anodic | (adjective) of or at or relating to an anode | Synonyms: anodal |
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anomic | (adjective) socially disoriented | Synonyms: alienated, disoriented |
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anorectic | (adjective) causing loss of appetite | Synonyms: anorexigenic |
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(adjective) suffering from anorexia nervosa; pathologically thin | Synonyms: anorexic |
anorexic | (adjective) suffering from anorexia nervosa; pathologically thin | Synonyms: anorectic |
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anorexigenic | (adjective) causing loss of appetite | Synonyms: anorectic |
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anorthic | (adjective) having three unequal crystal axes intersecting at oblique angles | Synonyms: triclinic |
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anorthitic | (adjective) characteristic of anorthite | - |
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anosmatic | (adjective) relating to an impairment or loss of the sense of smell | Synonyms: anosmic |
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anosmic | (adjective) relating to an impairment or loss of the sense of smell | Synonyms: anosmatic |
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(adjective) having impaired sense of smell | - |
anoxemic | (adjective) relating to or marked by abnormally little oxygen in arterial blood | - |
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anoxic | (adjective) relating to or marked by a severe deficiency of oxygen in tissues or organs | - |
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antagonistic | (adjective) arousing animosity or hostility | - |
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(adjective) used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other's effect | Synonyms: incompatible |
(adjective) characterized by antagonism or antipathy | Synonyms: antipathetic, antipathetical |
(adjective) incapable of harmonious association | - |
(adjective) indicating opposition or resistance | Synonyms: counter |
anthelminthic | (adjective) capable of expelling or destroying parasitic worms | Synonyms: anthelmintic, helminthic, parasiticidal |
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anthelmintic | (adjective) capable of expelling or destroying parasitic worms | Synonyms: anthelminthic, helminthic, parasiticidal |
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anthracitic | (adjective) relating to or resembling anthracite coal | - |
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anthropic | (adjective) relating to mankind or the period of mankind's existence | Synonyms: anthropical |
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anthropocentric | (adjective) human-centered | - |
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anthropogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to the study of the origins and development of human beings | Synonyms: anthropogenic |
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anthropogenic | (adjective) of or relating to the study of the origins and development of human beings | Synonyms: anthropogenetic |
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anthropometric | (adjective) of or relating to anthropometry | Synonyms: anthropometrical |
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anthropomorphic | (adjective) suggesting human characteristics for animals or inanimate things | Synonyms: anthropomorphous, humanlike |
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antiadrenergic | (adjective) relating to blocking or reducing adrenergic effects in the body | - |
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antibiotic | (adjective) of or relating to antibiotic drugs | - |
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antic | (adjective) ludicrously odd | Synonyms: fantastic, fantastical, grotesque |
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anticholinergic | (adjective) inhibiting or blocking the action of acetylcholine at a receptor site | - |
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anticlimactic | (adjective) coming after the climax especially of a dramatic or narrative plot | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to a sudden change from an impressive to a ludicrous style | Synonyms: anticlimactical |
anticyclonic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the atmosphere around a high pressure center | - |
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antidromic | (adjective) conducting nerve impulses in a direction opposite to normal | - |
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antiferromagnetic | (adjective) relating to antiferromagnetism | - |
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antigenic | (adjective) of or relating to antigens | - |
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antimagnetic | (adjective) impervious to the effects of a magnetic field; resistant to magnetization | - |
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antimicrobic | (adjective) capable of destroying or inhibiting the growth of disease-causing microorganisms | Synonyms: antimicrobial |
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antimonic | (adjective) relating to or derived from antimony | Synonyms: antimonious |
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antineoplastic | (adjective) used in the treatment of cancer | Synonyms: anticancer, antitumor, antitumour |
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antipathetic | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed | Synonyms: antipathetical, averse, indisposed, loath, loth |
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(adjective) characterized by antagonism or antipathy | Synonyms: antagonistic, antipathetical |
antiphlogistic | (adjective) counteracting inflammation | - |
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antipyretic | (adjective) preventing or alleviating fever | - |
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antisemitic | (adjective) relating to or characterized by anti-Semitism; hating Jews | Synonyms: anti-semitic |
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antiseptic | (adjective) thoroughly clean and free of or destructive to disease-causing organisms | - |
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(adjective) devoid of objectionable language | - |
(adjective) clean and honest | - |
(adjective) freeing from error or corruption | - |
antistrophic | (adjective) of or relating to an antistrophe | - |
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antithetic | (adjective) sharply contrasted in character or purpose | Synonyms: antithetical |
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antitoxic | (adjective) counteracting a toxin or poison | - |
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antitypic | (adjective) of or relating to an antitype that is a symbol | Synonyms: antitypical |
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(adjective) of or relating to an antitype that represents an opposite | Synonyms: antitypical |
anuretic | (adjective) of or relating to an inability to urinate | Synonyms: anuric |
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anuric | (adjective) of or relating to an inability to urinate | Synonyms: anuretic |
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anxiolytic | (adjective) anxiety relieving | - |
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aoristic | (adjective) of or relating to the aorist tense | - |
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aortic | (adjective) of or relating to the aorta | Synonyms: aortal |
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apathetic | (adjective) showing little or no emotion or animation | - |
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(adjective) marked by a lack of interest | Synonyms: indifferent |
aperiodic | (adjective) not recurring at regular intervals | Synonyms: nonperiodic |
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aphaeretic | (adjective) relating to or formed by or consisting of aphaeresis | Synonyms: apheretic |
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aphakic | (adjective) of or relating to or afflicted with aphakia | - |
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aphanitic | (adjective) of or relating to aphanite | - |
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aphasic | (adjective) related to or affected by aphasia | - |
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(adjective) unable to speak because of a brain lesion | - |
apheretic | (adjective) relating to or formed by or consisting of aphaeresis | Synonyms: aphaeretic |
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aphetic | (adjective) produced by aphesis | - |
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aphonic | (adjective) being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech | Synonyms: voiceless |
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aphoristic | (adjective) containing aphorisms or maxims | Synonyms: axiomatic |
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(adjective) terse and witty and like a maxim | Synonyms: apothegmatic, epigrammatic |
aphotic | (adjective) lacking light; especially not reached by sunlight | - |
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aplanatic | (adjective) free from or corrected for spherical aberration | - |
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aplitic | (adjective) of or related to aplite | - |
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apneic | (adjective) of or relating to apnea | Synonyms: apnoeic |
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apnoeic | (adjective) of or relating to apnea | Synonyms: apneic |
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apocalyptic | (adjective) of or relating to an apocalypse | - |
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(adjective) prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom | Synonyms: apocalyptical, revelatory |
apochromatic | (adjective) corrected for both chromatic and spherical aberration | - |
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apodeictic | (adjective) of a proposition; necessarily true or logically certain | Synonyms: apodictic |
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apodictic | (adjective) of a proposition; necessarily true or logically certain | Synonyms: apodeictic |
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apogametic | (adjective) of or relating to the development of an embryo in the absence of fertilization | Synonyms: apogamic, apogamous |
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apogamic | (adjective) of or relating to the development of an embryo in the absence of fertilization | Synonyms: apogametic, apogamous |
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apologetic | (adjective) offering or expressing apology | Synonyms: excusatory |
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apomictic | (adjective) of or relating to a plant that reproduces by apomixis | Synonyms: apomictical |
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(adjective) (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction | Synonyms: agamic, agamogenetic, agamous, parthenogenetic |
aponeurotic | (adjective) of or relating to an aponeurosis | - |
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apopemptic | (adjective) addressed to one who is departing | - |
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apophatic | (adjective) of or relating to the belief that God can be known to humans only in terms of what He is not (such as `God is unknowable') | - |
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apoplectic | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of apoplexy | - |
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aposiopetic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of aposiopesis | - |
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apostolic | (adjective) of or relating to or deriving from the Apostles or their teachings | Synonyms: apostolical |
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(adjective) proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles | Synonyms: apostolical, papal, pontifical |
apostrophic | (adjective) of or characteristic of apostrophe | - |
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apothegmatic | (adjective) given to or characterized by terse apothegms | Synonyms: apothegmatical |
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(adjective) terse and witty and like a maxim | Synonyms: aphoristic, epigrammatic |
apotropaic | (adjective) having the power to prevent evil or bad luck | - |
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apractic | (adjective) having uncoordinated muscular movements, symptomatic of a CNS disorder | Synonyms: apraxic |
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apraxic | (adjective) having uncoordinated muscular movements, symptomatic of a CNS disorder | Synonyms: apractic |
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aquaphobic | (adjective) abnormally afraid of water | Synonyms: hydrophobic |
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aquatic | (adjective) operating or living or growing in water | - |
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(adjective) relating to or consisting of or being in water | - |
archaeologic | (adjective) related to or dealing with or devoted to archaeology | Synonyms: archaeological, archeologic, archeological |
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archaeozoic | (adjective) of or belonging to earlier of two divisions of the Precambrian era | Synonyms: archeozoic |
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archaic | (adjective) little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type | Synonyms: primitive |
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(adjective) so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period | Synonyms: antediluvian, antiquated |
archaistic | (adjective) imitative of an archaic style or manner | - |
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archangelic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling archangels | Synonyms: archangelical |
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archeologic | (adjective) related to or dealing with or devoted to archaeology | Synonyms: archaeologic, archaeological, archeological |
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archeozoic | (adjective) of or belonging to earlier of two divisions of the Precambrian era | Synonyms: archaeozoic |
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archipelagic | (adjective) relating to or part of an archipelago | - |
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architectonic | (adjective) of or pertaining to construction or architecture | Synonyms: tectonic |
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arctic | (adjective) extremely cold | Synonyms: frigid, gelid, glacial, icy, polar |
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argentic | (adjective) relating to compounds in which silver is bivalent | - |
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aristocratic | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy | Synonyms: aristocratical, blue-blooded, blue, gentle, patrician |
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arithmetic | (adjective) relating to or involving arithmetic | Synonyms: arithmetical |
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aromatic | (adjective) (chemistry) of or relating to or containing one or more benzene rings | - |
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(adjective) having a strong pleasant odor | Synonyms: redolent |
arrhythmic | (adjective) without regard for rhythm | Synonyms: arrhythmical |
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(adjective) lacking a steady rhythm | Synonyms: jerking, jerky |
arteriosclerotic | (adjective) affected by arteriosclerosis | - |
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