| abecedarian | (adjective) alphabetically arranged (as for beginning readers) | - |
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| aeonian | (adjective) of or relating to a geological eon (longer than an era) | Synonyms: eonian |
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| (adjective) continuing forever or indefinitely | Synonyms: ageless, eonian, eternal, everlasting, perpetual, unceasing, unending |
| aesculapian | (adjective) of or belonging to Aesculapius or the healing art | Synonyms: medical |
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| agrarian | (adjective) relating to farming or agriculture | Synonyms: agricultural, farming |
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| ain | (adjective) belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself); preceded by a possessive | Synonyms: own |
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| akin | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineal, consanguineous, kin |
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| (adjective) similar in quality or character | Synonyms: kindred |
| alien | (adjective) not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something | Synonyms: foreign |
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| (adjective) being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world | Synonyms: exotic |
| ambrosian | (adjective) worthy of the gods | Synonyms: ambrosial |
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| (adjective) extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant | Synonyms: ambrosial, nectarous |
| ameban | (adjective) pertaining to or resembling amoebae | Synonyms: amebic, amebous, amoeban, amoebic, amoebous |
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| amoeban | (adjective) pertaining to or resembling amoebae | Synonyms: ameban, amebic, amebous, amoebic, amoebous |
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| amphibian | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of animals of the class Amphibia | Synonyms: amphibious |
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| annelidan | (adjective) relating to or belonging to or characteristic of any worms of the phylum Annelida | Synonyms: annelid |
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| antediluvian | (adjective) of or relating to the period before the biblical flood | Synonyms: antediluvial |
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| (adjective) so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period | Synonyms: antiquated, archaic |
| antemeridian | (adjective) before noon | - |
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| antiauthoritarian | (adjective) opposed to authoritarianism | - |
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| antinomian | (adjective) relating to or influenced by antinomianism | - |
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| antipodean | (adjective) relating to the antipodes or situated at opposite sides of the earth | Synonyms: antipodal |
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| antipollution | (adjective) intended to reduce pollution | - |
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| antiquarian | (adjective) of or relating to antiques or antiquities | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to persons who study or deal in antiques or antiquities | - |
| anuran | (adjective) relating to frogs and toads | Synonyms: batrachian, salientian |
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| apian | (adjective) relating to or having the characteristics of bees | - |
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| apiarian | (adjective) relating to bees or beekeeping | - |
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| apogean | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of an apogee | - |
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| arachnidian | (adjective) relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida | Synonyms: arachnoid, spiderlike, spiderly, spidery |
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| araneidan | (adjective) relating to or resembling a spider | Synonyms: araneidal |
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| arcadian | (adjective) (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic | Synonyms: bucolic, pastoral |
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| archaean | (adjective) of or relating to the earliest known rocks formed during the Precambrian Eon | Synonyms: archean |
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| archdiocesan | (adjective) of or relating to an archdiocese | - |
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| archean | (adjective) of or relating to the earliest known rocks formed during the Precambrian Eon | Synonyms: archaean |
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| archosaurian | (adjective) of or relating to reptiles of the subclass Archosauria | - |
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| artesian | (adjective) (of water) rising to the surface under internal hydrostatic pressure | - |
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| arthropodan | (adjective) of or relating to invertebrates of the phylum Arthropoda | Synonyms: arthropodal, arthropodous |
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| ashen | (adjective) anemic looking from illness or emotion | Synonyms: blanched, bloodless, livid, white |
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| (adjective) made of wood of the ash tree | - |
| auburn | (adjective) (of hair) colored a moderate reddish-brown | - |
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| aurorean | (adjective) characteristic of the dawn | Synonyms: auroral |
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| authoritarian | (adjective) expecting unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: dictatorial, overbearing |
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| (adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: autocratic, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical |
| avellan | (adjective) pertaining to filberts or hazelnuts | Synonyms: avellane |
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| avian | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of birds | - |
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| awestricken | (adjective) having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread | Synonyms: awed, awestruck |
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| bacchanalian | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic |
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| barbarian | (adjective) without civilizing influences | Synonyms: barbaric, savage, uncivilised, uncivilized, wild |
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| barren | (adjective) providing no shelter or sustenance | Synonyms: bare, bleak, desolate, stark |
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| (adjective) completely wanting or lacking | Synonyms: destitute, devoid, free, innocent |
| (adjective) not bearing offspring | - |
| baseborn | (adjective) illegitimate | Synonyms: base |
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| (adjective) of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense) | Synonyms: base, humble, lowly |
| basilican | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a basilica | - |
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| batrachian | (adjective) relating to frogs and toads | Synonyms: anuran, salientian |
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| beardown | (adjective) with full strength | - |
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| beaten | (adjective) formed or made thin by hammering | - |
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| (adjective) much trodden and worn smooth or bare | - |
| bedridden | (adjective) confined to bed (by illness) | Synonyms: bedfast, bedrid, sick-abed |
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| beechen | (adjective) consisting of or made of wood of the beech tree | - |
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| begotten | (adjective) (of offspring) generated by procreation | - |
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| beholden | (adjective) under a moral obligation to someone | - |
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| benign | (adjective) pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence | Synonyms: benignant |
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| (adjective) not dangerous to health; not recurrent or progressive (especially of a tumor) | - |
| (adjective) kindness of disposition or manner | - |
| bespoken | (adjective) pledged to be married | Synonyms: betrothed, engaged |
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| (adjective) (of clothing) custom-made | Synonyms: bespoke, made-to-order, tailor-made, tailored |
| bicorn | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicornate, bicorned, bicornuate, bicornuous |
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| billion | (adjective) denoting a quantity consisting of one thousand million items or units in the United States | - |
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| (adjective) denoting a quantity consisting of one million million items or units in Great Britain | - |
| bipartisan | (adjective) supported by both sides | Synonyms: bipartizan, two-party, two-way |
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| bipartizan | (adjective) supported by both sides | Synonyms: bipartisan, two-party, two-way |
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| birchen | (adjective) consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree | Synonyms: birch, birken |
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| birken | (adjective) consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree | Synonyms: birch, birchen |
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| blown | (adjective) breathing laboriously or convulsively | Synonyms: pursy, short-winded, winded |
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| (adjective) being moved or acted upon by moving air or vapor | - |
| bohemian | (adjective) unconventional in especially appearance and behavior | - |
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| boon | (adjective) very close and convivial | - |
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| born | (adjective) brought into existence | - |
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| (adjective) being talented through inherited qualities | Synonyms: innate, natural |
| boughten | (adjective) purchased; not homemade | Synonyms: store-bought |
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| bounden | (adjective) morally obligatory | - |
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| branchiopodan | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda | Synonyms: branchiopod, branchiopodous |
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| brazen | (adjective) made of or resembling brass (as in color or hardness) | - |
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| (adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, bodacious, brassy, brazen-faced, insolent |
| broken | (adjective) physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split | - |
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| (adjective) not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly | - |
| (adjective) (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded | Synonyms: unkept |
| (adjective) out of working order (`busted' is an informal substitute for `broken') | Synonyms: busted |
| (adjective) destroyed financially | Synonyms: impoverished, wiped out |
| (adjective) thrown into a state of disarray or confusion | Synonyms: confused, disordered, upset |
| (adjective) discontinuous | - |
| (adjective) subdued or brought low in condition or status | Synonyms: crushed, humbled, humiliated, low |
| (adjective) weakened and infirm | - |
| (adjective) imperfectly spoken or written | - |
| (adjective) lacking a part or parts | - |
| (adjective) topographically very uneven | Synonyms: rugged |
| (adjective) tamed or trained to obey | Synonyms: broken in |
| brown | (adjective) (of skin) deeply suntanned | Synonyms: browned |
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| (adjective) of a color similar to that of wood or earth | Synonyms: brownish, chocolate-brown, dark-brown |
| caducean | (adjective) of or relating to a caduceus | - |
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| caecilian | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the family Caeciliidae | - |
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| caesarean | (adjective) relating to abdominal delivery | Synonyms: caesarian, cesarean, cesarian |
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| caesarian | (adjective) relating to abdominal delivery | Synonyms: caesarean, cesarean, cesarian |
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| callipygian | (adjective) pertaining to or having finely developed buttocks | Synonyms: callipygous |
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| callithumpian | (adjective) of or relating to a callithump | - |
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| careworn | (adjective) showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering | Synonyms: drawn, haggard, raddled, worn |
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| carnation | (adjective) pink or pinkish | - |
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| carven | (adjective) made for or formed by carving (`carven' is archaic or literary) | Synonyms: carved |
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| catapultian | (adjective) of or like a catapult | Synonyms: catapultic |
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| catarrhinian | (adjective) of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward | Synonyms: catarrhine |
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| cedarn | (adjective) consisting of or made of cedar | - |
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| centenarian | (adjective) being at least 100 years old | - |
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| cephalopodan | (adjective) relating or belonging to the class Cephalopoda | Synonyms: cephalopod |
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| certain | (adjective) established beyond doubt or question; definitely known | - |
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| (adjective) having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty; confident and assured | Synonyms: sure |
| (adjective) certain to occur; destined or inevitable | Synonyms: sure |
| (adjective) established irrevocably | Synonyms: sealed |
| (adjective) exercising or taking care great enough to bring assurance | Synonyms: sure |
| (adjective) definite but not specified or identified | - |
| (adjective) reliable in operation or effect | Synonyms: sure |
| cerulean | (adjective) of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky | Synonyms: azure, bright blue, sky-blue |
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| cesarean | (adjective) relating to abdominal delivery | Synonyms: caesarean, caesarian, cesarian |
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| cesarian | (adjective) relating to abdominal delivery | Synonyms: caesarean, caesarian, cesarean |
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| cetacean | (adjective) of or relating to whales and dolphins etc | Synonyms: cetaceous |
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| chaetognathan | (adjective) of or relating to arrowworms | Synonyms: chaetognathous |
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| champion | (adjective) holding first place in a contest | Synonyms: prizewinning |
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| chapfallen | (adjective) brought low in spirit | Synonyms: chopfallen, crestfallen, deflated |
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| chelonian | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling or being a turtle or tortoise | - |
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| chicken | (adjective) easily frightened | Synonyms: chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow-bellied, yellow |
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| chopfallen | (adjective) brought low in spirit | Synonyms: chapfallen, crestfallen, deflated |
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| christian | (adjective) following the teachings or manifesting the qualities or spirit of Jesus Christ | - |
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| chthonian | (adjective) dwelling beneath the surface of the earth | Synonyms: chthonic, nether |
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| circadian | (adjective) of or relating to biological processes occurring at 24-hour intervals | - |
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| civilian | (adjective) associated with civil life or performed by persons who are not active members of the military | - |
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| clarion | (adjective) loud and clear | - |
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| clean | (adjective) free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits | - |
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| (adjective) (of behavior or especially language) free from objectionable elements; fit for all observers | Synonyms: unobjectionable |
| (adjective) not spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination | Synonyms: uncontaminating |
| (adjective) ritually clean or pure | - |
| (adjective) free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed | Synonyms: neat |
| (adjective) free from sepsis or infection | Synonyms: uninfected |
| (adjective) thorough and without qualification | - |
| (adjective) without difficulties or problems | - |
| (adjective) (of a surface) not written or printed on | Synonyms: blank, white |
| (adjective) exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play | Synonyms: sporting, sportsmanlike, sporty |
| (adjective) (of a manuscript) having few alterations or corrections | Synonyms: fair |
| (adjective) morally pure | Synonyms: clean-living |
| (adjective) (of a record) having no marks of discredit or offense | - |
| (adjective) free from impurities | Synonyms: fresh |
| (adjective) free of drugs | - |
| (adjective) not carrying concealed weapons | - |
| (adjective) free of restrictions or qualifications | Synonyms: clear |
| (adjective) (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims | Synonyms: clear, light, unclouded |