ahorseback | (adjective) traveling on horseback | Synonyms: ahorse |
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airsick | (adjective) experiencing motion sickness | Synonyms: air sick, carsick, seasick |
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amok | (adjective) wildly frenzied and out of control | Synonyms: amuck, berserk |
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amuck | (adjective) wildly frenzied and out of control | Synonyms: amok, berserk |
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antiblack | (adjective) discriminatory especially on the basis of race or religion | Synonyms: anti-Semite, racist |
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antiknock | (adjective) suppressing or eliminating engine knock in combustion engines | Synonyms: antiknocking |
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antitank | (adjective) designed for defense against armored vehicles | - |
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awestruck | (adjective) having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread | Synonyms: awed, awestricken |
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back | (adjective) related to or located at the back | - |
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(adjective) of an earlier date | - |
(adjective) located at or near the back of an animal | Synonyms: hind, hinder |
bareback | (adjective) riding without a saddle | Synonyms: barebacked |
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berserk | (adjective) wildly frenzied and out of control | Synonyms: amok, amuck |
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black | (adjective) being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light | - |
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(adjective) of or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin | - |
(adjective) marked by anger or resentment or hostility | - |
(adjective) (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood | Synonyms: blackened |
(adjective) (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading | - |
(adjective) extremely dark | Synonyms: pitch-black, pitch-dark |
(adjective) soiled with dirt or soot | Synonyms: smutty |
(adjective) (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame | Synonyms: disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful |
(adjective) stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable | Synonyms: dark, sinister |
(adjective) offering little or no hope | Synonyms: bleak, dim |
(adjective) distributed or sold illicitly | Synonyms: black-market, bootleg, contraband, smuggled |
(adjective) harshly ironic or sinister | Synonyms: grim, mordant |
(adjective) (of coffee) without cream or sugar | - |
(adjective) (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin | Synonyms: calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful |
blank | (adjective) (of a surface) not written or printed on | Synonyms: clean, white |
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(adjective) not charged with a bullet | - |
(adjective) complete and absolute | Synonyms: utter |
(adjective) without comprehension | - |
bleak | (adjective) unpleasantly cold and damp | Synonyms: cutting, raw |
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(adjective) offering little or no hope | Synonyms: black, dim |
(adjective) providing no shelter or sustenance | Synonyms: bare, barren, desolate, stark |
brainsick | (adjective) affected with madness or insanity | Synonyms: crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged |
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breakneck | (adjective) moving at very high speed | - |
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brisk | (adjective) very active | - |
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(adjective) quick and energetic | Synonyms: alert, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy |
(adjective) imparting vitality and energy | Synonyms: bracing, fresh, refreshful, refreshing, tonic |
brusk | (adjective) marked by rude or peremptory shortness | Synonyms: brusque, curt, short |
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carsick | (adjective) experiencing motion sickness | Synonyms: air sick, airsick, seasick |
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casebook | (adjective) according to or characteristic of a casebook or textbook; typical | Synonyms: textbook |
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cheapjack | (adjective) made of inferior workmanship and materials | Synonyms: shoddy, tawdry |
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chockablock | (adjective) packed full to capacity | Synonyms: chock-full, chockful, choke-full, chuck-full, cram full |
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crack | (adjective) of the highest quality | Synonyms: A-one, ace, first-rate, super, tiptop, top-notch, topnotch, tops |
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crank | (adjective) (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail | Synonyms: cranky, tender, tippy |
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crookback | (adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookbacked, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, hunchbacked, kyphotic |
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damask | (adjective) having a woven pattern | - |
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dank | (adjective) of high quality especially of marijuana | - |
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(adjective) unpleasantly cool and humid | Synonyms: clammy |
dark | (adjective) devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black | - |
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(adjective) (used of color) having a dark hue | - |
(adjective) brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes) | - |
(adjective) secret | - |
(adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry |
(adjective) stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable | Synonyms: black, sinister |
(adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen |
(adjective) not giving performances; closed | - |
(adjective) marked by difficulty of style or expression | Synonyms: obscure |
(adjective) lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture | Synonyms: benighted |
drunk | (adjective) stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: gone, inebriated, intoxicated, ripped |
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(adjective) as if under the influence of alcohol | Synonyms: intoxicated |
dumbstruck | (adjective) as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise | Synonyms: dumbfounded, dumbstricken, dumfounded, flabbergasted, stupefied, thunderstruck |
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flyspeck | (adjective) very small | Synonyms: bantam, diminutive, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny |
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frank | (adjective) characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion | Synonyms: blunt, candid, forthright, free-spoken, outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank, straight-from-the-shoulder |
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(adjective) clearly manifest; evident | - |
gimcrack | (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
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greensick | (adjective) of or pertaining to or suffering from chlorosis | Synonyms: chlorotic |
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hardback | (adjective) having a hard back or cover | Synonyms: hardbacked, hardbound, hardcover |
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heartsick | (adjective) without or almost without hope | Synonyms: despondent |
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(adjective) full of sorrow | Synonyms: brokenhearted, heartbroken |
hick | (adjective) awkwardly simple and provincial | Synonyms: bumpkinly, rustic, unsophisticated |
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homesick | (adjective) longing to return home | - |
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k | (adjective) denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units | Synonyms: 1000, m, one thousand, thousand |
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lank | (adjective) long and thin and often limp | - |
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(adjective) long and lean | Synonyms: spindly |
lovesick | (adjective) languishing because of love | - |
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maverick | (adjective) independent in behavior or thought | Synonyms: irregular, unorthodox |
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meek | (adjective) very docile | Synonyms: tame |
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(adjective) humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness | Synonyms: mild, modest |
(adjective) evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or compliant | Synonyms: spiritless |
mock | (adjective) constituting a copy or imitation of something | - |
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moonstruck | (adjective) insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon | Synonyms: lunatic |
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nonstick | (adjective) (of surfaces especially of cooking utensils) permitting easy removal of adherent food particles | - |
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ok | (adjective) being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition | Synonyms: all right, cool, fine, hunky-dory, o.k., okay |
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outback | (adjective) inaccessible and sparsely populated | Synonyms: remote |
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paperback | (adjective) (of books) having a flexible binding | Synonyms: paperbacked |
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pinchbeck | (adjective) serving as an imitation or substitute | - |
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pink | (adjective) of a light shade of red | Synonyms: pinkish |
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punk | (adjective) of very poor quality; flimsy | Synonyms: bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, sleazy, tinny |
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quack | (adjective) medically unqualified | - |
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quick | (adjective) moving quickly and lightly | Synonyms: agile, nimble, spry |
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(adjective) easily aroused or excited | Synonyms: warm |
(adjective) accomplished rapidly and without delay | Synonyms: speedy |
(adjective) hurried and brief | Synonyms: fast, flying |
(adjective) apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity | Synonyms: ready |
(adjective) performed with little or no delay | Synonyms: immediate, prompt, straightaway |
rank | (adjective) growing profusely | - |
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(adjective) complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: absolute, downright, out-and-out, right-down, sheer |
(adjective) conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible | Synonyms: crying, egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross |
(adjective) very fertile; producing profuse growth | - |
(adjective) very offensive in smell or taste | - |
razorback | (adjective) having a sharp narrow back | Synonyms: razor-backed |
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redbrick | (adjective) of or relating to British universities founded in the late 19th century or the 20th century | Synonyms: red-brick |
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seasick | (adjective) experiencing motion sickness | Synonyms: air sick, airsick, carsick |
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semidark | (adjective) partially devoid of light or brightness | - |
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sick | (adjective) affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function | Synonyms: ill |
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(adjective) shockingly repellent; inspiring horror | Synonyms: ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre |
(adjective) having a strong distaste from surfeit | Synonyms: disgusted, fed up, sick of, tired of |
(adjective) affected with madness or insanity | Synonyms: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, unbalanced, unhinged |
(adjective) deeply affected by a strong feeling | - |
(adjective) (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble | Synonyms: pale, pallid, wan |
(adjective) feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit | Synonyms: nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sickish |
slack | (adjective) not tense or taut | Synonyms: loose |
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(adjective) lacking in rigor or strictness | Synonyms: lax |
(adjective) flowing with little speed as e.g. at the turning of the tide | - |
slapstick | (adjective) characterized by horseplay and physical action | - |
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sleek | (adjective) having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk | Synonyms: satiny, silken, silklike, silky, slick |
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(adjective) well-groomed and neatly tailored; especially too well-groomed | - |
(adjective) designed or arranged to offer the least resistance to fluid flow | Synonyms: aerodynamic, flowing, streamlined |
slick | (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily |
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(adjective) having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk | Synonyms: satiny, silken, silklike, silky, sleek |
(adjective) having only superficial plausibility | Synonyms: glib, pat |
(adjective) made slick by e.g. ice or grease | - |
(adjective) superficially impressive, but lacking depth and attention to the true complexities of a subject | Synonyms: facile, neat |
sneak | (adjective) marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed | Synonyms: furtive, sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious |
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spick | (adjective) completely neat and clean | Synonyms: immaculate, speckless, spic-and-span, spic, spick-and-span, spotless |
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stark | (adjective) complete or extreme | - |
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(adjective) providing no shelter or sustenance | Synonyms: bare, barren, bleak, desolate |
(adjective) severely simple | Synonyms: austere, severe, stern |
(adjective) devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment | Synonyms: blunt, crude |
(adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
stock | (adjective) regularly and widely used or sold | Synonyms: standard |
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(adjective) routine | - |
(adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn |
struck | (adjective) (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming | Synonyms: smitten, stricken |
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stuck | (adjective) caught or fixed | - |
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(adjective) baffled | - |
sunk | (adjective) doomed to extinction | Synonyms: done for, ruined, undone, washed-up |
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sunstruck | (adjective) lighted by sunlight | Synonyms: sunlit |
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swank | (adjective) imposingly fashionable and elegant | Synonyms: swanky |
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swayback | (adjective) having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses) | Synonyms: dipped, lordotic, swaybacked |
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sweptback | (adjective) used of hair | Synonyms: backswept |
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(adjective) (especially of aircraft wings) angled rearward from the point of attachment | - |
textbook | (adjective) according to or characteristic of a casebook or textbook; typical | Synonyms: casebook |
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thick | (adjective) not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions | - |
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(adjective) relatively dense in consistency | - |
(adjective) abounding; having a lot of | - |
(adjective) (used informally) associated on close terms | Synonyms: buddy-buddy, chummy |
(adjective) having component parts closely crowded together | Synonyms: dense |
(adjective) hard to pass through because of dense growth | Synonyms: dense |
(adjective) (of darkness) densely dark | Synonyms: deep |
(adjective) having a short and solid form or stature | Synonyms: compact, heavyset, stocky, thickset |
(adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, boneheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
(adjective) spoken as if with a thick tongue | Synonyms: slurred |
throwback | (adjective) characteristic of an atavist | Synonyms: atavistic |
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thunderstruck | (adjective) as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise | Synonyms: dumbfounded, dumbstricken, dumbstruck, dumfounded, flabbergasted, stupefied |
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unstuck | (adjective) free | - |
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(adjective) thrown into a state of disorganization or incoherence | Synonyms: undone |
weak | (adjective) wanting in physical strength | - |
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(adjective) overly diluted; thin and insipid | Synonyms: washy, watery |
(adjective) tending downward in price | - |
(adjective) likely to fail under stress or pressure | - |
(adjective) lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality | Synonyms: debile, decrepit, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weakly |
(adjective) wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings | Synonyms: fallible, frail, imperfect |
(adjective) deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc | Synonyms: faint |
(adjective) not having authority, political strength, or governing power | - |
(adjective) (used of verbs) having standard (or regular) inflection | - |
(adjective) deficient in intelligence or mental power | - |
(adjective) deficient or lacking in some skill | - |
(adjective) (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress | Synonyms: light, unaccented |