| accusing | (adjective) containing or expressing accusation | Synonyms: accusative, accusatory, accusive |
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| agonising | (adjective) extremely painful | Synonyms: agonizing, excruciating, harrowing, torturesome, torturing, torturous |
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| amusing | (adjective) arousing or provoking laughter | Synonyms: comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible |
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| (adjective) providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining | Synonyms: amusive, diverting |
| appeasing | (adjective) intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions | Synonyms: placating, placative, placatory |
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| appetising | (adjective) appealing to or stimulating the appetite especially in appearance or aroma | Synonyms: appetizing |
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| appraising | (adjective) exercising or involving careful evaluations | Synonyms: evaluative |
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| bruising | (adjective) brutally forceful and compelling | - |
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| (adjective) causing mental or emotional injury | - |
| carousing | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalian, bacchic, orgiastic |
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| centralising | (adjective) tending to draw to a central point | Synonyms: centralizing |
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| cleansing | (adjective) acting like an antiseptic | Synonyms: purifying |
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| (adjective) cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of e.g. hands | Synonyms: ablutionary |
| closing | (adjective) final or ending | - |
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| compromising | (adjective) making or willing to make concessions | Synonyms: conciliatory, flexible |
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| (adjective) vulnerable to danger especially of discredit or suspicion | - |
| confusing | (adjective) causing confusion or disorientation | - |
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| (adjective) lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity | Synonyms: perplexing, puzzling |
| debasing | (adjective) used of conduct; characterized by dishonor | Synonyms: degrading |
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| decentralising | (adjective) tending away from a central point | Synonyms: decentralizing |
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| decreasing | (adjective) becoming less or smaller | - |
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| (adjective) (music) decreasing in tempo and/or volume | - |
| demoralising | (adjective) destructive of morale and self-reliance | Synonyms: demoralizing, disheartening, dispiriting |
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| depressing | (adjective) causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy | Synonyms: cheerless, uncheerful |
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| desensitising | (adjective) making less susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli | Synonyms: desensitizing |
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| diffusing | (adjective) spreading by diffusion | Synonyms: diffusive, dispersive, disseminative |
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| displeasing | (adjective) causing displeasure or lacking pleasing qualities | - |
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| distressing | (adjective) bad; unfortunate | Synonyms: deplorable, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry |
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| (adjective) causing distress or worry or anxiety | Synonyms: distressful, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying |
| drowsing | (adjective) half asleep | Synonyms: dozy, drowsy |
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| embarrassing | (adjective) hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment | Synonyms: awkward, sticky, unenviable |
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| (adjective) causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation | Synonyms: mortifying |
| encompassing | (adjective) closely encircling | Synonyms: circumferent, surrounding |
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| (adjective) broad in scope or content | Synonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, extensive, panoptic, wide |
| energising | (adjective) supplying motive force | Synonyms: energizing, kinetic |
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| engrossing | (adjective) capable of arousing and holding the attention | Synonyms: absorbing, fascinating, gripping, riveting |
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| enterprising | (adjective) marked by imagination, initiative, and readiness to undertake new projects | - |
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| familiarising | (adjective) serving to make familiar | Synonyms: familiarizing |
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| galvanising | (adjective) affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling | Synonyms: electric, galvanic, galvanizing |
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| imposing | (adjective) used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person | Synonyms: distinguished, grand, magisterial |
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| (adjective) impressive in size, manner, or appearance | Synonyms: baronial, noble, stately |
| increasing | (adjective) becoming greater or larger | - |
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| (adjective) (music) increasing in tempo and/or volume | - |
| maximising | (adjective) making as great as possible | Synonyms: maximizing |
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| missing | (adjective) not able to be found | - |
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| (adjective) nonexistent | Synonyms: absent, lacking, wanting |
| musing | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
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| narcotising | (adjective) inducing stupor or narcosis | Synonyms: narcotic, narcotizing |
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| nonenterprising | (adjective) lacking in enterprise; not bold or venturesome | Synonyms: unenterprising |
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| opposing | (adjective) characterized by active hostility | Synonyms: opponent |
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| passing | (adjective) of advancing the ball by throwing it | Synonyms: pass |
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| (adjective) hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough | Synonyms: casual, cursory, perfunctory, superficial |
| (adjective) lasting a very short time | Synonyms: ephemeral, fugacious, short-lived, transient, transitory |
| (adjective) allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily | - |
| patronising | (adjective) (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension | Synonyms: arch, condescending, patronizing |
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| pleasing | (adjective) giving pleasure and satisfaction | - |
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| (adjective) pleasant or agreeable to the senses | - |
| praising | (adjective) full of or giving praise | Synonyms: laudatory, praiseful |
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| prepossessing | (adjective) creating a favorable impression | - |
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| pressing | (adjective) compelling immediate action | Synonyms: urgent |
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| promising | (adjective) likely to turn out well in the future | Synonyms: bright, hopeful |
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| (adjective) showing possibility of achievement or excellence | - |
| raising | (adjective) increasing in quantity or value | - |
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| releasing | (adjective) emotionally purging (of e.g. art) | Synonyms: cathartic |
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| repressing | (adjective) restrictive of action | Synonyms: inhibitory, repressive |
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| revitalising | (adjective) tending to impart new life and vigor to | Synonyms: renewing, restorative, revitalizing, reviving |
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| rising | (adjective) advancing or becoming higher or greater in degree or value or status | - |
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| (adjective) sloping upward | Synonyms: acclivitous, uphill |
| (adjective) coming to maturity | Synonyms: emerging |
| (adjective) newly come into prominence | - |
| rousing | (adjective) rousing to activity or heightened action as by spurring or goading | - |
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| (adjective) capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement | Synonyms: stirring |
| sensitising | (adjective) making susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli | Synonyms: sensitizing |
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| stabilising | (adjective) causing to become stable | Synonyms: stabilizing |
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| surpassing | (adjective) far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree | Synonyms: exceeding, exceptional, olympian, prodigious |
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| (adjective) exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence | Synonyms: transcendent |
| surprising | (adjective) causing surprise or wonder or amazement | - |
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| tantalising | (adjective) very pleasantly inviting | Synonyms: tantalizing, tempting |
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| (adjective) arousing desire or expectation for something unattainable or mockingly out of reach | Synonyms: tantalizing |
| teasing | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, vexatious, vexing |
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| (adjective) playfully vexing (especially by ridicule) | Synonyms: mocking, quizzical |
| (adjective) arousing sexual desire without intending to satisfy it | - |
| tranquilising | (adjective) tending to soothe or tranquilize | Synonyms: ataractic, ataraxic, sedative, tranquilizing, tranquillising, tranquillizing |
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| tranquillising | (adjective) tending to soothe or tranquilize | Synonyms: ataractic, ataraxic, sedative, tranquilising, tranquilizing, tranquillizing |
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| trespassing | (adjective) gradually intrusive without right or permission | Synonyms: encroaching, invasive |
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| unappetising | (adjective) not appetizing in appearance, aroma, or taste | Synonyms: unappetizing |
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| unceasing | (adjective) uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing | Synonyms: ceaseless, constant, incessant, never-ending, perpetual, unremitting |
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| (adjective) continuing forever or indefinitely | Synonyms: aeonian, ageless, eonian, eternal, everlasting, perpetual, unending |
| uncompromising | (adjective) not making concessions | Synonyms: inflexible, sturdy |
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| unenterprising | (adjective) lacking in enterprise; not bold or venturesome | Synonyms: nonenterprising |
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| unimposing | (adjective) lacking in impressiveness | - |
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| unpleasing | (adjective) unpleasant or disagreeable to the senses | - |
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| unprepossessing | (adjective) creating an unfavorable or neutral first impression | Synonyms: unpresentable |
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| unpromising | (adjective) unlikely to bring about favorable results or enjoyment | - |
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| unsurprising | (adjective) not causing surprise | - |
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| unsympathising | (adjective) not showing or expressing sympathy | Synonyms: unsympathizing |
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