| invidious | (adjective) containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice | Synonyms: discriminatory |
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| irreligious | (adjective) hostile or indifferent to religion | - |
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| judicious | (adjective) marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters | Synonyms: heady, wise |
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| laborious | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, operose, punishing, toilsome |
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| lascivious | (adjective) driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires | Synonyms: lewd, libidinous, lustful |
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| licentious | (adjective) lacking moral discipline; especially sexually unrestrained | - |
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| litigious | (adjective) of or relating to litigation | - |
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| (adjective) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits | Synonyms: combative, contentious, disputatious, disputative |
| loquacious | (adjective) full of trivial conversation | Synonyms: chatty, gabby, garrulous, talkative, talky |
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| lubricious | (adjective) characterized by lust | Synonyms: lustful, prurient, salacious |
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| (adjective) having a smooth or slippery quality | - |
| lugubrious | (adjective) excessively mournful | - |
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| luscious | (adjective) having strong sexual appeal | Synonyms: juicy, lush, red-hot, toothsome, voluptuous |
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| (adjective) extremely pleasing to the sense of taste | Synonyms: delectable, delicious, pleasant-tasting, scrumptious, toothsome, yummy |
| luxurious | (adjective) displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses | Synonyms: epicurean, luxuriant, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous |
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| (adjective) ostentatiously rich and superior in quality | Synonyms: deluxe, gilded, grand, lush, opulent, princely, sumptuous |
| malicious | (adjective) having the nature of or resulting from malice | - |
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| melodious | (adjective) containing or constituting or characterized by pleasing melody | Synonyms: melodic, musical |
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| (adjective) having a musical sound; especially a pleasing tune | Synonyms: tuneful |
| mendacious | (adjective) intentionally untrue | - |
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| (adjective) given to lying | - |
| meretricious | (adjective) like or relating to a prostitute | - |
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| (adjective) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing | Synonyms: gilded, glossy, specious |
| (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
| meritorious | (adjective) deserving reward or praise | Synonyms: meritable |
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| minacious | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening |
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| monecious | (adjective) having male and female reproductive organs in the same plant or animal | Synonyms: monoecious, monoicous |
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| monoecious | (adjective) having male and female reproductive organs in the same plant or animal | Synonyms: monecious, monoicous |
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| mordacious | (adjective) biting or given to biting | - |
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| (adjective) capable of wounding | Synonyms: barbed, biting, nipping, pungent |
| multifarious | (adjective) having many aspects or qualities | Synonyms: many-sided, miscellaneous, multifaceted |
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| mysterious | (adjective) having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding | Synonyms: mystic, mystical, occult, orphic, secret |
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| (adjective) of an obscure nature | Synonyms: cryptic, cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mystifying |
| nefarious | (adjective) extremely wicked | Synonyms: villainous |
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| nonconscious | (adjective) relating to the lack of consciousness of inanimate things | - |
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| (adjective) concerning mental functioning that is not represented in consciousness | - |
| noncontagious | (adjective) (of disease) not capable of being passed on | Synonyms: noncommunicable, nontransmissible |
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| noncontentious | (adjective) of persons; not given to controversy | - |
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| nongregarious | (adjective) of plants and animals; not growing or living in groups or colonies | Synonyms: nonsocial, solitary |
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| noninfectious | (adjective) not infectious | - |
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| notorious | (adjective) known widely and usually unfavorably | Synonyms: ill-famed, infamous |
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| noxious | (adjective) injurious to physical or mental health | - |
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| nutritious | (adjective) of or providing nourishment | Synonyms: alimental, alimentary, nourishing, nutrient, nutritive |
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| oblivious | (adjective) failing to keep in mind | Synonyms: forgetful |
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| (adjective) (followed by `to' or `of') lacking conscious awareness of | Synonyms: unmindful |
| obnoxious | (adjective) causing disapproval or protest | Synonyms: objectionable |
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| obsequious | (adjective) attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery | Synonyms: bootlicking, fawning, sycophantic, toadyish |
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| (adjective) attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner | - |
| obvious | (adjective) easily perceived and understood | - |
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| odious | (adjective) unequivocally detestable | Synonyms: abominable, detestable, execrable |
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| officious | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, busybodied, interfering, meddlesome, meddling |
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| omnifarious | (adjective) of all varieties or forms or kinds | - |
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| opprobrious | (adjective) (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame | Synonyms: black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, shameful |
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| (adjective) expressing offensive reproach | Synonyms: abusive, scurrilous |
| ostentatious | (adjective) intended to attract notice and impress others | Synonyms: pretentious |
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| (adjective) (of a display) tawdry or vulgar | Synonyms: pretentious |
| overambitious | (adjective) excessively ambitious | - |
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| overanxious | (adjective) anxious or nervous to an excessive degree | - |
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| overcautious | (adjective) unnecessarily cautious | - |
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| overcurious | (adjective) showing excessive curiosity | - |
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| overserious | (adjective) excessively serious | - |
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| oversuspicious | (adjective) unduly suspicious | - |
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| parsimonious | (adjective) excessively unwilling to spend | Synonyms: penurious |
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| penurious | (adjective) not having enough money to pay for necessities | Synonyms: hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, pinched |
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| (adjective) excessively unwilling to spend | Synonyms: parsimonious |
| perfidious | (adjective) tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans | Synonyms: punic, treacherous |
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| pernicious | (adjective) working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way | Synonyms: insidious, subtle |
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| (adjective) exceedingly harmful | Synonyms: baneful, deadly, pestilent |
| perspicacious | (adjective) mentally acute or penetratingly discerning | Synonyms: clear-eyed, clear-sighted |
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| (adjective) acutely insightful and wise | Synonyms: sagacious, sapient |
| pertinacious | (adjective) stubbornly unyielding | Synonyms: dogged, dour, persistent, tenacious, unyielding |
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| pervious | (adjective) admitting of passage or entrance | - |
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| pious | (adjective) having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity | - |
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| precarious | (adjective) fraught with danger | Synonyms: parlous, perilous, touch-and-go |
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| (adjective) not secure; beset with difficulties | Synonyms: shaky |
| (adjective) affording no ease or reassurance | Synonyms: unstable |
| precious | (adjective) obviously contrived to charm | Synonyms: cute |
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| (adjective) characterized by feeling or showing fond affection for | Synonyms: cherished, treasured, wanted |
| (adjective) of high worth or cost | - |
| (adjective) held in great esteem for admirable qualities especially of an intrinsic nature | Synonyms: valued |
| precocious | (adjective) characterized by or characteristic of exceptionally early development or maturity (especially in mental aptitude) | - |
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| (adjective) appearing or developing early | - |
| predacious | (adjective) living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain | Synonyms: predaceous, predatory |
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| (adjective) hunting and killing other animals for food | Synonyms: predaceous |
| prejudicious | (adjective) tending to favor preconceived ideas | Synonyms: prejudicial |
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| (adjective) (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury | Synonyms: damaging, detrimental, prejudicial |
| prestigious | (adjective) exerting influence by reason of high status or prestige | - |
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| (adjective) having an illustrious reputation; respected | Synonyms: esteemed, honored, honoured |
| pretentious | (adjective) making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction | - |
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| (adjective) intended to attract notice and impress others | Synonyms: ostentatious |
| (adjective) (of a display) tawdry or vulgar | Synonyms: ostentatious |
| previous | (adjective) too soon or too hasty | Synonyms: premature |
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| (adjective) (used especially of persons) of the immediate past | Synonyms: former, late |
| (adjective) just preceding something else in time or order | Synonyms: old |
| prodigious | (adjective) far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree | Synonyms: exceeding, exceptional, olympian, surpassing |
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| (adjective) so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe | Synonyms: colossal, stupendous |
| (adjective) of momentous or ominous significance | Synonyms: portentous |
| propitious | (adjective) presenting favorable circumstances; likely to result in or show signs of success | - |
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| pugnacious | (adjective) ready and able to resort to force or violence | Synonyms: rough |
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| (adjective) tough and callous by virtue of experience | Synonyms: hard-bitten, hard-boiled |
| punctilious | (adjective) marked by precise accordance with details | Synonyms: meticulous |
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| rambunctious | (adjective) noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline | Synonyms: boisterous, robustious, rumbustious, unruly |
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| rapacious | (adjective) excessively greedy and grasping | Synonyms: ravening, voracious |
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| (adjective) living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey | Synonyms: predatory, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous |
| (adjective) devouring or craving food in great quantities | Synonyms: edacious, esurient, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish |
| rebellious | (adjective) discontented as toward authority | Synonyms: disaffected, ill-affected, malcontent |
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| (adjective) participating in organized resistance to a constituted government | - |
| (adjective) resisting control or authority | - |
| religious | (adjective) having or showing belief in and reverence for a deity | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to clergy bound by monastic vows | - |
| (adjective) concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church | Synonyms: spiritual |
| (adjective) extremely scrupulous and conscientious | - |
| repetitious | (adjective) characterized by repetition | Synonyms: repetitive |
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| robustious | (adjective) noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline | Synonyms: boisterous, rambunctious, rumbustious, unruly |
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| rumbustious | (adjective) noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline | Synonyms: boisterous, rambunctious, robustious, unruly |
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| sacrilegious | (adjective) grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred | Synonyms: blasphemous, profane |
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| sagacious | (adjective) skillful in statecraft or management | - |
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| (adjective) acutely insightful and wise | Synonyms: perspicacious, sapient |
| salacious | (adjective) suggestive of or tending to moral looseness | Synonyms: lewd, obscene, raunchy |
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| (adjective) characterized by lust | Synonyms: lubricious, lustful, prurient |
| salubrious | (adjective) promoting health; healthful | Synonyms: good for you, healthy |
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| (adjective) favorable to health of mind or body | - |
| sanctimonious | (adjective) excessively or hypocritically pious | Synonyms: holier-than-thou, pharisaic, pharisaical, pietistic, pietistical, self-righteous |
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| sanious | (adjective) of or resembling or characterized by ichor or sanies | Synonyms: ichorous |
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| scrumptious | (adjective) extremely pleasing to the sense of taste | Synonyms: delectable, delicious, luscious, pleasant-tasting, toothsome, yummy |
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| seditious | (adjective) in opposition to a civil authority or government | Synonyms: insurgent, subversive |
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| (adjective) arousing to action or rebellion | Synonyms: incendiary, incitive, inflammatory, instigative, rabble-rousing |
| semiconscious | (adjective) partially conscious; not completely aware of sensations | - |
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| semiprecious | (adjective) used of gemstones having less commercial value than precious stones | - |
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| sententious | (adjective) concise and full of meaning | Synonyms: pithy |
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| (adjective) abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing | - |
| serious | (adjective) concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities | - |
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| (adjective) completely lacking in playfulness | Synonyms: sober, unplayful |
| (adjective) causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm | Synonyms: dangerous, grave, grievous, life-threatening, severe |
| (adjective) requiring effort or concentration; complex and not easy to answer or solve | - |
| (adjective) of great consequence | - |
| (adjective) appealing to the mind | Synonyms: good |
| silicious | (adjective) relating to or containing or resembling silica | Synonyms: siliceous |
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| spacious | (adjective) (of buildings and rooms) having ample space | Synonyms: roomy |
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| (adjective) very large in expanse or scope | Synonyms: broad, wide |
| specious | (adjective) plausible but false | Synonyms: spurious |
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| (adjective) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing | Synonyms: gilded, glossy, meretricious |
| spurious | (adjective) false or fake; not what it appears to be | Synonyms: inauthentic, unauthentic |
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| (adjective) plausible but false | Synonyms: specious |
| (adjective) born out of wedlock | Synonyms: bastardly, misbegot, misbegotten |
| (adjective) ostensibly valid, but not actually valid | - |
| studious | (adjective) marked by care and effort | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading | Synonyms: bookish |
| subconscious | (adjective) just below the level of consciousness | - |
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| supercilious | (adjective) having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy | Synonyms: disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, swaggering |
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| (adjective) expressive of contempt | Synonyms: sneering, snide |
| superstitious | (adjective) showing ignorance of the laws of nature and faith in magic or chance | - |
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| suppositious | (adjective) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence | Synonyms: conjectural, divinatory, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, supposititious |
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| supposititious | (adjective) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence | Synonyms: conjectural, divinatory, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, suppositious |
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| surreptitious | (adjective) marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed | Synonyms: furtive, sneak, sneaky, stealthy |
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| (adjective) conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods | Synonyms: clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, undercover, underground |
| suspicious | (adjective) openly distrustful and unwilling to confide | Synonyms: leery, mistrustful, untrusting, wary |
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| (adjective) not as expected | Synonyms: fishy, funny, shady, suspect |
| symphonious | (adjective) harmonious in sound | Synonyms: symphonic |
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| synoecious | (adjective) having male and female reproductive organs mixed in the same gametoecium | Synonyms: synoicous |
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