| abbreviated | (adjective) (of clothing) very short | Synonyms: brief |
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| (adjective) cut short in duration | Synonyms: shortened, truncated |
| abdominovesical | (adjective) of or relating to the abdomen and the urinary bladder | - |
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| ablative | (adjective) relating to the ablative case | - |
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| (adjective) tending to ablate; i.e. to be removed or vaporized at very high temperature | - |
| abortive | (adjective) failing to accomplish an intended result | Synonyms: stillborn, unsuccessful |
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| above | (adjective) appearing earlier in the same text | - |
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| aboveboard | (adjective) without concealment or deception; honest | Synonyms: straightforward |
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| aboveground | (adjective) on or above the surface of the ground | - |
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| abrasive | (adjective) sharply disagreeable; rigorous | Synonyms: harsh |
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| (adjective) causing abrasion | Synonyms: scratchy |
| absolved | (adjective) freed from any question of guilt | Synonyms: clear, cleared, exculpated, exonerated, vindicated |
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| absolvitory | (adjective) providing absolution | Synonyms: exonerative, forgiving |
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| absorptive | (adjective) having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.) | Synonyms: absorbent |
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| abstractive | (adjective) of an abstracting nature or having the power of abstracting | - |
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| abusive | (adjective) characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment | - |
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| (adjective) expressing offensive reproach | Synonyms: opprobrious, scurrilous |
| accelerative | (adjective) tending to increase velocity | Synonyms: acceleratory |
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| acceptive | (adjective) inclined to accept rather than reject | - |
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| (adjective) accepting willingly | Synonyms: acceptant |
| acclivitous | (adjective) sloping upward | Synonyms: rising, uphill |
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| accommodative | (adjective) helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation | Synonyms: accommodating |
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| (adjective) tending to reconcile or accommodate; bringing into harmony | Synonyms: reconciling |
| (adjective) willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement | Synonyms: cooperative |
| accretive | (adjective) growing by accretion | - |
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| acculturative | (adjective) of or relating to acculturation | Synonyms: acculturational |
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| accumulative | (adjective) marked by acquiring or amassing | - |
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| (adjective) increasing by successive addition | Synonyms: cumulative |
| accusative | (adjective) serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes | Synonyms: objective |
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| (adjective) containing or expressing accusation | Synonyms: accusatory, accusing, accusive |
| accusive | (adjective) containing or expressing accusation | Synonyms: accusative, accusatory, accusing |
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| acervate | (adjective) pertaining to a growth of fungi that forms a heaped-up mass | - |
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| achievable | (adjective) capable of existing or taking place or proving true; possible to do | Synonyms: accomplishable, doable, manageable, realizable |
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| acquisitive | (adjective) eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas | - |
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| activated | (adjective) rendered active; e.g. rendered radioactive or luminescent or photosensitive or conductive | - |
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| (adjective) (military) set up and placed on active assignment | - |
| (adjective) (of e.g. a molecule) made reactive or more reactive | Synonyms: excited |
| (adjective) (of sewage) treated with aeration and bacteria to aid decomposition | - |
| activating | (adjective) causing motion or action or change | Synonyms: actuating |
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| active | (adjective) (used of verbs (e.g. `to run') and participial adjectives (e.g. `running' in `running water')) expressing action rather than a state of being | Synonyms: dynamic |
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| (adjective) characterized by energetic activity | - |
| (adjective) tending to become more severe or wider in scope | - |
| (adjective) disposed to take action or effectuate change | - |
| (adjective) (of e.g. volcanoes) erupting or liable to erupt | - |
| (adjective) (of e.g. volcanoes) capable of erupting | - |
| (adjective) full of activity or engaged in continuous activity | - |
| (adjective) exerting influence or producing a change or effect | - |
| (adjective) engaged in full-time work | - |
| (adjective) expressing that the subject of the sentence has the semantic function of actor: | - |
| (adjective) (of the sun) characterized by an increased occurrence of sunspots and flares and radio emissions | - |
| (adjective) in operation | Synonyms: alive |
| (adjective) taking part in an activity | Synonyms: participating |
| (adjective) engaged in or ready for military or naval operations | Synonyms: combat-ready, fighting |
| activist | (adjective) advocating or engaged in activism | Synonyms: activistic |
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| activistic | (adjective) advocating or engaged in activism | Synonyms: activist |
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| adaptative | (adjective) having a capacity for adaptation | Synonyms: adaptive |
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| adaptive | (adjective) having a capacity for adaptation | Synonyms: adaptative |
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| addictive | (adjective) causing or characterized by addiction | Synonyms: habit-forming |
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| additive | (adjective) characterized or produced by addition | - |
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| (adjective) designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the first degree | Synonyms: linear |
| adductive | (adjective) especially of muscles; bringing together or drawing toward the midline of the body or toward an adjacent part | Synonyms: adducent, adducting |
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| adhesive | (adjective) tending to adhere | - |
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| adjectival | (adjective) of or relating to or functioning as an adjective | Synonyms: adjective |
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| adjective | (adjective) relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law | Synonyms: procedural |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or functioning as an adjective | Synonyms: adjectival |
| adjudicative | (adjective) concerned with adjudicating | Synonyms: adjudicatory |
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| adjunctive | (adjective) joining; forming an adjunct | - |
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| adjustive | (adjective) conducive to adjustment | - |
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| adjuvant | (adjective) enhancing the action of a medical treatment | - |
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| (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjunct, ancillary, appurtenant, auxiliary |
| administrative | (adjective) of or relating to or responsible for administration | - |
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| admissive | (adjective) characterized by or allowing admission | - |
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| adoptive | (adjective) of parents and children; related by adoption | - |
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| (adjective) acquired as your own by free choice | Synonyms: adopted |
| adsorptive | (adjective) having capacity or tendency to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface | Synonyms: adsorbent, surface-assimilative |
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| adumbrative | (adjective) indistinctly prophetic | Synonyms: foreshadowing, prefigurative |
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| advance | (adjective) being ahead of time or need | Synonyms: beforehand |
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| (adjective) situated ahead or going before | Synonyms: advanced, in advance |
| advanced | (adjective) (of societies) highly developed especially in technology or industry | - |
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| (adjective) situated ahead or going before | Synonyms: advance, in advance |
| (adjective) ahead in development; complex or intricate | Synonyms: sophisticated |
| (adjective) far along in time | Synonyms: ripe |
| (adjective) comparatively late in a course of development | - |
| (adjective) farther along in physical or mental development | - |
| (adjective) ahead of the times | Synonyms: forward-looking, innovative, modern |
| (adjective) at a higher level in training or knowledge or skill | - |
| advancing | (adjective) moving forward | Synonyms: forward-moving, forward |
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| 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 | - |
| advective | (adjective) of or relating to advection | - |
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| adventitial | (adjective) of or pertaining to the adventitia | - |
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| adventitious | (adjective) associated by chance and not an integral part | - |
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| adventive | (adjective) not native and not fully established; locally or temporarily naturalized | - |
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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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| adverbial | (adjective) of or relating to or functioning as an adverb | - |
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| adversative | (adjective) expressing antithesis or opposition | Synonyms: oppositive |
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| adverse | (adjective) in an opposing direction | Synonyms: contrary |
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| (adjective) contrary to your interests or welfare | Synonyms: inauspicious, untoward |
| advertent | (adjective) giving attention | Synonyms: heedful |
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| advertised | (adjective) called to public attention | - |
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| advisable | (adjective) worthy of being recommended or suggested; prudent or wise | - |
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| advised | (adjective) having the benefit of careful prior consideration or counsel | Synonyms: well-advised |
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| (adjective) having received information | - |
| advisory | (adjective) giving advice | Synonyms: consultative, consultatory, consultive |
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| aestival | (adjective) (rare) of or occurring in summer | Synonyms: estival |
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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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| agglomerative | (adjective) clustered together but not coherent | Synonyms: agglomerate, agglomerated, clustered |
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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 |
| aggravated | (adjective) incited, especially deliberately, to anger | Synonyms: provoked |
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| (adjective) made more severe or intense especially in law | - |
| 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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| aggressive | (adjective) having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight | Synonyms: belligerent |
| (adjective) tending to spread quickly | Synonyms: fast-growing, strong-growing |
| agitative | (adjective) causing or tending to cause anger or resentment | Synonyms: agitating, provoking |
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| alimentative | (adjective) related to the supply of aliment | - |
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| alive | (adjective) possessing life | Synonyms: live |
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| (adjective) having life or vigor or spirit | Synonyms: animated |
| (adjective) capable of erupting | Synonyms: live |
| (adjective) mentally perceptive and responsive | Synonyms: alert, awake |
| (adjective) in operation | Synonyms: active |
| (adjective) (often followed by `with') full of life and spirit | - |
| (adjective) (followed by `to' or `of') aware of | - |
| alleviated | (adjective) (of pain or sorrow) made easier to bear | Synonyms: eased, relieved |
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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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| alleviatory | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviative, 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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| allover | (adjective) covering the entire surface | - |
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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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| alterative | (adjective) tending to cure or restore to health | Synonyms: curative, healing, remedial, sanative, therapeutic |
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| 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 | - |
| alveolar | (adjective) pertaining to the tiny air sacs of the lungs | - |
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| (adjective) pertaining to the sockets of the teeth or that part of the upper jaw | - |
| alveolate | (adjective) pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb) | Synonyms: cavitied, faveolate, honeycombed, pitted |
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| alvine | (adjective) of or relating to the intestines | - |
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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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| ambivalent | (adjective) uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow | - |
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| ambiversive | (adjective) intermediate between introversive and extroversive | - |
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| ameliorative | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorating, amelioratory, meliorative |
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| amusive | (adjective) providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining | Synonyms: amusing, diverting |
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| annihilative | (adjective) wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction | Synonyms: annihilating, devastating, withering |
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| antediluvial | (adjective) of or relating to the period before the biblical flood | Synonyms: antediluvian |
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| antediluvian | (adjective) of or relating to the period before the biblical flood | Synonyms: antediluvial |
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| (adjective) so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period | Synonyms: antiquated, archaic |