| acknowledgeable | (adjective) capable of being acknowledged | - |
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| acknowledged | (adjective) recognized or made known or admitted | - |
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| (adjective) generally accepted | - |
| aglow | (adjective) softly bright or radiant | Synonyms: lambent, lucent, luminous |
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| airworthy | (adjective) (of aircraft) fit to fly | - |
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| allowable | (adjective) that may be permitted especially as according to rule | Synonyms: permissible |
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| (adjective) deserving to be allowed or considered | - |
| (adjective) deductible according to the tax laws | - |
| answerable | (adjective) morally or legally responsible to a higher authority | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being answered | - |
| (adjective) liable to account for one's actions | Synonyms: accountable |
| answering | (adjective) replying | Synonyms: respondent |
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| anticlockwise | (adjective) in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock | Synonyms: contraclockwise, counterclockwise |
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| askew | (adjective) turned or twisted toward one side | Synonyms: awry, cockeyed, lopsided, skew-whiff, wonky |
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| avowed | (adjective) openly declared as such | Synonyms: professed |
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| awaited | (adjective) expected hopefully | Synonyms: anticipated, hoped-for |
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| awake | (adjective) not in a state of sleep; completely conscious | - |
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| (adjective) mentally perceptive and responsive | Synonyms: alert, alive |
| awakened | (adjective) aroused or activated | - |
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| (adjective) (somewhat formal) having been waked up | - |
| aware | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception | Synonyms: cognisant, cognizant |
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| (adjective) bearing in mind; attentive to | Synonyms: mindful |
| awash | (adjective) covered with water | Synonyms: afloat, flooded, inundated, overflowing |
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| away | (adjective) used of an opponent's ground | - |
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| (adjective) not present; having left | - |
| (adjective) (of a baseball pitch) on the far side of home plate from the batter | Synonyms: outside |
| aweary | (adjective) physically and mentally fatigued | Synonyms: weary |
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| awed | (adjective) having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread | Synonyms: awestricken, awestruck |
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| (adjective) inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence | Synonyms: awful |
| aweigh | (adjective) (of an anchor) just clear of the bottom | Synonyms: atrip |
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| (adjective) (used of an anchor) hanging clear of the bottom | - |
| aweless | (adjective) neither feeling nor showing respect | Synonyms: awless, disrespectful |
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| (adjective) devoid of any feeling of awe or reverence | Synonyms: awless |
| awesome | (adjective) inspiring awe or admiration or wonder | Synonyms: amazing, awe-inspiring, awful, awing |
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| awestricken | (adjective) having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread | Synonyms: awed, awestruck |
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| awestruck | (adjective) having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread | Synonyms: awed, awestricken |
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| awful | (adjective) offensive or even (of persons) malicious | Synonyms: nasty |
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| (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
| (adjective) exceptionally bad or displeasing | Synonyms: abominable, atrocious, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable |
| (adjective) extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact | Synonyms: frightful, terrible, tremendous |
| (adjective) inspiring awe or admiration or wonder | Synonyms: amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awing |
| (adjective) inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence | Synonyms: awed |
| awheel | (adjective) traveling by wheeled vehicle such as bicycle or automobile e.g. | - |
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| awing | (adjective) inspiring awe or admiration or wonder | Synonyms: amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful |
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| awkward | (adjective) lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance | - |
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| (adjective) hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment | Synonyms: embarrassing, sticky, unenviable |
| (adjective) causing inconvenience | - |
| (adjective) not elegant or graceful in expression | Synonyms: clumsy, cumbersome, ill-chosen, inapt, inept |
| (adjective) socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner | Synonyms: ill at ease, uneasy |
| (adjective) difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape | Synonyms: bunglesome, clumsy, ungainly |
| awless | (adjective) neither feeling nor showing respect | Synonyms: aweless, disrespectful |
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| (adjective) devoid of any feeling of awe or reverence | Synonyms: aweless |
| awned | (adjective) having awns i.e. bristlelike or hairlike appendages on the flowering parts of some cereals and grasses | Synonyms: awny |
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| awninged | (adjective) covered with an awning | - |
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| awnless | (adjective) lacking or having only very short awns | - |
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| awny | (adjective) having awns i.e. bristlelike or hairlike appendages on the flowering parts of some cereals and grasses | Synonyms: awned |
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| awol | (adjective) absent without permission | Synonyms: truant |
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| awry | (adjective) turned or twisted toward one side | Synonyms: askew, cockeyed, lopsided, skew-whiff, wonky |
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| (adjective) not functioning properly | Synonyms: amiss, haywire, wrong |
| backswept | (adjective) used of hair | Synonyms: sweptback |
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| backward | (adjective) directed or facing toward the back or rear | - |
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| (adjective) (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature | - |
| (adjective) retarded in intellectual development | Synonyms: feebleminded, half-witted, slow-witted |
| (adjective) having made less than normal progress | - |
| batwing | (adjective) formed or shaped like a bat's wing | - |
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| bawdy | (adjective) humorously vulgar | Synonyms: off-color, ribald |
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| beardown | (adjective) with full strength | - |
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| bedewed | (adjective) wet with dew | Synonyms: dewy |
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| belowground | (adjective) underneath the ground | - |
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| (adjective) under the level of the ground | Synonyms: underground |
| bewhiskered | (adjective) having hair on the cheeks and chin | Synonyms: barbate, bearded, whiskered, whiskery |
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| bewildered | (adjective) perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at sea, baffled, befuddled, bemused, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up |
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| bewitched | (adjective) captured, as if under a spell | Synonyms: ensorcelled |
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| bewitching | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: captivating, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating |
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| billowing | (adjective) characterized by great swelling waves or surges | Synonyms: billowy, surging |
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| billowy | (adjective) characterized by great swelling waves or surges | Synonyms: billowing, surging |
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| bittersweet | (adjective) tinged with sadness | - |
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| (adjective) having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness | Synonyms: semisweet |
| biweekly | (adjective) occurring every two weeks | Synonyms: fortnightly |
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| (adjective) occurring twice a week | Synonyms: semiweekly |
| blameworthy | (adjective) deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious | Synonyms: blamable, blameable, blameful, censurable, culpable |
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| blown | (adjective) breathing laboriously or convulsively | Synonyms: pursy, short-winded, winded |
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| (adjective) being moved or acted upon by moving air or vapor | - |
| blowsy | (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women | Synonyms: blowzy, slatternly, sluttish |
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| blowy | (adjective) abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes | Synonyms: breezy, windy |
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| blowzy | (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women | Synonyms: blowsy, slatternly, sluttish |
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| bowed | (adjective) of a stringed instrument; sounded by stroking with a bow | - |
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| (adjective) forming or resembling an arch | Synonyms: arced, arched, arching, arciform, arcuate |
| (adjective) have legs that curve outward at the knees | Synonyms: bandy-legged, bandy, bowleg, bowlegged |
| (adjective) showing an excessively deferential manner | Synonyms: bowing |
| bowelless | (adjective) ruthless in competition | Synonyms: cutthroat, fierce |
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| bowery | (adjective) like a bower; leafy and shady | - |
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| bowfront | (adjective) having an outward curving front | - |
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| bowing | (adjective) showing an excessively deferential manner | Synonyms: bowed |
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| bowleg | (adjective) have legs that curve outward at the knees | Synonyms: bandy-legged, bandy, bowed, bowlegged |
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| bowlegged | (adjective) have legs that curve outward at the knees | Synonyms: bandy-legged, bandy, bowed, bowleg |
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| brainwashed | (adjective) subjected to intensive forced indoctrination resulting in the rejection of old beliefs and acceptance of new ones | - |
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| braw | (adjective) brightly colored and showy | Synonyms: brave, gay |
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| brawny | (adjective) (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful | Synonyms: hefty, muscular, powerful, sinewy |
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| breakaway | (adjective) having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude | Synonyms: fissiparous, separatist |
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| brown | (adjective) (of skin) deeply suntanned | Synonyms: browned |
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| (adjective) of a color similar to that of wood or earth | Synonyms: brownish, chocolate-brown, dark-brown |
| browned | (adjective) (of skin) deeply suntanned | Synonyms: brown |
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| brownish | (adjective) of a color similar to that of wood or earth | Synonyms: brown, chocolate-brown, dark-brown |
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| bushwhacking | (adjective) lying in ambush | - |
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| callow | (adjective) young and inexperienced | Synonyms: fledgling, unfledged |
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| careworn | (adjective) showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering | Synonyms: drawn, haggard, raddled, worn |
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| chewable | (adjective) able to be chewed or cut | Synonyms: cuttable |
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| chewy | (adjective) (of a consistency) requiring chewing | - |
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| (adjective) requiring much chewing | - |
| citywide | (adjective) occurring or extending throughout a city | - |
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| clawed | (adjective) (of predatory animals) armed with claws or talons | Synonyms: taloned |
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| (adjective) having or resembling a claw or claws; often used as a combining form | - |
| clawlike | (adjective) resembling a claw | - |
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| clockwise | (adjective) in the same direction as the rotating hands of a clock | - |
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| clownish | (adjective) like a clown | Synonyms: buffoonish, clownlike, zany |
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| clownlike | (adjective) like a clown | Synonyms: buffoonish, clownish, zany |
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| coastwise | (adjective) along or following a coast | Synonyms: coastal |
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| cobwebby | (adjective) covered with cobwebs | - |
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| (adjective) so thin as to transmit light | Synonyms: diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous |
| contraclockwise | (adjective) in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock | Synonyms: anticlockwise, counterclockwise |
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| counterclockwise | (adjective) in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock | Synonyms: anticlockwise, contraclockwise |
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| countrywide | (adjective) occurring or extending throughout a country or nation | Synonyms: nationwide |
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| countywide | (adjective) occurring or extending throughout a county | - |
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| cowardly | (adjective) lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted | Synonyms: fearful |
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| cowled | (adjective) having the head enclosed in a cowl or hood | - |
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| crabwise | (adjective) (of movement) at an angle | Synonyms: sideways |
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| creditworthy | (adjective) having an acceptable credit rating | Synonyms: responsible |
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| crosstown | (adjective) going or extending across a town or city | Synonyms: cross-town |
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| crosswise | (adjective) lying or extending across the length of a thing or in a cross direction | - |
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| (adjective) in the shape of (a horizontal piece on) a cross | - |
| crowded | (adjective) overfilled or compacted or concentrated | - |
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| crowing | (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: big, boastful, braggart, bragging, braggy, cock-a-hoop, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
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| crowned | (adjective) provided with or as if with a crown or a crown as specified; often used in combination | - |
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| (adjective) having an (artificial) crown on a tooth | - |
| (adjective) crowned with or as if with laurel symbolizing victory | Synonyms: laureled, laurelled |
| crowning | (adjective) forming or providing a crown or summit | - |
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| (adjective) representing a level of the highest possible achievement or attainment | - |
| crownless | (adjective) not (especially not yet) provided with a crown | Synonyms: uncrowned |
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| dewy | (adjective) wet with dew | Synonyms: bedewed |
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| disavowable | (adjective) capable of being disavowed | - |
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| dowdy | (adjective) lacking in smartness or taste | - |
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| (adjective) primly out of date | Synonyms: frumpish, frumpy |
| dowered | (adjective) supplied with a dower or dowry | - |
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