| repellent | (adjective) incapable of absorbing or mixing with | Synonyms: resistant |
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| (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
| (adjective) serving or tending to repel | Synonyms: rebarbative, repellant |
| repentant | (adjective) feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds | Synonyms: penitent |
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| repugnant | (adjective) offensive to the mind | Synonyms: abhorrent, detestable, obscene, repulsive |
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| resident | (adjective) living in a particular place | - |
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| (adjective) used of animals that do not migrate | Synonyms: nonmigratory |
| resilient | (adjective) elastic; rebounds readily | Synonyms: bouncy, live, lively, springy |
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| (adjective) recovering readily from adversity, depression, or the like | - |
| resistant | (adjective) disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority | Synonyms: insubordinate, resistive |
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| (adjective) impervious to being affected | - |
| (adjective) incapable of absorbing or mixing with | Synonyms: repellent |
| (adjective) able to tolerate environmental conditions or physiological stress | Synonyms: tolerant |
| (adjective) relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection) | Synonyms: immune |
| resonant | (adjective) serving to bring to mind | Synonyms: evocative, redolent, remindful, reminiscent |
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| (adjective) characterized by resonance | Synonyms: resonating, resounding, reverberating, reverberative |
| resplendent | (adjective) having great beauty and splendor | Synonyms: glorious, splendid, splendiferous |
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| respondent | (adjective) replying | Synonyms: answering |
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| resultant | (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, attendant, collateral, concomitant, consequent, ensuant, incidental, sequent |
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| resurgent | (adjective) rising again as to new life and vigor | Synonyms: renascent |
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| reticent | (adjective) temperamentally disinclined to talk | Synonyms: untalkative |
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| (adjective) reluctant to draw attention to yourself | Synonyms: retiring, self-effacing |
| (adjective) cool and formal in manner | Synonyms: restrained, unemotional |
| revenant | (adjective) of or relating to or typical of a revenant | - |
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| (adjective) coming back | Synonyms: recurring |
| reverberant | (adjective) having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected | - |
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| reverent | (adjective) feeling or showing profound respect or veneration | - |
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| (adjective) showing great reverence for god | Synonyms: godly, worshipful |
| riant | (adjective) showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness | Synonyms: laughing |
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| ruminant | (adjective) related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud | - |
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| salient | (adjective) (of angles) pointing outward at an angle of less than 180 degrees | - |
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| (adjective) having a quality that thrusts itself into attention | Synonyms: outstanding, prominent, spectacular, striking |
| (adjective) represented as leaping (rampant but leaning forward) | - |
| sapient | (adjective) acutely insightful and wise | Synonyms: perspicacious, sagacious |
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| scandent | (adjective) used especially of plants; having a tendency to climb | - |
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| scant | (adjective) less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so | Synonyms: light, short |
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| scintillant | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillating, sparkly |
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| semipermanent | (adjective) relating to or extending over a relatively long time | Synonyms: long-run, long-term |
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| semitransparent | (adjective) allowing light to pass through diffusely | Synonyms: translucent |
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| senescent | (adjective) growing old | Synonyms: ageing, aging |
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| sent | (adjective) caused or enabled to go or be conveyed or transmitted | - |
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| sentient | (adjective) endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness | Synonyms: animate |
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| (adjective) consciously perceiving | - |
| sequent | (adjective) in regular succession without gaps | Synonyms: consecutive, sequential, serial, successive |
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| (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, attendant, collateral, concomitant, consequent, ensuant, incidental, resultant |
| sibilant | (adjective) of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') | Synonyms: continuant, fricative, spirant, strident |
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| significant | (adjective) important in effect or meaning | Synonyms: important |
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| (adjective) too closely correlated to be attributed to chance and therefore indicating a systematic relation | - |
| (adjective) of considerable importance, size, or worth | Synonyms: substantial |
| (adjective) rich in significance or implication | Synonyms: meaning, pregnant |
| silent | (adjective) implied by or inferred from actions or statements | Synonyms: tacit, understood |
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| (adjective) unable to speak because of hereditary deafness | Synonyms: dumb, mute |
| (adjective) having a frequency below or above the range of human audibility | - |
| (adjective) marked by absence of sound | Synonyms: soundless, still |
| (adjective) failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to | Synonyms: mum |
| (adjective) not made to sound | Synonyms: unsounded |
| (adjective) expressed without speech | Synonyms: mute, tongueless, unspoken, wordless |
| skint | (adjective) lacking funds | Synonyms: broke, bust, stone-broke, stony-broke |
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| solvent | (adjective) capable of meeting financial obligations | - |
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| somnolent | (adjective) inclined to or marked by drowsiness | Synonyms: slumberous, slumbery, slumbrous |
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| sonant | (adjective) produced with vibration of the vocal cords | Synonyms: soft, voiced |
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| sorbefacient | (adjective) inducing or promoting absorption | Synonyms: absorbefacient |
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| spent | (adjective) depleted of energy, force, or strength | Synonyms: exhausted |
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| (adjective) drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted | Synonyms: dog-tired, exhausted, fagged, fatigued, gone, played out, washed-out, worn-out, worn out |
| spirant | (adjective) of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') | Synonyms: continuant, fricative, sibilant, strident |
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| squint | (adjective) (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy | Synonyms: askance, askant, asquint, sidelong, squint-eyed, squinty |
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| stagnant | (adjective) not circulating or flowing | Synonyms: dead |
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| (adjective) not growing or changing; without force or vitality | Synonyms: moribund |
| statant | (adjective) standing on four feet | - |
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| stimulant | (adjective) that stimulates | Synonyms: stimulating |
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| strident | (adjective) unpleasantly loud and harsh | Synonyms: raucous |
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| (adjective) being sharply insistent on being heard | Synonyms: shrill |
| (adjective) conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry | Synonyms: blatant, clamant, clamorous, vociferous |
| (adjective) of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') | Synonyms: continuant, fricative, sibilant, spirant |
| stringent | (adjective) demanding strict attention to rules and procedures | Synonyms: rigorous, tight |
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| subjacent | (adjective) lying nearby but lower | - |
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| subsequent | (adjective) following in time or order | - |
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| subservient | (adjective) serving or acting as a means or aid | Synonyms: implemental, instrumental |
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| (adjective) abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant | Synonyms: slavish, submissive |
| (adjective) compliant and obedient to authority | - |
| succulent | (adjective) tender and full of juice | Synonyms: lush |
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| sufficient | (adjective) of a quantity that can fulfill a need or requirement but without being abundant | - |
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| suffrutescent | (adjective) of a plant; having a woody base that does not die down each year | - |
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| sunburnt | (adjective) suffering from overexposure to direct sunlight | Synonyms: sunburned |
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| superabundant | (adjective) most excessively abundant | - |
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| superincumbent | (adjective) lying or resting on and exerting pressure on something else | - |
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| superjacent | (adjective) lying immediately above or on something else | - |
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| supernatant | (adjective) of a liquid; floating on the surface above a sediment or precipitate | - |
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| suppliant | (adjective) humbly entreating | Synonyms: supplicant, supplicatory |
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| supplicant | (adjective) humbly entreating | Synonyms: suppliant, supplicatory |
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| susurrant | (adjective) making a low continuous indistinct sound | Synonyms: murmuring, whispering |
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| tantamount | (adjective) being essentially equal to something | Synonyms: equivalent |
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| tetravalent | (adjective) having a valence of four | - |
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| tolerant | (adjective) showing respect for the rights or opinions or practices of others | - |
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| (adjective) showing or characterized by broad-mindedness | Synonyms: broad, large-minded, liberal |
| (adjective) tolerant and forgiving under provocation | Synonyms: kind |
| (adjective) showing the capacity for endurance | Synonyms: patient of |
| (adjective) able to tolerate environmental conditions or physiological stress | Synonyms: resistant |
| totipotent | (adjective) having the ability to give rise to unlike cells | - |
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| toxicant | (adjective) having the qualities or effects of a poison | Synonyms: poisonous |
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| transcendent | (adjective) exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence | Synonyms: surpassing |
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| (adjective) beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience or understanding | - |
| transeunt | (adjective) of a mental act; causing effects outside the mind | Synonyms: transient |
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| transient | (adjective) of a mental act; causing effects outside the mind | Synonyms: transeunt |
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| (adjective) lasting a very short time | Synonyms: ephemeral, fugacious, passing, short-lived, transitory |
| translucent | (adjective) allowing light to pass through diffusely | Synonyms: semitransparent |
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| transparent | (adjective) transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity | Synonyms: crystal clear, crystalline, limpid, lucid, pellucid |
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| (adjective) easily understood or seen through (because of a lack of subtlety) | - |
| (adjective) free of deceit | Synonyms: guileless |
| (adjective) so thin as to transmit light | Synonyms: cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, vaporous, vapourous |
| trenchant | (adjective) clearly or sharply defined to the mind | Synonyms: clear-cut, distinct |
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| (adjective) characterized by or full of force and vigor | Synonyms: hard-hitting |
| (adjective) having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect | Synonyms: searching |
| triumphant | (adjective) joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success | Synonyms: exultant, exulting, jubilant, prideful, rejoicing, triumphal |
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| (adjective) experiencing triumph | Synonyms: victorious |
| trivalent | (adjective) having a valence of three | - |
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| truant | (adjective) absent without permission | Synonyms: awol |
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| truculent | (adjective) defiantly aggressive | - |
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| tumescent | (adjective) abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas | Synonyms: bloated, distended, intumescent, puffy, swollen, tumid, turgid |
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| turbulent | (adjective) (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence | Synonyms: churning, roiled, roiling, roily |
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| (adjective) characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination | Synonyms: disruptive, riotous, troubled, tumultuous |
| turnt | (adjective) extermely excited, especially about or at a part | - |
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| unapparent | (adjective) not readily apparent | - |
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| unbent | (adjective) erect in posture | Synonyms: straight, unbowed |
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| (adjective) not bent | - |
| undulant | (adjective) resembling waves in form or outline or motion | Synonyms: undulatory |
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| ungallant | (adjective) offensively discourteous | Synonyms: caddish, unchivalrous |
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| unimportant | (adjective) not important | - |
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| (adjective) devoid of importance, meaning, or force | Synonyms: insignificant |
| unintelligent | (adjective) lacking intelligence | Synonyms: stupid |
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| univalent | (adjective) used of a chromosome that is not paired or united with its homologous chromosome during synapsis | - |
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| (adjective) having a valence of 1 | Synonyms: monovalent |
| unobservant | (adjective) not consciously observing | Synonyms: unseeing |
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| unpleasant | (adjective) offensive or disagreeable; causing discomfort or unhappiness | - |
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| unrepentant | (adjective) not penitent or remorseful | Synonyms: impenitent, unremorseful |
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| (adjective) stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing | Synonyms: cussed, obdurate, obstinate |
| unresistant | (adjective) (often followed by `to') likely to be affected with | Synonyms: liable, nonimmune, nonresistant |
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| unreverberant | (adjective) not reverberant; lacking a tendency to reverberate | Synonyms: nonresonant |
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| unsent | (adjective) not dispatched or transmitted | - |
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| unspent | (adjective) (of financial resources) not spent | Synonyms: unexpended |
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| unvigilant | (adjective) not alert to what is potentially dangerous | Synonyms: unalert, unwatchful |
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| upfront | (adjective) frank and honest | - |
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| urgent | (adjective) compelling immediate action | Synonyms: pressing |
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| vacant | (adjective) without an occupant or incumbent | - |
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| (adjective) devoid of intelligence or thought | Synonyms: mindless, vacuous |
| vacillant | (adjective) uncertain in purpose or action | Synonyms: vacillating, wavering |
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| vagrant | (adjective) continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another | Synonyms: aimless, drifting, floating, vagabond |
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| valent | (adjective) (chemistry) having valence; usually used in combination | - |
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| valiant | (adjective) having or showing valor | Synonyms: valorous |
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| variant | (adjective) differing from a norm or standard | - |
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| (adjective) exhibiting variation and change | - |
| vehement | (adjective) marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid | Synonyms: fierce, tearing, trigger-happy, violent |
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| (adjective) characterized by great force or energy | - |