| appositive | (adjective) relating to or being in apposition | Synonyms: appositional |
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| appreciable | (adjective) enough to be estimated or measured | - |
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| appreciative | (adjective) having or showing appreciation or a favorable critical judgment or opinion | - |
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| (adjective) feeling or expressive of gratitude | - |
| apprehensible | (adjective) capable of being apprehended or understood | Synonyms: graspable, intelligible, perceivable, understandable |
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| apprehensive | (adjective) in fear or dread of possible evil or harm | - |
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| (adjective) quick to understand | Synonyms: discerning |
| (adjective) mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc | Synonyms: worried |
| approachable | (adjective) easy to meet or converse or do business with | - |
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| (adjective) easily approached | Synonyms: reachable |
| (adjective) capable of being read with comprehension | Synonyms: accessible |
| approbative | (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: affirmative, approbatory, approving, plausive |
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| appropriable | (adjective) that can be appropriated | - |
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| appropriate | (adjective) suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc | - |
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| (adjective) meant or adapted for an occasion or use | Synonyms: suitable, suited |
| appropriative | (adjective) of or relating to or given to the act of taking for yourself | - |
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| approximate | (adjective) located close together | Synonyms: close together |
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| (adjective) very close in resemblance | Synonyms: near |
| (adjective) not quite exact or correct | Synonyms: approximative, rough |
| approximative | (adjective) not quite exact or correct | Synonyms: approximate, rough |
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| aquiline | (adjective) curved down like an eagle's beak | Synonyms: hooked |
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| arable | (adjective) (of farmland) capable of being farmed productively | Synonyms: cultivable, cultivatable, tillable |
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| arbitrable | (adjective) appropriate for or subject to settlement by arbitration | - |
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| arbitrative | (adjective) relating to or having the authority to arbitrate | - |
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| arboresque | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
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| arcane | (adjective) requiring secret or mysterious knowledge | - |
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| archegoniate | (adjective) of or relating to an archegonium | Synonyms: archegonial |
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| arcuate | (adjective) forming or resembling an arch | Synonyms: arced, arched, arching, arciform, bowed |
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| areolate | (adjective) relating to or like or divided into areolae | Synonyms: areolar |
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| arguable | (adjective) open to argument or debate | Synonyms: debatable, disputable, moot |
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| (adjective) capable of being supported by argument | - |
| argumentative | (adjective) given to or characterized by argument | - |
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| arillate | (adjective) (of some seeds) having a fleshy and usually brightly colored cover | Synonyms: ariled |
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| ariose | (adjective) having a melody (as distinguished from recitative) | Synonyms: songlike |
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| armlike | (adjective) resembling an arm | - |
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| articulate | (adjective) expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language | - |
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| (adjective) consisting of segments held together by joints | Synonyms: articulated |
| articulative | (adjective) of or relating to articulation | Synonyms: articulatory |
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| ascendable | (adjective) capable of being ascended | Synonyms: ascendible, climbable |
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| ascendible | (adjective) capable of being ascended | Synonyms: ascendable, climbable |
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| ascensive | (adjective) tending or directed upward | Synonyms: ascendant, ascendent |
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| ascertainable | (adjective) capable of being ascertained or found out | Synonyms: discoverable |
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| ascribable | (adjective) capable of being assigned or credited to | Synonyms: due, imputable, referable |
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| asinine | (adjective) extremely silly or stupid | Synonyms: fatuous, inane |
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| askance | (adjective) (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy | Synonyms: askant, asquint, sidelong, squint-eyed, squint, squinty |
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| aslope | (adjective) having an oblique or slanted direction | Synonyms: aslant, diagonal, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping |
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| assailable | (adjective) not defended or capable of being defended | Synonyms: open, undefendable, undefended |
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| assaultive | (adjective) disposed to attack | Synonyms: attacking |
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| assertable | (adjective) capable of being affirmed or asserted | Synonyms: affirmable |
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| assertive | (adjective) aggressively self-assured | Synonyms: self-asserting, self-assertive |
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| assessable | (adjective) capable of being considered carefully | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being assessed especially for the purpose of taxation | - |
| assignable | (adjective) legally transferable to the ownership of another | Synonyms: conveyable, negotiable, transferable, transferrable |
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| assimilable | (adjective) able to be absorbed and incorporated into body tissues | - |
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| assimilative | (adjective) capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution | Synonyms: assimilating, assimilatory |
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| (adjective) capable of mentally absorbing | - |
| assistive | (adjective) giving assistance | - |
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| associable | (adjective) capable of being associated | - |
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| associate | (adjective) having partial rights and privileges or subordinate status | - |
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| associative | (adjective) characterized by or causing or resulting from the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination | Synonyms: associatory |
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| assuasive | (adjective) freeing from fear and anxiety | Synonyms: soothing |
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| assumptive | (adjective) accepted as real or true without proof | - |
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| (adjective) excessively forward | Synonyms: assuming, presumptuous |
| astute | (adjective) marked by practical hardheaded intelligence | Synonyms: sharp, shrewd |
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| attachable | (adjective) capable of being fastened or added to something else | - |
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| attainable | (adjective) capable of being attained or accomplished | Synonyms: come-at-able |
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| attentive | (adjective) (often followed by `to') giving care or attention | - |
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| (adjective) taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention | Synonyms: heedful, paying attention, thoughtful |
| attenuate | (adjective) reduced in strength | Synonyms: attenuated, faded, weakened |
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| attractable | (adjective) capable of being magnetized or attracted by a magnet | - |
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| attractive | (adjective) pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm | - |
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| (adjective) having the properties of a magnet; the ability to draw or pull | - |
| (adjective) having power to arouse interest | - |
| attributable | (adjective) capable of being attributed | - |
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| attributive | (adjective) of adjectives; placed before the nouns they modify | Synonyms: prenominal |
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| audible | (adjective) heard or perceptible by the ear | Synonyms: hearable |
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| audile | (adjective) of or relating to the process of hearing | Synonyms: auditive, auditory |
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| auditive | (adjective) of or relating to the process of hearing | Synonyms: audile, auditory |
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| augmentative | (adjective) increasing or having the power to increase especially in size or amount or degree | - |
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| (adjective) intensifying by augmentation and enhancement | Synonyms: enhancive |
| aureate | (adjective) having the deep slightly brownish color of gold | Synonyms: gilded, gilt, gold, golden |
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| (adjective) elaborately or excessively ornamented | Synonyms: flamboyant, florid |
| auriculate | (adjective) having auricles | Synonyms: auriculated |
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| austere | (adjective) practicing great self-denial | Synonyms: ascetic, ascetical, spartan |
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| (adjective) of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect | Synonyms: stern |
| (adjective) severely simple | Synonyms: severe, stark, stern |
| australopithecine | (adjective) of or belonging to the hominid genus Australopithecus | - |
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| authoritative | (adjective) endowed with authority | Synonyms: authorised, authorized |
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| (adjective) having authority or ascendancy or influence | Synonyms: important |
| (adjective) of recognized authority or excellence | Synonyms: definitive |
| autoimmune | (adjective) of or relating to the immune response of the body against substance normally present in the body | - |
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| automatonlike | (adjective) resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine | Synonyms: automatic, machinelike, robotic, robotlike |
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| automotive | (adjective) of or relating to motor vehicles | - |
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| (adjective) containing within itself the means of propulsion or movement | Synonyms: self-propelled, self-propelling |
| available | (adjective) obtainable or accessible and ready for use or service | - |
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| (adjective) convenient for use or disposal | Synonyms: usable, useable |
| (adjective) not busy; not otherwise committed | Synonyms: uncommitted |
| avellane | (adjective) pertaining to filberts or hazelnuts | Synonyms: avellan |
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| average | (adjective) lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered | Synonyms: ordinary |
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| (adjective) around the middle of a scale of evaluation | Synonyms: intermediate, medium |
| (adjective) lacking exceptional quality or ability | Synonyms: fair, mediocre, middling |
| (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: median |
| (adjective) approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value | Synonyms: mean |
| (adjective) relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution | Synonyms: modal |
| averse | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed | Synonyms: antipathetic, antipathetical, indisposed, loath, loth |
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| aversive | (adjective) tending to repel or dissuade | - |
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| avertable | (adjective) capable of being avoided or warded off | Synonyms: avertible, avoidable, evitable |
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| avertible | (adjective) capable of being avoided or warded off | Synonyms: avertable, avoidable, evitable |
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| avoidable | (adjective) capable of being avoided or warded off | Synonyms: avertable, avertible, evitable |
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| awake | (adjective) not in a state of sleep; completely conscious | - |
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| (adjective) mentally perceptive and responsive | Synonyms: alert, alive |
| aware | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception | Synonyms: cognisant, cognizant |
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| (adjective) bearing in mind; attentive to | Synonyms: mindful |
| awesome | (adjective) inspiring awe or admiration or wonder | Synonyms: amazing, awe-inspiring, awful, awing |
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| axile | (adjective) relating to or attached to the axis | Synonyms: axial |
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| azure | (adjective) of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky | Synonyms: bright blue, cerulean, sky-blue |
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| babelike | (adjective) like a baby especially in dependence | - |
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| baccate | (adjective) resembling a berry | Synonyms: berrylike |
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| (adjective) producing or bearing berries | Synonyms: bacciferous, berried |
| backstage | (adjective) concealed from public view or attention | Synonyms: offstage |
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| bailable | (adjective) eligible for bail | - |
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| (adjective) admitting of bail | - |
| bankable | (adjective) acceptable to or at a bank | - |
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| (adjective) guaranteed to bring a profit | - |
| barbate | (adjective) having hair on the cheeks and chin | Synonyms: bearded, bewhiskered, whiskered, whiskery |
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| barbellate | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| bare | (adjective) lacking its natural or customary covering | - |
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| (adjective) not having a protective covering | Synonyms: unsheathed |
| (adjective) having everything extraneous removed including contents | Synonyms: stripped |
| (adjective) providing no shelter or sustenance | Synonyms: barren, bleak, desolate, stark |
| (adjective) lacking in magnitude or quantity | Synonyms: scanty, spare |
| (adjective) just barely adequate or within a lower limit | Synonyms: marginal |
| (adjective) apart from anything else; without additions or modifications | Synonyms: mere, simple |
| (adjective) lacking embellishment or ornamentation | Synonyms: plain, spare, unembellished, unornamented |
| (adjective) having no clothes on the body | Synonyms: au naturel, naked, nude |
| (adjective) lacking a surface finish such as paint | Synonyms: unfinished |
| baritone | (adjective) lower in range than tenor and higher than bass | - |
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| baroque | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the elaborately ornamented style of architecture, art, and music popular in Europe between 1600 and 1750 | Synonyms: Baroque |
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| (adjective) having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation | Synonyms: churrigueresco, churrigueresque |
| base | (adjective) serving as or forming a base | Synonyms: basal |
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| (adjective) debased; not genuine | - |
| (adjective) having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality | Synonyms: mean, meanspirited |
| (adjective) illegitimate | Synonyms: baseborn |
| (adjective) (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal | - |
| (adjective) of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense) | Synonyms: baseborn, humble, lowly |
| (adjective) not adhering to ethical or moral principles | Synonyms: immoral |
| beadlike | (adjective) small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button | Synonyms: beady, buttonlike, buttony |
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| beaklike | (adjective) resembling the beak of a bird | - |
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| bearable | (adjective) capable of being borne though unpleasant | Synonyms: endurable, sufferable, supportable |
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| beatable | (adjective) susceptible to being defeated | Synonyms: vanquishable, vincible |
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| beetle | (adjective) jutting or overhanging | Synonyms: beetling |
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