| absurd | (adjective) so unreasonable as to invite derision | Synonyms: cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous |
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| (adjective) inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense | - |
| antisubmarine | (adjective) defensive against enemy submarines | - |
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| assuasive | (adjective) freeing from fear and anxiety | Synonyms: soothing |
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| assumed | (adjective) adopted in order to deceive | Synonyms: false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham |
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| assuming | (adjective) excessively forward | Synonyms: assumptive, presumptuous |
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| assumptive | (adjective) accepted as real or true without proof | - |
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| (adjective) excessively forward | Synonyms: assuming, presumptuous |
| assured | (adjective) marked by assurance; exhibiting confidence | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by certainty or security | - |
| assurgent | (adjective) growing or extending upward | - |
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| (adjective) rising from the sea | - |
| assuring | (adjective) giving confidence | - |
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| asunder | (adjective) widely separated especially in space | - |
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| audiovisual | (adjective) involving both hearing and seeing (usually relating to teaching aids) | - |
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| bicapsular | (adjective) divided into two capsules or having a two-part capsule | - |
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| bisulcate | (adjective) (used of hooves) split, divided | Synonyms: cloven |
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| bloodsucking | (adjective) drawing blood from the body of another | - |
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| (adjective) of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another | Synonyms: leechlike, parasitic, parasitical |
| caesural | (adjective) of or relating to a caesura | - |
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| capsular | (adjective) of or relating to a capsule | - |
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| (adjective) resembling a capsule | - |
| capsulate | (adjective) used of seeds or spores that are enclosed in a capsule | Synonyms: capsulated |
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| capsulated | (adjective) used of seeds or spores that are enclosed in a capsule | Synonyms: capsulate |
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| casual | (adjective) hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough | Synonyms: cursory, passing, perfunctory, superficial |
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| (adjective) not showing effort or strain | Synonyms: effortless |
| (adjective) occurring on a temporary or irregular basis | Synonyms: occasional |
| (adjective) marked by blithe unconcern | Synonyms: insouciant, nonchalant |
| (adjective) appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions | Synonyms: daily, everyday |
| (adjective) occurring or appearing or singled out by chance | Synonyms: chance |
| (adjective) natural and unstudied | Synonyms: free-and-easy |
| (adjective) characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility | Synonyms: fooling |
| (adjective) without or seeming to be without plan or method; offhand | - |
| casuistic | (adjective) of or relating to the use of ethical principles to resolve moral problems | Synonyms: casuistical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or practicing casuistry | Synonyms: casuistical |
| casuistical | (adjective) of or relating to the use of ethical principles to resolve moral problems | Synonyms: casuistic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or practicing casuistry | Synonyms: casuistic |
| censurable | (adjective) deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious | Synonyms: blamable, blameable, blameful, blameworthy, culpable |
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| cocksure | (adjective) marked by excessive confidence | Synonyms: overconfident, positive |
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| commensurable | (adjective) capable of being measured by a common standard | - |
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| commensurate | (adjective) corresponding in size or degree or extent | - |
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| consensual | (adjective) existing by consent | - |
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| consubstantial | (adjective) regarded as the same in substance or essence (as of the three persons of the Trinity) | - |
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| consular | (adjective) having to do with a consul or his office or duties | - |
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| consultative | (adjective) giving advice | Synonyms: advisory, consultatory, consultive |
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| consultatory | (adjective) giving advice | Synonyms: advisory, consultative, consultive |
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| consultive | (adjective) giving advice | Synonyms: advisory, consultative, consultatory |
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| consumable | (adjective) may be used up | - |
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| consuming | (adjective) very strong; urgently felt | Synonyms: overwhelming |
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| consummate | (adjective) perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities | Synonyms: complete |
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| (adjective) having or revealing supreme mastery or skill | Synonyms: masterful, masterly, virtuoso |
| (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
| consummated | (adjective) brought to completion | - |
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| consumptive | (adjective) tending to consume or use often wastefully | - |
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| (adjective) afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis | - |
| counterinsurgent | (adjective) of or relating or characteristic of actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency | - |
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| desultory | (adjective) marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose; jumping from one thing to another | - |
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| dissuasive | (adjective) deterring from action | - |
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| disunited | (adjective) having been divided; having the unity destroyed | Synonyms: disconnected, fragmented, split |
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| disused | (adjective) no longer in use | Synonyms: obsolete |
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| ensuant | (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, attendant, collateral, concomitant, consequent, incidental, resultant, sequent |
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| ensuing | (adjective) following immediately and as a result of what went before | - |
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| esurient | (adjective) (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous | Synonyms: avid, devouring, greedy |
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| (adjective) devouring or craving food in great quantities | Synonyms: edacious, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish |
| (adjective) extremely hungry | Synonyms: famished, ravenous, sharp-set, starved |
| footsure | (adjective) not liable to stumble or fall | Synonyms: sure-footed, surefooted |
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| hirsute | (adjective) having or covered with hair | Synonyms: haired, hairy |
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| immeasurable | (adjective) impossible to measure | Synonyms: immensurable, unmeasurable |
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| (adjective) beyond calculation or measure | Synonyms: incomputable, inestimable |
| immensurable | (adjective) impossible to measure | Synonyms: immeasurable, unmeasurable |
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| immunosuppressed | (adjective) of persons whose immune response is inadequate | - |
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| immunosuppressive | (adjective) of or relating to a substance that lowers the body's normal immune response and induces immunosuppression | - |
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| incommensurable | (adjective) not having a common factor | - |
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| (adjective) impossible to measure or compare in value or size or excellence | - |
| incommensurate | (adjective) not corresponding in size or degree or extent | - |
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| insubordinate | (adjective) not submissive to authority | - |
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| (adjective) disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority | Synonyms: resistant, resistive |
| insubstantial | (adjective) lacking material form or substance; unreal | Synonyms: unreal, unsubstantial |
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| (adjective) lacking in nutritive value | - |
| (adjective) lacking solidity or strength | Synonyms: flimsy |
| insufferable | (adjective) unbearably arrogant or conceited | - |
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| (adjective) too extreme to bear | Synonyms: unsufferable |
| insufficient | (adjective) of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement | Synonyms: deficient |
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| insular | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island | - |
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| (adjective) suggestive of the isolated life of an island | - |
| (adjective) narrowly restricted in outlook or scope | Synonyms: parochial |
| insulting | (adjective) expressing extreme contempt | Synonyms: contemptuous, disdainful, scornful |
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| insuperable | (adjective) incapable of being surmounted or excelled | Synonyms: unconquerable |
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| (adjective) impossible to surmount | Synonyms: insurmountable |
| insupportable | (adjective) incapable of being justified or explained | Synonyms: indefensible, unjustifiable, unwarrantable, unwarranted |
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| insurable | (adjective) capable of being insured or eligible to be insured | - |
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| insured | (adjective) covered by insurance | - |
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| insurgent | (adjective) in opposition to a civil authority or government | Synonyms: seditious, subversive |
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| insurmountable | (adjective) not capable of being surmounted or overcome | Synonyms: unsurmountable |
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| (adjective) impossible to surmount | Synonyms: insuperable |
| insurrectional | (adjective) of or relating to or given to insurrection | Synonyms: insurrectionary |
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| insurrectionary | (adjective) of or relating to or given to insurrection | Synonyms: insurrectional |
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| insusceptible | (adjective) not susceptible to | Synonyms: unsusceptible |
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| leisured | (adjective) free from duties or responsibilities | - |
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| leisurely | (adjective) not hurried or forced | Synonyms: easy, easygoing |
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| marsupial | (adjective) of or relating to the marsupials | - |
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| measurable | (adjective) capable of being measured | Synonyms: mensurable |
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| (adjective) of distinguished importance | - |
| measured | (adjective) having notes of fixed rhythmic value | Synonyms: mensurable, mensural |
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| (adjective) carefully thought out in advance | Synonyms: calculated, deliberate |
| (adjective) the rhythmic arrangement of syllables | Synonyms: metric, metrical |
| (adjective) unhurried and with care and dignity | Synonyms: careful, deliberate |
| measureless | (adjective) without limits in extent or size or quantity | Synonyms: illimitable, limitless, unmeasured |
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| mensurable | (adjective) capable of being measured | Synonyms: measurable |
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| (adjective) having notes of fixed rhythmic value | Synonyms: measured, mensural |
| mensural | (adjective) having notes of fixed rhythmic value | Synonyms: measured, mensurable |
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| (adjective) of or relating to measure | - |
| misunderstood | (adjective) wrongly understood | - |
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| misused | (adjective) used incorrectly or carelessly or for an improper purpose | - |
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| nonsubjective | (adjective) undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena | Synonyms: objective |
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| nonsubmergible | (adjective) not submersible or submergible | Synonyms: nonsubmersible |
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| nonsubmersible | (adjective) not submersible or submergible | Synonyms: nonsubmergible |
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| nonsuppurative | (adjective) not suppurative | - |
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| nonsurgical | (adjective) not surgical | - |
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| nonvisual | (adjective) not resulting in vision | - |
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| oversubscribed | (adjective) sold in excess of available supply especially season tickets | - |
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| oversuspicious | (adjective) unduly suspicious | - |
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| peninsular | (adjective) of or forming or resembling a peninsula | - |
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| persuadable | (adjective) being susceptible to persuasion | Synonyms: convincible, persuasible, suasible |
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| persuasible | (adjective) being susceptible to persuasion | Synonyms: convincible, persuadable, suasible |
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| persuasive | (adjective) intended or having the power to induce action or belief | - |
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| pleasurable | (adjective) affording satisfaction or pleasure | Synonyms: enjoyable, gratifying |
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| presumable | (adjective) capable of being inferred on slight grounds | Synonyms: supposable, surmisable |
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| presumptive | (adjective) affording reasonable grounds for belief or acceptance | - |
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| (adjective) having a reasonable basis for belief or acceptance | - |
| presumptuous | (adjective) excessively forward | Synonyms: assuming, assumptive |
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| proconsular | (adjective) of or relating to or typical of a proconsul | - |
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| pursuant | (adjective) (followed by `to') in conformance to or agreement with | - |
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| pursued | (adjective) followed with enmity as if to harm | - |
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| pursuing | (adjective) following in order to overtake or capture or as accompaniment to such pursuit | - |
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| reassured | (adjective) having confidence restored; freed from anxiety | - |
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| reassuring | (adjective) restoring confidence and relieving anxiety | - |
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| resultant | (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, attendant, collateral, concomitant, consequent, ensuant, incidental, sequent |
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