| investigatory | (adjective) designed to find information or ascertain facts | Synonyms: fact-finding, investigative |
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| inveterate | (adjective) habitual | Synonyms: chronic |
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| involved | (adjective) connected by participation or association or use | - |
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| (adjective) emotionally involved | - |
| (adjective) highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious | Synonyms: Byzantine, convoluted, knotty, labyrinthine, tangled, tortuous |
| (adjective) enveloped | - |
| (adjective) entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire | Synonyms: mired |
| irrecoverable | (adjective) incapable of being recovered or regained | Synonyms: unrecoverable |
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| irreverent | (adjective) showing lack of due respect or veneration | - |
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| (adjective) not revering god | Synonyms: godless |
| (adjective) characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality | Synonyms: impertinent, pert, saucy |
| irreversible | (adjective) incapable of being reversed | - |
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| irritative | (adjective) (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite | Synonyms: irritating |
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| irruptive | (adjective) of igneous rock that has solidified beneath the earth's surface; granite or diorite or gabbro | Synonyms: plutonic |
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| iterative | (adjective) marked by iteration | Synonyms: reiterative |
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| justificative | (adjective) attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing | Synonyms: defensive, justificatory |
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| (adjective) providing justification | Synonyms: justificatory, vindicatory |
| juvenile | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of or appropriate for children or young people | - |
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| (adjective) displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity | Synonyms: adolescent, jejune, puerile |
| lavender | (adjective) of a pale purple color | Synonyms: lilac-colored, lilac |
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| laxative | (adjective) stimulating evacuation of feces | - |
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| leaved | (adjective) having leaves or leaves as specified; often used in combination | Synonyms: leafed |
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| leavened | (adjective) made light by aerating, as with yeast or baking powder; often used as a combining form | - |
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| leftover | (adjective) not used up | Synonyms: left, left over, odd, remaining, unexpended |
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| legislative | (adjective) of or relating to or created by legislation | - |
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| (adjective) relating to a legislature or composed of members of a legislature | - |
| lenitive | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviative, alleviatory, mitigative, mitigatory, palliative |
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| level | (adjective) of the score in a contest | Synonyms: even, tied |
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| (adjective) being on a precise horizontal plane | - |
| (adjective) not showing abrupt variations | Synonyms: unwavering |
| (adjective) having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another | Synonyms: flat, plane |
| (adjective) oriented at right angles to the plumb | - |
| levelheaded | (adjective) exercising or showing good judgment | Synonyms: healthy, intelligent, level-headed, sound |
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| live | (adjective) possessing life | Synonyms: alive |
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| (adjective) exerting force or containing energy | - |
| (adjective) actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing | Synonyms: unrecorded |
| (adjective) charged or energized with electricity | Synonyms: hot |
| (adjective) of current relevance | - |
| (adjective) elastic; rebounds readily | Synonyms: bouncy, lively, resilient, springy |
| (adjective) abounding with life and energy | - |
| (adjective) charged with an explosive | - |
| (adjective) highly reverberant | - |
| (adjective) in current use or ready for use | - |
| (adjective) capable of erupting | Synonyms: alive |
| liveable | (adjective) fit or suitable to live in or with | Synonyms: livable |
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| liveborn | (adjective) (of newborn infant) showing signs of life after birth; not stillborn | - |
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| livelong | (adjective) (of time) constituting the full extent or duration | - |
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| lively | (adjective) full of life and energy | - |
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| (adjective) full of spirit; full of life | Synonyms: vital |
| (adjective) elastic; rebounds readily | Synonyms: bouncy, live, resilient, springy |
| (adjective) quick and energetic | Synonyms: alert, brisk, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy |
| (adjective) filled with events or activity | - |
| (adjective) full of zest or vigor | Synonyms: racy |
| liver | (adjective) having a reddish-brown color | Synonyms: liver-colored |
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| liveried | (adjective) wearing livery | - |
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| liverish | (adjective) irritable as if suffering from indigestion | Synonyms: atrabilious, bilious, dyspeptic |
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| (adjective) suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress | Synonyms: bilious, livery |
| livery | (adjective) suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress | Synonyms: bilious, liverish |
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| locomotive | (adjective) of or relating to locomotion | Synonyms: locomotor |
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| louvered | (adjective) supplied with louvers for ventilation | - |
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| loveable | (adjective) having characteristics that attract love or affection | Synonyms: lovable |
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| loved | (adjective) held dear | - |
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| loveless | (adjective) receiving no love | - |
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| (adjective) without love | - |
| lovelorn | (adjective) unhappy in love; suffering from unrequited love | Synonyms: bereft, unbeloved |
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| lovely | (adjective) appealing to the emotions as well as the eye | - |
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| (adjective) lovable especially in a childlike or naive way | Synonyms: adorable, endearing |
| loverlike | (adjective) like or in the manner of a lover | Synonyms: loverly |
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| loverly | (adjective) like or in the manner of a lover | Synonyms: loverlike |
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| lovesick | (adjective) languishing because of love | - |
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| lovesome | (adjective) having or displaying warmth or affection | Synonyms: affectionate, fond, tender |
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| lucrative | (adjective) producing a sizeable profit | Synonyms: moneymaking, remunerative |
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| macerative | (adjective) accompanied by or characterized by maceration | - |
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| maladaptive | (adjective) showing faulty adaptation | - |
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| maladjustive | (adjective) poorly adjusted | - |
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| maneuverable | (adjective) capable of maneuvering or changing position | Synonyms: manoeuvrable |
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| manipulative | (adjective) skillful in influencing or controlling others to your own advantage | - |
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| marvellous | (adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: fantastic, grand, howling, marvelous, phenomenal, rattling, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous |
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| (adjective) too improbable to admit of belief | Synonyms: improbable, marvelous, tall |
| (adjective) being or having the character of a miracle | Synonyms: marvelous, miraculous |
| marvelous | (adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: fantastic, grand, howling, marvellous, phenomenal, rattling, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous |
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| (adjective) too improbable to admit of belief | Synonyms: improbable, marvellous, tall |
| (adjective) being or having the character of a miracle | Synonyms: marvellous, miraculous |
| massive | (adjective) consisting of great mass; containing a great quantity of matter | - |
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| (adjective) imposing in size or bulk or solidity | Synonyms: monolithic, monumental |
| (adjective) being the same substance throughout | - |
| (adjective) imposing in scale or scope or degree or power | - |
| mauve | (adjective) of a pale to moderate greyish violet color | - |
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| maverick | (adjective) independent in behavior or thought | Synonyms: irregular, unorthodox |
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| medicative | (adjective) having the properties of medicine | Synonyms: medicinal |
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| meditative | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, broody, contemplative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
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| meliorative | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorating, ameliorative, amelioratory |
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| mitigative | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive, mitigatory, palliative |
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| motivative | (adjective) impelling to action | Synonyms: motivating, motive |
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| motive | (adjective) causing or able to cause motion | Synonyms: motor |
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| (adjective) impelling to action | Synonyms: motivating, motivative |
| motiveless | (adjective) occurring without motivation or provocation | Synonyms: unprovoked, wanton |
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| moveable | (adjective) capable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another | Synonyms: movable, transferable, transferrable, transportable |
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| moved | (adjective) being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion | Synonyms: affected, stirred, touched |
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| multilevel | (adjective) of a building having more than one level | - |
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| multiplicative | (adjective) tending or having the power to multiply or increase in number or quantity or degree | - |
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| mutative | (adjective) of or pertaining to or marked by genetic mutation | - |
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| naive | (adjective) marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience | Synonyms: naif |
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| (adjective) not initiated; deficient in relevant experience | Synonyms: uninitiate, uninitiated |
| (adjective) inexperienced | - |
| (adjective) lacking information or instruction | Synonyms: unenlightened, uninstructed |
| (adjective) of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style | Synonyms: primitive |
| narrative | (adjective) consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story | - |
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| native | (adjective) characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning | Synonyms: aboriginal |
| (adjective) belonging to one by birth | - |
| (adjective) as found in nature in the elemental form | - |
| negative | (adjective) expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features | - |
| (adjective) not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition | Synonyms: disconfirming |
| (adjective) reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive | - |
| (adjective) having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant | - |
| (adjective) having a negative charge | Synonyms: electronegative, negatively charged |
| (adjective) designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions | Synonyms: damaging |
| (adjective) involving disadvantage or harm | Synonyms: minus |
| (adjective) less than zero | - |
| nerveless | (adjective) marked by calm self-control (especially in trying circumstances); unemotional | Synonyms: cool, coolheaded |
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| (adjective) lacking strength | Synonyms: feeble |
| nociceptive | (adjective) caused by or in response to pain | - |
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| nominative | (adjective) serving as or indicating the subject of a verb and words identified with the subject of a copular verb | - |
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| (adjective) appointed by nomination | Synonyms: nominated |
| (adjective) named; bearing the name of a specific person | Synonyms: nominal |
| nonabsorptive | (adjective) not capable of absorbing or soaking up (liquids) | Synonyms: nonabsorbent |
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| nonadaptive | (adjective) (of a trait or condition) failing to serve an adjustive purpose | Synonyms: dysfunctional |
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| nonaddictive | (adjective) not causing or characterized by addiction | - |
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| nonadhesive | (adjective) not tending to adhere | - |
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| nonadsorptive | (adjective) lacking a capacity to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface | Synonyms: nonadsorbent |
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| nonaggressive | (adjective) not aggressive; not given to fighting or assertiveness | Synonyms: unaggressive |
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| nonappointive | (adjective) filled by popular election rather than by appointment | - |
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| nonassertive | (adjective) not aggressively self-assured, though not necessarily lacking in confidence | - |
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| nonassociative | (adjective) not associative | - |
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| noncausative | (adjective) not causative | Synonyms: noncausal |
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| noncombinative | (adjective) not involving combination | - |
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| noncompetitive | (adjective) not involving competition or competitiveness | - |
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| noncomprehensive | (adjective) not comprehensive | Synonyms: incomprehensive |
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| nonconductive | (adjective) not able to conduct heat or electricity or sound | Synonyms: non-conducting, nonconducting |
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| noncontroversial | (adjective) not likely to arouse controversy | Synonyms: uncontroversial |
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| nonconvergent | (adjective) (of lines, planes, or surfaces) never meeting or crossing | Synonyms: nonintersecting |
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| noneffervescent | (adjective) not effervescent | - |
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| (adjective) not sparkling | Synonyms: still |
| nonelective | (adjective) filled by appointment rather than by election | Synonyms: non-elective, nonelected |
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| nonexplorative | (adjective) not exploratory | Synonyms: nonexploratory, unexplorative, unexploratory |
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| nonexplosive | (adjective) not explosive | - |
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| nonfigurative | (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstract, abstractionist, nonobjective |
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| nonimitative | (adjective) not marked by or given to imitation | - |
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| noninvasive | (adjective) relating to a technique that does not involve puncturing the skin or entering a body cavity | - |
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| nonnative | (adjective) not being or composed of aborigines | - |
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| (adjective) of persons born in another area or country than that lived in | Synonyms: foreign-born |
| (adjective) of plants or animals originating in a part of the world other than where they are growing | - |
| nonnegative | (adjective) either positive or zero | - |
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| nonnormative | (adjective) not based on a norm | - |
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| nonobjective | (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstract, abstractionist, nonfigurative |
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| nonproductive | (adjective) not directly productive | - |
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| nonprognosticative | (adjective) not offering prognostications | - |
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| nonprogressive | (adjective) old-fashioned and out of date | Synonyms: fusty, standpat, unprogressive |
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