| adjuvant | (adjective) enhancing the action of a medical treatment | - |
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| (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjunct, ancillary, appurtenant, auxiliary |
| adscititious | (adjective) added or derived from something outside; not inherent | - |
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| (adjective) supplemental; not part of the real or essential nature of a thing | - |
| adulatory | (adjective) obsequiously complimentary | Synonyms: flattering |
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| adult | (adjective) (of animals) fully developed | Synonyms: big, full-grown, fully grown, grown, grownup |
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| (adjective) designed to arouse lust | Synonyms: pornographic |
| adulterant | (adjective) making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials | Synonyms: adulterating |
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| adulterate | (adjective) mixed with impurities | Synonyms: adulterated, debased |
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| adulterated | (adjective) mixed with impurities | Synonyms: adulterate, debased |
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| adulterating | (adjective) making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials | Synonyms: adulterant |
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| adulterine | (adjective) conceived in adultery | - |
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| adulterous | (adjective) characterized by adultery | Synonyms: extracurricular, extramarital |
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| (adjective) not faithful to a spouse or lover | Synonyms: cheating, two-timing |
| adumbrative | (adjective) indistinctly prophetic | Synonyms: foreshadowing, prefigurative |
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| adust | (adjective) burned brown by the sun | - |
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| (adjective) dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight | Synonyms: baked, parched, scorched, sunbaked |
| advantageous | (adjective) giving an advantage | Synonyms: favorable, favourable |
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| (adjective) appropriate for achieving a particular end; implies a lack of concern for fairness | - |
| adventitious | (adjective) associated by chance and not an integral part | - |
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| adventuresome | (adjective) willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises | Synonyms: adventurous |
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| adventuristic | (adjective) of or pertaining to adventurism | - |
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| adventurous | (adjective) willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises | Synonyms: adventuresome |
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| aeriferous | (adjective) conveying air; as the bronchial tubes | - |
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| aeronautic | (adjective) of or pertaining to aeronautics | Synonyms: aeronautical |
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| aeronautical | (adjective) of or pertaining to aeronautics | Synonyms: aeronautic |
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| aerophilous | (adjective) depending on free oxygen or air | Synonyms: aerobic, aerophilic |
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| aesculapian | (adjective) of or belonging to Aesculapius or the healing art | Synonyms: medical |
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| affluent | (adjective) having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value | Synonyms: flush, loaded, moneyed, substantial, wealthy |
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| aflutter | (adjective) excited in anticipation | Synonyms: nervous |
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| aforethought | (adjective) with planning and intention | Synonyms: planned, plotted |
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| afoul | (adjective) especially of a ship's lines etc | Synonyms: foul, fouled |
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| agamous | (adjective) (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction | Synonyms: agamic, agamogenetic, apomictic, parthenogenetic |
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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 |
| agranulocytic | (adjective) relating to the blood disorder of agranulocytosis | - |
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| agricultural | (adjective) relating to or used in or promoting agriculture or farming | - |
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| (adjective) relating to farming or agriculture | Synonyms: agrarian, farming |
| aground | (adjective) stuck in a place where a ship can no longer float | - |
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| aguish | (adjective) affected by ague | - |
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| alacritous | (adjective) quick and eager | - |
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| albuminous | (adjective) relating to or containing or resembling albumin | - |
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| albuminuric | (adjective) of or related to the state of albuminuria | - |
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| aleuronic | (adjective) of or related to aleurone | - |
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| aliquot | (adjective) signifying an exact divisor or factor of a quantity | - |
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| alliaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to the botanical genus Allium | - |
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| (adjective) smelling of onions or garlic | - |
| allochthonous | (adjective) of rocks, deposits, etc.; found in a place other than where they and their constituents were formed | - |
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| allogamous | (adjective) relating to cross-fertilization in plants | - |
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| allomerous | (adjective) pertaining to allomerism | - |
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| alluring | (adjective) highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire | Synonyms: beguiling, enticing, tempting |
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| allusive | (adjective) characterized by indirect references | - |
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| alluvial | (adjective) of or relating to alluvium | - |
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| alphanumeric | (adjective) of or pertaining to alphanumeric characters | Synonyms: alphameric, alphamerical, alphanumerical |
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| alphanumerical | (adjective) of or pertaining to alphanumeric characters | Synonyms: alphameric, alphamerical, alphanumeric |
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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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| alular | (adjective) pertaining to alulae | - |
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| aluminiferous | (adjective) containing alum or aluminum | - |
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| aluminous | (adjective) pertaining to or containing aluminum or alum | - |
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| amateur | (adjective) engaged in as a pastime | Synonyms: recreational, unpaid |
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| (adjective) lacking professional skill or expertise | Synonyms: amateurish, inexpert, unskilled |
| amateurish | (adjective) lacking professional skill or expertise | Synonyms: amateur, inexpert, unskilled |
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| amaurotic | (adjective) pertaining to blindness caused by amaurosis | - |
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| ambagious | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic |
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| ambidextrous | (adjective) equally skillful with each hand | Synonyms: two-handed |
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| (adjective) marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another | Synonyms: deceitful, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced |
| ambiguous | (adjective) having more than one possible meaning | - |
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| (adjective) open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead | Synonyms: equivocal |
| (adjective) having no intrinsic or objective meaning; not organized in conventional patterns | - |
| 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 |
| ambulacral | (adjective) pertaining to the ambulacra of radial echinoderms | - |
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| ambulant | (adjective) able to walk about | Synonyms: ambulatory |
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| ambulatory | (adjective) relating to or adapted for walking | - |
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| (adjective) able to walk about | Synonyms: ambulant |
| amebous | (adjective) pertaining to or resembling amoebae | Synonyms: ameban, amebic, amoeban, amoebic, amoebous |
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| amentaceous | (adjective) (of plants) bearing or characterized by aments or catkins | Synonyms: amentiferous |
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| amentiferous | (adjective) (of plants) bearing or characterized by aments or catkins | Synonyms: amentaceous |
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| ametabolous | (adjective) undergoing slight or no metamorphosis | Synonyms: ametabolic |
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| amoebous | (adjective) pertaining to or resembling amoebae | Synonyms: ameban, amebic, amebous, amoeban, amoebic |
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| amorous | (adjective) inclined toward or displaying love | Synonyms: amative |
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| (adjective) expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance | Synonyms: amatory, romantic |
| amorphous | (adjective) lacking the system or structure characteristic of living bodies | Synonyms: unstructured |
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| (adjective) without real or apparent crystalline form | Synonyms: uncrystallised, uncrystallized |
| (adjective) unclear because vague or badly organized | - |
| (adjective) having no definite form or distinct shape | Synonyms: formless, shapeless |
| (adjective) (of a group of people or an organization) unorganized or unfocused | - |
| amphibious | (adjective) operating or living on land and in water | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of animals of the class Amphibia | Synonyms: amphibian |
| amphitropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) partly inverted; turned back 90 degrees on its stalk | - |
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| ampullar | (adjective) of or related to an ampulla | Synonyms: ampullary |
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| ampullary | (adjective) of or related to an ampulla | Synonyms: ampullar |
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| amuck | (adjective) wildly frenzied and out of control | Synonyms: amok, berserk |
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| amused | (adjective) pleasantly occupied | Synonyms: diverted, entertained |
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| amusing | (adjective) arousing or provoking laughter | Synonyms: comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible |
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| (adjective) providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining | Synonyms: amusive, diverting |
| amusive | (adjective) providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining | Synonyms: amusing, diverting |
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| amylaceous | (adjective) resembling starch | Synonyms: amyloid, amyloidal, farinaceous, starchlike |
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| anachronous | (adjective) chronologically misplaced | Synonyms: anachronic, anachronistic |
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| anacoluthic | (adjective) of or related to syntactic inconsistencies of the sort known as anacoluthons | - |
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| anadromous | (adjective) migrating from the sea to fresh water to spawn | - |
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| analogous | (adjective) corresponding in function but not in evolutionary origin | - |
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| (adjective) similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar | Synonyms: correspondent |
| analogue | (adjective) of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input | Synonyms: analog, linear |
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| anasarcous | (adjective) characterized by or affected by dropsy | - |
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| anatropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) completely inverted; turned back 180 degrees on its stalk | Synonyms: inverted |
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| androgenous | (adjective) of or related to androgenesis | Synonyms: androgenetic |
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| androgynous | (adjective) having both male and female characteristics | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or exhibiting both female and male sex organs but with a predominantly female appearance | - |
| anemophilous | (adjective) of flowering plants (especially grasses etc) that are pollinated by the wind | - |
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| anencephalous | (adjective) characterized by partial or total absence of a brain | Synonyms: anencephalic |
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| anestrous | (adjective) (of lower mammals) not in a state of estrus; not in heat | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to anestrus | Synonyms: anestric, anoestrous |
| aneuploid | (adjective) having a chromosome number that is not an exact multiple of the haploid number | - |
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| aneurismal | (adjective) relating to or affected by an aneurysm | Synonyms: aneurismatic, aneurysmal, aneurysmatic |
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| aneurismatic | (adjective) relating to or affected by an aneurysm | Synonyms: aneurismal, aneurysmal, aneurysmatic |
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| aneurysmal | (adjective) relating to or affected by an aneurysm | Synonyms: aneurismal, aneurismatic, aneurysmatic |
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| aneurysmatic | (adjective) relating to or affected by an aneurysm | Synonyms: aneurismal, aneurismatic, aneurysmal |
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| anfractuous | (adjective) full of twists and turns | - |
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| anginous | (adjective) of or related to the pain of angina pectoris | Synonyms: anginal, anginose |
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| angiocarpous | (adjective) having or being fruit enclosed in a shell or husk | Synonyms: angiocarpic |
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| angiomatous | (adjective) of or related to or having a tumor of the kind known as an angioma | - |
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