| diverging | (adjective) tending to move apart in different directions | Synonyms: divergent |
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| divers | (adjective) many and different | Synonyms: diverse |
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| diverse | (adjective) distinctly dissimilar or unlike | Synonyms: various |
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| (adjective) many and different | Synonyms: divers |
| diversified | (adjective) having variety of character or form or components; or having increased variety | - |
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| diversionary | (adjective) (of tactics e.g.) likely or designed to confuse or deceive | - |
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| diverted | (adjective) pleasantly occupied | Synonyms: amused, entertained |
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| diverting | (adjective) providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining | Synonyms: amusing, amusive |
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| divisive | (adjective) dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion) | Synonyms: dissentious, factious |
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| dorsoventral | (adjective) extending from the back to the belly | - |
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| driven | (adjective) strongly motivated to succeed | Synonyms: compulsive, determined |
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| (adjective) compelled forcibly by an outside agency | Synonyms: goaded |
| (adjective) urged or forced to action through moral pressure | Synonyms: impelled |
| educative | (adjective) resulting in education | - |
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| effective | (adjective) producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect | Synonyms: effectual, efficacious |
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| (adjective) existing in fact; not theoretical; real | - |
| (adjective) able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively | Synonyms: efficient |
| (adjective) works well as a means or remedy | - |
| (adjective) ready for service | - |
| (adjective) exerting force or influence | Synonyms: good, in effect, in force |
| effervescent | (adjective) (of a liquid) giving off bubbles | - |
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| (adjective) used of wines and waters; charged naturally or artificially with carbon dioxide | Synonyms: sparkling |
| (adjective) marked by high spirits or excitement | Synonyms: bubbling, frothy, scintillating, sparkly |
| effervescing | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbling, bubbly, foaming, foamy, frothy, spumy |
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| effusive | (adjective) extravagantly demonstrative | Synonyms: gushing, gushy |
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| (adjective) uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm | Synonyms: burbling, burbly, gushing |
| elective | (adjective) subject to popular election | Synonyms: elected |
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| (adjective) optional | Synonyms: facultative |
| electromotive | (adjective) concerned with or producing electric current | - |
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| electronegative | (adjective) having a negative charge | Synonyms: negative, negatively charged |
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| electropositive | (adjective) having a positive charge | Synonyms: positive, positively charged |
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| eleven | (adjective) being one more than ten | Synonyms: 11, xi |
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| eleventh | (adjective) coming next after the tenth and just before the twelfth in position | Synonyms: 11th |
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| elucidative | (adjective) that makes clear | Synonyms: clarifying |
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| elusive | (adjective) skillful at eluding capture | - |
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| (adjective) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | Synonyms: baffling, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough |
| (adjective) difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze | Synonyms: subtle |
| (adjective) difficult to describe | - |
| emancipative | (adjective) tending to set free | - |
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| emotive | (adjective) characterized by emotion | Synonyms: affectional, affective |
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| endovenous | (adjective) within or by means of a vein | Synonyms: intravenous |
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| engraved | (adjective) cut or impressed into a surface | Synonyms: etched, graven, incised, inscribed |
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| enhancive | (adjective) serving an aesthetic purpose in beautifying the body | Synonyms: cosmetic |
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| (adjective) intensifying by augmentation and enhancement | Synonyms: augmentative |
| enlivened | (adjective) made sprightly or cheerful | - |
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| (adjective) made lively or spirited | Synonyms: spirited |
| enlivening | (adjective) giving spirit and vivacity | Synonyms: animating |
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| enveloping | (adjective) surrounding and closing in on or hemming in | - |
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| erosive | (adjective) of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action | Synonyms: caustic, corrosive, mordant, vitriolic |
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| (adjective) wearing away by friction | - |
| eruptive | (adjective) produced by the action of fire or intense heat | Synonyms: igneous |
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| (adjective) producing or characterized by eruptions | - |
| (adjective) actively spewing out lava | - |
| evaluative | (adjective) exercising or involving careful evaluations | Synonyms: appraising |
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| evaporative | (adjective) relating to or causing or being caused by evaporation | - |
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| evasive | (adjective) deliberately vague or ambiguous | - |
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| (adjective) avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire | - |
| even | (adjective) being level or straight or regular and without variation as e.g. in shape or texture; or being in the same plane or at the same height as something else (i.e. even with) | - |
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| (adjective) divisible by two | - |
| (adjective) occurring at fixed intervals | Synonyms: regular |
| (adjective) symmetrically arranged | Synonyms: regular |
| (adjective) equal in degree or extent or amount; or equally matched or balanced | Synonyms: fifty-fifty |
| (adjective) of the score in a contest | Synonyms: level, tied |
| evenhanded | (adjective) without partiality | - |
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| eventful | (adjective) full of events or incidents | - |
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| (adjective) having important issues or results | Synonyms: consequential |
| eventual | (adjective) expected to follow in the indefinite future from causes already operating | - |
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| evergreen | (adjective) (of plants and shrubs) bearing foliage throughout the year | - |
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| everlasting | (adjective) continuing forever or indefinitely | Synonyms: aeonian, ageless, eonian, eternal, perpetual, unceasing, unending |
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| (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 |
| every | (adjective) (used of count nouns) each and all of the members of a group considered singly and without exception | - |
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| (adjective) each and all of a series of entities or intervals as specified | - |
| everyday | (adjective) commonplace and ordinary | - |
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| (adjective) appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions | Synonyms: casual, daily |
| (adjective) found in the ordinary course of events | Synonyms: mundane, quotidian, routine, unremarkable, workaday |
| evocative | (adjective) serving to bring to mind | Synonyms: redolent, remindful, reminiscent, resonant |
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| excessive | (adjective) beyond normal limits | Synonyms: inordinate, undue, unreasonable |
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| (adjective) unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings | Synonyms: extravagant, exuberant, overweening |
| excitative | (adjective) (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate | Synonyms: excitant, excitatory |
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| exclusive | (adjective) excluding much or all; especially all but a particular group or minority | - |
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| (adjective) not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective | Synonyms: single, undivided |
| (adjective) not divided or shared with others | Synonyms: sole |
| excogitative | (adjective) concerned with excogitating or having the power of excogitation | - |
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| excursive | (adjective) (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects | Synonyms: digressive, discursive, rambling |
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| executive | (adjective) having the function of carrying out plans or orders etc. | - |
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| exhaustive | (adjective) performed comprehensively and completely; not superficial or partial | Synonyms: thorough, thoroughgoing |
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| exhortative | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortatory, hortative, hortatory |
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| exonerative | (adjective) providing absolution | Synonyms: absolvitory, forgiving |
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| expansive | (adjective) able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion | - |
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| (adjective) friendly and open and willing to talk | Synonyms: talkative |
| (adjective) marked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur | - |
| (adjective) of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope | Synonyms: grand, heroic |
| expensive | (adjective) high in price or charging high prices | - |
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| expiative | (adjective) having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation | Synonyms: expiatory, propitiatory |
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| exploitative | (adjective) tending to exploit or make use of | Synonyms: exploitatory, exploitive |
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| exploitive | (adjective) tending to exploit or make use of | Synonyms: exploitative, exploitatory |
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| explorative | (adjective) serving in or intended for exploration or discovery | Synonyms: exploratory |
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| explosive | (adjective) serving to explode or characterized by explosion or sudden outburst | - |
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| (adjective) sudden and loud | - |
| (adjective) liable to lead to sudden change or violence | Synonyms: volatile |
| expositive | (adjective) serving to expound or set forth | Synonyms: expository |
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| expressive | (adjective) performing gestures or possessing qualities or features that suggest a certain state of being or emotion | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by expression | - |
| extensive | (adjective) of agriculture; increasing productivity by using large areas with minimal outlay and labor | - |
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| (adjective) broad in scope or content | Synonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, encompassing, panoptic, wide |
| (adjective) large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity | Synonyms: extended |
| exteroceptive | (adjective) of or relating to exteroception | - |
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| extraversive | (adjective) directed outward; marked by interest in others or concerned with external reality | Synonyms: extroversive |
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| extravert | (adjective) being concerned with the social and physical environment | Synonyms: extraverted, extravertive, extrovert, extroverted, extrovertive |
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| extraverted | (adjective) being concerned with the social and physical environment | Synonyms: extravert, extravertive, extrovert, extroverted, extrovertive |
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| extravertive | (adjective) being concerned with the social and physical environment | Synonyms: extravert, extraverted, extrovert, extroverted, extrovertive |
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| extrospective | (adjective) not introspective; examining what is outside yourself | Synonyms: extroverted |
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| extroversive | (adjective) directed outward; marked by interest in others or concerned with external reality | Synonyms: extraversive |
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| extrovert | (adjective) being concerned with the social and physical environment | Synonyms: extravert, extraverted, extravertive, extroverted, extrovertive |
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| extroverted | (adjective) not introspective; examining what is outside yourself | Synonyms: extrospective |
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| (adjective) being concerned with the social and physical environment | Synonyms: extravert, extraverted, extravertive, extrovert, extrovertive |
| (adjective) at ease in talking to others | Synonyms: forthcoming, outgoing |
| extrovertish | (adjective) being somewhat extroverted | - |
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| extrovertive | (adjective) being concerned with the social and physical environment | Synonyms: extravert, extraverted, extravertive, extrovert, extroverted |
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| extrusive | (adjective) of rock material; forced out while molten through cracks in the earth's surface | - |
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| facilitative | (adjective) freeing from difficulty or impediment | - |
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| facultative | (adjective) able to exist under more than one set of conditions | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the mental faculties | - |
| (adjective) granting a privilege or permission or power to do or not do something | - |
| (adjective) optional | Synonyms: elective |
| faveolate | (adjective) pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb) | Synonyms: alveolate, cavitied, honeycombed, pitted |
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| fervent | (adjective) (archaic) extremely hot, burning, or glowing | Synonyms: fervid |
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| (adjective) characterized by intense emotion | Synonyms: ardent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid |
| festive | (adjective) offering fun and gaiety | Synonyms: festal, gay, merry |
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| fevered | (adjective) highly or nervously excited | - |
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| feverish | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by fever | Synonyms: febrile |
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| (adjective) marked by intense agitation or emotion | Synonyms: hectic |
| (adjective) having or affected by a fever | Synonyms: feverous |
| feverous | (adjective) having or affected by a fever | Synonyms: feverish |
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| fictive | (adjective) adopted in order to deceive | Synonyms: assumed, false, fictitious, pretended, put on, sham |
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| (adjective) capable of imaginative creation | - |
| figurative | (adjective) (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech | Synonyms: nonliteral |
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| (adjective) consisting of or forming human or animal figures | Synonyms: figural |
| five | (adjective) being one more than four | Synonyms: 5, v |
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| fivefold | (adjective) having five units or components | Synonyms: five-fold, quintuple |
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| formative | (adjective) forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning | Synonyms: plastic, shaping |
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| (adjective) capable of forming new cells and tissues | - |
| fricative | (adjective) of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') | Synonyms: continuant, sibilant, spirant, strident |
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| frustrative | (adjective) preventing realization or attainment of a desire | Synonyms: frustrating, thwarting |
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| fugitive | (adjective) lasting for a markedly brief time | Synonyms: fleeting, momentaneous, momentary |
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| furtive | (adjective) marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed | Synonyms: sneak, sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious |
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| (adjective) secret and sly or sordid | Synonyms: backstair, backstairs |
| generative | (adjective) having the ability to produce or originate | Synonyms: productive |
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| (adjective) producing new life or offspring | Synonyms: procreative, reproductive |
| genitive | (adjective) serving to express or indicate possession | Synonyms: possessive |
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| given | (adjective) acknowledged as a supposition | Synonyms: granted |
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| (adjective) (usually followed by `to') naturally disposed toward | Synonyms: apt, disposed, minded, tending |
| gloved | (adjective) having the hands covered with gloves | - |
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| gloveless | (adjective) devoid of gloves | - |
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| governable | (adjective) capable of being controlled | Synonyms: controllable |
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| governing | (adjective) responsible for making and enforcing rules and laws | - |
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