| aboveboard | (adjective) without concealment or deception; honest | Synonyms: straightforward |
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| afeard | (adjective) a pronunciation of afraid | Synonyms: afeared |
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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 |
| 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 | - |
| bastard | (adjective) fraudulent; having a misleading appearance | Synonyms: bogus, fake, phoney, phony |
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| billiard | (adjective) of or relating to billiards | - |
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| cardboard | (adjective) without substance | Synonyms: unlifelike |
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| dastard | (adjective) despicably cowardly | Synonyms: dastardly |
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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 | - |
| 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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| haggard | (adjective) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold | Synonyms: cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, pinched, skeletal, wasted |
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| (adjective) showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering | Synonyms: careworn, drawn, raddled, worn |
| haphazard | (adjective) marked by great carelessness | Synonyms: slapdash, slipshod, sloppy |
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| (adjective) dependent upon or characterized by chance | Synonyms: hit-or-miss |
| hard | (adjective) produced without vibration of the vocal cords | Synonyms: surd, unvoiced, voiceless |
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| (adjective) resisting weight or pressure | - |
| (adjective) dispassionate | - |
| (adjective) (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum | - |
| (adjective) (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source | Synonyms: concentrated |
| (adjective) not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure | Synonyms: difficult |
| (adjective) being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content | Synonyms: strong |
| (adjective) unfortunate or hard to bear | Synonyms: tough |
| (adjective) given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors | Synonyms: heavy, intemperate |
| (adjective) dried out | - |
| (adjective) very strong or vigorous | Synonyms: knockout, severe |
| (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
| heard | (adjective) detected or perceived by the sense of hearing | - |
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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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| inboard | (adjective) located within the hull or nearest the midline of a vessel or aircraft | - |
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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 |
| laggard | (adjective) wasting time | Synonyms: dilatory, pokey, poky |
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| larboard | (adjective) located on the left side of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: port |
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| leeward | (adjective) on the side away from the wind | - |
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| mansard | (adjective) (of a roof) having two slopes on all sides with the lower slope steeper than the upper | - |
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| nonstandard | (adjective) not standard; not accepted as a model of excellence | - |
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| (adjective) varying from or not adhering to a standard | - |
| (adjective) not conforming to the language usage of a prestige group within a community | - |
| 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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| outboard | (adjective) located away from the midline of a vessel or aircraft | - |
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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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - |
| semihard | (adjective) somewhat hard | - |
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| shipboard | (adjective) casual or ephemeral as if taking place on board a ship | - |
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| 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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| standard | (adjective) established or well-known or widely recognized as a model of authority or excellence | - |
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| (adjective) conforming to or constituting a standard of measurement or value; or of the usual or regularized or accepted kind | - |
| (adjective) conforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers | Synonyms: received |
| (adjective) commonly used or supplied | - |
| (adjective) regularly and widely used or sold | Synonyms: stock |
| starboard | (adjective) located on the right side of a ship or aircraft | - |
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| 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 | - |
| substandard | (adjective) falling short of some prescribed norm | Synonyms: deficient, inferior |
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| unheard | (adjective) not necessarily inaudible but not heard | - |
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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 |
| upward | (adjective) extending or moving toward a higher place | Synonyms: up |
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| (adjective) directed up | - |
| 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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| wizard | (adjective) possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers | Synonyms: charming, magic, magical, sorcerous, witching, wizardly |
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