| diverting | (adjective) providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining | Synonyms: amusing, amusive |
|---|
| dominating | (adjective) most powerful or important or influential | Synonyms: ascendant, ascendent |
|---|
| (adjective) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | Synonyms: autocratic, bossy, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory |
| (adjective) used of a height or viewpoint | Synonyms: commanding, overlooking |
| doting | (adjective) extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent | Synonyms: adoring, fond |
|---|
| doubting | (adjective) marked by or given to doubt | Synonyms: questioning, sceptical, skeptical |
|---|
| drifting | (adjective) continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another | Synonyms: aimless, floating, vagabond, vagrant |
|---|
| earsplitting | (adjective) loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss | Synonyms: deafening, thunderous, thundery |
|---|
| elating | (adjective) making lively and joyful | Synonyms: exhilarating |
|---|
| elephantine | (adjective) of great mass; huge and bulky | Synonyms: gargantuan, giant, jumbo |
|---|
| enchanting | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: bewitching, captivating, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating |
|---|
| enervating | (adjective) causing debilitation | Synonyms: debilitative, enfeebling, weakening |
|---|
| everlasting | (adjective) continuing forever or indefinitely | Synonyms: aeonian, ageless, eonian, eternal, perpetual, unceasing, unending |
|---|
| (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
| exacerbating | (adjective) making worse | Synonyms: aggravating, exasperating |
|---|
| exacting | (adjective) having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures | Synonyms: fastidious |
|---|
| (adjective) requiring precise accuracy | Synonyms: exigent |
| (adjective) severe and unremitting in making demands | Synonyms: stern, strict |
| exalting | (adjective) tending to exalt | Synonyms: ennobling |
|---|
| exasperating | (adjective) extremely annoying or displeasing | Synonyms: infuriating, maddening, vexing |
|---|
| (adjective) making worse | Synonyms: aggravating, exacerbating |
| exciting | (adjective) creating or arousing excitement | - |
|---|
| (adjective) stimulating interest and discussion | - |
| excruciating | (adjective) extremely painful | Synonyms: agonising, agonizing, harrowing, torturesome, torturing, torturous |
|---|
| exhausting | (adjective) having a debilitating effect | Synonyms: draining |
|---|
| (adjective) producing exhaustion | Synonyms: tiring, wearing, wearying |
| exhilarating | (adjective) making lively and joyful | Synonyms: elating |
|---|
| (adjective) making lively and cheerful | Synonyms: stimulating |
| existing | (adjective) having existence or being or actuality | Synonyms: existent |
|---|
| (adjective) presently existing | - |
| (adjective) existing in something specified | - |
| extenuating | (adjective) partially excusing or justifying | - |
|---|
| extinct | (adjective) no longer in existence; lost or especially having died out leaving no living representatives | Synonyms: nonextant |
|---|
| (adjective) (of e.g. volcanoes) permanently inactive | - |
| (adjective) being out or having grown cold | Synonyms: out |
| extinguishable | (adjective) capable of being extinguished or killed | - |
|---|
| extinguished | (adjective) of a conditioned response; caused to die out because of the absence or withdrawal of reinforcement | - |
|---|
| exulting | (adjective) joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success | Synonyms: exultant, jubilant, prideful, rejoicing, triumphal, triumphant |
|---|
| fascinating | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: bewitching, captivating, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing |
|---|
| (adjective) capable of arousing and holding the attention | Synonyms: absorbing, engrossing, gripping, riveting |
| fighting | (adjective) engaged in or ready for military or naval operations | Synonyms: active, combat-ready |
|---|
| fitting | (adjective) being precisely fitting and right | Synonyms: meet |
|---|
| (adjective) in harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion | Synonyms: decent |
| fleeting | (adjective) lasting for a markedly brief time | Synonyms: fugitive, momentaneous, momentary |
|---|
| floating | (adjective) borne up by or suspended in a liquid | - |
|---|
| (adjective) inclined to move or be moved about | - |
| (adjective) not definitely committed to a party or policy | - |
| (adjective) (of a part of the body) not firmly connected; movable or out of normal position | - |
| (adjective) continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another | Synonyms: aimless, drifting, vagabond, vagrant |
| fluctuating | (adjective) having unpredictable ups and downs | - |
|---|
| fruiting | (adjective) capable of bearing fruit | - |
|---|
| frustrating | (adjective) discouraging by hindering | - |
|---|
| (adjective) preventing realization or attainment of a desire | Synonyms: frustrative, thwarting |
| fulgurating | (adjective) sharp and piercing | - |
|---|
| gastrointestinal | (adjective) of or relating to the stomach and intestines | Synonyms: GI |
|---|
| gelatinlike | (adjective) thick like gelatin | Synonyms: gelatinous, jellylike |
|---|
| gelatinous | (adjective) thick like gelatin | Synonyms: gelatinlike, jellylike |
|---|
| gesticulating | (adjective) making gestures while speaking | - |
|---|
| glinting | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
|---|
| glutinous | (adjective) having the sticky properties of an adhesive | Synonyms: gluey, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous |
|---|
| grating | (adjective) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound | Synonyms: gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough, scratchy |
|---|
| hairsplitting | (adjective) developed in excessively fine detail | Synonyms: finespun |
|---|
| hallucinating | (adjective) experiencing delirium | Synonyms: delirious |
|---|
| halting | (adjective) fragmentary or halting from emotional strain | - |
|---|
| (adjective) disabled in the feet or legs | Synonyms: crippled, game, gimpy, halt, lame |
| haunting | (adjective) having a deeply disquieting or disturbing effect | - |
|---|
| (adjective) continually recurring to the mind | Synonyms: persistent |
| hesitating | (adjective) lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or decide quickly or firmly | Synonyms: hesitant |
|---|
| hibernating | (adjective) in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation | Synonyms: dormant, torpid |
|---|
| hifalutin | (adjective) affectedly genteel; to carry an air of affected importance; to be snobbish and haughty | Synonyms: grandiose, highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, la-di-da |
|---|
| highfalutin | (adjective) affectedly genteel; to carry an air of affected importance; to be snobbish and haughty | Synonyms: grandiose, hifalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, la-di-da |
|---|
| highfaluting | (adjective) affectedly genteel; to carry an air of affected importance; to be snobbish and haughty | Synonyms: grandiose, hifalutin, highfalutin, hoity-toity, la-di-da |
|---|
| humiliating | (adjective) causing awareness of your shortcomings | Synonyms: demeaning, humbling, mortifying |
|---|
| illuminating | (adjective) tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance | Synonyms: enlightening, informative |
|---|
| impertinent | (adjective) improperly forward or bold | Synonyms: fresh, impudent, overbold, sassy, saucy, smart, wise |
|---|
| (adjective) not pertinent to the matter under consideration | Synonyms: extraneous, immaterial, orthogonal |
| (adjective) characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality | Synonyms: irreverent, pert, saucy |
| incapacitating | (adjective) that cripples or disables or incapacitates | Synonyms: crippling, disabling |
|---|
| incontinent | (adjective) not having control over urination and defecation | - |
|---|
| incriminating | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminative, criminatory, incriminatory |
|---|
| indiscriminating | (adjective) not discriminating | Synonyms: undiscriminating |
|---|
| indistinct | (adjective) not clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand | - |
|---|
| indistinguishable | (adjective) not capable of being distinguished or differentiated | Synonyms: undistinguishable |
|---|
| (adjective) exactly alike; incapable of being perceived as different | Synonyms: identical |
| inextinguishable | (adjective) difficult or impossible to extinguish | - |
|---|
| infuriating | (adjective) extremely annoying or displeasing | Synonyms: exasperating, maddening, vexing |
|---|
| ingratiating | (adjective) calculated to please or gain favor | Synonyms: ingratiatory, insinuating |
|---|
| (adjective) capable of winning favor | - |
| inheriting | (adjective) having the legal right to inherit | - |
|---|
| insinuating | (adjective) calculated to please or gain favor | Synonyms: ingratiating, ingratiatory |
|---|
| inspiriting | (adjective) cheerfully encouraging | Synonyms: heartening |
|---|
| instinct | (adjective) (followed by `with') deeply filled or permeated | Synonyms: imbued, replete |
|---|
| instinctive | (adjective) unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct | Synonyms: natural |
|---|
| insulting | (adjective) expressing extreme contempt | Synonyms: contemptuous, disdainful, scornful |
|---|
| intercontinental | (adjective) extending or taking place between or among continents | - |
|---|
| interesting | (adjective) arousing or holding the attention | - |
|---|
| intersecting | (adjective) crossed or intersected in the form of an X | Synonyms: decussate, intersectant |
|---|
| intestinal | (adjective) of or relating to or inside the intestines | Synonyms: enteral, enteric |
|---|
| intimidating | (adjective) discouraging through fear | Synonyms: daunting |
|---|
| intoxicating | (adjective) causing intoxication | Synonyms: intoxicant |
|---|
| (adjective) extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic | Synonyms: heady |
| invalidating | (adjective) establishing as invalid or untrue | Synonyms: disconfirming |
|---|
| invigorating | (adjective) imparting strength and vitality | - |
|---|
| inviting | (adjective) attractive and tempting | - |
|---|
| iodinating | (adjective) combining or causing to combine with iodine | - |
|---|
| irritating | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
|---|
| (adjective) (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite | Synonyms: irritative |
| (adjective) causing physical discomfort | Synonyms: painful |
| isolating | (adjective) relating to or being a language in which each word typically expresses a distinct idea and part of speech and syntactical relations are determined almost exclusively by word order and particles | - |
|---|
| itinerant | (adjective) traveling from place to place to work | - |
|---|
| jesting | (adjective) characterized by jokes and good humor | Synonyms: jocose, jocular, joking |
|---|
| jetting | (adjective) propelled violently in a usually narrow stream | Synonyms: spouting, spurting, squirting |
|---|
| jolting | (adjective) causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements | Synonyms: bumpy, jolty, jumpy, rocky, rough |
|---|
| jutting | (adjective) extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary | Synonyms: projected, projecting, protruding, relieved, sticking, sticking out |
|---|
| lactating | (adjective) producing or secreting milk | Synonyms: wet |
|---|
| lamenting | (adjective) vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression | Synonyms: wailful, wailing |
|---|
| lancinating | (adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cutting, keen, knifelike, lancinate, piercing, stabbing |
|---|
| lasting | (adjective) continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place | Synonyms: permanent |
|---|
| (adjective) retained; not shed | Synonyms: persistent |
| (adjective) existing for a long time | Synonyms: durable, long-lasting, long-lived |
| (adjective) lasting a long time without change | - |
| latinate | (adjective) derived from or imitative of Latin | - |
|---|
| libertine | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, profligate, riotous |
|---|
| lilting | (adjective) characterized by a buoyant rhythm | Synonyms: swinging, swingy, tripping |
|---|
| limiting | (adjective) strictly limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase | - |
|---|
| (adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: confining, constraining, constrictive, restricting |
| matutinal | (adjective) pertaining to or occurring in the morning | - |
|---|
| melting | (adjective) becoming liquid | Synonyms: liquescent |
|---|
| moderating | (adjective) lessening in intensity or strength | - |
|---|
| motivating | (adjective) impelling to action | Synonyms: motivative, motive |
|---|
| multinational | (adjective) involving or operating in several nations or nationalities | Synonyms: transnational |
|---|
| multinomial | (adjective) having the character of a polynomial | Synonyms: polynomial |
|---|
| multinucleate | (adjective) having two or more nuclei | - |
|---|