aetiologic | (adjective) relating to the etiology of a disease | Synonyms: aetiological, etiologic, etiological |
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(adjective) of or relating to the philosophical study of causation | Synonyms: aetiological, etiologic, etiological |
aetiological | (adjective) relating to the etiology of a disease | Synonyms: aetiologic, etiologic, etiological |
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(adjective) of or relating to the philosophical study of causation | Synonyms: aetiologic, etiologic, etiological |
affecting | (adjective) arousing affect | Synonyms: poignant, touching |
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affectional | (adjective) characterized by emotion | Synonyms: affective, emotive |
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affectionate | (adjective) having or displaying warmth or affection | Synonyms: fond, lovesome, tender |
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affective | (adjective) characterized by emotion | Synonyms: affectional, emotive |
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affirmative | (adjective) affirming or giving assent | Synonyms: affirmatory |
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(adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: approbative, approbatory, approving, plausive |
(adjective) expecting the best | Synonyms: optimistic |
afflictive | (adjective) causing misery or pain or distress | Synonyms: painful, sore |
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aforementioned | (adjective) being the one previously mentioned or spoken of | Synonyms: aforesaid, said |
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agamogenetic | (adjective) (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction | Synonyms: agamic, agamous, apomictic, parthenogenetic |
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agential | (adjective) of or relating to an agent or agency | - |
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agglomerative | (adjective) clustered together but not coherent | Synonyms: agglomerate, agglomerated, clustered |
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agglutinate | (adjective) united as if by glue | Synonyms: agglutinative |
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agglutinative | (adjective) united as if by glue | Synonyms: agglutinate |
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(adjective) forming derivative or compound words by putting together constituents each of which expresses a single definite meaning | Synonyms: polysynthetic |
aggravating | (adjective) making worse | Synonyms: exacerbating, exasperating |
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aggregative | (adjective) formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole | Synonyms: aggregate, aggregated, mass |
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agitating | (adjective) causing or tending to cause anger or resentment | Synonyms: agitative, provoking |
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agitative | (adjective) causing or tending to cause anger or resentment | Synonyms: agitating, provoking |
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agnatic | (adjective) related on the father's side | Synonyms: agnate, paternal |
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agnostic | (adjective) uncertain of all claims to knowledge | Synonyms: agnostical |
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(adjective) of or pertaining to an agnostic or agnosticism | - |
agnostical | (adjective) uncertain of all claims to knowledge | Synonyms: agnostic |
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agonistic | (adjective) of or relating to the athletic contests held in ancient Greece | - |
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(adjective) struggling for effect | Synonyms: strained |
(adjective) striving to overcome in argument | Synonyms: agonistical, combative |
agonistical | (adjective) striving to overcome in argument | Synonyms: agonistic, combative |
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agranulocytic | (adjective) relating to the blood disorder of agranulocytosis | - |
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agrestic | (adjective) characteristic of the fields or country | Synonyms: rustic |
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(adjective) (of behavior) rustic and uncouth | - |
agrypnotic | (adjective) of or pertaining to agrypnia | - |
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airtight | (adjective) having no weak points | Synonyms: air-tight |
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(adjective) not allowing air or gas to pass in or out | Synonyms: air-tight, gas-tight |
albinistic | (adjective) of or pertaining to or affected by albinism | Synonyms: albinal, albinic, albinotic |
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albinotic | (adjective) of or pertaining to or affected by albinism | Synonyms: albinal, albinic, albinistic |
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albitic | (adjective) of or related to albite feldspar | - |
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alchemistic | (adjective) of or relating to alchemists | Synonyms: alchemistical |
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alchemistical | (adjective) of or relating to alchemists | Synonyms: alchemistic |
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alienating | (adjective) causing hostility or loss of friendliness | - |
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alimentative | (adjective) related to the supply of aliment | - |
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aliphatic | (adjective) having carbon atoms linked in open chains | - |
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alkahestic | (adjective) of or pertaining to the alkahest that alchemists assumed to exist | - |
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alkalotic | (adjective) marked by alkalosis (or a tendency toward alkalosis) | - |
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alleviative | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory, palliative |
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alliterative | (adjective) having the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable | - |
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alphabetic | (adjective) arranged in order according to the alphabet | Synonyms: alphabetical |
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(adjective) relating to or expressed by a writing system that uses an alphabet | Synonyms: alphabetical |
alphabetical | (adjective) arranged in order according to the alphabet | Synonyms: alphabetic |
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(adjective) relating to or expressed by a writing system that uses an alphabet | Synonyms: alphabetic |
alphabetised | (adjective) having been put in alphabetical order | Synonyms: alphabetized |
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alphabetized | (adjective) having been put in alphabetical order | Synonyms: alphabetised |
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alterative | (adjective) tending to cure or restore to health | Synonyms: curative, healing, remedial, sanative, therapeutic |
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alternating | (adjective) (of a current) reversing direction | - |
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(adjective) occurring by turns; first one and then the other | Synonyms: alternate |
alternative | (adjective) necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities | - |
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(adjective) serving or used in place of another | Synonyms: alternate, substitute |
(adjective) pertaining to unconventional choices | - |
altissimo | (adjective) very high | - |
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altitudinal | (adjective) pertaining to altitude | - |
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altitudinous | (adjective) indefinitely high; lofty | - |
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altruistic | (adjective) showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: selfless |
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amalgamative | (adjective) characterized by or tending toward amalgamation | - |
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amative | (adjective) inclined toward or displaying love | Synonyms: amorous |
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amaurotic | (adjective) pertaining to blindness caused by amaurosis | - |
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ambitionless | (adjective) having little desire for success or achievement | Synonyms: unambitious |
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ambitious | (adjective) having a strong desire for success or achievement | - |
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(adjective) requiring full use of your abilities or resources | Synonyms: challenging |
ameliorating | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorative, amelioratory, meliorative |
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ameliorative | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorating, amelioratory, meliorative |
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amentiferous | (adjective) (of plants) bearing or characterized by aments or catkins | Synonyms: amentaceous |
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amethystine | (adjective) containing or resembling amethyst | - |
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amitotic | (adjective) pertaining to a simple method of cell division | - |
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ammonitic | (adjective) of or related to an order of fossil cephalopods | - |
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amnestic | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by amnesia | Synonyms: amnesic |
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amniotic | (adjective) of or related to the amnion or characterized by developing an amnion | Synonyms: amnic, amnionic |
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amoristic | (adjective) of or pertaining to romantic love | - |
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amphibiotic | (adjective) having an aquatic early or larval form and a terrestrial adult form | Synonyms: semiaquatic |
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amphiprotic | (adjective) having characteristics of both an acid and a base and capable of reacting as either | Synonyms: amphoteric |
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amylolytic | (adjective) of or related to the process of amylolysis | - |
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anabatic | (adjective) of an air current or wind; rising especially up a slope | - |
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anabiotic | (adjective) of or related to the state of anabiosis | - |
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anachronistic | (adjective) chronologically misplaced | Synonyms: anachronic, anachronous |
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anaclitic | (adjective) of or related to relationships that are characterized by the strong dependence of one person on another | - |
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anaerobiotic | (adjective) living or active in the absence of free oxygen | Synonyms: anaerobic |
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anaesthetic | (adjective) relating to or producing insensibility | Synonyms: anesthetic |
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(adjective) characterized by insensibility | Synonyms: anesthetic |
anaglyptic | (adjective) related to anaglyphs or anaglyphy | Synonyms: anaglyphic, anaglyphical, anaglyptical |
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anaglyptical | (adjective) related to anaglyphs or anaglyphy | Synonyms: anaglyphic, anaglyphical, anaglyptic |
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anagrammatic | (adjective) related to anagrams or containing or making an anagram | Synonyms: anagrammatical |
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anagrammatical | (adjective) related to anagrams or containing or making an anagram | Synonyms: anagrammatic |
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analeptic | (adjective) stimulating the central nervous system | - |
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analgetic | (adjective) capable of relieving pain | Synonyms: analgesic, anodyne |
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analphabetic | (adjective) not alphabetic | - |
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(adjective) relating to or expressed by a writing system that is not alphabetic | - |
(adjective) having little acquaintance with writing | Synonyms: unlettered |
analytic | (adjective) of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience | Synonyms: analytical |
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(adjective) expressing a grammatical category by using two or more words rather than inflection | Synonyms: uninflected |
(adjective) using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles) | Synonyms: analytical |
(adjective) using or subjected to a methodology using algebra and calculus | - |
analytical | (adjective) using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles) | Synonyms: analytic |
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(adjective) of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience | Synonyms: analytic |
anamnestic | (adjective) of or relating to anamnesis; aiding the memory | - |
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anapaestic | (adjective) (of a metric foot) characterized by two short syllables followed by a long one | Synonyms: anapestic |
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anapestic | (adjective) (of a metric foot) characterized by two short syllables followed by a long one | Synonyms: anapaestic |
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anaphylactic | (adjective) related to the hypersensitivity known as anaphylaxis | - |
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anaplastic | (adjective) of or relating to anaplasia | - |
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anarchistic | (adjective) of or related to anarchism or tending toward anarchism | - |
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anastigmatic | (adjective) not astigmatic | Synonyms: stigmatic |
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(adjective) pertaining to a lens or lens system free of astigmatism (able to form point images) | Synonyms: stigmatic |
anastomotic | (adjective) of or relating to or exhibiting anastomosis | - |
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anchoritic | (adjective) characterized by ascetic solitude | Synonyms: eremitic, eremitical, hermitic, hermitical |
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andantino | (adjective) (of tempo) moderately fast | - |
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androgenetic | (adjective) of or related to androgenesis | Synonyms: androgenous |
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anecdotic | (adjective) characterized by or given to telling anecdotes | Synonyms: anecdotal, anecdotical |
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anecdotical | (adjective) characterized by or given to telling anecdotes | Synonyms: anecdotal, anecdotic |
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anesthetic | (adjective) relating to or producing insensibility | Synonyms: anaesthetic |
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(adjective) characterized by insensibility | Synonyms: anaesthetic |
aneurismatic | (adjective) relating to or affected by an aneurysm | Synonyms: aneurismal, aneurysmal, aneurysmatic |
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aneurysmatic | (adjective) relating to or affected by an aneurysm | Synonyms: aneurismal, aneurismatic, aneurysmal |
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animalistic | (adjective) of or pertaining to animalism | - |
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animating | (adjective) giving spirit and vivacity | Synonyms: enlivening |
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