accipitrine | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the genus Accipiter (or to typical hawks) | - |
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adamantine | (adjective) consisting of or having the hardness of adamant | - |
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(adjective) having the hardness of a diamond | - |
(adjective) impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason | Synonyms: adamant, inexorable, intransigent |
adulterine | (adjective) conceived in adultery | - |
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affine | (adjective) (mathematics) of or pertaining to the geometry of affine transformations | - |
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(adjective) (anthropology) related by marriage | Synonyms: affinal |
agone | (adjective) gone by; or in the past | Synonyms: ago |
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airborne | (adjective) moved or conveyed by or through air | - |
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alabastrine | (adjective) of or resembling alabaster | Synonyms: alabaster |
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alkaline | (adjective) relating to or containing an alkali; having a pH greater than 7 | Synonyms: alkalic |
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alone | (adjective) exclusive of anyone or anything else | Synonyms: only |
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(adjective) radically distinctive and without equal | Synonyms: unequaled, unequalled, unique, unparalleled |
(adjective) lacking companions or companionship | Synonyms: lone, lonely, solitary |
(adjective) isolated from others | - |
alpestrine | (adjective) growing at high altitudes | Synonyms: subalpine |
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alpine | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of alps | - |
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(adjective) living or growing above the timber line | - |
alvine | (adjective) of or relating to the intestines | - |
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amaranthine | (adjective) of or related to the amaranth plant | - |
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(adjective) of an imaginary flower that never fades | Synonyms: unfading |
amethystine | (adjective) containing or resembling amethyst | - |
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amygdaline | (adjective) related to or resembling an almond | - |
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ane | (adjective) used of a single unit or thing; not two or more | Synonyms: 1, i, one |
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anguine | (adjective) of or related to or resembling a snake | - |
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anodyne | (adjective) capable of relieving pain | Synonyms: analgesic, analgetic |
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anopheline | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of malaria mosquitoes | - |
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anserine | (adjective) of or resembling a goose | - |
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(adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosey, goosy, jerky |
antisubmarine | (adjective) defensive against enemy submarines | - |
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apocrine | (adjective) (of exocrine glands) producing a secretion in which part of the secreting cell is released with the secretion | - |
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aquiline | (adjective) curved down like an eagle's beak | Synonyms: hooked |
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arcane | (adjective) requiring secret or mysterious knowledge | - |
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asinine | (adjective) extremely silly or stupid | Synonyms: fatuous, inane |
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australopithecine | (adjective) of or belonging to the hominid genus Australopithecus | - |
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autoimmune | (adjective) of or relating to the immune response of the body against substance normally present in the body | - |
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avellane | (adjective) pertaining to filberts or hazelnuts | Synonyms: avellan |
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baritone | (adjective) lower in range than tenor and higher than bass | - |
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bisontine | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of bison | - |
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bone | (adjective) consisting of or made up of bone | - |
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borderline | (adjective) of questionable or minimal quality | Synonyms: marginal |
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bovine | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the genus Bos (cattle) | Synonyms: bovid |
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(adjective) dull and slow-moving and stolid; like an ox | - |
bubaline | (adjective) relating to or resembling a buffalo | - |
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buteonine | (adjective) relating to or resembling a hawk of the genus Buteo | - |
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bygone | (adjective) well in the past; former | Synonyms: bypast, departed, foregone, gone |
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calycine | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a calyx | Synonyms: calyceal, calycinal |
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canine | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of members of the family Canidae | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to a pointed conical tooth | Synonyms: laniary |
caprine | (adjective) being or pertaining to or resembling a goat or goats | - |
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carmine | (adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies | Synonyms: blood-red, cerise, cherry-red, cherry, crimson, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy, scarlet |
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catarrhine | (adjective) of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward | Synonyms: catarrhinian |
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cauline | (adjective) especially of leaves; growing on a stem especially on the upper part of a stem | - |
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(adjective) (of plants) producing a well-developed stem above ground | Synonyms: caulescent, stemmed |
cervine | (adjective) relating to or resembling deer | - |
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cisalpine | (adjective) on the Italian or Roman side of the Alps | Synonyms: ultramontane |
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cismontane | (adjective) on this (the speaker's) side of the mountains | - |
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clandestine | (adjective) conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods | Synonyms: cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover, underground |
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cloisonne | (adjective) (for metals) having areas separated by metal and filled with colored enamel and fired | Synonyms: champleve |
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consanguine | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguineal, consanguineous, kin |
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corvine | (adjective) relating to or resembling a crow | - |
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crystalline | (adjective) consisting of or containing or of the nature of crystals | - |
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(adjective) transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity | Synonyms: crystal clear, limpid, lucid, pellucid, transparent |
(adjective) distinctly or sharply outlined | - |
damascene | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Damascus or its people | - |
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(adjective) (of metals) decorated or inlaid with a wavy pattern of different (especially precious) metals | - |
diamantine | (adjective) consisting of diamonds or resembling diamonds | - |
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divine | (adjective) being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods | Synonyms: elysian, inspired |
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(adjective) emanating from God | Synonyms: godly |
(adjective) devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity | - |
(adjective) appropriate to or befitting a god | Synonyms: godlike |
(adjective) being or having the nature of a god | Synonyms: godlike |
(adjective) resulting from divine providence | Synonyms: providential |
done | (adjective) cooked until ready to serve | - |
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(adjective) having finished or arrived at completion | Synonyms: through, through with |
eccrine | (adjective) (of exocrine glands) producing a clear aqueous secretion without releasing part of the secreting cell; important in regulating body temperature | - |
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elephantine | (adjective) of great mass; huge and bulky | Synonyms: gargantuan, giant, jumbo |
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endocrine | (adjective) of or belonging to endocrine glands or their secretions | Synonyms: endocrinal |
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epicene | (adjective) having an ambiguous sexual identity | Synonyms: bisexual |
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(adjective) having unsuitable feminine qualities | Synonyms: cissy, effeminate, emasculate, sissified, sissy, sissyish |
equine | (adjective) resembling a horse | - |
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(adjective) of or belonging to the family Equidae | - |
errhine | (adjective) causing nasal discharge | - |
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estuarine | (adjective) of or relating to or found in estuaries | Synonyms: estuarial |
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exocrine | (adjective) of or relating to exocrine glands or their secretions | - |
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exsanguine | (adjective) destitute of blood or apparently so | Synonyms: bloodless, exsanguinous |
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falconine | (adjective) relating to or resembling a falcon | - |
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feline | (adjective) of or relating to cats | - |
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feminine | (adjective) associated with women and not with men | - |
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(adjective) female (of grammatical gender) | - |
(adjective) befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman | Synonyms: womanly |
(adjective) (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable | - |
ferine | (adjective) wild and menacing | Synonyms: feral, savage |
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fine | (adjective) of textures that are smooth to the touch or substances consisting of relatively small particles | - |
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(adjective) characterized by elegance or refinement or accomplishment | - |
(adjective) minutely precise especially in differences in meaning | - |
(adjective) free from impurities; having a high or specified degree of purity | - |
(adjective) being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition | Synonyms: all right, cool, hunky-dory, o.k., ok, okay |
(adjective) thin in thickness or diameter | - |
foregone | (adjective) well in the past; former | Synonyms: bygone, bypast, departed, gone |
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genuine | (adjective) not fake or counterfeit | Synonyms: echt |
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(adjective) not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed | Synonyms: true, unfeigned |
(adjective) being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something | Synonyms: actual, literal, real |
germane | (adjective) relevant and appropriate | - |
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gone | (adjective) stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: drunk, inebriated, intoxicated, ripped |
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(adjective) dead | Synonyms: asleep, at peace, at rest, deceased, departed |
(adjective) destroyed or killed | Synonyms: done for, kaput |
(adjective) well in the past; former | Synonyms: bygone, bypast, departed, foregone |
(adjective) drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted | Synonyms: dog-tired, exhausted, fagged, fatigued, played out, spent, washed-out, worn-out, worn out |
(adjective) used up or no longer available | - |
hardline | (adjective) firm and uncompromising | Synonyms: hard-line |
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heterodyne | (adjective) of or relating to the beat produced by heterodyning two oscillations | - |
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hircine | (adjective) of or pertaining to or suggestive of a goat (especially in strong odor) | - |
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hominine | (adjective) characteristic of humankind | - |
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humane | (adjective) marked or motivated by concern with the alleviation of suffering | - |
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(adjective) pertaining to or concerned with the humanities | Synonyms: humanist, humanistic |
(adjective) showing evidence of moral and intellectual advancement | - |
hyaline | (adjective) resembling glass in transparency or translucency | Synonyms: hyaloid |
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hyperfine | (adjective) extremely fine or thin, as in a spectral line split into two or more components | - |
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immune | (adjective) relating to the condition of immunity | - |
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(adjective) secure against | - |
(adjective) (usually followed by `to') not affected by a given influence | - |
(adjective) relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection) | Synonyms: resistant |
inane | (adjective) extremely silly or stupid | Synonyms: asinine, fatuous |
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inhumane | (adjective) lacking and reflecting lack of pity or compassion | - |
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inopportune | (adjective) not opportune | - |
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insane | (adjective) afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement | - |
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(adjective) very foolish | Synonyms: harebrained, mad |
internecine | (adjective) characterized by bloodshed and carnage for both sides | - |
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(adjective) (of conflict) within a group or organization | - |
intrauterine | (adjective) within the womb | - |
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jejune | (adjective) displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity | Synonyms: adolescent, juvenile, puerile |
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(adjective) of insufficient quantity to meet a need | Synonyms: inadequate, poor, short |
(adjective) lacking interest or significance or impact | Synonyms: insipid |
labyrinthine | (adjective) relating to or affecting or originating in the inner ear | - |
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(adjective) resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity | Synonyms: labyrinthian, mazy |
(adjective) highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious | Synonyms: Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous |
lacustrine | (adjective) of or relating to or living near lakes | - |
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leonine | (adjective) of or characteristic of or resembling a lion | - |
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leptorhine | (adjective) having a long narrow nose | Synonyms: leptorrhine, leptorrhinian, leptorrhinic |
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leptorrhine | (adjective) having a long narrow nose | Synonyms: leptorhine, leptorrhinian, leptorrhinic |
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libertine | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, profligate, riotous |
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limacine | (adjective) of or resembling a slug | Synonyms: limacoid |
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lone | (adjective) being the only one; single and isolated from others | Synonyms: lonesome, only, sole, solitary |
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(adjective) lacking companions or companionship | Synonyms: alone, lonely, solitary |
(adjective) characterized by or preferring solitude | Synonyms: lonely, solitary |
lupine | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of wolves | - |
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marine | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or occurring on or in the sea | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the sea | - |
(adjective) of or relating to military personnel who serve both on land and at sea (specifically the U.S. Marine Corps) | - |
(adjective) relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen | Synonyms: maritime, nautical |
(adjective) native to or inhabiting the sea | - |
masculine | (adjective) associated with men and not with women | - |
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(adjective) male (of grammatical gender) | - |
(adjective) (music or poetry) ending on an accented beat or syllable | - |
microcrystalline | (adjective) containing crystals that are visible only under a microscope | - |
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moderne | (adjective) of or relating to a popularization of art deco that used bright colors and rectangular shapes | - |
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