrointestinal | (adjective) of or relating to the stomach and intestines | Synonyms: GI |
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| gastronomic | (adjective) of or relating to gastronomy | Synonyms: gastronomical |
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| gastronomical | (adjective) of or relating to gastronomy | Synonyms: gastronomic |
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| geostrategic | (adjective) of or relating to geostrategy | - |
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| headstrong | (adjective) habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition | Synonyms: froward, self-willed, wilful, willful |
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| histrionic | (adjective) characteristic of acting or a stage performance; often affected | Synonyms: melodramatic |
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| illustrative | (adjective) clarifying by use of examples | Synonyms: exemplifying |
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| (adjective) serving to demonstrate | Synonyms: demonstrative |
| illustrious | (adjective) having or conferring glory | - |
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| (adjective) widely known and esteemed | Synonyms: celebrated, famed, famous, far-famed, notable, noted, renowned |
| indestructible | (adjective) not easily destroyed | - |
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| (adjective) very long lasting | Synonyms: durable, perdurable, undestroyable |
| industrial | (adjective) having highly developed industries | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or resulting from industry | - |
| (adjective) employed in industry | - |
| (adjective) suitable to stand up to hard wear | - |
| industrialised | (adjective) made industrial; converted to industrialism | Synonyms: industrialized |
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| industrialized | (adjective) made industrial; converted to industrialism | Synonyms: industrialised |
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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 |
| instructional | (adjective) of or relating to or used in instruction | - |
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| instructive | (adjective) serving to instruct or enlighten or inform | Synonyms: informative |
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