interesting | (adjective) arousing or holding the attention | - |
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interfering | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, busybodied, meddlesome, meddling, officious |
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interlacing | (adjective) linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing | Synonyms: interlinking, interlocking, interwoven |
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interlinking | (adjective) linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing | Synonyms: interlacing, interlocking, interwoven |
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interlocking | (adjective) linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing | Synonyms: interlacing, interlinking, interwoven |
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intersecting | (adjective) crossed or intersected in the form of an X | Synonyms: decussate, intersectant |
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intervening | (adjective) occurring or falling between events or points in time | - |
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intimidating | (adjective) discouraging through fear | Synonyms: daunting |
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intoxicating | (adjective) causing intoxication | Synonyms: intoxicant |
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(adjective) extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic | Synonyms: heady |
intriguing | (adjective) capable of arousing interest or curiosity | - |
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(adjective) disturbingly provocative | Synonyms: challenging |
intruding | (adjective) projecting inward | - |
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invading | (adjective) involving invasion or aggressive attack | Synonyms: incursive, invasive |
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invalidating | (adjective) establishing as invalid or untrue | Synonyms: disconfirming |
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invigorating | (adjective) imparting strength and vitality | - |
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inviting | (adjective) attractive and tempting | - |
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iodinating | (adjective) combining or causing to combine with iodine | - |
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irritating | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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(adjective) (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite | Synonyms: irritative |
(adjective) causing physical discomfort | Synonyms: painful |
isolating | (adjective) relating to or being a language in which each word typically expresses a distinct idea and part of speech and syntactical relations are determined almost exclusively by word order and particles | - |
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jangling | (adjective) like the discordant ringing of nonmusical metallic objects striking together | Synonyms: jangly |
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jarring | (adjective) making or causing a harsh and irritating sound | - |
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jeering | (adjective) abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule | Synonyms: derisive, gibelike, mocking, taunting |
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jerking | (adjective) lacking a steady rhythm | Synonyms: arrhythmic, jerky |
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jesting | (adjective) characterized by jokes and good humor | Synonyms: jocose, jocular, joking |
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jetting | (adjective) propelled violently in a usually narrow stream | Synonyms: spouting, spurting, squirting |
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jingling | (adjective) having a series of high-pitched ringing sounds like many small bells | Synonyms: jingly |
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jittering | (adjective) undergoing small rapid variations | - |
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joking | (adjective) characterized by jokes and good humor | Synonyms: jesting, jocose, jocular |
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jolting | (adjective) causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements | Synonyms: bumpy, jolty, jumpy, rocky, rough |
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jutting | (adjective) extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary | Synonyms: projected, projecting, protruding, relieved, sticking, sticking out |
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killing | (adjective) very funny | Synonyms: sidesplitting |
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knowing | (adjective) highly educated; having extensive information or understanding | Synonyms: knowledgeable, learned, lettered, well-educated, well-read |
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(adjective) evidencing the possession of inside information | Synonyms: wise, wise to |
(adjective) characterized by conscious design or purpose | Synonyms: deliberate, intentional |
(adjective) alert and fully informed | Synonyms: knowledgeable |
laboring | (adjective) doing arduous or unpleasant work | Synonyms: drudging, labouring, toiling |
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laborsaving | (adjective) designed to replace or conserve human and especially manual labor | Synonyms: laboursaving |
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labouring | (adjective) doing arduous or unpleasant work | Synonyms: drudging, laboring, toiling |
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laboursaving | (adjective) designed to replace or conserve human and especially manual labor | Synonyms: laborsaving |
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lacking | (adjective) inadequate in amount or degree | Synonyms: deficient, wanting |
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(adjective) nonexistent | Synonyms: absent, missing, wanting |
lactating | (adjective) producing or secreting milk | Synonyms: wet |
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lamenting | (adjective) vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression | Synonyms: wailful, wailing |
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lancinating | (adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cutting, keen, knifelike, lancinate, piercing, stabbing |
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lashing | (adjective) violently urging on by whipping or flogging | - |
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lasting | (adjective) continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place | Synonyms: permanent |
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(adjective) retained; not shed | Synonyms: persistent |
(adjective) existing for a long time | Synonyms: durable, long-lasting, long-lived |
(adjective) lasting a long time without change | - |
laughing | (adjective) showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness | Synonyms: riant |
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leading | (adjective) going or proceeding or going in advance; showing the way | - |
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(adjective) greatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement | Synonyms: preeminent |
(adjective) having the leading position or higher score in a contest | Synonyms: ahead, in the lead |
(adjective) indicating the most important performer or role | Synonyms: prima, star, starring, stellar |
leaning | (adjective) departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal | Synonyms: atilt, canted, tilted, tipped |
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leering | (adjective) showing sly or knowing malice in a glance | - |
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(adjective) (of a glance) sidelong and slyly lascivious | - |
lifelong | (adjective) continuing through life | Synonyms: womb-to-tomb |
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lilting | (adjective) characterized by a buoyant rhythm | Synonyms: swinging, swingy, tripping |
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limiting | (adjective) strictly limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase | - |
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(adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: confining, constraining, constrictive, restricting |
livelong | (adjective) (of time) constituting the full extent or duration | - |
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living | (adjective) pertaining to living persons | - |
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(adjective) (informal) absolute | - |
(adjective) still in existence | Synonyms: surviving |
(adjective) (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried | - |
(adjective) true to life; lifelike | - |
(adjective) still in active use | - |
long | (adjective) good at remembering | Synonyms: recollective, retentive, tenacious |
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(adjective) primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified | - |
(adjective) primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified | - |
(adjective) (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration | - |
(adjective) holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices | - |
(adjective) having or being more than normal or necessary | - |
(adjective) planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, longsighted, prospicient |
(adjective) of relatively great height | - |
(adjective) involving substantial risk | - |
longstanding | (adjective) having existed for a long time | Synonyms: long-standing |
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looking | (adjective) appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms | Synonyms: sounding |
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loving | (adjective) feeling or showing love and affection | - |
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lowering | (adjective) darkened by clouds | Synonyms: heavy, sullen, threatening |
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lumbering | (adjective) slow and laborious because of weight | Synonyms: heavy, ponderous |
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maddening | (adjective) extremely annoying or displeasing | Synonyms: exasperating, infuriating, vexing |
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malfunctioning | (adjective) not performing or able to perform its regular function | Synonyms: nonfunctional |
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marauding | (adjective) characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding | Synonyms: predatory, raiding |
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matching | (adjective) intentionally matched | Synonyms: co-ordinated, coordinated |
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(adjective) being two identical | Synonyms: duplicate, twin, twinned |
maximising | (adjective) making as great as possible | Synonyms: maximizing |
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maximizing | (adjective) making as great as possible | Synonyms: maximising |
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meandering | (adjective) of a path e.g. | Synonyms: rambling, wandering, winding |
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meaning | (adjective) rich in significance or implication | Synonyms: pregnant, significant |
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meddling | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, busybodied, interfering, meddlesome, officious |
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melting | (adjective) becoming liquid | Synonyms: liquescent |
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menacing | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening |
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merging | (adjective) flowing together | Synonyms: confluent |
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mesmerizing | (adjective) attracting and holding interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: hypnotic, mesmeric, spellbinding |
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middling | (adjective) lacking exceptional quality or ability | Synonyms: average, fair, mediocre |
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mincing | (adjective) affectedly dainty or refined | Synonyms: niminy-piminy, prim, twee |
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misleading | (adjective) designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently | Synonyms: deceptive |
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missing | (adjective) not able to be found | - |
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(adjective) nonexistent | Synonyms: absent, lacking, wanting |
mocking | (adjective) abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule | Synonyms: derisive, gibelike, jeering, taunting |
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(adjective) playfully vexing (especially by ridicule) | Synonyms: quizzical, teasing |
moderating | (adjective) lessening in intensity or strength | - |
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moneymaking | (adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: commercial, mercantile, mercenary |
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(adjective) producing a sizeable profit | Synonyms: lucrative, remunerative |
monthlong | (adjective) last through a month | - |
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mortifying | (adjective) causing awareness of your shortcomings | Synonyms: demeaning, humbling, humiliating |
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(adjective) causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation | Synonyms: embarrassing |
motivating | (adjective) impelling to action | Synonyms: motivative, motive |
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mourning | (adjective) sorrowful through loss or deprivation | Synonyms: bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, sorrowing |
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moving | (adjective) arousing or capable of arousing deep emotion | - |
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(adjective) in motion | - |
(adjective) used of a series of photographs presented so as to create the illusion of motion | - |
murmuring | (adjective) making a low continuous indistinct sound | Synonyms: susurrant, whispering |
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musing | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
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mystifying | (adjective) of an obscure nature | Synonyms: cryptic, cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mysterious |
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nagging | (adjective) continually complaining or faultfinding | Synonyms: shrewish |
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naming | (adjective) inclined to or serving for the giving of names | Synonyms: appellative |
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napping | (adjective) not prepared or vigilant | Synonyms: off-guard, off guard, off her guard, off his guard, off one's guard, off your guard |
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narcotising | (adjective) inducing stupor or narcosis | Synonyms: narcotic, narcotizing |
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narcotizing | (adjective) inducing stupor or narcosis | Synonyms: narcotic, narcotising |
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narrowing | (adjective) (of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom | Synonyms: constricting, constrictive |
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(adjective) becoming gradually narrower | Synonyms: tapered, tapering |
nauseating | (adjective) causing or able to cause nausea | Synonyms: loathsome, nauseous, noisome, offensive, queasy, sickening, vile |
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neighboring | (adjective) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching | Synonyms: adjacent, conterminous, contiguous, neighbouring |
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neighbouring | (adjective) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching | Synonyms: adjacent, conterminous, contiguous, neighboring |
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niggling | (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial |
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nightlong | (adjective) lasting, open, or operating through the whole night | Synonyms: all-night, overnight |
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nipping | (adjective) pleasantly cold and invigorating | Synonyms: crisp, frosty, nippy, snappy |
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(adjective) capable of wounding | Synonyms: barbed, biting, mordacious, pungent |
nodding | (adjective) having branches or flower heads that bend downward | Synonyms: cernuous, drooping, pendulous, weeping |
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nonbearing | (adjective) (of a structural member) supporting no vertical weight other than its own | - |
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nonchurchgoing | (adjective) no longer active or practicing | Synonyms: lapsed |
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noncombining | (adjective) not able to combine | - |
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