| subject | (adjective) likely to be affected by something | - |
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| (adjective) being under the power or sovereignty of another or others | Synonyms: dependent |
| (adjective) possibly accepting or permitting | Synonyms: capable, open |
| subscript | (adjective) written or printed below and to one side of another character | Synonyms: inferior |
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| subsequent | (adjective) following in time or order | - |
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| subservient | (adjective) serving or acting as a means or aid | Synonyms: implemental, instrumental |
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| (adjective) abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant | Synonyms: slavish, submissive |
| (adjective) compliant and obedient to authority | - |
| succinct | (adjective) briefly giving the gist of something | Synonyms: compact, compendious, summary |
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| succulent | (adjective) tender and full of juice | Synonyms: lush |
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| sufficient | (adjective) of a quantity that can fulfill a need or requirement but without being abundant | - |
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| suffrutescent | (adjective) of a plant; having a woody base that does not die down each year | - |
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| sunburnt | (adjective) suffering from overexposure to direct sunlight | Synonyms: sunburned |
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| sunlit | (adjective) lighted by sunlight | Synonyms: sunstruck |
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| sunset | (adjective) providing for termination | - |
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| (adjective) of a declining industry or technology | - |
| superabundant | (adjective) most excessively abundant | - |
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| superincumbent | (adjective) lying or resting on and exerting pressure on something else | - |
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| superjacent | (adjective) lying immediately above or on something else | - |
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| supernatant | (adjective) of a liquid; floating on the surface above a sediment or precipitate | - |
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| supernaturalist | (adjective) of or relating to supernaturalism | Synonyms: supernaturalistic |
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| superscript | (adjective) written or printed above and to one side of another character | Synonyms: superior |
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| suppliant | (adjective) humbly entreating | Synonyms: supplicant, supplicatory |
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| supplicant | (adjective) humbly entreating | Synonyms: suppliant, supplicatory |
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| suspect | (adjective) not as expected | Synonyms: fishy, funny, shady, suspicious |
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| susurrant | (adjective) making a low continuous indistinct sound | Synonyms: murmuring, whispering |
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| swart | (adjective) naturally having skin of a dark color | Synonyms: dark-skinned, dusky, swarthy |
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| sweet | (adjective) not containing or composed of salt water | Synonyms: fresh |
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| (adjective) (used of wines) having a high residual sugar content | - |
| (adjective) having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar | - |
| (adjective) having a natural fragrance | Synonyms: odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, scented, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling |
| (adjective) having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub | Synonyms: angelic, angelical, cherubic, seraphic |
| (adjective) pleasing to the ear | Synonyms: dulcet, honeyed, mellifluous, mellisonant |
| (adjective) with sweetening added | Synonyms: sugared, sweet-flavored, sweetened |
| (adjective) not soured or preserved | Synonyms: fresh, unfermented |
| (adjective) pleasing to the mind or feeling | Synonyms: gratifying |
| (adjective) pleasing to the senses | - |
| sweetheart | (adjective) privileged treatment of a favored person or corporation (sometimes unethically) | - |
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| swept | (adjective) possessing sweep | - |
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| swift | (adjective) moving very fast | Synonyms: fleet |
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| tacit | (adjective) implied by or inferred from actions or statements | Synonyms: silent, understood |
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| takeout | (adjective) of or involving food to be taken and eaten off the premises | Synonyms: take-away |
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| tantamount | (adjective) being essentially equal to something | Synonyms: equivalent |
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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 |
| taut | (adjective) pulled or drawn tight | Synonyms: tight |
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| (adjective) subjected to great tension; stretched tight | - |
| tetravalent | (adjective) having a valence of four | - |
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| theist | (adjective) of or relating to theism | Synonyms: theistic, theistical |
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| thermoset | (adjective) having the property of becoming permanently hard and rigid when heated or cured | Synonyms: thermosetting |
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| thickset | (adjective) planted or growing close together | - |
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| (adjective) having a short and solid form or stature | Synonyms: compact, heavyset, stocky, thick |
| tight | (adjective) closely constrained or constricted or constricting | - |
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| (adjective) of such close construction as to be impermeable | - |
| (adjective) pressed tightly together | Synonyms: compressed |
| (adjective) packed closely together | - |
| (adjective) demanding strict attention to rules and procedures | Synonyms: rigorous, stringent |
| (adjective) exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent | Synonyms: nasty |
| (adjective) (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched | Synonyms: close |
| (adjective) of textiles | Synonyms: close |
| (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, wet |
| (adjective) set so close together as to be invulnerable to penetration | - |
| (adjective) affected by scarcity and expensive to borrow | - |
| (adjective) securely or solidly fixed in place; rigid | - |
| (adjective) (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity | Synonyms: mean, mingy, miserly |
| (adjective) pulled or drawn tight | Synonyms: taut |
| tinpot | (adjective) inferior (especially of a country's leadership) | - |
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| tolerant | (adjective) showing respect for the rights or opinions or practices of others | - |
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| (adjective) showing or characterized by broad-mindedness | Synonyms: broad, large-minded, liberal |
| (adjective) tolerant and forgiving under provocation | Synonyms: kind |
| (adjective) showing the capacity for endurance | Synonyms: patient of |
| (adjective) able to tolerate environmental conditions or physiological stress | Synonyms: resistant |
| topmost | (adjective) at or nearest to the top | Synonyms: upmost, uppermost |
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| totipotent | (adjective) having the ability to give rise to unlike cells | - |
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| toxicant | (adjective) having the qualities or effects of a poison | Synonyms: poisonous |
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| traditionalist | (adjective) stubbornly conservative and narrow-minded | Synonyms: hidebound |
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| transcendent | (adjective) exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence | Synonyms: surpassing |
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| (adjective) beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience or understanding | - |
| transeunt | (adjective) of a mental act; causing effects outside the mind | Synonyms: transient |
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| transient | (adjective) of a mental act; causing effects outside the mind | Synonyms: transeunt |
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| (adjective) lasting a very short time | Synonyms: ephemeral, fugacious, passing, short-lived, transitory |
| translucent | (adjective) allowing light to pass through diffusely | Synonyms: semitransparent |
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| transparent | (adjective) transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity | Synonyms: crystal clear, crystalline, limpid, lucid, pellucid |
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| (adjective) easily understood or seen through (because of a lack of subtlety) | - |
| (adjective) free of deceit | Synonyms: guileless |
| (adjective) so thin as to transmit light | Synonyms: cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, vaporous, vapourous |
| trenchant | (adjective) clearly or sharply defined to the mind | Synonyms: clear-cut, distinct |
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| (adjective) characterized by or full of force and vigor | Synonyms: hard-hitting |
| (adjective) having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect | Synonyms: searching |
| triumphant | (adjective) joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success | Synonyms: exultant, exulting, jubilant, prideful, rejoicing, triumphal |
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| (adjective) experiencing triumph | Synonyms: victorious |
| trivalent | (adjective) having a valence of three | - |
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| truant | (adjective) absent without permission | Synonyms: awol |
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| truculent | (adjective) defiantly aggressive | - |
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| tsarist | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a czar | Synonyms: czarist, czaristic, tsaristic, tzarist |
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| tumescent | (adjective) abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas | Synonyms: bloated, distended, intumescent, puffy, swollen, tumid, turgid |
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| turbulent | (adjective) (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence | Synonyms: churning, roiled, roiling, roily |
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| (adjective) characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination | Synonyms: disruptive, riotous, troubled, tumultuous |
| turnt | (adjective) extermely excited, especially about or at a part | - |
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| twilight | (adjective) lighted by or as if by twilight | Synonyms: dusky, twilit |
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| twilit | (adjective) lighted by or as if by twilight | Synonyms: dusky, twilight |
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| tzarist | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a czar | Synonyms: czarist, czaristic, tsarist, tsaristic |
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| ult | (adjective) in or of the month preceding the present one | Synonyms: ultimo |
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| ultraviolet | (adjective) having or employing wavelengths shorter than light but longer than X-rays; lying outside the visible spectrum at its violet end | - |
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| unalert | (adjective) not alert to what is potentially dangerous | Synonyms: unvigilant, unwatchful |
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| unapparent | (adjective) not readily apparent | - |
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| unbeknownst | (adjective) (usually used with `to') occurring or existing without the knowledge of | Synonyms: unbeknown |
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| unbent | (adjective) erect in posture | Synonyms: straight, unbowed |
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| (adjective) not bent | - |
| unconformist | (adjective) not conforming to some norm or socially approved pattern of behavior or thought | Synonyms: nonconformist |
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| uncut | (adjective) not cut | - |
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| (adjective) (of pages of a book) having adjacent leaves still joined at the fore edge | - |
| (adjective) not shaped by cutting or trimming | Synonyms: rough |
| (adjective) (used of grass or vegetation) not cut down with a hand implement or machine | Synonyms: unmown |
| (adjective) not trimmed | Synonyms: untrimmed |
| (adjective) complete | Synonyms: full-length |
| (adjective) not injured by cutting | - |
| undershot | (adjective) having a lower part projecting beyond the upper | Synonyms: underhung, underslung |
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| underweight | (adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: boney, bony, scraggly, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, weedy |
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| undreamt | (adjective) not imagined even in a dream | Synonyms: undreamed, undreamed of, undreamt of, unimagined |
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| undulant | (adjective) resembling waves in form or outline or motion | Synonyms: undulatory |
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| unerect | (adjective) not upright in position or posture | - |
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| unfit | (adjective) not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition | - |
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| (adjective) below the required standards for a purpose | - |
| (adjective) physically unsound or diseased | Synonyms: bad, unsound |
| ungallant | (adjective) offensively discourteous | Synonyms: caddish, unchivalrous |
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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 |
| unimportant | (adjective) not important | - |
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| (adjective) devoid of importance, meaning, or force | Synonyms: insignificant |
| unintelligent | (adjective) lacking intelligence | Synonyms: stupid |
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| univalent | (adjective) used of a chromosome that is not paired or united with its homologous chromosome during synapsis | - |
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| (adjective) having a valence of 1 | Synonyms: monovalent |
| universalist | (adjective) of or relating to or tending toward universalism | Synonyms: universalistic |
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| unjust | (adjective) violating principles of justice | - |
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| (adjective) not equitable or fair | Synonyms: inequitable |
| (adjective) not fair; marked by injustice or partiality or deception | Synonyms: unfair |
| unkempt | (adjective) not neatly combed | - |
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| (adjective) not properly maintained or cared for | - |
| unkept | (adjective) (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded | Synonyms: broken |
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| unlit | (adjective) not set afire or burning | Synonyms: unlighted |
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| (adjective) without illumination | Synonyms: lightless, unilluminated, unlighted |
| unobservant | (adjective) not consciously observing | Synonyms: unseeing |
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| unpleasant | (adjective) offensive or disagreeable; causing discomfort or unhappiness | - |
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| unquiet | (adjective) characterized by unrest or disorder | - |
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| (adjective) causing or fraught with or showing anxiety | Synonyms: anxious, nervous, queasy, uneasy |
| unrepentant | (adjective) not penitent or remorseful | Synonyms: impenitent, unremorseful |
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| (adjective) stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing | Synonyms: cussed, obdurate, obstinate |
| unresistant | (adjective) (often followed by `to') likely to be affected with | Synonyms: liable, nonimmune, nonresistant |
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| unreverberant | (adjective) not reverberant; lacking a tendency to reverberate | Synonyms: nonresonant |
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| unsent | (adjective) not dispatched or transmitted | - |
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| unsought | (adjective) not desired | Synonyms: undesired |
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| unspent | (adjective) (of financial resources) not spent | Synonyms: unexpended |
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| unspoilt | (adjective) not left to spoil | Synonyms: good, unspoiled |
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| unsweet | (adjective) distasteful | - |
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| (adjective) (of champagne) moderately dry | Synonyms: sec |
| unswept | (adjective) not swept or having sweep | - |
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| (adjective) not having been swept | - |
| untaught | (adjective) lacking in schooling | Synonyms: unschooled, untutored |
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| unthought | (adjective) so unexpected as to have not been imagined | Synonyms: unhoped-for, unhoped, unthought-of |
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| unvigilant | (adjective) not alert to what is potentially dangerous | Synonyms: unalert, unwatchful |
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| upbeat | (adjective) pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic | Synonyms: cheerful, pollyannaish |
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| upfront | (adjective) frank and honest | - |
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