| abducent | (adjective) especially of muscles; drawing away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part | Synonyms: abducting |
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| aberrant | (adjective) markedly different from an accepted norm | Synonyms: deviant, deviate |
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| abeyant | (adjective) inactive but capable of becoming active | Synonyms: dormant |
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| abhorrent | (adjective) offensive to the mind | Synonyms: detestable, obscene, repugnant, repulsive |
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| abient | (adjective) characterized by avoidance or withdrawal | - |
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| abortifacient | (adjective) causing abortion | - |
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| absent | (adjective) not being in a specified place | - |
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| (adjective) lost in thought; showing preoccupation | Synonyms: absentminded, abstracted, scatty |
| (adjective) nonexistent | Synonyms: lacking, missing, wanting |
| absorbefacient | (adjective) inducing or promoting absorption | Synonyms: sorbefacient |
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| absorbent | (adjective) having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.) | Synonyms: absorptive |
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| abstinent | (adjective) self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink | Synonyms: abstentious |
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| abundant | (adjective) present in great quantity | - |
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| acaulescent | (adjective) (of plants) having no apparent stem above ground | Synonyms: stemless |
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| acceptant | (adjective) accepting willingly | Synonyms: acceptive |
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| accordant | (adjective) being in agreement or harmony; often followed by `with' | - |
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| (adjective) in keeping | Synonyms: agreeable, concordant, conformable, consonant |
| accumbent | (adjective) lying down; in a position of comfort or rest | Synonyms: decumbent, recumbent |
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| acidulent | (adjective) being sour to the taste | Synonyms: acid, acidic, acidulous |
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| acquiescent | (adjective) willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without protest | Synonyms: biddable |
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| adamant | (adjective) impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason | Synonyms: adamantine, inexorable, intransigent |
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| adducent | (adjective) especially of muscles; bringing together or drawing toward the midline of the body or toward an adjacent part | Synonyms: adducting, adductive |
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| adherent | (adjective) sticking fast | - |
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| adient | (adjective) characterized by acceptance or approach | - |
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| adjacent | (adjective) nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space | Synonyms: next, side by side |
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| (adjective) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching | Synonyms: conterminous, contiguous, neighboring, neighbouring |
| (adjective) near or close to but not necessarily touching | - |
| adjuvant | (adjective) enhancing the action of a medical treatment | - |
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| (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjunct, ancillary, appurtenant, auxiliary |
| adolescent | (adjective) relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent | - |
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| (adjective) in the state of development between puberty and maturity | - |
| (adjective) displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity | Synonyms: jejune, juvenile, puerile |
| (adjective) being of the age 13 through 19 | Synonyms: teen, teenage, teenaged |
| adsorbent | (adjective) having capacity or tendency to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface | Synonyms: adsorptive, surface-assimilative |
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| adulterant | (adjective) making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials | Synonyms: adulterating |
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| advertent | (adjective) giving attention | Synonyms: heedful |
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| afferent | (adjective) of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying sensory information from the sense organs to the CNS | - |
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| affluent | (adjective) having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value | Synonyms: flush, loaded, moneyed, substantial, wealthy |
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| albescent | (adjective) becoming or shading into white | - |
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| alcalescent | (adjective) tending to become alkaline; slightly alkaline | Synonyms: alkalescent |
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| alkalescent | (adjective) tending to become alkaline; slightly alkaline | Synonyms: alcalescent |
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| allegiant | (adjective) steadfast in devotion (especially to your lawful monarch or government) | - |
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| ambient | (adjective) completely enveloping | - |
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| ambivalent | (adjective) uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow | - |
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| ambulant | (adjective) able to walk about | Synonyms: ambulatory |
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| ancient | (adjective) very old | - |
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| (adjective) belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire | - |
| antecedent | (adjective) preceding in time or order | - |
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| anticipant | (adjective) marked by eager anticipation | Synonyms: anticipative, expectant |
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| aperient | (adjective) mildly laxative | - |
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| apparent | (adjective) clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment | Synonyms: evident, manifest, palpable, patent, plain, unmistakable |
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| (adjective) appearing as such but not necessarily so | Synonyms: ostensible, seeming |
| appellant | (adjective) of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals) | Synonyms: appellate |
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| appendant | (adjective) affixed as an appendage | - |
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| appetent | (adjective) marked by eager desire | - |
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| appurtenant | (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjunct, adjuvant, ancillary, auxiliary |
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| arborescent | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
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| ardent | (adjective) glowing or shining like fire | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by strong enthusiasm | Synonyms: warm |
| (adjective) characterized by intense emotion | Synonyms: fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid |
| argent | (adjective) of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver | Synonyms: silver, silverish, silvery |
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| arrant | (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
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| arrogant | (adjective) having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride | Synonyms: chesty, self-important |
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| ascendant | (adjective) tending or directed upward | Synonyms: ascendent, ascensive |
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| (adjective) most powerful or important or influential | Synonyms: ascendent, dominating |
| ascendent | (adjective) tending or directed upward | Synonyms: ascendant, ascensive |
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| (adjective) most powerful or important or influential | Synonyms: ascendant, dominating |
| askant | (adjective) (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy | Synonyms: askance, asquint, sidelong, squint-eyed, squint, squinty |
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| aslant | (adjective) having an oblique or slanted direction | Synonyms: aslope, diagonal, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping |
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| aspirant | (adjective) desiring or striving for recognition or advancement | Synonyms: aspiring, wishful |
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| asquint | (adjective) (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy | Synonyms: askance, askant, sidelong, squint-eyed, squint, squinty |
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| assentient | (adjective) expressing agreement or consent | Synonyms: assenting |
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| assistant | (adjective) of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another | Synonyms: adjunct |
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| assonant | (adjective) having the same vowel sound occurring with different consonants in successive words or stressed syllables | - |
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| (adjective) having the same sound (especially the same vowel sound) occurring in successive stressed syllables | - |
| assurgent | (adjective) growing or extending upward | - |
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| (adjective) rising from the sea | - |
| astringent | (adjective) tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue | - |
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| (adjective) sour or bitter in taste | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic |
| attendant | (adjective) being present (at a meeting or event, etc.) | - |
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| (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, collateral, concomitant, consequent, ensuant, incidental, resultant, sequent |
| autofluorescent | (adjective) emitting light via self-induced fluorescence | - |
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| avirulent | (adjective) not virulent; unable to produce disease | - |
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| belligerent | (adjective) characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight | Synonyms: aggressive |
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| (adjective) engaged in war | Synonyms: militant, war-ridden, warring |
| beneficent | (adjective) doing or producing good | - |
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| (adjective) generous in assistance to the poor | Synonyms: benevolent, eleemosynary, philanthropic |
| benevolent | (adjective) intending or showing kindness | - |
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| (adjective) generous in assistance to the poor | Synonyms: beneficent, eleemosynary, philanthropic |
| (adjective) generous in providing aid to others | Synonyms: freehearted |
| (adjective) showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity | Synonyms: charitable, good-hearted, kindly, large-hearted, openhearted, sympathetic |
| benignant | (adjective) pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence | Synonyms: benign |
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| (adjective) characterized by kindness and warm courtesy especially of a king to his subjects | Synonyms: gracious |
| bent | (adjective) of metal e.g. | Synonyms: crumpled, dented |
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| (adjective) fixed in your purpose | Synonyms: bent on, dead set, out to |
| (adjective) used of the back and knees; stooped | Synonyms: bended |
| besprent | (adjective) sprinkled over | - |
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| bioluminescent | (adjective) (of living organisms) emitting light | - |
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| birefringent | (adjective) relating to or characterized by double refraction | - |
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| bivalent | (adjective) used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis | Synonyms: double |
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| (adjective) having a valence of two or having two valences | Synonyms: divalent |
| blatant | (adjective) conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry | Synonyms: clamant, clamorous, strident, vociferous |
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| (adjective) without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious | Synonyms: blazing, conspicuous |
| blunt | (adjective) characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion | Synonyms: candid, forthright, frank, free-spoken, outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank, straight-from-the-shoulder |
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| (adjective) used of a knife or other blade; not sharp | - |
| (adjective) having a broad or rounded end | - |
| (adjective) devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment | Synonyms: crude, stark |
| bouffant | (adjective) being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing | Synonyms: puffy |
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| bowfront | (adjective) having an outward curving front | - |
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| brilliant | (adjective) full of light; shining intensely | - |
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| (adjective) having strong or striking color | Synonyms: bright, vivid |
| (adjective) characterized by grandeur | Synonyms: glorious, magnificent, splendid |
| (adjective) having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence | Synonyms: brainy, smart as a whip |
| (adjective) clear and sharp and ringing | Synonyms: bright |
| (adjective) of surpassing excellence | Synonyms: superb |
| brisant | (adjective) of or relating to the power (the shattering effect) of an explosive | - |
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| buoyant | (adjective) characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness | Synonyms: chirpy, perky |
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| (adjective) tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas | Synonyms: floaty |
| burnt | (adjective) ruined by overcooking | Synonyms: burned |
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| (adjective) destroyed or badly damaged by fire | Synonyms: burned-out, burned-over, burned, burnt-out |
| (adjective) treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point | Synonyms: burned |
| cadent | (adjective) marked by a rhythmical cadence | Synonyms: cadenced |
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| calefacient | (adjective) producing the sensation of heat when applied to the body | Synonyms: warming |
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| calorifacient | (adjective) producing heat; usually used of foods | - |
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| candent | (adjective) emitting light as a result of being heated | Synonyms: incandescent |
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| candescent | (adjective) glowing from great heat | - |
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| canescent | (adjective) of greyish white | - |
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| (adjective) covered with fine whitish hairs or down | Synonyms: hoary |
| caulescent | (adjective) (of plants) producing a well-developed stem above ground | Synonyms: cauline, stemmed |
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| chatoyant | (adjective) varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles | Synonyms: changeable, iridescent, shot |
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| chemiluminescent | (adjective) relating to the phenomenon of chemiluminescence | - |
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| circumferent | (adjective) closely encircling | Synonyms: encompassing, surrounding |
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| clairvoyant | (adjective) perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses | - |
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| (adjective) foreseeing the future | Synonyms: precognitive, second-sighted |
| clamant | (adjective) demanding attention | Synonyms: crying, exigent, insistent, instant |
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| (adjective) conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry | Synonyms: blatant, clamorous, strident, vociferous |
| clement | (adjective) (used of persons or behavior) inclined to show mercy | - |
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| (adjective) (of weather or climate) physically mild | - |
| clinquant | (adjective) glittering with gold or silver | Synonyms: tinseled, tinselly |
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| coalescent | (adjective) growing together, fusing | Synonyms: coalescing |
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| coexistent | (adjective) existing at the same time | Synonyms: coexisting |
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| cogent | (adjective) powerfully persuasive | Synonyms: telling, weighty |
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| cognisant | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception | Synonyms: aware, cognizant |
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| cognizant | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception | Synonyms: aware, cognisant |
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