lapidarian | (adjective) inscribed on stone | - |
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latitudinarian | (adjective) unwilling to accept authority or dogma (especially in religion) | Synonyms: free-thinking, undogmatic, undogmatical |
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lean | (adjective) lacking in mineral content or combustible material | - |
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(adjective) lacking excess flesh | Synonyms: thin |
(adjective) not profitable or prosperous | - |
(adjective) containing little excess | Synonyms: skimpy |
leptorrhinian | (adjective) having a long narrow nose | Synonyms: leptorhine, leptorrhine, leptorrhinic |
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lesbian | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by homosexual relations between woman | Synonyms: sapphic |
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lilliputian | (adjective) very small | Synonyms: bantam, diminutive, flyspeck, midget, petite, tiny |
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(adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial |
lucullan | (adjective) characterized by extravagance and profusion | Synonyms: lavish, plush, plushy |
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mammalian | (adjective) of or relating to the class Mammalia | - |
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marmorean | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of marble | Synonyms: marmoreal |
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mean | (adjective) of no value or worth | Synonyms: bastardly |
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(adjective) having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality | Synonyms: base, meanspirited |
(adjective) characterized by malice | Synonyms: hateful |
(adjective) approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value | Synonyms: average |
(adjective) marked by poverty befitting a beggar | Synonyms: beggarly |
(adjective) (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt | Synonyms: beggarly |
(adjective) (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity | Synonyms: mingy, miserly, tight |
(adjective) very good; of the highest quality | Synonyms: excellent, fantabulous, first-class, ripping, splendid |
median | (adjective) relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle | Synonyms: medial |
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(adjective) dividing an animal into right and left halves | Synonyms: medial |
(adjective) relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values) | Synonyms: average |
mephistophelean | (adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: devilish, diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelian |
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mephistophelian | (adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: devilish, diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelean |
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meridian | (adjective) of or happening at noon | - |
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(adjective) being at the best stage of development | Synonyms: prime |
metropolitan | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of a metropolis | - |
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millenarian | (adjective) relating to or believing in the millennium of peace and happiness | Synonyms: chiliastic |
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millennian | (adjective) relating to a millennium or span of a thousand years | Synonyms: millennial |
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moneran | (adjective) of or relating to the Monera | - |
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nonagenarian | (adjective) being from 90 to 99 years old | - |
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nonchristian | (adjective) not believing in Christ | Synonyms: christless |
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nonhuman | (adjective) not human; not belonging to or produced by or appropriate to human beings | - |
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nonpartisan | (adjective) free from party affiliation or bias | Synonyms: nonpartizan |
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nonpartizan | (adjective) free from party affiliation or bias | Synonyms: nonpartisan |
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nonsectarian | (adjective) not restricted to one sect or school or party | Synonyms: unsectarian |
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octogenarian | (adjective) being from 80 to 89 years old | - |
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olympian | (adjective) far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree | Synonyms: exceeding, exceptional, prodigious, surpassing |
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(adjective) majestic in manner or bearing; superior to mundane matters | Synonyms: majestic |
ovarian | (adjective) of or involving the ovaries | - |
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pagan | (adjective) not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam | Synonyms: ethnic, heathen, heathenish |
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partisan | (adjective) devoted to a cause or party | Synonyms: partizan |
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partizan | (adjective) devoted to a cause or party | Synonyms: partisan |
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patrician | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy | Synonyms: aristocratic, aristocratical, blue-blooded, blue, gentle |
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(adjective) befitting a person of noble origin | - |
pedestrian | (adjective) lacking wit or imagination | Synonyms: earthbound, prosaic, prosy |
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platyrhinian | (adjective) of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses | Synonyms: broadnosed, platyrhine, platyrrhine, platyrrhinian, platyrrhinic |
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platyrrhinian | (adjective) of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses | Synonyms: broadnosed, platyrhine, platyrhinian, platyrrhine, platyrrhinic |
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plebeian | (adjective) of or associated with the great masses of people | Synonyms: common, unwashed, vulgar |
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postdiluvian | (adjective) existing or occurring after Noah's flood | - |
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postmeridian | (adjective) after midday | - |
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praetorian | (adjective) of or relating to a Roman praetor | Synonyms: praetorial, pretorial, pretorian |
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predestinarian | (adjective) of or relating to predestination; holding the doctrine of predestination | - |
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prelapsarian | (adjective) of or relating to the time before the Fall of Adam and Eve | - |
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pretorian | (adjective) of or relating to a Roman praetor | Synonyms: praetorial, praetorian, pretorial |
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proletarian | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the proletariat | - |
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protean | (adjective) taking on different forms | - |
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protozoan | (adjective) of or relating to the Protozoa | Synonyms: protozoal, protozoic |
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quartan | (adjective) occurring every fourth day (especially the fever and weakness of malaria) | - |
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quotidian | (adjective) found in the ordinary course of events | Synonyms: everyday, mundane, routine, unremarkable, workaday |
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reptilian | (adjective) of or relating to the class Reptilia | - |
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republican | (adjective) relating to or belonging to the Republican Party | - |
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(adjective) having the supreme power lying in the body of citizens entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them or characteristic of such government | - |
riparian | (adjective) of or relating to or located on the banks of a river or stream | - |
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roan | (adjective) (used of especially horses) having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or grey | - |
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salientian | (adjective) relating to frogs and toads | Synonyms: anuran, batrachian |
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saurian | (adjective) of or relating to lizards | Synonyms: lacertilian |
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sectarian | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a sect or sects | - |
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sesquipedalian | (adjective) (of words) long and ponderous; having many syllables | Synonyms: polysyllabic |
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(adjective) given to the overuse of long words | - |
sexagenarian | (adjective) being from 60 to 69 years old | - |
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silvan | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of wooded regions | Synonyms: sylvan |
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simian | (adjective) relating to or resembling an ape | - |
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spartan | (adjective) practicing great self-denial | Synonyms: ascetic, ascetical, austere |
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(adjective) unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment | Synonyms: severe |
(adjective) resolute in the face of pain or danger or adversity | - |
stentorian | (adjective) (used of the voice or sound) deep and resonant | Synonyms: booming |
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subartesian | (adjective) (of water) rising naturally in a well to a height appreciably above that of the surrounding water table but not flowing out of the well | - |
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subclavian | (adjective) situated beneath the clavicle | - |
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subhuman | (adjective) less than human or not worthy of a human being | - |
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(adjective) unfit for human beings | - |
subocean | (adjective) formed or situated or occurring beneath the ocean or the ocean bed | Synonyms: suboceanic |
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subterranean | (adjective) lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed) | Synonyms: subterraneous, ulterior |
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(adjective) being or operating under the surface of the earth | Synonyms: subterraneous |
suburban | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or situated in suburbs | - |
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superhuman | (adjective) above or beyond the human or demanding more than human power or endurance | - |
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sylvan | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of wooded regions | Synonyms: silvan |
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tan | (adjective) of a light yellowish-brown color | - |
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tellurian | (adjective) of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air | Synonyms: telluric, terrene, terrestrial |
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terpsichorean | (adjective) of or relating to dancing | - |
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tertian | (adjective) relating to symptoms (especially malarial fever) that appear every other day | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to a tonal system based on major thirds | - |
thespian | (adjective) of or relating to drama | - |
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totalitarian | (adjective) of or relating to the principles of totalitarianism according to which the state regulates every realm of life | Synonyms: totalistic |
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(adjective) characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control | - |
unchristian | (adjective) not of a Christian faith | - |
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unclean | (adjective) having a physical or moral blemish so as to make impure according to dietary or ceremonial laws | Synonyms: impure |
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(adjective) soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime | Synonyms: dirty, soiled |
unhuman | (adjective) divested of human qualities or attributes | Synonyms: dehumanised, dehumanized |
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unsectarian | (adjective) not restricted to one sect or school or party | Synonyms: nonsectarian |
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urban | (adjective) located in or characteristic of a city or city life | - |
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(adjective) relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area | - |
utilitarian | (adjective) having a useful function | Synonyms: useful |
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(adjective) having utility often to the exclusion of values | - |
utopian | (adjective) characterized by or aspiring to impracticable perfection | - |
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(adjective) of or pertaining to or resembling a utopia | Synonyms: Utopian |
valetudinarian | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a person who is a valetudinarian | Synonyms: valetudinary |
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veteran | (adjective) rendered competent through trial and experience | Synonyms: seasoned |
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victorian | (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced |
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wan | (adjective) abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress | Synonyms: pale, pallid |
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(adjective) (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble | Synonyms: pale, pallid, sick |
(adjective) lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness | - |