| counter | (adjective) indicating opposition or resistance | Synonyms: antagonistic |
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| countertenor | (adjective) of or being the highest male voice; having a range above that of tenor | Synonyms: alto |
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| counterterror | (adjective) intended to prevent terrorism | Synonyms: counterterrorist |
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| crepuscular | (adjective) like twilight; dim | - |
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| cupular | (adjective) shaped like (or supporting) a cupule | Synonyms: cupulate |
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| curricular | (adjective) of or relating to an academic course of study | - |
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| curvilinear | (adjective) characterized by or following a curved line | Synonyms: curvilineal |
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| cuticular | (adjective) of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula | Synonyms: dermal, epidermal, epidermic |
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| dapper | (adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | Synonyms: dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, snappy, spiffy, spruce |
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| dear | (adjective) with or in a close or intimate relationship | Synonyms: good, near |
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| (adjective) having a high price | Synonyms: costly, high-priced, pricey, pricy |
| (adjective) dearly loved | Synonyms: beloved, darling |
| (adjective) sincerely earnest | Synonyms: devout, earnest, heartfelt |
| debonair | (adjective) having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air | Synonyms: chipper, debonaire, jaunty |
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| (adjective) having a sophisticated charm | Synonyms: debonaire, debonnaire, suave |
| dexter | (adjective) on or starting from the wearer's right | - |
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| dipolar | (adjective) having equal and opposite electric charges or magnetic poles having opposite signs and separated by a small distance | - |
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| dissimilar | (adjective) not similar | - |
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| (adjective) not alike or similar | Synonyms: unalike |
| dour | (adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen |
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| (adjective) stubbornly unyielding | Synonyms: dogged, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding |
| (adjective) harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance | Synonyms: forbidding, grim |
| downstair | (adjective) on or of lower floors of a building | Synonyms: downstairs |
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| drear | (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry |
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| eager | (adjective) having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy | - |
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| earlier | (adjective) (comparative and superlative of `early') more early than; most early | Synonyms: earliest |
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| elder | (adjective) used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son | Synonyms: older, sr. |
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| equiangular | (adjective) having all angles equal | - |
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| exterior | (adjective) situated in or suitable for the outdoors or outside of a building | - |
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| extracellular | (adjective) located or occurring outside a cell or cells | - |
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| extracurricular | (adjective) characterized by adultery | Synonyms: adulterous, extramarital |
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| (adjective) outside the regular duties of your job or profession | - |
| (adjective) outside the regular academic curriculum | - |
| fair | (adjective) (of a baseball) hit between the foul lines | - |
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| (adjective) free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; conforming with established standards or rules | Synonyms: just |
| (adjective) very pleasing to the eye | Synonyms: bonnie, bonny, comely, sightly |
| (adjective) (used of hair or skin) pale or light-colored | Synonyms: fairish |
| (adjective) free of clouds or rain | - |
| (adjective) gained or earned without cheating or stealing | Synonyms: honest |
| (adjective) attractively feminine | - |
| (adjective) (of a manuscript) having few alterations or corrections | Synonyms: clean |
| (adjective) not excessive or extreme | Synonyms: fairish, reasonable |
| (adjective) lacking exceptional quality or ability | Synonyms: average, mediocre, middling |
| familiar | (adjective) well known or easily recognized | - |
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| (adjective) within normal everyday experience; common and ordinary; not strange | - |
| (adjective) having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship | Synonyms: intimate |
| (adjective) (usually followed by `with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly | Synonyms: conversant |
| far | (adjective) located at a great distance in time or space or degree | - |
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| (adjective) beyond a norm in opinion or actions | - |
| (adjective) being of a considerable distance or length | - |
| (adjective) being the animal or vehicle on the right or being on the right side of an animal or vehicle | - |
| farther | (adjective) more distant in especially space or time | - |
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| (adjective) more distant in especially degree | Synonyms: further |
| fewer | (adjective) (comparative of `few' used with count nouns) quantifier meaning a smaller number of | - |
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| filar | (adjective) related to or having filaments (especially across a field of view as in the eyepiece of a telescope) | - |
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| finer | (adjective) (comparative of `fine') greater in quality or excellence | - |
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| fistular | (adjective) hollow and tube-shaped like a reed | Synonyms: fistulate, fistulous |
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| fitter | (adjective) improved in health or physical condition | Synonyms: healthier |
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| follicular | (adjective) of or relating to or constituting a follicle | - |
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| former | (adjective) referring to the first of two things or persons mentioned (or the earlier one or ones of several) | - |
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| (adjective) belonging to the distant past | Synonyms: early, other |
| (adjective) belonging to some prior time | Synonyms: erstwhile, old, one-time, onetime, quondam, sometime |
| (adjective) (used especially of persons) of the immediate past | Synonyms: late, previous |
| foster | (adjective) providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties | Synonyms: surrogate |
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| four | (adjective) being one more than three | Synonyms: 4, iv |
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| funicular | (adjective) relating to or operated by a cable | - |
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| further | (adjective) more distant in especially degree | Synonyms: farther |
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| ginger | (adjective) (used especially of hair or fur) having a bright orange-brown color | Synonyms: gingery |
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| glabellar | (adjective) of or relating to the glabella | - |
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| glandular | (adjective) relating to or affecting or functioning as a gland | - |
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| globular | (adjective) having the shape of a sphere or ball | Synonyms: ball-shaped, global, globose, orbicular, spheric, spherical |
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| glomerular | (adjective) of or relating to glomeruli | - |
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| gossamer | (adjective) characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy | Synonyms: ethereal |
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| (adjective) so thin as to transmit light | Synonyms: cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous |
| granular | (adjective) having a granular structure like that of chondrites | Synonyms: chondritic |
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| (adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency | Synonyms: coarse-grained, farinaceous, grainy, granulose, gritty, mealy |
| greater | (adjective) greater in size or importance or degree | - |
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| hardcover | (adjective) having a hard back or cover | Synonyms: hardback, hardbacked, hardbound |
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| healthier | (adjective) improved in health or physical condition | Synonyms: fitter |
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| hexangular | (adjective) having six sides or divided into hexagons | Synonyms: hexagonal |
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| higher | (adjective) of education beyond the secondary level | - |
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| (adjective) advanced in complexity or elaboration | - |
| hilar | (adjective) of or relating to or located near a hilum | - |
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| hinder | (adjective) located at or near the back of an animal | Synonyms: back, hind |
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| hoar | (adjective) showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair | Synonyms: gray-haired, gray-headed, gray, grey-haired, grey-headed, grey, grizzly, hoary, white-haired |
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| hungover | (adjective) Suffering the aftereffects of the consumption of alcohol | - |
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| improper | (adjective) not suitable or right or appropriate | - |
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| (adjective) not appropriate for a purpose or occasion | Synonyms: wrong |
| (adjective) not conforming to legality, moral law, or social convention | Synonyms: unconventional, unlawful |
| indoor | (adjective) located, suited for, or taking place within a building | - |
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| (adjective) within doors | - |
| inferior | (adjective) written or printed below and to one side of another character | Synonyms: subscript |
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| (adjective) of or characteristic of low rank or importance | - |
| (adjective) of low or inferior quality | - |
| (adjective) having an orbit between the sun and the Earth's orbit | - |
| (adjective) lower than a given reference point | - |
| (adjective) falling short of some prescribed norm | Synonyms: deficient, substandard |
| inner | (adjective) located or occurring within or closer to a center | - |
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| (adjective) exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence | - |
| (adjective) inside or closer to the inside of the body | - |
| (adjective) innermost or essential | Synonyms: internal, intimate |
| (adjective) located inward | Synonyms: interior, internal |
| (adjective) confined to an exclusive group | Synonyms: inside, privileged |
| insular | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island | - |
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| (adjective) suggestive of the isolated life of an island | - |
| (adjective) narrowly restricted in outlook or scope | Synonyms: parochial |
| intercellular | (adjective) located between cells | - |
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| interior | (adjective) situated within or suitable for inside a building | - |
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| (adjective) inside the country | Synonyms: home, internal, national |
| (adjective) of or coming from the middle of a region or country | Synonyms: midland, upcountry |
| (adjective) inside and toward a center | - |
| (adjective) located inward | Synonyms: inner, internal |
| interlinear | (adjective) written between lines of text | Synonyms: interlineal |
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| interlobular | (adjective) between lobes or lobules | - |
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| intermolecular | (adjective) existing or acting between molecules | - |
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| interstellar | (adjective) between or among stars | - |
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| intracellular | (adjective) located or occurring within a cell or cells | - |
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| intralobular | (adjective) inside lobes or lobules | - |
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| intramolecular | (adjective) within the molecule; occurring by a reaction between different parts of the same molecule | - |
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| intramuscular | (adjective) within a muscle | - |
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| intraventricular | (adjective) within the system of ventricles in the brain | - |
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| irregular | (adjective) contrary to rule or accepted order or general practice | - |
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| (adjective) (of solids) not having clear dimensions that can be measured; volume must be determined with the principle of liquid displacement | - |
| (adjective) (used of the military) not belonging to or engaged in by regular army forces | - |
| (adjective) deviating from normal expectations; somewhat odd, strange, or abnormal | Synonyms: atypical |
| (adjective) failing to meet a standard of manufacture due to an imperfection | - |
| (adjective) lacking continuity or regularity | Synonyms: temporary |
| (adjective) not occurring at a regular rate or fixed intervals | Synonyms: unpredictable |
| (adjective) independent in behavior or thought | Synonyms: maverick, unorthodox |
| (adjective) (of a surface or shape); not level or flat or symmetrical | - |
| jerkwater | (adjective) small and remote and insignificant | Synonyms: one-horse, pokey, poky |
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| jocular | (adjective) characterized by jokes and good humor | Synonyms: jesting, jocose, joking |
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| jugular | (adjective) relating to or located in the region of the neck or throat | - |
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| junior | (adjective) younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or service | - |
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| (adjective) used of the third or next to final year in United States high school or college | Synonyms: next-to-last, third-year |
| (adjective) including or intended for youthful persons | - |
| kosher | (adjective) conforming to Jewish dietary laws | Synonyms: cosher |
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| (adjective) proper or legitimate | - |
| lackluster | (adjective) lacking luster or shine | Synonyms: lacklustre, lusterless, lustreless |
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| (adjective) lacking brilliance or vitality | Synonyms: lacklustre, lusterless, lustreless |
| laminar | (adjective) arranged in or consisting of laminae | Synonyms: laminal |
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| larger | (adjective) large or big relative to something else | Synonyms: bigger |
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| later | (adjective) at or toward an end or late period or stage of development | Synonyms: late |
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| (adjective) coming at a subsequent time or stage | Synonyms: posterior, ulterior |
| latter | (adjective) referring to the second of two things or persons mentioned (or the last one or ones of several) | - |
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| lavender | (adjective) of a pale purple color | Synonyms: lilac-colored, lilac |
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| leftover | (adjective) not used up | Synonyms: left, left over, odd, remaining, unexpended |
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| lenticular | (adjective) convex on both sides; shaped like a lentil | Synonyms: biconvex, convexo-convex, lentiform |
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| lesser | (adjective) of less size or importance | - |
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| (adjective) smaller in size or amount or value | - |
| limber | (adjective) (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely | Synonyms: supple |
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| (adjective) (used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable | Synonyms: supple |
| (adjective) (used of artifacts) easily bent | - |
| linear | (adjective) of or in or along or relating to a line; involving or having a single dimension | Synonyms: one-dimensional |
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| (adjective) designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the first degree | Synonyms: additive |
| (adjective) of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input | Synonyms: analog, analogue |
| (adjective) measured lengthwise | Synonyms: running |
| (adjective) (of a leaf shape) long and narrow | Synonyms: elongate |
| littler | (adjective) small or little relative to something else | Synonyms: smaller |
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| liver | (adjective) having a reddish-brown color | Synonyms: liver-colored |
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| lobar | (adjective) of or relating to or affecting a lobe | - |
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| lobular | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a lobule | - |
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| locomotor | (adjective) of or relating to locomotion | Synonyms: locomotive |
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| lower | (adjective) the bottom one of two | - |
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| lumbar | (adjective) of or relating to or near the part of the back between the ribs and the hipbones | - |
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| lunar | (adjective) of or relating to or associated with the moon | - |
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| lunisolar | (adjective) relating to or attributed to the moon and the sun or their mutual relations | - |
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| macromolecular | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or characterized by macromolecules | - |
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| major | (adjective) greater in number or size or amount | - |
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| (adjective) greater in scope or effect | - |
| (adjective) of full legal age | - |
| (adjective) (of a scale or mode) having half steps between the third and fourth degrees and the seventh and eighth degrees | - |
| (adjective) of the field of academic study in which one concentrates or specializes | - |
| (adjective) of greater importance or stature or rank | - |
| (adjective) of greater seriousness or danger | - |
| (adjective) of the elder of two boys with the same family name | - |
| majuscular | (adjective) of the nature of a majuscule or written in majuscules | - |
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