bittersweet | (adjective) tinged with sadness | - |
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(adjective) having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness | Synonyms: semisweet |
blanket | (adjective) broad in scope or content | Synonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, broad, encompassing, extensive, panoptic, wide |
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brunet | (adjective) marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes | Synonyms: brunette |
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discreet | (adjective) marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint | - |
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(adjective) heedful of potential consequences | Synonyms: circumspect |
(adjective) unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic | Synonyms: discerning |
downmarket | (adjective) designed for low-income consumers | - |
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dulcet | (adjective) pleasing to the ear | Synonyms: honeyed, mellifluous, mellisonant, sweet |
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(adjective) extremely pleasant in a gentle way | - |
fleet | (adjective) moving very fast | Synonyms: swift |
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heavyset | (adjective) having a short and solid form or stature | Synonyms: compact, stocky, thick, thickset |
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het | (adjective) made warm or hot (`het' is a dialectal variant of `heated') | Synonyms: heated, heated up, het up |
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indiscreet | (adjective) lacking discretion; injudicious | - |
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jet | (adjective) of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal | Synonyms: coal-black, jet-black, pitchy, sooty |
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lowset | (adjective) lower than average | Synonyms: low-set |
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meet | (adjective) being precisely fitting and right | Synonyms: fitting |
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midget | (adjective) very small | Synonyms: bantam, diminutive, flyspeck, lilliputian, petite, tiny |
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net | (adjective) remaining after all deductions | Synonyms: nett |
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(adjective) conclusive in a process or progression | Synonyms: final, last |
nonsweet | (adjective) not containing sugar | Synonyms: sugarless |
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pet | (adjective) preferred above all others and treated with partiality | Synonyms: best-loved, favored, favorite, favoured, favourite, preferent, preferred |
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preset | (adjective) set in advance | Synonyms: predetermined |
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quickset | (adjective) grown from cuttings planted directly in the ground | - |
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quiet | (adjective) free of noise or uproar; or making little if any sound | - |
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(adjective) characterized by an absence or near absence of agitation or activity | - |
(adjective) (of the sun) characterized by a low level of surface phenomena, such as sunspots | - |
(adjective) (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves | Synonyms: placid, smooth, still, tranquil, unruffled |
(adjective) in a softened tone | Synonyms: hushed, muted, subdued |
(adjective) not showy or obtrusive | Synonyms: restrained |
russet | (adjective) of brown with a reddish tinge | - |
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scarlet | (adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies | Synonyms: blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry-red, cherry, crimson, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy |
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secret | (adjective) the next to highest level of official classification for documents | - |
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(adjective) not open or public; kept private or not revealed | - |
(adjective) having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding | Synonyms: mysterious, mystic, mystical, occult, orphic |
(adjective) not expressed | Synonyms: private |
(adjective) (of information) given in confidence or in secret | Synonyms: confidential |
(adjective) not openly made known | Synonyms: unavowed |
(adjective) conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods | Synonyms: clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, surreptitious, undercover, underground |
(adjective) designed to elude detection | Synonyms: hidden |
(adjective) indulging only covertly | - |
(adjective) hidden from general view or use | Synonyms: privy, secluded |
(adjective) communicated covertly | - |
semisweet | (adjective) having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness | Synonyms: bittersweet |
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set | (adjective) set down according to a plan | Synonyms: laid |
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(adjective) being below the horizon | - |
(adjective) converted to solid form (as concrete) | Synonyms: hardened |
(adjective) fixed and unmoving | Synonyms: fixed, rigid |
(adjective) (usually followed by `to' or `for') on the point of or strongly disposed | Synonyms: fit, primed |
(adjective) situated in a particular spot or position | Synonyms: located, placed, situated |
(adjective) determined or decided upon as by an authority | Synonyms: determined, dictated |
sunset | (adjective) providing for termination | - |
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(adjective) of a declining industry or technology | - |
sweet | (adjective) not containing or composed of salt water | Synonyms: fresh |
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(adjective) (used of wines) having a high residual sugar content | - |
(adjective) having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar | - |
(adjective) having a natural fragrance | Synonyms: odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, scented, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling |
(adjective) having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub | Synonyms: angelic, angelical, cherubic, seraphic |
(adjective) pleasing to the ear | Synonyms: dulcet, honeyed, mellifluous, mellisonant |
(adjective) with sweetening added | Synonyms: sugared, sweet-flavored, sweetened |
(adjective) not soured or preserved | Synonyms: fresh, unfermented |
(adjective) pleasing to the mind or feeling | Synonyms: gratifying |
(adjective) pleasing to the senses | - |
thermoset | (adjective) having the property of becoming permanently hard and rigid when heated or cured | Synonyms: thermosetting |
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thickset | (adjective) planted or growing close together | - |
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(adjective) having a short and solid form or stature | Synonyms: compact, heavyset, stocky, thick |
ultraviolet | (adjective) having or employing wavelengths shorter than light but longer than X-rays; lying outside the visible spectrum at its violet end | - |
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unquiet | (adjective) characterized by unrest or disorder | - |
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(adjective) causing or fraught with or showing anxiety | Synonyms: anxious, nervous, queasy, uneasy |
unsweet | (adjective) distasteful | - |
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(adjective) (of champagne) moderately dry | Synonyms: sec |
upmarket | (adjective) designed for consumers with high incomes | - |
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upset | (adjective) thrown into a state of disarray or confusion | Synonyms: broken, confused, disordered |
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(adjective) mildly physically distressed | - |
(adjective) afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief | Synonyms: disquieted, distressed, disturbed, worried |
(adjective) having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom | Synonyms: overturned, upturned |
(adjective) used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win | - |
velvet | (adjective) smooth and soft to sight or hearing or touch or taste | Synonyms: velvet-textured, velvety |
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(adjective) resembling velvet in having a smooth soft surface | Synonyms: velvety |
violet | (adjective) of a color intermediate between red and blue | Synonyms: purple, purplish |
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wet | (adjective) covered or soaked with a liquid such as water | - |
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(adjective) producing or secreting milk | Synonyms: lactating |
(adjective) supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages | - |
(adjective) containing moisture or volatile components | - |
(adjective) consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor | - |
(adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight |