aboveboard | (adjective) without concealment or deception; honest | Synonyms: straightforward |
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absurd | (adjective) so unreasonable as to invite derision | Synonyms: cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous |
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(adjective) inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense | - |
afeard | (adjective) a pronunciation of afraid | Synonyms: afeared |
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awkward | (adjective) lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance | - |
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(adjective) hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment | Synonyms: embarrassing, sticky, unenviable |
(adjective) causing inconvenience | - |
(adjective) not elegant or graceful in expression | Synonyms: clumsy, cumbersome, ill-chosen, inapt, inept |
(adjective) socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner | Synonyms: ill at ease, uneasy |
(adjective) difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape | Synonyms: bunglesome, clumsy, ungainly |
backward | (adjective) directed or facing toward the back or rear | - |
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(adjective) (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature | - |
(adjective) retarded in intellectual development | Synonyms: feebleminded, half-witted, slow-witted |
(adjective) having made less than normal progress | - |
bastard | (adjective) fraudulent; having a misleading appearance | Synonyms: bogus, fake, phoney, phony |
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billiard | (adjective) of or relating to billiards | - |
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cardboard | (adjective) without substance | Synonyms: unlifelike |
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dastard | (adjective) despicably cowardly | Synonyms: dastardly |
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downward | (adjective) extending or moving from a higher to a lower place | Synonyms: down |
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(adjective) on or toward a surface regarded as a base | - |
eastward | (adjective) moving toward the east | Synonyms: eastbound |
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forward | (adjective) at or near or directed toward the front | - |
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(adjective) used of temperament or behavior; lacking restraint or modesty | - |
(adjective) of the transmission gear causing forward movement in a motor vehicle | - |
(adjective) moving forward | Synonyms: advancing, forward-moving |
froward | (adjective) habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition | Synonyms: headstrong, self-willed, wilful, willful |
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haggard | (adjective) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold | Synonyms: cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, pinched, skeletal, wasted |
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(adjective) showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering | Synonyms: careworn, drawn, raddled, worn |
haphazard | (adjective) marked by great carelessness | Synonyms: slapdash, slipshod, sloppy |
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(adjective) dependent upon or characterized by chance | Synonyms: hit-or-miss |
hard | (adjective) produced without vibration of the vocal cords | Synonyms: surd, unvoiced, voiceless |
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(adjective) resisting weight or pressure | - |
(adjective) dispassionate | - |
(adjective) (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum | - |
(adjective) (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source | Synonyms: concentrated |
(adjective) not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure | Synonyms: difficult |
(adjective) being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content | Synonyms: strong |
(adjective) unfortunate or hard to bear | Synonyms: tough |
(adjective) given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors | Synonyms: heavy, intemperate |
(adjective) dried out | - |
(adjective) very strong or vigorous | Synonyms: knockout, severe |
(adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
heard | (adjective) detected or perceived by the sense of hearing | - |
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heavenward | (adjective) directed toward heaven or the sky | Synonyms: skyward |
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homeward | (adjective) oriented toward home | Synonyms: homeward-bound |
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inboard | (adjective) located within the hull or nearest the midline of a vessel or aircraft | - |
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inward | (adjective) relating to or existing in the mind or thoughts | - |
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(adjective) directed or moving inward or toward a center | Synonyms: inbound |
laggard | (adjective) wasting time | Synonyms: dilatory, pokey, poky |
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larboard | (adjective) located on the left side of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: port |
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leeward | (adjective) on the side away from the wind | - |
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mansard | (adjective) (of a roof) having two slopes on all sides with the lower slope steeper than the upper | - |
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nonstandard | (adjective) not standard; not accepted as a model of excellence | - |
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(adjective) varying from or not adhering to a standard | - |
(adjective) not conforming to the language usage of a prestige group within a community | - |
northeastward | (adjective) toward the northeast | - |
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northward | (adjective) moving toward the north | Synonyms: northbound |
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northwestward | (adjective) toward the northwest | - |
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outboard | (adjective) located away from the midline of a vessel or aircraft | - |
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outward | (adjective) relating to physical reality rather than with thoughts or the mind | - |
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(adjective) that is going out or leaving | Synonyms: departing, outbound, outward-bound |
rearward | (adjective) located in or toward the back or rear | Synonyms: rear |
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(adjective) directed or moving toward the rear | Synonyms: reverse |
seaward | (adjective) (of winds) coming from the land | Synonyms: offshore |
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(adjective) directed or situated away from inland regions and toward the sea or coast | - |
semihard | (adjective) somewhat hard | - |
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shipboard | (adjective) casual or ephemeral as if taking place on board a ship | - |
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shoreward | (adjective) (of winds) coming from the sea toward the land | Synonyms: inshore, onshore |
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skyward | (adjective) directed toward heaven or the sky | Synonyms: heavenward |
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southeastward | (adjective) toward the southeast | - |
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southward | (adjective) moving toward the south | Synonyms: southbound |
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southwestward | (adjective) toward the southwest | - |
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standard | (adjective) established or well-known or widely recognized as a model of authority or excellence | - |
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(adjective) conforming to or constituting a standard of measurement or value; or of the usual or regularized or accepted kind | - |
(adjective) conforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers | Synonyms: received |
(adjective) commonly used or supplied | - |
(adjective) regularly and widely used or sold | Synonyms: stock |
starboard | (adjective) located on the right side of a ship or aircraft | - |
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straightforward | (adjective) pointed directly ahead | - |
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(adjective) without evasion or compromise | Synonyms: square, straight |
(adjective) without concealment or deception; honest | Synonyms: aboveboard |
(adjective) free from ambiguity | - |
substandard | (adjective) falling short of some prescribed norm | Synonyms: deficient, inferior |
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surd | (adjective) produced without vibration of the vocal cords | Synonyms: hard, unvoiced, voiceless |
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third | (adjective) coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position | Synonyms: 3rd, tertiary |
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unheard | (adjective) not necessarily inaudible but not heard | - |
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untoward | (adjective) not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society | Synonyms: indecent, indecorous, unbecoming, uncomely, unseemly |
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(adjective) contrary to your interests or welfare | Synonyms: adverse, inauspicious |
upward | (adjective) extending or moving toward a higher place | Synonyms: up |
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(adjective) directed up | - |
wayward | (adjective) resistant to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: contrary, obstinate, perverse |
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weird | (adjective) strikingly odd or unusual | - |
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(adjective) suggesting the operation of supernatural influences | Synonyms: eldritch, uncanny, unearthly |
westward | (adjective) moving toward the west | Synonyms: westbound, westerly |
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windward | (adjective) on the side exposed to the wind | - |
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wizard | (adjective) possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers | Synonyms: charming, magic, magical, sorcerous, witching, wizardly |
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