| acerose | (adjective) narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves | Synonyms: acerate, acicular, needle-shaped |
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| acetose | (adjective) tasting or smelling like vinegar | Synonyms: acetous, vinegarish, vinegary |
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| acinose | (adjective) pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland) | Synonyms: acinar, acinic, acinous |
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| adipose | (adjective) composed of animal fat | - |
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| anginose | (adjective) of or related to the pain of angina pectoris | Synonyms: anginal, anginous |
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| ariose | (adjective) having a melody (as distinguished from recitative) | Synonyms: songlike |
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| bellicose | (adjective) having or showing a ready disposition to fight | Synonyms: battleful, combative |
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| boytrose | (adjective) resembling a cluster of grapes in form | Synonyms: botryoid, botryoidal |
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| caespitose | (adjective) (of plants) growing in small dense clumps or tufts | Synonyms: cespitose, tufted |
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| cespitose | (adjective) (of plants) growing in small dense clumps or tufts | Synonyms: caespitose, tufted |
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| chlorophyllose | (adjective) relating to or being or containing chlorophyll | Synonyms: chlorophyllous |
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| close | (adjective) at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other | - |
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| (adjective) close in relevance or relationship | - |
| (adjective) not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances | Synonyms: near, nigh |
| (adjective) marked by fidelity to an original | Synonyms: faithful |
| (adjective) rigorously attentive; strict and thorough | - |
| (adjective) crowded | Synonyms: confining |
| (adjective) (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched | Synonyms: tight |
| (adjective) of textiles | Synonyms: tight |
| (adjective) confined to specific persons | - |
| (adjective) strictly confined or guarded | - |
| (adjective) used of hair or haircuts | - |
| (adjective) giving or spending with reluctance | Synonyms: cheeseparing, near, penny-pinching, skinny |
| (adjective) fitting closely but comfortably | Synonyms: close-fitting, snug |
| (adjective) inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information | Synonyms: closelipped, closemouthed, secretive, tightlipped |
| (adjective) lacking fresh air | Synonyms: airless, stuffy, unaired |
| comatose | (adjective) relating to or associated with a coma | - |
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| (adjective) in a state of deep and usually prolonged unconsciousness; unable to respond to external stimuli | - |
| comose | (adjective) bearing a coma; crowned with an assemblage of branches or leaves or bracts | Synonyms: comate |
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| (adjective) of certain seeds (such as cotton) having a tuft or tufts of hair | Synonyms: comal, comate |
| cormose | (adjective) having or producing corms | Synonyms: cormous |
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| corymbose | (adjective) resembling a corymb | - |
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| crustose | (adjective) (of lichens) having a thin crusty thallus that adheres closely to the surface on which it is growing | - |
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| cymose | (adjective) having a usually flat-topped flower cluster in which the main and branch stems each end in a flower that opens before those below it or to its side | - |
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| erose | (adjective) having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed | Synonyms: jagged, jaggy, notched, toothed |
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| fibrillose | (adjective) covered with fibrils more or less evenly disposed | - |
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| floccose | (adjective) (of plants) having tufts of soft woolly hairs | - |
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| foliose | (adjective) bearing numerous leaves | Synonyms: foliaceous, foliaged |
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| footloose | (adjective) free to go or do as one pleases | - |
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| fruticose | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a shrub | Synonyms: fruticulose, shrubby |
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| fruticulose | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a shrub | Synonyms: fruticose, shrubby |
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| gibbose | (adjective) (used of the moon) more than half full | Synonyms: gibbous |
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| globose | (adjective) having the shape of a sphere or ball | Synonyms: ball-shaped, global, globular, orbicular, spheric, spherical |
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| grandiose | (adjective) impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur; used to show disapproval | - |
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| (adjective) affectedly genteel; to carry an air of affected importance; to be snobbish and haughty | Synonyms: hifalutin, highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, la-di-da |
| granulose | (adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency | Synonyms: coarse-grained, farinaceous, grainy, granular, gritty, mealy |
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| grumose | (adjective) transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass | Synonyms: coagulate, coagulated, curdled, grumous |
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| jocose | (adjective) characterized by jokes and good humor | Synonyms: jesting, jocular, joking |
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| lachrymose | (adjective) showing sorrow | Synonyms: dolorous, dolourous, tearful, weeping |
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| lentiginose | (adjective) relating to or covered with or resembling freckles | Synonyms: freckled, lentiginous |
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| leprose | (adjective) rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf | Synonyms: lepidote, scabrous, scaly, scurfy |
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| loose | (adjective) not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting | - |
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| (adjective) not compact or dense in structure or arrangement | - |
| (adjective) not affixed | Synonyms: unaffixed |
| (adjective) (of textures) full of small openings or gaps | Synonyms: open |
| (adjective) not literal | Synonyms: free, liberal |
| (adjective) lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility | Synonyms: idle |
| (adjective) not tense or taut | Synonyms: slack |
| (adjective) casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior | Synonyms: easy, light, promiscuous, sluttish, wanton |
| (adjective) emptying easily or excessively | Synonyms: lax |
| (adjective) (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player | - |
| (adjective) not officially recognized or controlled | Synonyms: informal |
| (adjective) not carefully arranged in a package | - |
| (adjective) having escaped, especially from confinement | Synonyms: at large, escaped, on the loose |
| morose | (adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, saturnine, sour, sullen |
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| mucose | (adjective) of or secreting or covered with or resembling mucus | Synonyms: mucous |
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| multipurpose | (adjective) having multiple uses | - |
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| nebulose | (adjective) lacking definite form or limits | Synonyms: cloudy, nebulous |
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| nodulose | (adjective) having minute nodules | - |
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| operose | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, punishing, toilsome |
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| otiose | (adjective) disinclined to work or exertion | Synonyms: faineant, indolent, lazy, slothful, work-shy |
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| (adjective) producing no result or effect | Synonyms: futile, ineffectual, meaningless, unavailing |
| (adjective) serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being | Synonyms: pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted |
| papillose | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling papilla | Synonyms: papillary |
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| pappose | (adjective) (of plants such as dandelions and thistles) having pappi or tufts of featherlike hairs or delicate bristles | - |
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| pilose | (adjective) covered with hairs especially fine soft ones | Synonyms: pilary, pilous |
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| plumose | (adjective) having an ornamental plume or feathery tuft | Synonyms: plumate, plumed |
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| porose | (adjective) forming a continuous series of pores | - |
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| quartzose | (adjective) relating to or made of quartz | - |
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| racemose | (adjective) having stalked flowers along an elongated stem that continue to open in succession from below as the stem continues to grow | - |
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| ramose | (adjective) having branches | Synonyms: branched, branching, ramate, ramous |
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| rimose | (adjective) having a surface covered with a network of cracks and small crevices | - |
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| rose | (adjective) of something having a dusty purplish pink color | Synonyms: rosaceous, roseate |
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| rugose | (adjective) of leaves; ridged or wrinkled | - |
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| scapose | (adjective) resembling or consisting of a scape; having a bare leafless stalk growing directly from the ground | - |
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| semicomatose | (adjective) in a state of partial coma | - |
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| setose | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, spiny, thorny |
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| spinose | (adjective) armed with spines | - |
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| squamulose | (adjective) covered with tiny scales | - |
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| tomentose | (adjective) covered with densely matted filaments | - |
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| (adjective) densely covered with short matted woolly hairs | Synonyms: tomentous |
| torulose | (adjective) of a cylindrical or ellipsoid body; swollen and constricted at intervals | - |
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| varicose | (adjective) abnormally swollen or knotty | - |
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| venose | (adjective) having or showing markings that resemble veins | Synonyms: veined, veinlike |
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| ventricose | (adjective) having a swelling on one side | Synonyms: ventricous |
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| verbose | (adjective) using or containing too many words | Synonyms: long-winded, tedious, windy, wordy |
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| verrucose | (adjective) (of skin) covered with warts or projections that resemble warts | Synonyms: wartlike, warty |
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