afebrile | (adjective) having no fever | - |
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agile | (adjective) moving quickly and lightly | Synonyms: nimble, quick, spry |
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(adjective) mentally quick | Synonyms: nimble |
anile | (adjective) of or like a feeble old woman | - |
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audile | (adjective) of or relating to the process of hearing | Synonyms: auditive, auditory |
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axile | (adjective) relating to or attached to the axis | Synonyms: axial |
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cantabile | (adjective) smooth and flowing | Synonyms: singing |
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contractile | (adjective) capable of contracting or being contracted | - |
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debile | (adjective) lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality | Synonyms: decrepit, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly |
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docile | (adjective) willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed | - |
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(adjective) easily handled or managed | Synonyms: gentle |
(adjective) ready and willing to be taught | Synonyms: teachable |
ductile | (adjective) capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out | Synonyms: malleable, pliable, pliant, tensile, tractile |
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(adjective) easily influenced | Synonyms: malleable |
erectile | (adjective) capable of being raised to an upright position | - |
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(adjective) filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood | Synonyms: cavernous |
erstwhile | (adjective) belonging to some prior time | Synonyms: former, old, one-time, onetime, quondam, sometime |
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expansile | (adjective) (of gases) capable of expansion | Synonyms: expandable, expandible, expansible |
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extensile | (adjective) capable of being protruded or stretched or opened out | Synonyms: extensible |
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facile | (adjective) expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively | Synonyms: eloquent, fluent, silver-tongued, silver, smooth-spoken |
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(adjective) performing adroitly and without effort | - |
(adjective) superficially impressive, but lacking depth and attention to the true complexities of a subject | Synonyms: neat, slick |
febrile | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by fever | Synonyms: feverish |
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fertile | (adjective) capable of reproducing | - |
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(adjective) marked by great fruitfulness | Synonyms: fat, productive, rich |
(adjective) bearing in abundance especially offspring | Synonyms: prolific |
(adjective) intellectually productive | Synonyms: fecund, prolific |
fictile | (adjective) of or relating to the craft of pottery | - |
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(adjective) capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material) | Synonyms: moldable, plastic |
(adjective) susceptible to being led or directed | Synonyms: pliable |
fissile | (adjective) capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain | - |
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(adjective) capable of undergoing nuclear fission | Synonyms: fissionable |
flexile | (adjective) able to flex; able to bend easily | Synonyms: flexible |
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fragile | (adjective) easily broken or damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: delicate, frail |
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(adjective) vulnerably delicate | - |
(adjective) lacking substance or significance | Synonyms: flimsy, slight, tenuous, thin |
futile | (adjective) unproductive of success | Synonyms: bootless, fruitless, sleeveless, vain |
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(adjective) producing no result or effect | Synonyms: ineffectual, meaningless, otiose, unavailing |
gentile | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of non-Jewish peoples | - |
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gracile | (adjective) slender and graceful | Synonyms: willowy |
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homophile | (adjective) homosexual or arousing homosexual desires | Synonyms: gay, queer |
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hostile | (adjective) characterized by enmity or ill will | - |
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(adjective) not belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally | - |
(adjective) unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company (used of attempts to buy or take control of a business) | - |
(adjective) very unfavorable to life or growth | Synonyms: uncongenial, unfriendly |
(adjective) impossible to bring into friendly accord | - |
imbecile | (adjective) having a mental age of three to seven years | Synonyms: idiotic, imbecilic |
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immobile | (adjective) not capable of movement or of being moved | - |
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(adjective) securely fixed in place | Synonyms: fast, firm |
immotile | (adjective) (of spores or microorganisms) not capable of movement | Synonyms: nonmotile |
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indocile | (adjective) incapable of being controlled | Synonyms: uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly |
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infantile | (adjective) of or relating to infants or infancy | - |
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(adjective) indicating a lack of maturity | Synonyms: childish |
(adjective) being or befitting or characteristic of an infant | - |
infertile | (adjective) incapable of reproducing | Synonyms: sterile, unfertile |
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inutile | (adjective) not worth using | - |
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juvenile | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of or appropriate for children or young people | - |
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(adjective) displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity | Synonyms: adolescent, jejune, puerile |
labile | (adjective) (chemistry, physics, biology) readily undergoing change or breakdown | - |
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(adjective) liable to change | - |
mercantile | (adjective) of or relating to the economic system of mercantilism | - |
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(adjective) relating to or characteristic of trade or traders | - |
(adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: commercial, mercenary, moneymaking |
mobile | (adjective) moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place) | - |
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(adjective) having transportation available | - |
(adjective) migratory | Synonyms: nomadic, peregrine, roving, wandering |
(adjective) affording change (especially in social status) | Synonyms: fluid |
(adjective) capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another | - |
motile | (adjective) (of spores or microorganisms) capable of movement | - |
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nonextensile | (adjective) not extensile | Synonyms: inextensible, nonprotractile |
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nonfissile | (adjective) not fissile | - |
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nonmotile | (adjective) (of spores or microorganisms) not capable of movement | Synonyms: immotile |
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nonprehensile | (adjective) not prehensile | - |
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nonprotractile | (adjective) not extensile | Synonyms: inextensible, nonextensile |
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nonretractile | (adjective) not capable of being retracted | Synonyms: nonretractable |
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nonvolatile | (adjective) not volatilizing readily | Synonyms: nonvolatilisable, nonvolatilizable |
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nubile | (adjective) of girls or women who are eligible to marry | Synonyms: marriageable |
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penile | (adjective) of or relating to the penis | Synonyms: penial |
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prehensile | (adjective) adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object | - |
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(adjective) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth | Synonyms: avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy |
(adjective) having a keen intellect | - |
projectile | (adjective) impelling or impelled forward | - |
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protractile | (adjective) able to be extended | Synonyms: protractible |
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protrusile | (adjective) capable of being thrust forward, as the tongue | Synonyms: protrusible |
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puerile | (adjective) of or characteristic of a child | - |
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(adjective) displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity | Synonyms: adolescent, jejune, juvenile |
refractile | (adjective) of or relating to or capable of refraction | Synonyms: refractive |
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retractile | (adjective) capable of retraction; capable of being drawn back | - |
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saxatile | (adjective) growing on or living among rocks | Synonyms: saxicoline, saxicolous |
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senile | (adjective) mentally or physically infirm with age | Synonyms: doddering, doddery, gaga |
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servile | (adjective) submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior | - |
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(adjective) relating to or involving slaves or appropriate for slaves or servants | - |
sessile | (adjective) attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk | Synonyms: stalkless |
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(adjective) permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about | - |
stabile | (adjective) not able or intended to be moved | Synonyms: immovable, immoveable, unmovable |
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(adjective) (chemistry, physics, biology) resistant to change | - |
sterile | (adjective) incapable of reproducing | Synonyms: infertile, unfertile |
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(adjective) free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms | Synonyms: aseptic |
(adjective) deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention | Synonyms: unimaginative, uninspired, uninventive |
tactile | (adjective) of or relating to or proceeding from the sense of touch | Synonyms: haptic, tactual |
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(adjective) producing a sensation of touch | Synonyms: tactual |
tensile | (adjective) of or relating to tension | - |
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(adjective) capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out | Synonyms: ductile, malleable, pliable, pliant, tractile |
textile | (adjective) of or relating to fabrics or fabric making | - |
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thermolabile | (adjective) (chemistry, physics, biology) readily changed or destroyed by heat | - |
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tractile | (adjective) capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out | Synonyms: ductile, malleable, pliable, pliant, tensile |
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unfertile | (adjective) incapable of reproducing | Synonyms: infertile, sterile |
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unservile | (adjective) not servile or submissive | Synonyms: unsubmissive |
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utile | (adjective) being of use or service | Synonyms: useful |
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vagile | (adjective) having freedom to move about | - |
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versatile | (adjective) able to move freely in all directions | - |
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(adjective) competent in many areas and able to turn with ease from one thing to another | - |
(adjective) changeable or inconstant | - |
(adjective) having great diversity or variety | Synonyms: various |
vile | (adjective) morally reprehensible | Synonyms: despicable, slimy, ugly, unworthy, worthless, wretched |
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(adjective) causing or able to cause nausea | Synonyms: loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, offensive, queasy, sickening |
virile | (adjective) (of a male) capable of copulation | Synonyms: potent |
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(adjective) characteristic of a man | Synonyms: male, manful, manlike, manly |
(adjective) characterized by energy and vigor | - |
volatile | (adjective) evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures | - |
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(adjective) tending to vary often or widely | - |
(adjective) marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments | Synonyms: fickle |
(adjective) liable to lead to sudden change or violence | Synonyms: explosive |
worthwhile | (adjective) sufficiently valuable to justify the investment of time or interest | - |
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