| abstruse | (adjective) difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge | Synonyms: deep, recondite |
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| 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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| adverse | (adjective) in an opposing direction | Synonyms: contrary |
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| (adjective) contrary to your interests or welfare | Synonyms: inauspicious, untoward |
| ahorse | (adjective) traveling on horseback | Synonyms: ahorseback |
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| anginose | (adjective) of or related to the pain of angina pectoris | Synonyms: anginal, anginous |
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| anticlockwise | (adjective) in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock | Synonyms: contraclockwise, counterclockwise |
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| antrorse | (adjective) bent or curved forward or upward | - |
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| ariose | (adjective) having a melody (as distinguished from recitative) | Synonyms: songlike |
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| averse | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed | Synonyms: antipathetic, antipathetical, indisposed, loath, loth |
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| base | (adjective) serving as or forming a base | Synonyms: basal |
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| (adjective) debased; not genuine | - |
| (adjective) having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality | Synonyms: mean, meanspirited |
| (adjective) illegitimate | Synonyms: baseborn |
| (adjective) (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal | - |
| (adjective) of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense) | Synonyms: baseborn, humble, lowly |
| (adjective) not adhering to ethical or moral principles | Synonyms: immoral |
| bellicose | (adjective) having or showing a ready disposition to fight | Synonyms: battleful, combative |
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| blase | (adjective) very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world | Synonyms: worldly |
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| (adjective) nonchalantly unconcerned | - |
| (adjective) uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence | Synonyms: bored |
| 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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| cerise | (adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies | Synonyms: blood-red, carmine, cherry-red, cherry, crimson, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy, scarlet |
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| cespitose | (adjective) (of plants) growing in small dense clumps or tufts | Synonyms: caespitose, tufted |
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| chartreuse | (adjective) of something having the yellowish green color of Chartreuse liqueur | - |
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| chlorophyllose | (adjective) relating to or being or containing chlorophyll | Synonyms: chlorophyllous |
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| clockwise | (adjective) in the same direction as the rotating hands of a clock | - |
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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 |
| coarse | (adjective) of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles | Synonyms: harsh |
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| (adjective) of low or inferior quality or value | Synonyms: common |
| (adjective) lacking refinement or cultivation or taste | Synonyms: common, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar |
| coastwise | (adjective) along or following a coast | Synonyms: coastal |
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| 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 | - |
| commonsense | (adjective) exhibiting native good judgment | Synonyms: commonsensible, commonsensical |
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| 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 |
| concise | (adjective) expressing much in few words | - |
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| contraclockwise | (adjective) in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock | Synonyms: anticlockwise, counterclockwise |
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| converse | (adjective) of words so related that one reverses the relation denoted by the other | - |
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| (adjective) turned about in order or relation | Synonyms: reversed, transposed |
| cormose | (adjective) having or producing corms | Synonyms: cormous |
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| corymbose | (adjective) resembling a corymb | - |
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| counterclockwise | (adjective) in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock | Synonyms: anticlockwise, contraclockwise |
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| crabwise | (adjective) (of movement) at an angle | Synonyms: sideways |
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| crosswise | (adjective) lying or extending across the length of a thing or in a cross direction | - |
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| (adjective) in the shape of (a horizontal piece on) a cross | - |
| 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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| dense | (adjective) having high relative density or specific gravity | - |
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| (adjective) hard to pass through because of dense growth | Synonyms: thick |
| (adjective) slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity | Synonyms: dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow |
| (adjective) permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter | Synonyms: heavy, impenetrable |
| (adjective) having component parts closely crowded together | Synonyms: thick |
| dextrorse | (adjective) spiraling upward from left to right | Synonyms: dextrorsal |
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| diffuse | (adjective) (of light) transmitted from a broad light source or reflected | Synonyms: diffused, soft |
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| (adjective) spread out; not concentrated in one place | - |
| (adjective) lacking conciseness | - |
| diverse | (adjective) distinctly dissimilar or unlike | Synonyms: various |
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| (adjective) many and different | Synonyms: divers |
| erose | (adjective) having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed | Synonyms: jagged, jaggy, notched, toothed |
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| false | (adjective) not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality | - |
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| (adjective) not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article | Synonyms: fake, faux, imitation, simulated |
| (adjective) adopted in order to deceive | Synonyms: assumed, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham |
| (adjective) designed to deceive | - |
| (adjective) (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful | Synonyms: untrue |
| (adjective) arising from error | Synonyms: mistaken |
| (adjective) inaccurate in pitch | Synonyms: off-key, sour |
| (adjective) deliberately deceptive | - |
| (adjective) erroneous and usually accidental | - |
| (adjective) inappropriate to reality or facts | Synonyms: delusive |
| 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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| greenhouse | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by the greenhouse effect | - |
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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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| hoarse | (adjective) deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion | Synonyms: gruff, husky |
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| immense | (adjective) unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope | Synonyms: Brobdingnagian, huge, vast |
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| imprecise | (adjective) not precise | - |
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| intense | (adjective) possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree | - |
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| (adjective) (of color) having the highest saturation | Synonyms: vivid |
| (adjective) extremely sharp or severe | Synonyms: acute |
| inverse | (adjective) opposite in nature or effect or relation to another quantity | - |
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| (adjective) reversed (turned backward) in order or nature or effect | Synonyms: reverse |
| 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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| lengthwise | (adjective) running or extending in the direction of the length of a thing | Synonyms: lengthways |
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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 |
| lowercase | (adjective) relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case | - |
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| lyonnaise | (adjective) cooked with onions | - |
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| 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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| multiphase | (adjective) of an electrical system that uses or generates two or more alternating voltages of the same frequency but differing in phase angle | Synonyms: polyphase |
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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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| nonsense | (adjective) having no intelligible meaning | Synonyms: nonsensical |
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| obese | (adjective) excessively fat | Synonyms: corpulent, rotund, weighty |
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| obtuse | (adjective) of an angle; between 90 and 180 degrees | - |
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| (adjective) (of a leaf shape) rounded at the apex | - |
| (adjective) slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity | Synonyms: dense, dim, dull, dumb, slow |
| (adjective) lacking in insight or discernment | Synonyms: purblind |
| 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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| otherwise | (adjective) other than as supposed or expected | - |
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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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| passe | (adjective) out of fashion | Synonyms: antique, demode, ex, old-fashioned, old-hat, outmoded, passee |
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| perverse | (adjective) deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good | Synonyms: depraved, perverted, reprobate |
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| (adjective) resistant to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: contrary, obstinate, wayward |
| (adjective) marked by a disposition to oppose and contradict | - |
| 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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| polyphase | (adjective) of an electrical system that uses or generates two or more alternating voltages of the same frequency but differing in phase angle | Synonyms: multiphase |
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| porose | (adjective) forming a continuous series of pores | - |
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| precise | (adjective) sharply exact or accurate or delimited | - |
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| (adjective) (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct | Synonyms: accurate, exact |
| profuse | (adjective) produced or growing in extreme abundance | Synonyms: exuberant, lush, luxuriant, riotous |
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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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| recluse | (adjective) withdrawn from society; seeking solitude | Synonyms: reclusive, withdrawn |
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| retrorse | (adjective) bent or curved backward or downward | - |
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| retrousse | (adjective) (used of noses) turned up at the end | Synonyms: tip-tilted, upturned |
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| reverse | (adjective) of the transmission gear causing backward movement in a motor vehicle | - |
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| (adjective) directed or moving toward the rear | Synonyms: rearward |
| (adjective) reversed (turned backward) in order or nature or effect | Synonyms: inverse |
| 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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