| balky | (adjective) refusing to proceed, act or work | Synonyms: balking |
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| barky | (adjective) resembling the rough bark of a tree | - |
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| blocky | (adjective) resembling a block in shape | Synonyms: blockish |
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| bosky | (adjective) covered with or consisting of bushes or thickets | Synonyms: brushy |
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| braky | (adjective) abounding with bracken | - |
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| (adjective) covered with brambles and ferns and other undergrowth | Synonyms: brambly |
| bulky | (adjective) of large size for its weight | - |
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| bullocky | (adjective) resembling a bullock in strength and power | - |
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| chalky | (adjective) composed of or containing or resembling calcium carbonate or calcite or chalk | Synonyms: calcareous |
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| (adjective) of something having the color of chalk | - |
| cheeky | (adjective) offensively bold | Synonyms: brash, nervy |
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| choky | (adjective) so tight as to tend to choke | - |
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| chunky | (adjective) short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature | Synonyms: dumpy, low-set, squat, squatty, stumpy |
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| (adjective) like or containing small sticky lumps | Synonyms: lumpy |
| clunky | (adjective) making a clunking sound | - |
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| (adjective) lacking grace in movement or posture | Synonyms: clumsy, gawky, ungainly, unwieldy |
| cocky | (adjective) overly self-confident or self-assertive | - |
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| colicky | (adjective) suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal | Synonyms: flatulent, gassy |
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| corky | (adjective) (of wine) tainted in flavor by a cork containing excess tannin | Synonyms: corked |
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| cranky | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
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| (adjective) (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail | Synonyms: crank, tender, tippy |
| creaky | (adjective) having a rasping or grating sound | Synonyms: screaky |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to arthritis | Synonyms: arthritic, rheumatic, rheumatoid, rheumy |
| (adjective) worn and broken down by hard use | Synonyms: decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone |
| croaky | (adjective) like the sounds of frogs and crows | Synonyms: guttural |
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| dicky | (adjective) (British informal) faulty | Synonyms: dickey |
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| dinky | (adjective) (British informal) pretty and neat | - |
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| (adjective) small and unimpressive | Synonyms: insignificant |
| dusky | (adjective) naturally having skin of a dark color | Synonyms: dark-skinned, swart, swarthy |
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| (adjective) lighted by or as if by twilight | Synonyms: twilight, twilit |
| finicky | (adjective) exacting especially about details | Synonyms: finical, fussy, particular, picky |
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| flaky | (adjective) made of or resembling flakes | Synonyms: flakey |
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| (adjective) made of or easily forming flakes | Synonyms: flakey |
| (adjective) conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual | Synonyms: bizarre, eccentric, flakey, freakish, freaky, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre |
| fluky | (adjective) subject to accident or chance or change | Synonyms: chancy, flukey, iffy |
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| freaky | (adjective) strange and somewhat frightening | - |
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| (adjective) conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual | Synonyms: bizarre, eccentric, flakey, flaky, freakish, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre |
| frisky | (adjective) playful like a lively kitten | Synonyms: kittenish |
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| frolicky | (adjective) given to merry frolicking | Synonyms: coltish, frolicsome, rollicking, sportive |
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| funky | (adjective) in a state of cowardly fright | - |
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| (adjective) (of jazz) having the soulful feeling of early blues | Synonyms: low-down |
| (adjective) offensively malodorous | Synonyms: fetid, foetid, foul-smelling, foul, ill-scented, noisome, smelly, stinking |
| (adjective) stylish and modern in an unconventional way | - |
| garlicky | (adjective) relating to or tasting or smelling of garlic | - |
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| gawky | (adjective) lacking grace in movement or posture | Synonyms: clumsy, clunky, ungainly, unwieldy |
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| hulky | (adjective) of great size and bulk | Synonyms: hulking |
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| husky | (adjective) deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion | Synonyms: gruff, hoarse |
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| (adjective) muscular and heavily built | Synonyms: beefy, buirdly, burly, strapping |
| icky | (adjective) soft and sticky | Synonyms: gooey |
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| (adjective) very bad | Synonyms: crappy, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky |
| inky | (adjective) of the color of black ink | Synonyms: ink-black, inky-black |
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| jerky | (adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: anserine, dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosey, goosy |
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| (adjective) marked by abrupt transitions | Synonyms: choppy |
| (adjective) lacking a steady rhythm | Synonyms: arrhythmic, jerking |
| kinky | (adjective) (used of sexual behavior) showing or appealing to bizarre or deviant tastes | Synonyms: perverted |
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| (adjective) (of hair) in small tight curls | Synonyms: crisp, frizzly, frizzy, nappy |
| (adjective) (informal) strikingly unconventional | Synonyms: far-out, offbeat, quirky, way-out |
| kooky | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| lanky | (adjective) tall and thin and having long slender limbs | Synonyms: gangling, gangly, rangy |
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| (adjective) tall and thin | Synonyms: gangling, gangly |
| leaky | (adjective) permitting the unwanted passage of fluids or gases | - |
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| (adjective) prone to communicate confidential information | Synonyms: blabbermouthed, talebearing, tattling |
| (adjective) used informally; unable to retain urine | - |
| lucky | (adjective) having or bringing good fortune | - |
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| (adjective) occurring by chance | - |
| (adjective) presaging or likely to bring good luck or a good outcome | Synonyms: favorable, favourable, golden, prosperous |
| manky | (adjective) inferior and worthless | - |
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| milky | (adjective) resembling milk in color; not clear | Synonyms: milklike, whitish |
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| mirky | (adjective) (of liquids) clouded as with sediment | Synonyms: cloudy, muddy, murky, turbid |
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| (adjective) dark or gloomy | Synonyms: murky |
| mucky | (adjective) dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck | Synonyms: muddy |
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| (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged |
| murky | (adjective) (of liquids) clouded as with sediment | Synonyms: cloudy, mirky, muddy, turbid |
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| (adjective) dark or gloomy | Synonyms: mirky |
| musky | (adjective) resembling the smell of musk | - |
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| panicky | (adjective) thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation | Synonyms: frightened, panic-stricken, panic-struck, panicked, terrified |
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| parky | (adjective) appreciably or disagreeably cold | Synonyms: chilly |
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| pawky | (adjective) cunning and sly | - |
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| peaky | (adjective) having or as if having especially high-pitched spots | Synonyms: spiky |
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| perky | (adjective) characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness | Synonyms: buoyant, chirpy |
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| pesky | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| picky | (adjective) exacting especially about details | Synonyms: finical, finicky, fussy, particular |
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| plucky | (adjective) marked by courage and determination in the face of difficulties or danger; robust and uninhibited | Synonyms: gutsy |
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| (adjective) showing courage | Synonyms: feisty, spunky |
| poky | (adjective) small and remote and insignificant | Synonyms: jerkwater, one-horse, pokey |
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| (adjective) wasting time | Synonyms: dilatory, laggard, pokey |
| quirky | (adjective) (informal) strikingly unconventional | Synonyms: far-out, kinky, offbeat, way-out |
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| risky | (adjective) involving risk or danger | Synonyms: hazardous, wild |
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| (adjective) not financially safe or secure | Synonyms: bad, high-risk, speculative |
| rocky | (adjective) causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements | Synonyms: bumpy, jolting, jolty, jumpy, rough |
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| (adjective) full of hardship or trials | Synonyms: rough |
| (adjective) abounding in rocks or stones | Synonyms: bouldered, bouldery, stony |
| (adjective) liable to rock | - |
| screaky | (adjective) having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge | Synonyms: screechy, squeaking, squeaky, squealing |
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| (adjective) having a rasping or grating sound | Synonyms: creaky |
| shaky | (adjective) not secure; beset with difficulties | Synonyms: precarious |
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| (adjective) inclined to shake as from weakness or defect | Synonyms: rickety, wobbly, wonky |
| (adjective) vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze | Synonyms: shivering, trembling |
| silky | (adjective) having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk | Synonyms: satiny, silken, silklike, sleek, slick |
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| skanky | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, wicked, yucky |
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| smoky | (adjective) marked by or emitting or filled with smoke | - |
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| (adjective) tasting of smoke | - |
| snaky | (adjective) resembling a serpent in form | Synonyms: serpentine, snakelike |
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| snarky | (adjective) disdainfully or ironically humorous; scornful and mocking | Synonyms: sardonic |
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| sneaky | (adjective) marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed | Synonyms: furtive, sneak, stealthy, surreptitious |
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| (adjective) marked by deception | Synonyms: underhand, underhanded |
| spiky | (adjective) having or as if having especially high-pitched spots | Synonyms: peaky |
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| spooky | (adjective) unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) | Synonyms: flighty, nervous, skittish |
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| spunky | (adjective) willing to face danger | Synonyms: game, gamey, gamy, gritty, mettlesome, spirited |
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| (adjective) showing courage | Synonyms: feisty, plucky |
| squawky | (adjective) like the cackles or squawks a hen makes especially after laying an egg | Synonyms: cackly |
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| squeaky | (adjective) having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge | Synonyms: screaky, screechy, squeaking, squealing |
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| sticky | (adjective) having the sticky properties of an adhesive | Synonyms: gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, viscid, viscous |
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| (adjective) hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment | Synonyms: awkward, embarrassing, unenviable |
| (adjective) covered with an adhesive material | - |
| (adjective) hot or warm and humid | Synonyms: muggy, steamy |
| (adjective) moist as with undried perspiration and with clothing sticking to the body | - |
| stinky | (adjective) having an unpleasant smell | Synonyms: ill-smelling, malodorous, malodourous, unpleasant-smelling |
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| (adjective) very bad | Synonyms: crappy, icky, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinking |
| stocky | (adjective) having a short and solid form or stature | Synonyms: compact, heavyset, thick, thickset |
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| streaky | (adjective) marked with or as if with stripes or linear discolorations | Synonyms: streaked |
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| sulky | (adjective) depressingly dark | Synonyms: gloomful, glooming, gloomy |
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| (adjective) sullen or moody | Synonyms: huffish |
| (adjective) slow or slothful | Synonyms: sluggish |
| swanky | (adjective) imposingly fashionable and elegant | Synonyms: swank |
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| tacky | (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
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| (adjective) (of a glutinous liquid such as paint) not completely dried and slightly sticky to the touch | - |
| talky | (adjective) full of trivial conversation | Synonyms: chatty, gabby, garrulous, loquacious, talkative |
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| tricky | (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, wily |
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| (adjective) having concealed difficulty | Synonyms: catchy |
| (adjective) not to be trusted | Synonyms: slippery |
| unlucky | (adjective) having or bringing misfortune | Synonyms: luckless |
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| (adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune | Synonyms: doomed, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred |
| wacky | (adjective) ludicrous, foolish | Synonyms: goofy, silly, whacky, zany |
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| (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, whacky |
| whacky | (adjective) ludicrous, foolish | Synonyms: goofy, silly, wacky, zany |
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| (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky |
| wonky | (adjective) turned or twisted toward one side | Synonyms: askew, awry, cockeyed, lopsided, skew-whiff |
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| (adjective) inclined to shake as from weakness or defect | Synonyms: rickety, shaky, wobbly |
| yucky | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked |
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