ailing | (adjective) somewhat ill or prone to illness | Synonyms: indisposed, peaked, poorly, seedy, sickly, under the weather, unwell |
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appalling | (adjective) causing consternation | Synonyms: dismaying |
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appealing | (adjective) able to attract interest or draw favorable attention | - |
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(adjective) (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings | Synonyms: likable, likeable, sympathetic |
baffling | (adjective) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | Synonyms: elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough |
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beetling | (adjective) jutting or overhanging | Synonyms: beetle |
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beguiling | (adjective) misleading by means of pleasant or alluring methods | - |
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(adjective) highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire | Synonyms: alluring, enticing, tempting |
belittling | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
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bloodcurdling | (adjective) extremely alarming | Synonyms: hair-raising, nightmarish |
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bubbling | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbly, effervescing, foaming, foamy, frothy, spumy |
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(adjective) marked by high spirits or excitement | Synonyms: effervescent, frothy, scintillating, sparkly |
bumbling | (adjective) lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands | Synonyms: bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed |
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bungling | (adjective) lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands | Synonyms: bumbling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed |
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(adjective) showing lack of skill or aptitude | Synonyms: clumsy, fumbling, incompetent |
burbling | (adjective) uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm | Synonyms: burbly, effusive, gushing |
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bustling | (adjective) full of energetic and noisy activity | - |
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chilling | (adjective) provoking fear or terror | Synonyms: scary, shivery, shuddery |
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coiling | (adjective) in the shape of a coil | Synonyms: helical, spiral, spiraling, spiralling, turbinate, volute, voluted, whorled |
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compelling | (adjective) tending to persuade by forcefulness of argument | - |
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(adjective) driving or forcing | - |
concealing | (adjective) covering or hiding | - |
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consoling | (adjective) affording comfort or solace | Synonyms: comforting, consolatory |
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controlling | (adjective) able to control or determine policy | - |
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crippling | (adjective) that cripples or disables or incapacitates | Synonyms: disabling, incapacitating |
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curling | (adjective) (of hair) making curls or having been made to curl | Synonyms: curled |
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darkling | (adjective) (poetic) occurring in the dark or night | - |
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(adjective) uncannily or threateningly dark or obscure | - |
darling | (adjective) dearly loved | Synonyms: beloved, dear |
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dazzling | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blazing, blinding, fulgent, glaring, glary |
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(adjective) amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning | Synonyms: eye-popping, fulgurant, fulgurous |
disabling | (adjective) depriving of legal right; rendering legally disqualified | Synonyms: disqualifying |
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(adjective) that cripples or disables or incapacitates | Synonyms: crippling, incapacitating |
drizzling | (adjective) (of rain) falling lightly in very small drops | - |
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dwindling | (adjective) gradually decreasing until little remains | Synonyms: tapering, tapering off |
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enabling | (adjective) providing legal power or sanction | - |
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encircling | (adjective) being all around the edges; enclosing | Synonyms: skirting |
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enfeebling | (adjective) causing debilitation | Synonyms: debilitative, enervating, weakening |
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ennobling | (adjective) tending to exalt | Synonyms: exalting |
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(adjective) investing with dignity or honor | Synonyms: dignifying |
enthralling | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: bewitching, captivating, enchanting, entrancing, fascinating |
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failing | (adjective) below acceptable in performance | - |
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falling | (adjective) becoming lower or less in degree or value | - |
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(adjective) decreasing in amount or degree | - |
(adjective) coming down freely under the influence of gravity | Synonyms: dropping |
fiddling | (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial |
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fledgeling | (adjective) (of a young bird) having acquired its flight feathers | Synonyms: fledgling |
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fledgling | (adjective) (of a young bird) having acquired its flight feathers | Synonyms: fledgeling |
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(adjective) young and inexperienced | Synonyms: callow, unfledged |
fooling | (adjective) characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility | Synonyms: casual |
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footling | (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial |
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freewheeling | (adjective) cheerfully irresponsible | Synonyms: carefree, devil-may-care, happy-go-lucky, harum-scarum, slaphappy |
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(adjective) free of restraints or rules | - |
fumbling | (adjective) showing lack of skill or aptitude | Synonyms: bungling, clumsy, incompetent |
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galling | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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gambling | (adjective) preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance | Synonyms: betting, card-playing, dissipated, sporting |
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gangling | (adjective) tall and thin and having long slender limbs | Synonyms: gangly, lanky, rangy |
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(adjective) tall and thin | Synonyms: gangly, lanky |
groveling | (adjective) totally submissive | Synonyms: cringing, grovelling, wormlike, wormy |
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grovelling | (adjective) totally submissive | Synonyms: cringing, groveling, wormlike, wormy |
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grueling | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
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gruelling | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
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grumbling | (adjective) continuous full and low-pitched throbbing sound | Synonyms: rumbling |
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healing | (adjective) tending to cure or restore to health | Synonyms: alterative, curative, remedial, sanative, therapeutic |
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howling | (adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: fantastic, grand, marvellous, marvelous, phenomenal, rattling, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous |
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humbling | (adjective) causing awareness of your shortcomings | Synonyms: demeaning, humiliating, mortifying |
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impelling | (adjective) markedly effective as if by emotional pressure | - |
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indwelling | (adjective) existing or residing as an inner activating spirit or force or principle | - |
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jangling | (adjective) like the discordant ringing of nonmusical metallic objects striking together | Synonyms: jangly |
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jingling | (adjective) having a series of high-pitched ringing sounds like many small bells | Synonyms: jingly |
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killing | (adjective) very funny | Synonyms: sidesplitting |
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meddling | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, busybodied, interfering, meddlesome, officious |
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middling | (adjective) lacking exceptional quality or ability | Synonyms: average, fair, mediocre |
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niggling | (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial |
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piddling | (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piffling, trivial |
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piffling | (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, trivial |
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prevailing | (adjective) most frequent or common | Synonyms: dominant, predominant, prevalent, rife |
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propelling | (adjective) tending to or capable of propelling | Synonyms: propellant, propellent, propulsive |
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puzzling | (adjective) not clear to the understanding | Synonyms: enigmatic, enigmatical |
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(adjective) lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity | Synonyms: confusing, perplexing |
rambling | (adjective) of a path e.g. | Synonyms: meandering, wandering, winding |
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(adjective) (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects | Synonyms: digressive, discursive, excursive |
(adjective) spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly | Synonyms: sprawling, straggling, straggly |
rattling | (adjective) quick and energetic | Synonyms: alert, brisk, lively, merry, snappy, spanking, zippy |
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(adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: fantastic, grand, howling, marvellous, marvelous, phenomenal, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous |
reconciling | (adjective) tending to reconcile or accommodate; bringing into harmony | Synonyms: accommodative |
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repelling | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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revealing | (adjective) showing or making known | - |
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(adjective) disclosing unintentionally something concealed | Synonyms: telling, telltale |
roiling | (adjective) (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence | Synonyms: churning, roiled, roily, turbulent |
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rolling | (adjective) uttered with a trill | Synonyms: rolled, trilled |
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ruling | (adjective) exercising power or authority | Synonyms: regnant, reigning |
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rumbling | (adjective) continuous full and low-pitched throbbing sound | Synonyms: grumbling |
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rustling | (adjective) characterized by soft sounds | Synonyms: murmurous, soughing, susurrous |
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scowling | (adjective) sullen or unfriendly in appearance | Synonyms: beetle-browed |
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sizzling | (adjective) hot enough to burn with or as if with a hissing sound | - |
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(adjective) characterized by intense emotion or interest or excitement | Synonyms: red-hot |
smelling | (adjective) (used with `of' or `with') noticeably odorous | Synonyms: redolent |
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smiling | (adjective) smiling with happiness or optimism | Synonyms: beamish, twinkly |
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snuffling | (adjective) liable to sniffle | Synonyms: sniffly, snuffly |
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sparkling | (adjective) used of wines and waters; charged naturally or artificially with carbon dioxide | Synonyms: effervescent |
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(adjective) shining with brilliant points of light like stars | - |
spiraling | (adjective) in the shape of a coil | Synonyms: coiling, helical, spiral, spiralling, turbinate, volute, voluted, whorled |
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spiralling | (adjective) in the shape of a coil | Synonyms: coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, turbinate, volute, voluted, whorled |
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sprawling | (adjective) spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly | Synonyms: rambling, straggling, straggly |
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squalling | (adjective) characterized by short periods of noisy commotion | Synonyms: squally |
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squealing | (adjective) having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge | Synonyms: screaky, screechy, squeaking, squeaky |
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startling | (adjective) so remarkably different or sudden as to cause momentary shock or alarm | - |
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sterling | (adjective) highest in quality | Synonyms: greatest, superlative |
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stifling | (adjective) characterized by oppressive heat and humidity | Synonyms: sulfurous, sulphurous, sultry |
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straggling | (adjective) spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly | Synonyms: rambling, sprawling, straggly |
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struggling | (adjective) engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity | - |
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swashbuckling | (adjective) flamboyantly adventurous | Synonyms: swaggering |
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tattling | (adjective) prone to communicate confidential information | Synonyms: blabbermouthed, leaky, talebearing |
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telling | (adjective) producing a strong effect | Synonyms: impressive |
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(adjective) disclosing unintentionally something concealed | Synonyms: revealing, telltale |
(adjective) powerfully persuasive | Synonyms: cogent, weighty |
thrilling | (adjective) causing a surge of emotion or excitement | Synonyms: electrifying |
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(adjective) causing quivering or shivering as by cold or fear or electric shock | - |
tickling | (adjective) exciting by touching lightly so as to cause laughter or twitching movements | Synonyms: tingling, titillating |
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tingling | (adjective) exciting by touching lightly so as to cause laughter or twitching movements | Synonyms: tickling, titillating |
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tinkling | (adjective) like the short high ringing sound of a small bell | Synonyms: tinkly |
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toiling | (adjective) doing arduous or unpleasant work | Synonyms: drudging, laboring, labouring |
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trembling | (adjective) vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze | Synonyms: shaky, shivering |
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