| ahorseback | (adjective) traveling on horseback | Synonyms: ahorse |
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| airsick | (adjective) experiencing motion sickness | Synonyms: air sick, carsick, seasick |
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| amuck | (adjective) wildly frenzied and out of control | Synonyms: amok, berserk |
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| antiblack | (adjective) discriminatory especially on the basis of race or religion | Synonyms: anti-Semite, racist |
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| antiknock | (adjective) suppressing or eliminating engine knock in combustion engines | Synonyms: antiknocking |
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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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| back | (adjective) related to or located at the back | - |
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| (adjective) of an earlier date | - |
| (adjective) located at or near the back of an animal | Synonyms: hind, hinder |
| bareback | (adjective) riding without a saddle | Synonyms: barebacked |
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| black | (adjective) being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light | - |
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| (adjective) of or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin | - |
| (adjective) marked by anger or resentment or hostility | - |
| (adjective) (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood | Synonyms: blackened |
| (adjective) (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading | - |
| (adjective) extremely dark | Synonyms: pitch-black, pitch-dark |
| (adjective) soiled with dirt or soot | Synonyms: smutty |
| (adjective) (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame | Synonyms: disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful |
| (adjective) stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable | Synonyms: dark, sinister |
| (adjective) offering little or no hope | Synonyms: bleak, dim |
| (adjective) distributed or sold illicitly | Synonyms: black-market, bootleg, contraband, smuggled |
| (adjective) harshly ironic or sinister | Synonyms: grim, mordant |
| (adjective) (of coffee) without cream or sugar | - |
| (adjective) (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin | Synonyms: calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful |
| brainsick | (adjective) affected with madness or insanity | Synonyms: crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged |
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| breakneck | (adjective) moving at very high speed | - |
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| carsick | (adjective) experiencing motion sickness | Synonyms: air sick, airsick, seasick |
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| cheapjack | (adjective) made of inferior workmanship and materials | Synonyms: shoddy, tawdry |
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| chockablock | (adjective) packed full to capacity | Synonyms: chock-full, chockful, choke-full, chuck-full, cram full |
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| crack | (adjective) of the highest quality | Synonyms: A-one, ace, first-rate, super, tiptop, top-notch, topnotch, tops |
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| crookback | (adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookbacked, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, hunchbacked, kyphotic |
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| dumbstruck | (adjective) as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise | Synonyms: dumbfounded, dumbstricken, dumfounded, flabbergasted, stupefied, thunderstruck |
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| flyspeck | (adjective) very small | Synonyms: bantam, diminutive, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny |
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| gimcrack | (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
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| greensick | (adjective) of or pertaining to or suffering from chlorosis | Synonyms: chlorotic |
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| hardback | (adjective) having a hard back or cover | Synonyms: hardbacked, hardbound, hardcover |
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| heartsick | (adjective) without or almost without hope | Synonyms: despondent |
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| (adjective) full of sorrow | Synonyms: brokenhearted, heartbroken |
| hick | (adjective) awkwardly simple and provincial | Synonyms: bumpkinly, rustic, unsophisticated |
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| homesick | (adjective) longing to return home | - |
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| lovesick | (adjective) languishing because of love | - |
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| maverick | (adjective) independent in behavior or thought | Synonyms: irregular, unorthodox |
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| mock | (adjective) constituting a copy or imitation of something | - |
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| moonstruck | (adjective) insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon | Synonyms: lunatic |
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| nonstick | (adjective) (of surfaces especially of cooking utensils) permitting easy removal of adherent food particles | - |
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| outback | (adjective) inaccessible and sparsely populated | Synonyms: remote |
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| paperback | (adjective) (of books) having a flexible binding | Synonyms: paperbacked |
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| pinchbeck | (adjective) serving as an imitation or substitute | - |
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| quack | (adjective) medically unqualified | - |
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| quick | (adjective) moving quickly and lightly | Synonyms: agile, nimble, spry |
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| (adjective) easily aroused or excited | Synonyms: warm |
| (adjective) accomplished rapidly and without delay | Synonyms: speedy |
| (adjective) hurried and brief | Synonyms: fast, flying |
| (adjective) apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity | Synonyms: ready |
| (adjective) performed with little or no delay | Synonyms: immediate, prompt, straightaway |
| razorback | (adjective) having a sharp narrow back | Synonyms: razor-backed |
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| redbrick | (adjective) of or relating to British universities founded in the late 19th century or the 20th century | Synonyms: red-brick |
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| seasick | (adjective) experiencing motion sickness | Synonyms: air sick, airsick, carsick |
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| sick | (adjective) affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function | Synonyms: ill |
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| (adjective) shockingly repellent; inspiring horror | Synonyms: ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre |
| (adjective) having a strong distaste from surfeit | Synonyms: disgusted, fed up, sick of, tired of |
| (adjective) affected with madness or insanity | Synonyms: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, unbalanced, unhinged |
| (adjective) deeply affected by a strong feeling | - |
| (adjective) (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble | Synonyms: pale, pallid, wan |
| (adjective) feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit | Synonyms: nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sickish |
| slack | (adjective) not tense or taut | Synonyms: loose |
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| (adjective) lacking in rigor or strictness | Synonyms: lax |
| (adjective) flowing with little speed as e.g. at the turning of the tide | - |
| slapstick | (adjective) characterized by horseplay and physical action | - |
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| slick | (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily |
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| (adjective) having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk | Synonyms: satiny, silken, silklike, silky, sleek |
| (adjective) having only superficial plausibility | Synonyms: glib, pat |
| (adjective) made slick by e.g. ice or grease | - |
| (adjective) superficially impressive, but lacking depth and attention to the true complexities of a subject | Synonyms: facile, neat |
| spick | (adjective) completely neat and clean | Synonyms: immaculate, speckless, spic-and-span, spic, spick-and-span, spotless |
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| stock | (adjective) regularly and widely used or sold | Synonyms: standard |
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| (adjective) routine | - |
| (adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn |
| struck | (adjective) (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming | Synonyms: smitten, stricken |
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| stuck | (adjective) caught or fixed | - |
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| (adjective) baffled | - |
| sunstruck | (adjective) lighted by sunlight | Synonyms: sunlit |
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| swayback | (adjective) having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses) | Synonyms: dipped, lordotic, swaybacked |
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| sweptback | (adjective) used of hair | Synonyms: backswept |
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| (adjective) (especially of aircraft wings) angled rearward from the point of attachment | - |
| thick | (adjective) not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions | - |
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| (adjective) relatively dense in consistency | - |
| (adjective) abounding; having a lot of | - |
| (adjective) (used informally) associated on close terms | Synonyms: buddy-buddy, chummy |
| (adjective) having component parts closely crowded together | Synonyms: dense |
| (adjective) hard to pass through because of dense growth | Synonyms: dense |
| (adjective) (of darkness) densely dark | Synonyms: deep |
| (adjective) having a short and solid form or stature | Synonyms: compact, heavyset, stocky, thickset |
| (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, boneheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
| (adjective) spoken as if with a thick tongue | Synonyms: slurred |
| throwback | (adjective) characteristic of an atavist | Synonyms: atavistic |
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| thunderstruck | (adjective) as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise | Synonyms: dumbfounded, dumbstricken, dumbstruck, dumfounded, flabbergasted, stupefied |
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| unstuck | (adjective) free | - |
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| (adjective) thrown into a state of disorganization or incoherence | Synonyms: undone |