autonomous | (adjective) (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces | Synonyms: independent, self-governing, sovereign |
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(adjective) (of persons) free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment | Synonyms: self-directed, self-reliant |
(adjective) existing as an independent entity | - |
autophytic | (adjective) of or relating to organisms (as green plants) that can make complex organic nutritive compounds from simple inorganic sources by photosynthesis | Synonyms: autotrophic |
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autoplastic | (adjective) of or relating to or involved in autoplasty | - |
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autoradiographic | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by autoradiography | - |
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autosemantic | (adjective) of a word or phrase meaningful in isolation, independent of context | - |
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autosomal | (adjective) of or relating to an autosome | - |
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autotelic | (adjective) of or relating to or believing in autotelism | - |
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autotomic | (adjective) of or relating to autotomy | - |
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autotrophic | (adjective) of or relating to organisms (as green plants) that can make complex organic nutritive compounds from simple inorganic sources by photosynthesis | Synonyms: autophytic |
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autotypic | (adjective) of or relating to autotypy | - |
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baritone | (adjective) lower in range than tenor and higher than bass | - |
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basidiomycetous | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of fungi of the class Basidiomycetes | - |
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bellbottom | (adjective) (of trousers) having legs that flare at the bottom | Synonyms: bell-bottom, bell-bottomed |
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benedictory | (adjective) expressing benediction | Synonyms: benedictive |
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bentonitic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing bentonite | - |
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bimotored | (adjective) having two motors | - |
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blastocoelic | (adjective) of or relating to a segmentation cavity | - |
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blastodermatic | (adjective) of or relating to a blastoderm | Synonyms: blastodermic |
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blastodermic | (adjective) of or relating to a blastoderm | Synonyms: blastodermatic |
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blastogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to blastogenesis | - |
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blastomeric | (adjective) of or relating to a blastomere | - |
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blastomycotic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of blastomycosis | - |
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blastoporal | (adjective) of or relating to a blastopore | Synonyms: blastoporic |
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blastoporic | (adjective) of or relating to a blastopore | Synonyms: blastoporal |
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blastospheric | (adjective) of or relating to a blastula | Synonyms: blastular |
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blotto | (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
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botonee | (adjective) (of a heraldic cross) having a cluster of three buttons or knobs at the end of each arm | Synonyms: botonnee |
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botonnee | (adjective) (of a heraldic cross) having a cluster of three buttons or knobs at the end of each arm | Synonyms: botonee |
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bottom | (adjective) situated at the bottom or lowest position | - |
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(adjective) the lowest rank | - |
bottomed | (adjective) having a bottom of a specified character | - |
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bottomless | (adjective) having no bottom | - |
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(adjective) extremely deep | - |
(adjective) unclothed especially below the waist or featuring such nudeness | - |
(adjective) having no apparent limits or bounds | - |
bottommost | (adjective) farthest down | Synonyms: lowermost, nethermost |
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buttoned | (adjective) furnished or closed with buttons or something buttonlike | Synonyms: fastened |
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buttonlike | (adjective) small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button | Synonyms: beadlike, beady, buttony |
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buttony | (adjective) ornamented with many buttons | - |
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(adjective) small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button | Synonyms: beadlike, beady, buttonlike |
caespitose | (adjective) (of plants) growing in small dense clumps or tufts | Synonyms: cespitose, tufted |
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calamitous | (adjective) (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin | Synonyms: black, disastrous, fatal, fateful |
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calefactory | (adjective) serving to heat | Synonyms: calefactive |
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calumniatory | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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cantonal | (adjective) of or relating to a canton | - |
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carcinomatous | (adjective) being or relating to carcinoma | - |
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cardiorespiratory | (adjective) of or pertaining to or affecting both the heart and the lungs and their functions | Synonyms: cardiopulmonary |
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cartographic | (adjective) of or relating to the making of maps or charts | Synonyms: cartographical |
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cartographical | (adjective) of or relating to the making of maps or charts | Synonyms: cartographic |
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catatonic | (adjective) characterized by catatonia especially either rigidity or extreme laxness of limbs | - |
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catoptric | (adjective) of or relating to catoptrics; produced by or based on mirrors | Synonyms: catoptrical |
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catoptrical | (adjective) of or relating to catoptrics; produced by or based on mirrors | Synonyms: catoptric |
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celebratory | (adjective) used for celebrating | - |
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certificatory | (adjective) serving to certify or endorse authoritatively | - |
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cespitose | (adjective) (of plants) growing in small dense clumps or tufts | Synonyms: caespitose, tufted |
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chaetognathan | (adjective) of or relating to arrowworms | Synonyms: chaetognathous |
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chaetognathous | (adjective) of or relating to arrowworms | Synonyms: chaetognathan |
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chatoyant | (adjective) varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles | Synonyms: changeable, iridescent, shot |
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chromatographic | (adjective) of or relating to chromatography | Synonyms: chromatographical |
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chromatographical | (adjective) of or relating to chromatography | Synonyms: chromatographic |
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chylifactory | (adjective) producing or converting into chyle | Synonyms: chylifactive, chylific |
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circuitous | (adjective) deviating from a straight course | Synonyms: devious, roundabout |
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(adjective) marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct | Synonyms: roundabout |
circulatory | (adjective) relating to circulatory system or to circulation of the blood | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to circulation | Synonyms: circulative |
circumlocutory | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: ambagious, circumlocutious, periphrastic |
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clamatorial | (adjective) of or relating to Clamatores | - |
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classificatory | (adjective) relating to or involving classification | - |
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cleistogamic | (adjective) exhibiting or relating to cleistogamy | Synonyms: cleistogamous |
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cleistogamous | (adjective) exhibiting or relating to cleistogamy | Synonyms: cleistogamic |
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clitoral | (adjective) of or relating to the clitoris | Synonyms: clitoric |
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clitoric | (adjective) of or relating to the clitoris | Synonyms: clitoral |
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comatose | (adjective) relating to or associated with a coma | - |
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(adjective) in a state of deep and usually prolonged unconsciousness; unable to respond to external stimuli | - |
combinatorial | (adjective) relating to the combination and arrangement of elements in sets | - |
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(adjective) relating to or involving combinations | Synonyms: combinative, combinatory |
combinatory | (adjective) marked by or relating to or resulting from combination | Synonyms: combinative |
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(adjective) relating to or involving combinations | Synonyms: combinative, combinatorial |
(adjective) able to or tending to combine | Synonyms: combinable, combinational |
comminatory | (adjective) containing warning of punishment | Synonyms: denunciative, denunciatory |
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communicatory | (adjective) able or tending to communicate | Synonyms: communicative |
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competitory | (adjective) involving competition or competitiveness | Synonyms: competitive |
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conciliatory | (adjective) intended to placate | Synonyms: conciliative |
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(adjective) making or willing to make concessions | Synonyms: compromising, flexible |
condemnatory | (adjective) containing or imposing condemnation or censure | Synonyms: condemning |
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confirmatory | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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congratulatory | (adjective) expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune | Synonyms: gratulatory |
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consolatory | (adjective) affording comfort or solace | Synonyms: comforting, consoling |
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conspiratorial | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of conspiracy or conspirators | Synonyms: conspirative |
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consultatory | (adjective) giving advice | Synonyms: advisory, consultative, consultive |
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contorted | (adjective) twisted (especially as in pain or struggle) | Synonyms: writhed, writhen |
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contradictory | (adjective) of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false | - |
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(adjective) unable for both to exist or be true at the same time | Synonyms: mutually exclusive |
(adjective) in disagreement | Synonyms: at odds, conflicting, self-contradictory |
(adjective) that confounds or contradicts or confuses | Synonyms: confounding |
contralto | (adjective) of or being the lowest female voice | Synonyms: alto |
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contributory | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributing, contributive, tributary |
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copulatory | (adjective) of or relating to coitus or copulation | Synonyms: coital |
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corroboratory | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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cosignatory | (adjective) signing jointly with others | - |
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cottony | (adjective) resembling cotton; as soft as cotton | - |
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covetous | (adjective) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth | Synonyms: avaricious, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile |
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(adjective) showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages | Synonyms: envious, jealous |
criminatory | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminative, incriminating, incriminatory |
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crosstown | (adjective) going or extending across a town or city | Synonyms: cross-town |
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crustose | (adjective) (of lichens) having a thin crusty thallus that adheres closely to the surface on which it is growing | - |
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cryptobiotic | (adjective) of or related to the state of cryptobiosis | - |
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cryptogamic | (adjective) of or relating to a cryptogam | Synonyms: cryptogamous |
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cryptogamous | (adjective) of or relating to a cryptogam | Synonyms: cryptogamic |
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cryptographic | (adjective) of or relating to cryptanalysis | Synonyms: cryptanalytic, cryptographical, cryptologic, cryptological |
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cryptographical | (adjective) of or relating to cryptanalysis | Synonyms: cryptanalytic, cryptographic, cryptologic, cryptological |
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cryptologic | (adjective) of or relating to cryptanalysis | Synonyms: cryptanalytic, cryptographic, cryptographical, cryptological |
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cryptological | (adjective) of or relating to cryptanalysis | Synonyms: cryptanalytic, cryptographic, cryptographical, cryptologic |
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curatorial | (adjective) of or relating to a curator or the duties of a curator | - |
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custodial | (adjective) providing protective supervision; watching over or safeguarding | Synonyms: tutelar, tutelary |
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custom | (adjective) made according to the specifications of an individual | Synonyms: custom-made |
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