alert | (adjective) engaged in or accustomed to close observation | Synonyms: watchful |
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(adjective) mentally perceptive and responsive | Synonyms: alive, awake |
(adjective) quick and energetic | Synonyms: brisk, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy |
amort | (adjective) utterly cast down | - |
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apart | (adjective) having characteristics not shared by others | - |
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(adjective) remote and separate physically or socially | Synonyms: isolated, obscure |
braggart | (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: big, boastful, bragging, braggy, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
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covert | (adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed | - |
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(adjective) (of a wife) being under the protection of her husband | - |
curt | (adjective) brief and to the point; effectively cut short | Synonyms: crisp, laconic, terse |
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(adjective) marked by rude or peremptory shortness | Synonyms: brusk, brusque, short |
dirt | (adjective) (of roads) not leveled or drained; unsuitable for all year travel | Synonyms: ungraded |
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expert | (adjective) having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude | Synonyms: adept, good, practiced, proficient, skilful, skillful |
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(adjective) of or relating to or requiring special knowledge to be understood | Synonyms: technical |
extravert | (adjective) being concerned with the social and physical environment | Synonyms: extraverted, extravertive, extrovert, extroverted, extrovertive |
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extrovert | (adjective) being concerned with the social and physical environment | Synonyms: extravert, extraverted, extravertive, extroverted, extrovertive |
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hurt | (adjective) damaged; used of inanimate objects or their value | Synonyms: weakened |
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(adjective) suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle | Synonyms: wounded |
inert | (adjective) slow and apathetic | Synonyms: sluggish, soggy, torpid |
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(adjective) unable to move or resist motion | - |
(adjective) having only a limited ability to react chemically; chemically inactive | Synonyms: indifferent, neutral |
inexpert | (adjective) lacking professional skill or expertise | Synonyms: amateur, amateurish, unskilled |
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overt | (adjective) open and observable; not secret or hidden | Synonyms: open |
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pert | (adjective) characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality | Synonyms: impertinent, irreverent, saucy |
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port | (adjective) located on the left side of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: larboard |
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seagirt | (adjective) surrounded or enclosed by the sea | - |
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short | (adjective) (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range | Synonyms: forgetful, unretentive |
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(adjective) (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length | - |
(adjective) primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration | - |
(adjective) low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal | Synonyms: little |
(adjective) of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration | - |
(adjective) not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices | - |
(adjective) tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening | - |
(adjective) marked by rude or peremptory shortness | Synonyms: brusk, brusque, curt |
(adjective) lacking foresight or scope | Synonyms: myopic, shortsighted, unforesightful |
(adjective) of insufficient quantity to meet a need | Synonyms: inadequate, jejune, poor |
(adjective) less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so | Synonyms: light, scant |
smart | (adjective) showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness | - |
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(adjective) capable of independent and apparently intelligent action | - |
(adjective) quick and brisk | - |
(adjective) improperly forward or bold | Synonyms: fresh, impertinent, impudent, overbold, sassy, saucy, wise |
(adjective) characterized by quickness and ease in learning | Synonyms: bright |
(adjective) painfully severe | - |
(adjective) elegant and stylish | Synonyms: chic, voguish |
stalwart | (adjective) used especially of persons | Synonyms: stouthearted |
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(adjective) dependable | Synonyms: stout |
(adjective) having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships | Synonyms: hardy, stout, sturdy |
swart | (adjective) naturally having skin of a dark color | Synonyms: dark-skinned, dusky, swarthy |
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sweetheart | (adjective) privileged treatment of a favored person or corporation (sometimes unethically) | - |
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tart | (adjective) tasting sour like a lemon | Synonyms: lemonlike, lemony, sourish, tangy |
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(adjective) harsh | Synonyms: sharp-worded, sharp |
unalert | (adjective) not alert to what is potentially dangerous | Synonyms: unvigilant, unwatchful |
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unhurt | (adjective) free from danger or injury | Synonyms: safe and sound |
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(adjective) not injured or harmed | Synonyms: unharmed, unscathed, whole |
upstart | (adjective) characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position | Synonyms: nouveau-riche, parvenu, parvenue |
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