| absolvitory | (adjective) providing absolution | Synonyms: exonerative, forgiving |
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| acceleratory | (adjective) tending to increase velocity | Synonyms: accelerative |
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| acclivitous | (adjective) sloping upward | Synonyms: rising, uphill |
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| accusatorial | (adjective) specifically indicating a form of prosecution in which one is publicly accused of and tried for a crime and in which the judge is not also the prosecutor | - |
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| accusatory | (adjective) containing or expressing accusation | Synonyms: accusative, accusing, accusive |
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| accustomed | (adjective) commonly used or practiced; usual | Synonyms: customary, habitual, wonted |
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| acetonic | (adjective) of or relating to acetone | - |
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| acetose | (adjective) tasting or smelling like vinegar | Synonyms: acetous, vinegarish, vinegary |
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| acetous | (adjective) tasting or smelling like vinegar | Synonyms: acetose, vinegarish, vinegary |
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| achromatous | (adjective) having little or inadequate color | - |
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| actinomycetous | (adjective) of or belonging to the actinomycetes | Synonyms: actinomycetal |
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| adenocarcinomatous | (adjective) of or pertaining to adenocarcinoma | - |
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| adjudicatory | (adjective) concerned with adjudicating | Synonyms: adjudicative |
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| adjuratory | (adjective) earnestly or solemnly entreating | - |
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| (adjective) containing a solemn charge or command | - |
| admonitory | (adjective) serving to warn | Synonyms: cautionary, exemplary, monitory, warning |
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| (adjective) expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective | Synonyms: admonishing, reproachful, reproving |
| adulatory | (adjective) obsequiously complimentary | Synonyms: flattering |
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| affirmatory | (adjective) affirming or giving assent | Synonyms: affirmative |
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| ahistorical | (adjective) unconcerned with or unrelated to history or to historical development or to tradition | - |
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| alacritous | (adjective) quick and eager | - |
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| aleatory | (adjective) dependent on chance | - |
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| allantoic | (adjective) relating to or characterized by an allantois | - |
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| allantoid | (adjective) shaped like a sausage | Synonyms: sausage-shaped |
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| allegretto | (adjective) (of tempo) faster than allegro | - |
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| alleviatory | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviative, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory, palliative |
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| alligatored | (adjective) of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide | Synonyms: cracked |
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| alto | (adjective) (of a musical instrument) second highest member of a group | - |
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| (adjective) of or being the highest male voice; having a range above that of tenor | Synonyms: countertenor |
| (adjective) of or being the lowest female voice | Synonyms: contralto |
| amatory | (adjective) expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance | Synonyms: amorous, romantic |
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| ambulatory | (adjective) relating to or adapted for walking | - |
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| (adjective) able to walk about | Synonyms: ambulant |
| amelioratory | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorating, ameliorative, meliorative |
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| amendatory | (adjective) effecting amendment | - |
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| amitotic | (adjective) pertaining to a simple method of cell division | - |
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| anastomotic | (adjective) of or relating to or exhibiting anastomosis | - |
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| anatomic | (adjective) of or relating to the structure of the body | Synonyms: anatomical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the branch of morphology that studies the structure of organisms | Synonyms: anatomical |
| anatomical | (adjective) of or relating to the structure of the body | Synonyms: anatomic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the branch of morphology that studies the structure of organisms | Synonyms: anatomic |
| angiomatous | (adjective) of or related to or having a tumor of the kind known as an angioma | - |
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| annunciatory | (adjective) relating to the act of announcing or being announced | - |
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| anticipatory | (adjective) in anticipation | Synonyms: prevenient |
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| antitoxic | (adjective) counteracting a toxin or poison | - |
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| antonymous | (adjective) of words: having opposite meanings | - |
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| apoplectoid | (adjective) resembling apoplexy | Synonyms: apoplectiform |
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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 |
| applicatory | (adjective) readily applicable or practical | Synonyms: applicative |
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| approbatory | (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: affirmative, approbative, approving, plausive |
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| architectonic | (adjective) of or pertaining to construction or architecture | Synonyms: tectonic |
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| argentous | (adjective) relating to compounds in which silver is univalent | - |
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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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| articulatory | (adjective) of or relating to articulation | Synonyms: articulative |
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| ascomycetous | (adjective) related to or characteristic of fungi of the class Ascomycetes | - |
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| assimilatory | (adjective) capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution | Synonyms: assimilating, assimilative |
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| associatory | (adjective) characterized by or causing or resulting from the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination | Synonyms: associative |
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| astomatal | (adjective) lacking a stoma or stomata | - |
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| astomatous | (adjective) having no mouth or mouthlike opening | Synonyms: mouthless |
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| astonied | (adjective) filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock | Synonyms: amazed, astonished, astounded, stunned |
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| astonished | (adjective) filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock | Synonyms: amazed, astonied, astounded, stunned |
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| astonishing | (adjective) so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm | Synonyms: astounding, staggering, stupefying |
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| (adjective) surprising greatly | Synonyms: amazing |
| astounded | (adjective) filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock | Synonyms: amazed, astonied, astonished, stunned |
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| astounding | (adjective) so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm | Synonyms: astonishing, staggering, stupefying |
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| (adjective) bewildering or striking dumb with wonder | Synonyms: dumbfounding, dumfounding |
| asymptomatic | (adjective) having no symptoms of illness or disease | Synonyms: symptomless |
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| asymptotic | (adjective) relating to or of the nature of an asymptote | - |
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| atheromatous | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling atheroma | Synonyms: atheromatic |
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| atomic | (adjective) (weapons) deriving destructive energy from the release of atomic energy | Synonyms: nuclear |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or comprising atoms | - |
| (adjective) immeasurably small | - |
| atomistic | (adjective) divided into separate and often disparate elements | Synonyms: atomistical |
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| atomistical | (adjective) divided into separate and often disparate elements | Synonyms: atomistic |
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| atonal | (adjective) characterized by avoidance of traditional western tonality | Synonyms: unkeyed |
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| atonalistic | (adjective) of or relating to atonalism | - |
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| atonic | (adjective) (used of syllables) carrying no stress | Synonyms: unaccented |
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| (adjective) characterized by a lack of tonus | - |
| atoxic | (adjective) not producing or resulting from poison | Synonyms: nontoxic |
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| auctorial | (adjective) of or by or typical of an author | Synonyms: authorial |
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| auditory | (adjective) of or relating to the process of hearing | Synonyms: audile, auditive |
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| auscultatory | (adjective) of or relating to auscultation | - |
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| autobiographic | (adjective) relating to or in the style of an autobiography | Synonyms: autobiographical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of an autobiographer | Synonyms: autobiographical |
| autobiographical | (adjective) relating to or in the style of an autobiography | Synonyms: autobiographic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of an autobiographer | Synonyms: autobiographic |
| autocatalytic | (adjective) relating to or proceeding by autocatalysis | - |
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| autochthonal | (adjective) originating where it is found | Synonyms: autochthonic, autochthonous, endemic, indigenous |
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| autochthonic | (adjective) originating where it is found | Synonyms: autochthonal, autochthonous, endemic, indigenous |
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| autochthonous | (adjective) of rocks, deposits, etc.; found where they and their constituents were formed | - |
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| (adjective) originating where it is found | Synonyms: autochthonal, autochthonic, endemic, indigenous |
| autocratic | (adjective) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | Synonyms: bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory |
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| (adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: authoritarian, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical |
| autodidactic | (adjective) relating to or having the characteristics of an autodidact | - |
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| autoecious | (adjective) of parasites especially rust fungi; completing the entire life cycle on a single host | Synonyms: homoecious |
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| autoerotic | (adjective) sexually satisfying yourself (as by masturbation) | - |
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| autofluorescent | (adjective) emitting light via self-induced fluorescence | - |
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| autogamic | (adjective) characterized by or fit for autogamy | Synonyms: autogamous |
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| autogamous | (adjective) characterized by or fit for autogamy | Synonyms: autogamic |
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| autogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to autogenesis | - |
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| autogenic | (adjective) originating within the body | Synonyms: autogenous |
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| autogenous | (adjective) originating within the body | Synonyms: autogenic |
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| autographed | (adjective) bearing an autograph | - |
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| autographic | (adjective) written in the author's own handwriting | - |
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| autoicous | (adjective) having male and female reproductive organs in separate clusters on the same plant | - |
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| autoimmune | (adjective) of or relating to the immune response of the body against substance normally present in the body | - |
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| autoloading | (adjective) (of firearms) capable of automatic loading and firing continuously | Synonyms: self-loading, semiautomatic |
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| autologous | (adjective) derived from organisms of the selfsame individual | - |
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| autolytic | (adjective) of or relating to self-digestion | - |
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| automated | (adjective) operated by automation | Synonyms: machine-controlled, machine-driven |
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| automatic | (adjective) operating with minimal human intervention; independent of external control | - |
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| (adjective) without volition or conscious control | Synonyms: reflex, reflexive |
| (adjective) resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine | Synonyms: automatonlike, machinelike, robotic, robotlike |
| automatonlike | (adjective) resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine | Synonyms: automatic, machinelike, robotic, robotlike |
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| automotive | (adjective) of or relating to motor vehicles | - |
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| (adjective) containing within itself the means of propulsion or movement | Synonyms: self-propelled, self-propelling |
| autonomic | (adjective) relating to or controlled by the autonomic nervous system | - |
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