| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - |
| cowardly | (adjective) lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted | Synonyms: fearful |
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| downward | (adjective) extending or moving from a higher to a lower place | Synonyms: down |
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| (adjective) on or toward a surface regarded as a base | - |
| dwarfish | (adjective) atypically small | - |
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| eastward | (adjective) moving toward the east | Synonyms: eastbound |
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| forward | (adjective) at or near or directed toward the front | - |
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| (adjective) used of temperament or behavior; lacking restraint or modesty | - |
| (adjective) of the transmission gear causing forward movement in a motor vehicle | - |
| (adjective) moving forward | Synonyms: advancing, forward-moving |
| froward | (adjective) habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition | Synonyms: headstrong, self-willed, wilful, willful |
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| heartwarming | (adjective) causing gladness and pleasure | - |
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| heavenward | (adjective) directed toward heaven or the sky | Synonyms: skyward |
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| homeward | (adjective) oriented toward home | Synonyms: homeward-bound |
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| inward | (adjective) relating to or existing in the mind or thoughts | - |
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| (adjective) directed or moving inward or toward a center | Synonyms: inbound |
| leeward | (adjective) on the side away from the wind | - |
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| lukewarm | (adjective) feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm | Synonyms: half-hearted, halfhearted, tepid |
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| (adjective) moderately warm | Synonyms: tepid |
| northeastward | (adjective) toward the northeast | - |
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| northward | (adjective) moving toward the north | Synonyms: northbound |
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| northwestward | (adjective) toward the northwest | - |
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| outward | (adjective) relating to physical reality rather than with thoughts or the mind | - |
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| (adjective) that is going out or leaving | Synonyms: departing, outbound, outward-bound |
| postwar | (adjective) belonging to the period after a war | - |
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| prewar | (adjective) existing or belonging to a time before a war | - |
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| rearward | (adjective) located in or toward the back or rear | Synonyms: rear |
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| (adjective) directed or moving toward the rear | Synonyms: reverse |
| rewardful | (adjective) offering or productive of reward | - |
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| rewarding | (adjective) providing personal satisfaction | - |
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| seaward | (adjective) (of winds) coming from the land | Synonyms: offshore |
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| (adjective) directed or situated away from inland regions and toward the sea or coast | - |
| shoreward | (adjective) (of winds) coming from the sea toward the land | Synonyms: inshore, onshore |
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| skyward | (adjective) directed toward heaven or the sky | Synonyms: heavenward |
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| southeastward | (adjective) toward the southeast | - |
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| southward | (adjective) moving toward the south | Synonyms: southbound |
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| southwestward | (adjective) toward the southwest | - |
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| stalwart | (adjective) used especially of persons | Synonyms: stouthearted |
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| (adjective) dependable | Synonyms: stout |
| (adjective) having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships | Synonyms: hardy, stout, sturdy |
| straightforward | (adjective) pointed directly ahead | - |
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| (adjective) without evasion or compromise | Synonyms: square, straight |
| (adjective) without concealment or deception; honest | Synonyms: aboveboard |
| (adjective) free from ambiguity | - |
| swart | (adjective) naturally having skin of a dark color | Synonyms: dark-skinned, dusky, swarthy |
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| swarthy | (adjective) naturally having skin of a dark color | Synonyms: dark-skinned, dusky, swart |
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| thwarted | (adjective) disappointingly unsuccessful | Synonyms: defeated, disappointed, discomfited, foiled, frustrated |
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| thwarting | (adjective) preventing realization or attainment of a desire | Synonyms: frustrating, frustrative |
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| thwartwise | (adjective) extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis | Synonyms: cross, transversal, transverse |
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| unaware | (adjective) (often followed by `of') not aware | Synonyms: incognizant |
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| unrewarded | (adjective) having acquired or gained nothing | Synonyms: empty-handed |
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| unrewarding | (adjective) not rewarding; not providing personal satisfaction | - |
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| untoward | (adjective) not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society | Synonyms: indecent, indecorous, unbecoming, uncomely, unseemly |
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| (adjective) contrary to your interests or welfare | Synonyms: adverse, inauspicious |
| unwarmed | (adjective) not having been heated or warmed | Synonyms: unheated |
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| unwarrantable | (adjective) incapable of being justified or explained | Synonyms: indefensible, insupportable, unjustifiable, unwarranted |
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| unwarranted | (adjective) incapable of being justified or explained | Synonyms: indefensible, insupportable, unjustifiable, unwarrantable |
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| (adjective) lacking justification or authorization | Synonyms: undue, unjustified |
| (adjective) without a basis in reason or fact | Synonyms: baseless, groundless, idle, unfounded, wild |
| unwary | (adjective) not alert to danger or deception | - |
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| upward | (adjective) extending or moving toward a higher place | Synonyms: up |
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| (adjective) directed up | - |
| warlike | (adjective) suggesting war or military life | Synonyms: martial |
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| (adjective) disposed to warfare or hard-line policies | Synonyms: hawkish, militant |
| warm | (adjective) having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat | - |
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| (adjective) psychologically warm; friendly and responsive | - |
| (adjective) inducing the impression of warmth; used especially of reds and oranges and yellows when referring to color | - |
| (adjective) characterized by strong enthusiasm | Synonyms: ardent |
| (adjective) easily aroused or excited | Synonyms: quick |
| (adjective) freshly made or left | Synonyms: strong |
| (adjective) characterized by liveliness or excitement or disagreement | - |
| (adjective) of a seeker; near to the object sought | - |
| (adjective) uncomfortable because of possible danger or trouble | - |
| warmed | (adjective) having been warmed up | - |
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| warmhearted | (adjective) marked by warmth of feeling like kindness and sympathy and generosity | - |
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| warming | (adjective) producing the sensation of heat when applied to the body | Synonyms: calefacient |
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| (adjective) imparting heat | - |
| warning | (adjective) serving to warn | Synonyms: admonitory, cautionary, exemplary, monitory |
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| warped | (adjective) used especially of timbers or boards; bent out of shape usually by moisture | - |
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| warring | (adjective) engaged in war | Synonyms: belligerent, militant, war-ridden |
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| warriorlike | (adjective) (of persons) befitting a warrior | Synonyms: martial, soldierlike, soldierly |
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| wartlike | (adjective) (of skin) covered with warts or projections that resemble warts | Synonyms: verrucose, warty |
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| warty | (adjective) (of skin) covered with warts or projections that resemble warts | Synonyms: verrucose, wartlike |
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| wary | (adjective) marked by keen caution and watchful prudence | - |
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| (adjective) openly distrustful and unwilling to confide | Synonyms: leery, mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting |
| wayward | (adjective) resistant to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: contrary, obstinate, perverse |
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| westward | (adjective) moving toward the west | Synonyms: westbound, westerly |
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| windward | (adjective) on the side exposed to the wind | - |
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