| apomictical | (adjective) of or relating to a plant that reproduces by apomixis | Synonyms: apomictic |
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| aponeurotic | (adjective) of or relating to an aponeurosis | - |
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| apopemptic | (adjective) addressed to one who is departing | - |
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| apophatic | (adjective) of or relating to the belief that God can be known to humans only in terms of what He is not (such as `God is unknowable') | - |
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| apoplectic | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of apoplexy | - |
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| apoplectiform | (adjective) resembling apoplexy | Synonyms: apoplectoid |
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| apoplectoid | (adjective) resembling apoplexy | Synonyms: apoplectiform |
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| aposiopetic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of aposiopesis | - |
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| apostate | (adjective) not faithful to religion or party or cause | - |
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| apostolic | (adjective) of or relating to or deriving from the Apostles or their teachings | Synonyms: apostolical |
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| (adjective) proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles | Synonyms: apostolical, papal, pontifical |
| apostolical | (adjective) of or relating to or deriving from the Apostles or their teachings | Synonyms: apostolic |
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| (adjective) proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles | Synonyms: apostolic, papal, pontifical |
| apostrophic | (adjective) of or characteristic of apostrophe | - |
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| apothecial | (adjective) of or relating to the apothecium of some lichens and fungi | - |
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| apothegmatic | (adjective) given to or characterized by terse apothegms | Synonyms: apothegmatical |
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| (adjective) terse and witty and like a maxim | Synonyms: aphoristic, epigrammatic |
| apothegmatical | (adjective) given to or characterized by terse apothegms | Synonyms: apothegmatic |
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| apotropaic | (adjective) having the power to prevent evil or bad luck | - |
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| apparent | (adjective) clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment | Synonyms: evident, manifest, palpable, patent, plain, unmistakable |
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| (adjective) appearing as such but not necessarily so | Synonyms: ostensible, seeming |
| apparitional | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a phantom | Synonyms: ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual |
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| appellant | (adjective) of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals) | Synonyms: appellate |
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| appellate | (adjective) of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals) | Synonyms: appellant |
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| appellative | (adjective) pertaining to or dealing with or used as a common noun | - |
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| (adjective) inclined to or serving for the giving of names | Synonyms: naming |
| appendant | (adjective) affixed as an appendage | - |
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| apperceptive | (adjective) able to relate new percepts to past experience | - |
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| appetent | (adjective) marked by eager desire | - |
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| appetising | (adjective) appealing to or stimulating the appetite especially in appearance or aroma | Synonyms: appetizing |
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| appetitive | (adjective) of or relating to appetite | - |
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| appetizing | (adjective) appealing to or stimulating the appetite especially in appearance or aroma | Synonyms: appetising |
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| applicative | (adjective) readily applicable or practical | Synonyms: applicatory |
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| applicatory | (adjective) readily applicable or practical | Synonyms: applicative |
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| appointed | (adjective) subject to appointment | Synonyms: appointive |
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| (adjective) selected for a job | - |
| (adjective) provided with furnishing and accessories (especially of a tasteful kind) | - |
| (adjective) fixed or established especially by order or command | Synonyms: decreed, ordained, prescribed |
| appointive | (adjective) subject to appointment | Synonyms: appointed |
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| (adjective) relating to the act of appointing | - |
| apportionable | (adjective) capable of being distributed | Synonyms: allocable, allocatable |
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| apportioned | (adjective) given out in portions | Synonyms: dealt out, doled out, meted out, parceled out |
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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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| appreciated | (adjective) fully understood or grasped | Synonyms: apprehended, comprehended |
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| appreciative | (adjective) having or showing appreciation or a favorable critical judgment or opinion | - |
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| (adjective) feeling or expressive of gratitude | - |
| apprenticed | (adjective) bound by contract | Synonyms: articled, bound, indentured |
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| approbative | (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: affirmative, approbatory, approving, plausive |
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| approbatory | (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: affirmative, approbative, approving, plausive |
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| appropriate | (adjective) suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc | - |
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| (adjective) meant or adapted for an occasion or use | Synonyms: suitable, suited |
| appropriative | (adjective) of or relating to or given to the act of taking for yourself | - |
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| approximate | (adjective) located close together | Synonyms: close together |
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| (adjective) very close in resemblance | Synonyms: near |
| (adjective) not quite exact or correct | Synonyms: approximative, rough |
| approximative | (adjective) not quite exact or correct | Synonyms: approximate, rough |
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| appurtenant | (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjunct, adjuvant, ancillary, auxiliary |
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| apractic | (adjective) having uncoordinated muscular movements, symptomatic of a CNS disorder | Synonyms: apraxic |
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| apt | (adjective) being of striking appropriateness and pertinence | Synonyms: apposite, pertinent |
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| (adjective) (usually followed by `to') naturally disposed toward | Synonyms: disposed, given, minded, tending |
| (adjective) mentally quick and resourceful | Synonyms: clever |
| (adjective) at risk of or subject to experiencing something usually unpleasant | Synonyms: liable |
| apteral | (adjective) having columns at one or both ends but not along the sides | - |
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| (adjective) (of insects) without wings | Synonyms: apterous |
| apterous | (adjective) (of insects) without wings | Synonyms: apteral |
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| aptitudinal | (adjective) of or relating to aptitudes | - |
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| aquacultural | (adjective) of or relating to aquiculture | Synonyms: aquicultural, hydroponic |
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| aquatic | (adjective) operating or living or growing in water | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or consisting of or being in water | - |
| aquicultural | (adjective) of or relating to aquiculture | Synonyms: aquacultural, hydroponic |
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| arbitrable | (adjective) appropriate for or subject to settlement by arbitration | - |
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| arbitral | (adjective) relating to or resulting from arbitration | Synonyms: arbitrational |
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| arbitrary | (adjective) based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice | - |
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| arbitrational | (adjective) relating to or resulting from arbitration | Synonyms: arbitral |
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| arbitrative | (adjective) relating to or having the authority to arbitrate | - |
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| arborescent | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
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| archaistic | (adjective) imitative of an archaic style or manner | - |
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| archegoniate | (adjective) of or relating to an archegonium | Synonyms: archegonial |
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| archetypal | (adjective) representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned | Synonyms: archetypical, prototypal, prototypic, prototypical |
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| archetypical | (adjective) representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned | Synonyms: archetypal, prototypal, prototypic, prototypical |
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| architectonic | (adjective) of or pertaining to construction or architecture | Synonyms: tectonic |
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| architectural | (adjective) of or pertaining to the art and science of architecture | - |
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| arctic | (adjective) extremely cold | Synonyms: frigid, gelid, glacial, icy, polar |
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| arcuate | (adjective) forming or resembling an arch | Synonyms: arced, arched, arching, arciform, bowed |
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| ardent | (adjective) glowing or shining like fire | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by strong enthusiasm | Synonyms: warm |
| (adjective) characterized by intense emotion | Synonyms: fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid |
| areolate | (adjective) relating to or like or divided into areolae | Synonyms: areolar |
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| argent | (adjective) of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver | Synonyms: silver, silverish, silvery |
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| argentic | (adjective) relating to compounds in which silver is bivalent | - |
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| argentiferous | (adjective) containing or yielding silver | - |
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| argentous | (adjective) relating to compounds in which silver is univalent | - |
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| argumentative | (adjective) given to or characterized by argument | - |
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| arillate | (adjective) (of some seeds) having a fleshy and usually brightly colored cover | Synonyms: ariled |
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| aristocratic | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy | Synonyms: aristocratical, blue-blooded, blue, gentle, patrician |
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| aristocratical | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy | Synonyms: aristocratic, blue-blooded, blue, gentle, patrician |
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| arithmetic | (adjective) relating to or involving arithmetic | Synonyms: arithmetical |
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| arithmetical | (adjective) relating to or involving arithmetic | Synonyms: arithmetic |
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| aromatic | (adjective) (chemistry) of or relating to or containing one or more benzene rings | - |
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| (adjective) having a strong pleasant odor | Synonyms: redolent |
| arrant | (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
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| arresting | (adjective) commanding attention | Synonyms: sensational, stunning |
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| arrhythmic | (adjective) without regard for rhythm | Synonyms: arrhythmical |
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| (adjective) lacking a steady rhythm | Synonyms: jerking, jerky |
| arrhythmical | (adjective) without regard for rhythm | Synonyms: arrhythmic |
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| arrogant | (adjective) having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride | Synonyms: chesty, self-important |
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| artefactual | (adjective) of or relating to artifacts | Synonyms: artifactual |
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| arterial | (adjective) of or involving or contained in the arteries | - |
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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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| artesian | (adjective) (of water) rising to the surface under internal hydrostatic pressure | - |
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| artful | (adjective) marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft | - |
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| (adjective) not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness | Synonyms: disingenuous |
| arthralgic | (adjective) of or relating to arthralgia | - |
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| arthritic | (adjective) of or pertaining to arthritis | Synonyms: creaky, rheumatic, rheumatoid, rheumy |
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| arthromeric | (adjective) of or relating to one of the body segments of jointed animals | - |
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| arthropodal | (adjective) of or relating to invertebrates of the phylum Arthropoda | Synonyms: arthropodan, arthropodous |
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| arthropodan | (adjective) of or relating to invertebrates of the phylum Arthropoda | Synonyms: arthropodal, arthropodous |
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| arthropodous | (adjective) of or relating to invertebrates of the phylum Arthropoda | Synonyms: arthropodal, arthropodan |
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| arthrosporic | (adjective) of or relating to arthrospores | Synonyms: arthrosporous |
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