| abducent | (adjective) especially of muscles; drawing away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part | Synonyms: abducting |
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| aberrant | (adjective) markedly different from an accepted norm | Synonyms: deviant, deviate |
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| abeyant | (adjective) inactive but capable of becoming active | Synonyms: dormant |
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| abhorrent | (adjective) offensive to the mind | Synonyms: detestable, obscene, repugnant, repulsive |
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| abient | (adjective) characterized by avoidance or withdrawal | - |
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| abject | (adjective) of the most contemptible kind | Synonyms: low-down, low, miserable, scummy, scurvy |
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| (adjective) showing utter resignation or hopelessness | Synonyms: unhopeful |
| (adjective) showing humiliation or submissiveness | - |
| (adjective) most unfortunate or miserable | - |
| abortifacient | (adjective) causing abortion | - |
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| about | (adjective) on the move | Synonyms: astir |
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| abreast | (adjective) being up to particular standard or level especially in being up to date in knowledge | Synonyms: au courant, au fait, up on |
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| abrupt | (adjective) surprisingly and unceremoniously brusque in manner | - |
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| (adjective) marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions | Synonyms: disconnected |
| (adjective) dangerously steep | Synonyms: precipitous, sharp |
| (adjective) exceedingly sudden and unexpected | - |
| absent | (adjective) not being in a specified place | - |
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| (adjective) lost in thought; showing preoccupation | Synonyms: absentminded, abstracted, scatty |
| (adjective) nonexistent | Synonyms: lacking, missing, wanting |
| absolutist | (adjective) pertaining to the principle of totalitarianism | Synonyms: absolutistic |
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| absorbefacient | (adjective) inducing or promoting absorption | Synonyms: sorbefacient |
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| absorbent | (adjective) having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.) | Synonyms: absorptive |
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| abstinent | (adjective) self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink | Synonyms: abstentious |
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| abstract | (adjective) existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment | - |
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| (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstractionist, nonfigurative, nonobjective |
| (adjective) dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention | - |
| abstractionist | (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstract, nonfigurative, nonobjective |
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| abundant | (adjective) present in great quantity | - |
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| acaulescent | (adjective) (of plants) having no apparent stem above ground | Synonyms: stemless |
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| acceptant | (adjective) accepting willingly | Synonyms: acceptive |
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| accordant | (adjective) being in agreement or harmony; often followed by `with' | - |
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| (adjective) in keeping | Synonyms: agreeable, concordant, conformable, consonant |
| accumbent | (adjective) lying down; in a position of comfort or rest | Synonyms: decumbent, recumbent |
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| accurst | (adjective) under a curse | Synonyms: accursed, maledict |
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| acidulent | (adjective) being sour to the taste | Synonyms: acid, acidic, acidulous |
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| acquiescent | (adjective) willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without protest | Synonyms: biddable |
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| activist | (adjective) advocating or engaged in activism | Synonyms: activistic |
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| adamant | (adjective) impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason | Synonyms: adamantine, inexorable, intransigent |
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| adducent | (adjective) especially of muscles; bringing together or drawing toward the midline of the body or toward an adjacent part | Synonyms: adducting, adductive |
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| adept | (adjective) having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude | Synonyms: expert, good, practiced, proficient, skilful, skillful |
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| adherent | (adjective) sticking fast | - |
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| adient | (adjective) characterized by acceptance or approach | - |
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| adjacent | (adjective) nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space | Synonyms: next, side by side |
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| (adjective) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching | Synonyms: conterminous, contiguous, neighboring, neighbouring |
| (adjective) near or close to but not necessarily touching | - |
| adjunct | (adjective) of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another | Synonyms: assistant |
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| (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjuvant, ancillary, appurtenant, auxiliary |
| adjuvant | (adjective) enhancing the action of a medical treatment | - |
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| (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjunct, ancillary, appurtenant, auxiliary |
| adolescent | (adjective) relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent | - |
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| (adjective) in the state of development between puberty and maturity | - |
| (adjective) displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity | Synonyms: jejune, juvenile, puerile |
| (adjective) being of the age 13 through 19 | Synonyms: teen, teenage, teenaged |
| adrift | (adjective) afloat on the surface of a body of water | - |
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| (adjective) aimlessly drifting | Synonyms: afloat, aimless, directionless, planless, rudderless, undirected |
| adroit | (adjective) quick or skillful or adept in action or thought | - |
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| adscript | (adjective) written or printed immediately following another character and aligned with it | - |
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| (adjective) (used of persons) bound to a tract of land; hence their service is transferable from owner to owner | Synonyms: adscripted |
| adsorbent | (adjective) having capacity or tendency to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface | Synonyms: adsorptive, surface-assimilative |
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| adult | (adjective) (of animals) fully developed | Synonyms: big, full-grown, fully grown, grown, grownup |
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| (adjective) designed to arouse lust | Synonyms: pornographic |
| adulterant | (adjective) making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials | Synonyms: adulterating |
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| adust | (adjective) burned brown by the sun | - |
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| (adjective) dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight | Synonyms: baked, parched, scorched, sunbaked |
| advertent | (adjective) giving attention | Synonyms: heedful |
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| afferent | (adjective) of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying sensory information from the sense organs to the CNS | - |
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| affluent | (adjective) having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value | Synonyms: flush, loaded, moneyed, substantial, wealthy |
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| afloat | (adjective) borne on the water; floating | - |
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| (adjective) covered with water | Synonyms: awash, flooded, inundated, overflowing |
| (adjective) aimlessly drifting | Synonyms: adrift, aimless, directionless, planless, rudderless, undirected |
| afoot | (adjective) currently in progress | Synonyms: underway |
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| (adjective) traveling by foot | - |
| aforethought | (adjective) with planning and intention | Synonyms: planned, plotted |
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| aft | (adjective) (nautical, aeronautical) situated at or toward the stern or tail | - |
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| aftermost | (adjective) located closest to the stern or tail | - |
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| aghast | (adjective) struck with fear, dread, or consternation | Synonyms: appalled, dismayed, shocked |
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| airtight | (adjective) having no weak points | Synonyms: air-tight |
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| (adjective) not allowing air or gas to pass in or out | Synonyms: air-tight, gas-tight |
| albescent | (adjective) becoming or shading into white | - |
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| alcalescent | (adjective) tending to become alkaline; slightly alkaline | Synonyms: alkalescent |
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| 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 |
| alight | (adjective) lighted up by or as by fire or flame | Synonyms: ablaze, afire, aflame, aflare, on fire |
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| aliquot | (adjective) signifying an exact divisor or factor of a quantity | - |
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| alkalescent | (adjective) tending to become alkaline; slightly alkaline | Synonyms: alcalescent |
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| allegiant | (adjective) steadfast in devotion (especially to your lawful monarch or government) | - |
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| alright | (adjective) nonstandard usage | - |
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| ambient | (adjective) completely enveloping | - |
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| ambivalent | (adjective) uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow | - |
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| ambulant | (adjective) able to walk about | Synonyms: ambulatory |
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| amethyst | (adjective) of a moderate purple color | - |
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| amort | (adjective) utterly cast down | - |
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| ancient | (adjective) very old | - |
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| (adjective) belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire | - |
| animist | (adjective) of or pertaining to the doctrine of animism | Synonyms: animistic |
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| antecedent | (adjective) preceding in time or order | - |
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| antiaircraft | (adjective) designed for defense from a surface position against air attack | - |
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| anticipant | (adjective) marked by eager anticipation | Synonyms: anticipative, expectant |
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| antitrust | (adjective) of laws and regulations; designed to protect trade and commerce from unfair business practices | Synonyms: antimonopoly |
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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 |
| aperient | (adjective) mildly laxative | - |
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| apparent | (adjective) clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment | Synonyms: evident, manifest, palpable, patent, plain, unmistakable |
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| (adjective) appearing as such but not necessarily so | Synonyms: ostensible, seeming |
| appellant | (adjective) of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals) | Synonyms: appellate |
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| appendant | (adjective) affixed as an appendage | - |
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| appetent | (adjective) marked by eager desire | - |
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| appurtenant | (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjunct, adjuvant, ancillary, auxiliary |
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| apt | (adjective) being of striking appropriateness and pertinence | Synonyms: apposite, pertinent |
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| (adjective) (usually followed by `to') naturally disposed toward | Synonyms: disposed, given, minded, tending |
| (adjective) mentally quick and resourceful | Synonyms: clever |
| (adjective) at risk of or subject to experiencing something usually unpleasant | Synonyms: liable |
| arborescent | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
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| ardent | (adjective) glowing or shining like fire | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by strong enthusiasm | Synonyms: warm |
| (adjective) characterized by intense emotion | Synonyms: fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid |
| argent | (adjective) of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver | Synonyms: silver, silverish, silvery |
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| arrant | (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
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| arrogant | (adjective) having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride | Synonyms: chesty, self-important |
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| ascendant | (adjective) tending or directed upward | Synonyms: ascendent, ascensive |
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| (adjective) most powerful or important or influential | Synonyms: ascendent, dominating |
| ascendent | (adjective) tending or directed upward | Synonyms: ascendant, ascensive |
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| (adjective) most powerful or important or influential | Synonyms: ascendant, dominating |
| askant | (adjective) (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy | Synonyms: askance, asquint, sidelong, squint-eyed, squint, squinty |
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| aslant | (adjective) having an oblique or slanted direction | Synonyms: aslope, diagonal, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping |
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| aspirant | (adjective) desiring or striving for recognition or advancement | Synonyms: aspiring, wishful |
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| asquint | (adjective) (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy | Synonyms: askance, askant, sidelong, squint-eyed, squint, squinty |
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| assentient | (adjective) expressing agreement or consent | Synonyms: assenting |
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| assistant | (adjective) of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another | Synonyms: adjunct |
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| assonant | (adjective) having the same vowel sound occurring with different consonants in successive words or stressed syllables | - |
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| (adjective) having the same sound (especially the same vowel sound) occurring in successive stressed syllables | - |
| assurgent | (adjective) growing or extending upward | - |
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| (adjective) rising from the sea | - |
| astringent | (adjective) tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue | - |
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| (adjective) sour or bitter in taste | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic |
| atheist | (adjective) related to or characterized by or given to atheism | Synonyms: atheistic, atheistical |
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| athirst | (adjective) (usually followed by `for') extremely desirous | Synonyms: hungry, thirsty |
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| atilt | (adjective) departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal | Synonyms: canted, leaning, tilted, tipped |
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| attendant | (adjective) being present (at a meeting or event, etc.) | - |
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| (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, collateral, concomitant, consequent, ensuant, incidental, resultant, sequent |
| august | (adjective) profoundly honored | Synonyms: revered, venerable |
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| (adjective) of or befitting a lord | Synonyms: grand, lordly |