| abbreviated | (adjective) (of clothing) very short | Synonyms: brief |
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| (adjective) cut short in duration | Synonyms: shortened, truncated |
| absolvitory | (adjective) providing absolution | Synonyms: exonerative, forgiving |
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| acclivitous | (adjective) sloping upward | Synonyms: rising, uphill |
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| alluvial | (adjective) of or relating to alluvium | - |
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| alvine | (adjective) of or relating to the intestines | - |
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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 |
| antiviral | (adjective) inhibiting or stopping the growth and reproduction of viruses | - |
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| approving | (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: affirmative, approbative, approbatory, plausive |
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| atavistic | (adjective) characteristic of an atavist | Synonyms: throwback |
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| audiovisual | (adjective) involving both hearing and seeing (usually relating to teaching aids) | - |
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| avian | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of birds | - |
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| avid | (adjective) (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous | Synonyms: devouring, esurient, greedy |
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| (adjective) marked by active interest and enthusiasm | Synonyms: zealous |
| avifaunal | (adjective) of or relating to birds of a particular region or period | Synonyms: avifaunistic |
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| avifaunistic | (adjective) of or relating to birds of a particular region or period | Synonyms: avifaunal |
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| avionic | (adjective) of or relating to avionics | - |
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| avirulent | (adjective) not virulent; unable to produce disease | - |
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| avitaminotic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of avitaminosis | - |
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| behavioral | (adjective) of or relating to behavior | Synonyms: behavioural |
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| behaviorist | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behavioristic, behaviourist, behaviouristic |
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| behavioristic | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviorist, behaviourist, behaviouristic |
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| behavioural | (adjective) of or relating to behavior | Synonyms: behavioral |
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| behaviourist | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviorist, behavioristic, behaviouristic |
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| behaviouristic | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviorist, behavioristic, behaviourist |
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| bovid | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the genus Bos (cattle) | Synonyms: bovine |
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| bovine | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the genus Bos (cattle) | Synonyms: bovid |
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| (adjective) dull and slow-moving and stolid; like an ox | - |
| cavitied | (adjective) pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb) | Synonyms: alveolate, faveolate, honeycombed, pitted |
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| cervical | (adjective) relating to or associated with the neck | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the cervix of the uterus | - |
| cervine | (adjective) relating to or resembling deer | - |
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| chauvinistic | (adjective) of or relating to persons convinced of the superiority of their own gender or kind | - |
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| (adjective) fanatically patriotic | Synonyms: flag-waving, jingoistic, nationalistic, superpatriotic, ultranationalistic |
| civic | (adjective) of or relating or belonging to a city | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or befitting citizens as individuals | Synonyms: civil |
| civil | (adjective) not rude; marked by satisfactory (or especially minimal) adherence to social usages and sufficient but not noteworthy consideration for others | Synonyms: polite |
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| (adjective) (of divisions of time) legally recognized in ordinary affairs of life | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or befitting citizens as individuals | Synonyms: civic |
| (adjective) of or occurring within the state or between or among citizens of the state | - |
| (adjective) applying to ordinary citizens as contrasted with the military | - |
| (adjective) of or in a condition of social order | - |
| civilian | (adjective) associated with civil life or performed by persons who are not active members of the military | - |
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| civilised | (adjective) having a high state of culture and development both social and technological | Synonyms: civilized |
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| (adjective) marked by refinement in taste and manners | Synonyms: civilized, cultivated, cultured, genteel, polite |
| civilized | (adjective) having a high state of culture and development both social and technological | Synonyms: civilised |
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| (adjective) marked by refinement in taste and manners | Synonyms: civilised, cultivated, cultured, genteel, polite |
| collectivised | (adjective) characterized by the principle of ownership by the state or the people of the means of production | Synonyms: collectivized |
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| (adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivist, collectivistic, collectivized, state-controlled |
| collectivist | (adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivised, collectivistic, collectivized, state-controlled |
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| collectivistic | (adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivised, collectivist, collectivized, state-controlled |
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| collectivized | (adjective) characterized by the principle of ownership by the state or the people of the means of production | Synonyms: collectivised |
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| (adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivised, collectivist, collectivistic, state-controlled |
| conniving | (adjective) acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end | Synonyms: collusive |
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| (adjective) acting with a specific goal | Synonyms: calculating, calculative, scheming, shrewd |
| convinced | (adjective) having a strong belief or conviction | - |
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| (adjective) persuaded of; very sure | Synonyms: confident, positive |
| convincible | (adjective) being susceptible to persuasion | Synonyms: persuadable, persuasible, suasible |
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| convincing | (adjective) causing one to believe the truth of something | - |
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| convivial | (adjective) occupied with or fond of the pleasures of good company | Synonyms: good-time |
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| corvine | (adjective) relating to or resembling a crow | - |
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| curvilineal | (adjective) characterized by or following a curved line | Synonyms: curvilinear |
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| curvilinear | (adjective) characterized by or following a curved line | Synonyms: curvilineal |
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| curving | (adjective) having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend | Synonyms: curved |
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| daredevil | (adjective) presumptuously daring | Synonyms: temerarious |
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| declivitous | (adjective) sloping down rather steeply | Synonyms: downhill, downward-sloping |
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| deserving | (adjective) (often used ironically) worthy of being treated in a particular way | Synonyms: worth |
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| deviant | (adjective) markedly different from an accepted norm | Synonyms: aberrant, deviate |
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| deviate | (adjective) markedly different from an accepted norm | Synonyms: aberrant, deviant |
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| devilish | (adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelean, mephistophelian |
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| (adjective) playful in an appealingly bold way | Synonyms: rascally, roguish |
| devious | (adjective) deviating from a straight course | Synonyms: circuitous, roundabout |
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| (adjective) indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading | Synonyms: oblique |
| (adjective) characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive | Synonyms: shifty |
| diluvial | (adjective) of or connected with a deluge | Synonyms: diluvian |
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| diluvian | (adjective) of or connected with a deluge | Synonyms: diluvial |
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| disapproving | (adjective) expressing or manifesting disapproval | - |
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| disbelieving | (adjective) denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion | Synonyms: sceptical, skeptical, unbelieving |
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| dividable | (adjective) can be divided usually without leaving a remainder | - |
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| divided | (adjective) separated into parts or pieces | - |
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| (adjective) distributed in portions (often equal) on the basis of a plan or purpose | Synonyms: divided up, shared, shared out |
| (adjective) having a median strip or island between lanes of traffic moving in opposite directions | Synonyms: dual-lane |
| divinatory | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy | Synonyms: mantic, sibyllic, sibylline, vatic, vatical |
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| (adjective) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence | Synonyms: conjectural, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious |
| divine | (adjective) being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods | Synonyms: elysian, inspired |
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| (adjective) emanating from God | Synonyms: godly |
| (adjective) devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity | - |
| (adjective) appropriate to or befitting a god | Synonyms: godlike |
| (adjective) being or having the nature of a god | Synonyms: godlike |
| (adjective) resulting from divine providence | Synonyms: providential |
| divisible | (adjective) capable of being or liable to be divided or separated | - |
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| divisional | (adjective) of or relating to a military division | - |
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| (adjective) serving to divide or marking a division | - |
| (adjective) constituting a division or an aliquot part of the basic monetary unit | Synonyms: fractional |
| divisive | (adjective) dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion) | Synonyms: dissentious, factious |
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| dovish | (adjective) opposed to war | Synonyms: pacifist, pacifistic |
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| driving | (adjective) having the power of driving or impelling | Synonyms: impulsive |
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| (adjective) acting with vigor | - |
| elvish | (adjective) usually good-naturedly mischievous | Synonyms: elfin, elfish |
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| enviable | (adjective) causing envy | - |
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| envious | (adjective) showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages | Synonyms: covetous, jealous |
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| environmental | (adjective) concerned with the ecological effects of altering the environment | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the external conditions or surroundings | - |
| envisioned | (adjective) seen in the mind as a mental image | Synonyms: pictured, visualised, visualized |
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| evidenced | (adjective) supported by evidence | - |
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| evident | (adjective) capable of being seen or noticed | Synonyms: discernible, observable |
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| (adjective) clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment | Synonyms: apparent, manifest, palpable, patent, plain, unmistakable |
| evidential | (adjective) serving as or based on evidence | Synonyms: evidentiary |
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| evidentiary | (adjective) pertaining to or constituting evidence | - |
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| (adjective) serving as or based on evidence | Synonyms: evidential |
| evil | (adjective) morally bad or wrong | - |
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| (adjective) having or exerting a malignant influence | Synonyms: malefic, malevolent, malign |
| (adjective) having the nature of vice | Synonyms: vicious |
| eviscerate | (adjective) having been disembowelled | - |
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| evitable | (adjective) capable of being avoided or warded off | Synonyms: avertable, avertible, avoidable |
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| exuvial | (adjective) of or relating to the cast-off skins or cuticles of various animals | - |
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| fervid | (adjective) (archaic) extremely hot, burning, or glowing | Synonyms: fervent |
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| (adjective) characterized by intense emotion | Synonyms: ardent, fervent, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid |
| fluvial | (adjective) of or relating to or happening in a river | - |
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| forgiving | (adjective) inclined or able to forgive and show mercy | - |
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| (adjective) providing absolution | Synonyms: absolvitory, exonerative |
| giving | (adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, liberal, openhanded |
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| gravid | (adjective) in an advanced stage of pregnancy | Synonyms: big, enceinte, expectant, great, heavy, large, with child |
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| gravimetric | (adjective) of or relating to hydrometry | Synonyms: hydrometric |
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| gravitational | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by gravitation | Synonyms: gravitative |
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| gravitative | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by gravitation | Synonyms: gravitational |
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| grieving | (adjective) sorrowful through loss or deprivation | Synonyms: bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, mourning, sorrowing |
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| imperviable | (adjective) not admitting of passage or capable of being affected | Synonyms: impervious |
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| impervious | (adjective) not admitting of passage or capable of being affected | Synonyms: imperviable |
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