| 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 | - |
| bacterioid | (adjective) resembling bacteria | Synonyms: bacterioidal, bacteroid, bacteroidal |
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| bacteroid | (adjective) resembling bacteria | Synonyms: bacterioid, bacterioidal, bacteroidal |
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| bad | (adjective) having undesirable or negative qualities | - |
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| (adjective) feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone | Synonyms: regretful, sorry |
| (adjective) reproduced fraudulently | Synonyms: forged |
| (adjective) characterized by wickedness or immorality | - |
| (adjective) capable of harming | - |
| (adjective) below average in quality or performance | - |
| (adjective) serious or severe | Synonyms: big |
| (adjective) not capable of being collected | Synonyms: uncollectible |
| (adjective) not working properly | Synonyms: defective |
| (adjective) nonstandard | - |
| (adjective) (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition | Synonyms: spoiled, spoilt |
| (adjective) feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad') | Synonyms: tough |
| (adjective) physically unsound or diseased | Synonyms: unfit, unsound |
| (adjective) not financially safe or secure | Synonyms: high-risk, risky, speculative |
| baffled | (adjective) perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at sea, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up |
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| baked | (adjective) (bread and pastries) cooked by dry heat (as in an oven) | - |
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| (adjective) dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight | Synonyms: adust, parched, scorched, sunbaked |
| balanced | (adjective) being in a state of proper equilibrium | - |
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| balconied | (adjective) having balconies or a balcony | - |
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| bald | (adjective) without the natural or usual covering | Synonyms: denudate, denuded |
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| (adjective) lacking hair on all or most of the scalp | Synonyms: bald-headed, bald-pated |
| (adjective) with no effort to conceal | Synonyms: barefaced |
| bandaged | (adjective) covered or wrapped with a bandage | Synonyms: bound |
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| banded | (adjective) identified with a band especially around a leg | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by a band of especially white around the body | - |
| (adjective) marked with bands or strips of contrasting color or texture | - |
| banned | (adjective) forbidden by law | Synonyms: prohibited |
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| baptised | (adjective) having undergone the Christian ritual of baptism | Synonyms: baptized |
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| baptized | (adjective) having undergone the Christian ritual of baptism | Synonyms: baptised |
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| barbecued | (adjective) cooked over an outdoor grill | Synonyms: grilled |
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| barbed | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| (adjective) capable of wounding | Synonyms: biting, mordacious, nipping, pungent |
| barebacked | (adjective) riding without a saddle | Synonyms: bareback |
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| bared | (adjective) having the head uncovered | Synonyms: bareheaded |
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| barefaced | (adjective) with no effort to conceal | Synonyms: bald |
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| (adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, bodacious, brassy, brazen-faced, brazen, insolent |
| barefooted | (adjective) without shoes | Synonyms: barefoot, shoeless |
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| barehanded | (adjective) with bare hands | - |
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| bareheaded | (adjective) having the head uncovered | Synonyms: bared |
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| barelegged | (adjective) having the legs uncovered by clothing | - |
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| barred | (adjective) marked with stripes or bands | - |
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| (adjective) preventing entry or exit or a course of action | Synonyms: barricaded, blockaded |
| barreled | (adjective) put in or stored in a barrel | Synonyms: barrelled |
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| (adjective) (of an arrow) tapered toward both ends | Synonyms: barrelled |
| barrelled | (adjective) put in or stored in a barrel | Synonyms: barreled |
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| (adjective) (of an arrow) tapered toward both ends | Synonyms: barreled |
| barricaded | (adjective) preventing entry or exit or a course of action | Synonyms: barred, blockaded |
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| based | (adjective) having a base of operations (often used as a combining form) | - |
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| (adjective) having a base | - |
| basifixed | (adjective) attached by its base (as certain anthers to their filaments or stalks) | - |
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| basined | (adjective) enclosed in a basin | - |
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| bastard | (adjective) fraudulent; having a misleading appearance | Synonyms: bogus, fake, phoney, phony |
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| bastardised | (adjective) deriving from more than one source or style | Synonyms: bastardized |
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| bastardized | (adjective) deriving from more than one source or style | Synonyms: bastardised |
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| bastioned | (adjective) secured with bastions or fortifications | Synonyms: fortified |
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| bated | (adjective) diminished or moderated | - |
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| battered | (adjective) exhibiting symptoms resulting from repeated physical and emotional injury | - |
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| (adjective) damaged by blows or hard usage | Synonyms: beat-up, beaten-up |
| (adjective) damaged especially by hard usage | - |
| battlemented | (adjective) having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement | Synonyms: castellated, castled, crenelated, embattled |
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| (adjective) protected with battlements or parapets with indentations or embrasures for shooting through | - |
| beaded | (adjective) covered with beads of liquid | - |
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| beaked | (adjective) having or resembling a beak | - |
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| bearded | (adjective) having a growth of hairlike awns | - |
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| (adjective) having hair on the cheeks and chin | Synonyms: barbate, bewhiskered, whiskered, whiskery |
| beatified | (adjective) Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration | Synonyms: blessed |
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| becalmed | (adjective) rendered motionless for lack of wind | - |
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| bedaubed | (adjective) ornamented in a vulgar or showy fashion | - |
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| bedded | (adjective) having a bed or beds as specified | - |
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| (adjective) deposited or arranged in horizontal layers | Synonyms: stratified |
| bedewed | (adjective) wet with dew | Synonyms: dewy |
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| bedimmed | (adjective) made dim or indistinct | - |
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| bedraggled | (adjective) in deplorable condition | Synonyms: broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down |
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| (adjective) limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud | Synonyms: draggled |
| bedrid | (adjective) confined to bed (by illness) | Synonyms: bedfast, bedridden, sick-abed |
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| befogged | (adjective) stupefied by alcoholic drink | Synonyms: befuddled |
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| beforehand | (adjective) being ahead of time or need | Synonyms: advance |
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| befouled | (adjective) made dirty or foul | Synonyms: fouled |
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| befuddled | (adjective) perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at sea, baffled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up |
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| (adjective) confused and vague; used especially of thinking | Synonyms: addled, muddled, muzzy, woolly-headed, woolly, wooly-minded, wooly |
| (adjective) stupefied by alcoholic drink | Synonyms: befogged |
| begrimed | (adjective) thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot | Synonyms: dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy |
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| beguiled | (adjective) filled with wonder and delight | Synonyms: captivated, charmed, delighted, enthralled, entranced |
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| beheaded | (adjective) having had the head cut off | Synonyms: decapitated |
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| behind | (adjective) having the lower score or lagging position in a contest | - |
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| behindhand | (adjective) behind schedule | - |
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| belated | (adjective) after the expected or usual time; delayed | Synonyms: late, tardy |
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| belittled | (adjective) made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth) | Synonyms: diminished, small |
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| bellied | (adjective) having a belly | - |
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| (adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellying, bulbous, bulging, bulgy, protuberant |
| beloved | (adjective) dearly loved | Synonyms: darling, dear |
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| belowground | (adjective) underneath the ground | - |
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| (adjective) under the level of the ground | Synonyms: underground |
| belted | (adjective) having or provided with a belt | - |
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| bemused | (adjective) perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at sea, baffled, befuddled, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up |
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| (adjective) deeply absorbed in thought | Synonyms: lost, preoccupied |
| bended | (adjective) used of the back and knees; stooped | Synonyms: bent |
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| beneficed | (adjective) having a benefice | - |
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| benighted | (adjective) lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture | Synonyms: dark |
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| (adjective) overtaken by night or darkness | Synonyms: nighted |
| benumbed | (adjective) lacking sensation | Synonyms: asleep, numb |
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| (adjective) having lost or been caused to lose interest because of overexposure | Synonyms: dulled |
| benzenoid | (adjective) similar to benzene in structure or linkage | - |
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| bereaved | (adjective) sorrowful through loss or deprivation | Synonyms: bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, mourning, sorrowing |
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| berried | (adjective) producing or bearing berries | Synonyms: baccate, bacciferous |
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| besieged | (adjective) surrounded by hostile forces | - |
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| besotted | (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
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| bespectacled | (adjective) wearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an eyeglass | Synonyms: monocled, spectacled |
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| bestubbled | (adjective) having a short growth of beard | Synonyms: stubbled, stubbly |
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| betrothed | (adjective) pledged to be married | Synonyms: bespoken, engaged |
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| bewhiskered | (adjective) having hair on the cheeks and chin | Synonyms: barbate, bearded, whiskered, whiskery |
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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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| biased | (adjective) favoring one person or side over another | Synonyms: colored, coloured, one-sided, slanted |
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| bibbed | (adjective) having a bib | - |
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| bichromated | (adjective) treated or combined with bichromate | - |
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| bicolored | (adjective) having two colors | Synonyms: bichrome, bicolor, bicolour, bicoloured, dichromatic |
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| bicoloured | (adjective) having two colors | Synonyms: bichrome, bicolor, bicolored, bicolour, dichromatic |
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| bicorned | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicorn, bicornate, bicornuate, bicornuous |
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| bicuspid | (adjective) having two cusps or points (especially a molar tooth) | Synonyms: bicuspidate |
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| bifid | (adjective) divided into two lobes | - |
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| bifurcated | (adjective) divided into or made up of two parts | - |
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| bigheaded | (adjective) (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant | Synonyms: persnickety, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish |
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| bighearted | (adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: big, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, giving, handsome, liberal, openhanded |
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| bigmouthed | (adjective) unwisely talking too much | Synonyms: blabbermouthed, blabby, talkative |
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| bigoted | (adjective) blindly and obstinately attached to some creed or opinion and intolerant toward others | - |
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| billed | (adjective) having a beak or bill as specified | - |
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| billiard | (adjective) of or relating to billiards | - |
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| bilobated | (adjective) divided into two lobes | Synonyms: bilobate, bilobed |
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| bilobed | (adjective) divided into two lobes | Synonyms: bilobate, bilobated |
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| bimotored | (adjective) having two motors | - |
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| binucleated | (adjective) having two nuclei | Synonyms: binuclear, binucleate |
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| biped | (adjective) having two feet | Synonyms: bipedal, two-footed |
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| bipinnatifid | (adjective) pinnatifid with the segments also pinnatifid | - |
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