| anticlockwise | (adjective) in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock | Synonyms: contraclockwise, counterclockwise |
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| awing | (adjective) inspiring awe or admiration or wonder | Synonyms: amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful |
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| batwing | (adjective) formed or shaped like a bat's wing | - |
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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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| bowing | (adjective) showing an excessively deferential manner | Synonyms: bowed |
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| citywide | (adjective) occurring or extending throughout a city | - |
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| clockwise | (adjective) in the same direction as the rotating hands of a clock | - |
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| coastwise | (adjective) along or following a coast | Synonyms: coastal |
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| 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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| crabwise | (adjective) (of movement) at an angle | Synonyms: sideways |
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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 | - |
| crowing | (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: big, boastful, braggart, bragging, braggy, cock-a-hoop, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
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| downwind | (adjective) towards the side away from the wind | Synonyms: lee |
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| dwindling | (adjective) gradually decreasing until little remains | Synonyms: tapering, tapering off |
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| flowing | (adjective) designed or arranged to offer the least resistance to fluid flow | Synonyms: aerodynamic, sleek, streamlined |
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| following | (adjective) going or proceeding or coming after in the same direction | - |
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| (adjective) in the desired direction | - |
| (adjective) about to be mentioned or specified | Synonyms: undermentioned |
| (adjective) immediately following in time or order | Synonyms: next |
| foreshadowing | (adjective) indistinctly prophetic | Synonyms: adumbrative, prefigurative |
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| freewill | (adjective) done of your own accord | - |
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| glowing | (adjective) highly enthusiastic | - |
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| growing | (adjective) relating to or suitable for growth | - |
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| harrowing | (adjective) extremely painful | Synonyms: agonising, agonizing, excruciating, torturesome, torturing, torturous |
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| haywire | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| (adjective) not functioning properly | Synonyms: amiss, awry, wrong |
| housewifely | (adjective) related or suited to a housewife | - |
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| inflowing | (adjective) flowing inward | Synonyms: influent |
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| ingrowing | (adjective) growing abnormally into the flesh | Synonyms: ingrown |
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| knowing | (adjective) highly educated; having extensive information or understanding | Synonyms: knowledgeable, learned, lettered, well-educated, well-read |
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| (adjective) evidencing the possession of inside information | Synonyms: wise, wise to |
| (adjective) characterized by conscious design or purpose | Synonyms: deliberate, intentional |
| (adjective) alert and fully informed | Synonyms: knowledgeable |
| lengthwise | (adjective) running or extending in the direction of the length of a thing | Synonyms: lengthways |
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| narrowing | (adjective) (of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom | Synonyms: constricting, constrictive |
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| (adjective) becoming gradually narrower | Synonyms: tapered, tapering |
| nationwide | (adjective) occurring or extending throughout a country or nation | Synonyms: countrywide |
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| nitwitted | (adjective) (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment | Synonyms: senseless, soft-witted, witless |
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| otherwise | (adjective) other than as supposed or expected | - |
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| outflowing | (adjective) that is flowing outward | Synonyms: effluent |
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| overflowing | (adjective) covered with water | Synonyms: afloat, awash, flooded, inundated |
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| owing | (adjective) owed as a debt | Synonyms: outstanding, undischarged |
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| periwigged | (adjective) wearing a wig popular for men in the 17th and 18th centuries | Synonyms: peruked |
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| prizewinning | (adjective) holding first place in a contest | Synonyms: champion |
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| renewing | (adjective) tending to impart new life and vigor to | Synonyms: restorative, revitalising, revitalizing, reviving |
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| scarecrowish | (adjective) resembling a scarecrow in being thin and ragged | - |
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| schoolwide | (adjective) occurring or extending throughout a school | - |
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| shrewish | (adjective) continually complaining or faultfinding | Synonyms: nagging |
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| sorrowing | (adjective) sorrowful through loss or deprivation | Synonyms: bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, mourning |
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| statewide | (adjective) occurring or extending throughout a state | - |
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| stepwise | (adjective) one thing at a time | Synonyms: bit-by-bit, in small stages, piecemeal, step-by-step |
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| streetwise | (adjective) having the shrewd resourcefulness needed to survive in an urban environment | Synonyms: street smart, with-it |
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| sweptwing | (adjective) (of an aircraft) having sweptback wings | - |
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| swift | (adjective) moving very fast | Synonyms: fleet |
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| swimming | (adjective) applied to a fish depicted horizontally | Synonyms: naiant |
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| (adjective) filled or brimming with tears | Synonyms: liquid |
| swingeing | (adjective) severe; punishingly bad | - |
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| swinging | (adjective) characterized by a buoyant rhythm | Synonyms: lilting, swingy, tripping |
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| swingy | (adjective) characterized by a buoyant rhythm | Synonyms: lilting, swinging, tripping |
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| swinish | (adjective) resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy | Synonyms: hoggish, piggish, piggy, porcine |
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| (adjective) ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance | Synonyms: boorish, loutish, neandertal, neanderthal, oafish |
| swish | (adjective) elegant and fashionable | Synonyms: classy, posh |
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| swishy | (adjective) resembling a sustained `sh' or soft whistle | - |
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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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| twiggy | (adjective) thin as a twig | Synonyms: twiglike |
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| twiglike | (adjective) thin as a twig | Synonyms: twiggy |
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| twilight | (adjective) lighted by or as if by twilight | Synonyms: dusky, twilit |
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| twilit | (adjective) lighted by or as if by twilight | Synonyms: dusky, twilight |
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| twilled | (adjective) of textiles; having parallel raised lines | Synonyms: corded |
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| twin | (adjective) being two identical | Synonyms: duplicate, matching, twinned |
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| twinkling | (adjective) shining intermittently with a sparkling light | - |
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| twinkly | (adjective) smiling with happiness or optimism | Synonyms: beamish, smiling |
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| twinned | (adjective) being two identical | Synonyms: duplicate, matching, twin |
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| twinning | (adjective) producing two offspring at a time | Synonyms: biparous |
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| twisted | (adjective) having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented | Synonyms: distorted, misrepresented, perverted |
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| twisting | (adjective) marked by repeated turns and bends | Synonyms: tortuous, twisty, voluminous, winding |
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| twisty | (adjective) marked by repeated turns and bends | Synonyms: tortuous, twisting, voluminous, winding |
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| unknowing | (adjective) unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge | Synonyms: ignorant, unknowledgeable, unwitting |
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| untwisted | (adjective) not twisted; formerly twisted but now straight | - |
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| unwieldy | (adjective) difficult to use or handle or manage because of size or weight or shape | Synonyms: unmanageable |
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| (adjective) lacking grace in movement or posture | Synonyms: clumsy, clunky, gawky, ungainly |
| (adjective) difficult to work or manipulate | - |
| unwilled | (adjective) without deliberate volition, desire, or intention | - |
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| unwilling | (adjective) not disposed to and refusing to do something | - |
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| (adjective) in spite of contrary volition | - |
| unwise | (adjective) showing or resulting from lack of judgment or wisdom | - |
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| (adjective) not appropriate to the purpose | Synonyms: inexpedient |
| unwished | (adjective) not welcome | Synonyms: unwelcome, unwished-for |
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| unwitting | (adjective) not aware or knowing | - |
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| (adjective) unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge | Synonyms: ignorant, unknowing, unknowledgeable |
| (adjective) not done with purpose or intent | Synonyms: unintentional, unplanned |
| upwind | (adjective) towards the side exposed to wind | Synonyms: weather |
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| wicked | (adjective) morally bad in principle or practice | - |
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| (adjective) intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality | Synonyms: severe, terrible |
| (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, yucky |
| (adjective) naughtily or annoyingly playful | Synonyms: arch, impish, implike, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, puckish |
| (adjective) having committed unrighteous acts | Synonyms: sinful, unholy |
| wide | (adjective) having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other | Synonyms: broad |
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| (adjective) great in degree | - |
| (adjective) having ample fabric | Synonyms: full, wide-cut |
| (adjective) broad in scope or content | Synonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, encompassing, extensive, panoptic |
| (adjective) not on target | Synonyms: wide of the mark |
| (adjective) very large in expanse or scope | Synonyms: broad, spacious |
| (adjective) (used of eyes) fully open or extended | Synonyms: wide-eyed |
| wideband | (adjective) responding to or operating at a wide band of frequencies | Synonyms: broadband |
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| widespread | (adjective) distributed over a considerable extent | Synonyms: far-flung |
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| (adjective) widely circulated or diffused | - |
| widowed | (adjective) single because of death of the spouse | - |
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| wieldy | (adjective) easy to handle or use or manage | - |
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| wifelike | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a wife | Synonyms: uxorial, wifely |
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| wifely | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a wife | Synonyms: uxorial, wifelike |
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| wigged | (adjective) wearing a wig | - |
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| wiggly | (adjective) curved or curving in and out | Synonyms: sinuate, sinuous |
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| (adjective) moving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike fashion | Synonyms: wriggling, wriggly, writhing |
| wigless | (adjective) not wearing a wig | - |
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| wild | (adjective) in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated | Synonyms: untamed |
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| (adjective) marked by extreme lack of restraint or control | - |
| (adjective) involving risk or danger | Synonyms: hazardous, risky |
| (adjective) intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with | Synonyms: crazy, dotty, gaga |
| (adjective) located in a dismal or remote area; desolate | Synonyms: godforsaken, waste |
| (adjective) talking or behaving irrationally | Synonyms: raving, raving mad |
| (adjective) (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud | Synonyms: violent |
| (adjective) without civilizing influences | Synonyms: barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilised, uncivilized |
| (adjective) in a state of extreme emotion | - |
| (adjective) (of the elements) as if showing violent anger | Synonyms: angry, furious, raging, tempestuous |
| (adjective) fanciful and unrealistic; foolish | Synonyms: fantastic |
| (adjective) without a basis in reason or fact | Synonyms: baseless, groundless, idle, unfounded, unwarranted |
| (adjective) deviating widely from an intended course | - |
| wildcat | (adjective) (of a mine or oil well) drilled speculatively in an area not known to be productive | - |
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| (adjective) without official authorization | Synonyms: unauthorised, unauthorized |
| (adjective) outside the bounds of legitimate or ethical business practices | - |
| wilful | (adjective) habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition | Synonyms: froward, headstrong, self-willed, willful |
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| (adjective) done by design | Synonyms: willful |
| willful | (adjective) habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition | Synonyms: froward, headstrong, self-willed, wilful |
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| (adjective) done by design | Synonyms: wilful |
| willing | (adjective) disposed or inclined toward | - |
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| (adjective) not brought about by coercion or force | Synonyms: uncoerced, unforced |
| willowy | (adjective) slender and graceful | Synonyms: gracile |
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| wilted | (adjective) (of plants) limp due to heat, loss of water, or disease | - |
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| (adjective) without energy or will | Synonyms: limp |