| aligning | (adjective) causing to fall into line or into position | Synonyms: positioning |
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| beginning | (adjective) serving to begin | Synonyms: first |
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| burgeoning | (adjective) very lively and profitable | Synonyms: booming, flourishing, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring, thriving |
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| burning | (adjective) of immediate import | - |
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| churning | (adjective) (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence | Synonyms: roiled, roiling, roily, turbulent |
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| (adjective) moving with or producing or produced by vigorous agitation | Synonyms: churned-up |
| complaining | (adjective) expressing pain or dissatisfaction of resentment | Synonyms: complaintive |
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| condemning | (adjective) containing or imposing condemnation or censure | Synonyms: condemnatory |
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| confining | (adjective) crowded | Synonyms: close |
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| (adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: constraining, constrictive, limiting, restricting |
| constraining | (adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: confining, constrictive, limiting, restricting |
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| crowning | (adjective) forming or providing a crown or summit | - |
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| (adjective) representing a level of the highest possible achievement or attainment | - |
| cunning | (adjective) showing inventiveness and skill | Synonyms: clever, ingenious |
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| (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: crafty, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily |
| (adjective) attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness | Synonyms: cute |
| damning | (adjective) threatening with damnation | Synonyms: damnatory |
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| darkening | (adjective) becoming dark or darker as from waning light or clouding over | - |
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| deadening | (adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | Synonyms: boring, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome |
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| deafening | (adjective) loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss | Synonyms: earsplitting, thunderous, thundery |
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| deepening | (adjective) accumulating and becoming more intense | Synonyms: thickening |
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| demeaning | (adjective) causing awareness of your shortcomings | Synonyms: humbling, humiliating, mortifying |
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| designing | (adjective) concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest | Synonyms: scheming |
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| determining | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: deciding, determinant, determinative |
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| dimensioning | (adjective) indicating or determining size and position in space | - |
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| discerning | (adjective) having or revealing keen insight and good judgment | - |
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| (adjective) able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive | - |
| (adjective) quick to understand | Synonyms: apprehensive |
| (adjective) unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic | Synonyms: discreet |
| disheartening | (adjective) destructive of morale and self-reliance | Synonyms: demoralising, demoralizing, dispiriting |
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| disillusioning | (adjective) freeing from illusion or false belief | Synonyms: disenchanting |
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| draining | (adjective) having a debilitating effect | Synonyms: exhausting |
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| enlightening | (adjective) tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance | Synonyms: illuminating, informative |
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| (adjective) enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement | Synonyms: edifying |
| enlivening | (adjective) giving spirit and vivacity | Synonyms: animating |
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| entertaining | (adjective) agreeably diverting | - |
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| fattening | (adjective) subject to or used in the process of finishing or fattening up for slaughter | - |
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| fawning | (adjective) attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery | Synonyms: bootlicking, obsequious, sycophantic, toadyish |
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| (adjective) attempting to win favor by flattery | Synonyms: bootlicking, sycophantic, toadyish |
| frightening | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
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| frowning | (adjective) showing displeasure or anger | - |
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| functioning | (adjective) performing or able to perform its regular function | - |
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| glistening | (adjective) reflecting light | Synonyms: glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shining, shiny |
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| governing | (adjective) responsible for making and enforcing rules and laws | - |
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| heartening | (adjective) cheerfully encouraging | Synonyms: inspiriting |
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| heightening | (adjective) reaching a higher intensity | - |
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| intervening | (adjective) occurring or falling between events or points in time | - |
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| leaning | (adjective) departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal | Synonyms: atilt, canted, tilted, tipped |
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| maddening | (adjective) extremely annoying or displeasing | Synonyms: exasperating, infuriating, vexing |
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| malfunctioning | (adjective) not performing or able to perform its regular function | Synonyms: nonfunctional |
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| meaning | (adjective) rich in significance or implication | Synonyms: pregnant, significant |
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| mourning | (adjective) sorrowful through loss or deprivation | Synonyms: bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, sorrowing |
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| noncombining | (adjective) not able to combine | - |
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| nonopening | (adjective) not open; not opening | - |
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| opening | (adjective) first or beginning | - |
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| overweening | (adjective) presumptuously arrogant | Synonyms: uppity |
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| (adjective) unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings | Synonyms: excessive, extravagant, exuberant |
| positioning | (adjective) causing to fall into line or into position | Synonyms: aligning |
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| prizewinning | (adjective) holding first place in a contest | Synonyms: champion |
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| questioning | (adjective) showing curiosity | Synonyms: inquisitive, speculative, wondering |
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| (adjective) marked by or given to doubt | Synonyms: doubting, sceptical, skeptical |
| (adjective) perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know) | Synonyms: quizzical |
| raining | (adjective) falling in drops or as if falling like rain | - |
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| ravening | (adjective) excessively greedy and grasping | Synonyms: rapacious, voracious |
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| (adjective) living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey | Synonyms: predatory, rapacious, raptorial, vulturine, vulturous |
| (adjective) devouring or craving food in great quantities | Synonyms: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravenous, voracious, wolfish |
| reasoning | (adjective) endowed with the capacity to reason | Synonyms: intelligent, thinking |
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| reigning | (adjective) exercising power or authority | Synonyms: regnant, ruling |
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| remaining | (adjective) not used up | Synonyms: left, left over, leftover, odd, unexpended |
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| returning | (adjective) tending to be turned back | Synonyms: reversive |
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| (adjective) tending to return to an earlier state | Synonyms: reverting |
| running | (adjective) of advancing the ball by running | - |
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| (adjective) executed or initiated by running | - |
| (adjective) (of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream | - |
| (adjective) continually repeated over a period of time | - |
| (adjective) (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing | Synonyms: functional, operative, working |
| (adjective) measured lengthwise | Synonyms: linear |
| sanctioning | (adjective) implying sanction or serving to sanction | Synonyms: sanctionative |
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| shining | (adjective) marked by exceptional merit | - |
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| (adjective) reflecting light | Synonyms: glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shiny |
| (adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: bright, burnished, lustrous, shiny |
| sickening | (adjective) causing or able to cause nausea | Synonyms: loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, offensive, queasy, vile |
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| sinning | (adjective) transgressing a moral or divine law | - |
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| softening | (adjective) having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin | Synonyms: demulcent, emollient, salving |
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| straining | (adjective) taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance | Synonyms: arduous, strenuous |
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| stunning | (adjective) strikingly beautiful or attractive | - |
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| (adjective) causing or capable of causing bewilderment or shock or insensibility | - |
| (adjective) commanding attention | Synonyms: arresting, sensational |
| (adjective) causing great astonishment and consternation | - |
| swooning | (adjective) weak and likely to lose consciousness | Synonyms: faint, light-headed, light, lightheaded |
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| thickening | (adjective) becoming more intricate or complex | - |
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| (adjective) accumulating and becoming more intense | Synonyms: deepening |
| threatening | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister |
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| (adjective) darkened by clouds | Synonyms: heavy, lowering, sullen |
| twinning | (adjective) producing two offspring at a time | Synonyms: biparous |
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| uncomplaining | (adjective) not complaining | - |
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| undiscerning | (adjective) lacking discernment | - |
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| unenlightening | (adjective) failing to inform or clarify | Synonyms: unilluminating |
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| (adjective) not edifying | Synonyms: unedifying |
| unmeaning | (adjective) without meaning | - |
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| unquestioning | (adjective) being without doubt or reserve | Synonyms: implicit |
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| (adjective) not inclined to ask questions | - |
| unreasoning | (adjective) not based on reason or evidence | Synonyms: blind |
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| unthreatening | (adjective) not unfriendly or threatening | Synonyms: well-meaning |
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| waning | (adjective) (of the Moon) pertaining to the period during which the visible surface of the moon decreases | - |
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| warning | (adjective) serving to warn | Synonyms: admonitory, cautionary, exemplary, monitory |
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| weakening | (adjective) causing debilitation | Synonyms: debilitative, enervating, enfeebling |
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| (adjective) moderating by making pain or sorrow weaker | - |
| winning | (adjective) very attractive; capturing interest | Synonyms: fetching, taking |
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| (adjective) having won | Synonyms: victorious |
| worsening | (adjective) changing for the worse | - |
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| yawning | (adjective) showing lack of attention or boredom | Synonyms: drowsy, oscitant |
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| (adjective) gaping open as if threatening to engulf someone or something | - |
| (adjective) with the mouth wide open indicating boredom or sleepiness | - |