| autofluorescent | (adjective) emitting light via self-induced fluorescence | - |
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| avirulent | (adjective) not virulent; unable to produce disease | - |
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| backmost | (adjective) located farthest to the rear | Synonyms: hindermost, hindmost, rearmost |
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| backswept | (adjective) used of hair | Synonyms: sweptback |
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| bankrupt | (adjective) financially ruined | Synonyms: belly-up |
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| barefoot | (adjective) without shoes | Synonyms: barefooted, shoeless |
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| beat | (adjective) very tired | Synonyms: all in, bushed, dead |
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| bedfast | (adjective) confined to bed (by illness) | Synonyms: bedrid, bedridden, sick-abed |
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| behaviorist | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behavioristic, behaviourist, behaviouristic |
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| behaviourist | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviorist, behavioristic, behaviouristic |
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| belligerent | (adjective) characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight | Synonyms: aggressive |
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| (adjective) engaged in war | Synonyms: militant, war-ridden, warring |
| beneficent | (adjective) doing or producing good | - |
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| (adjective) generous in assistance to the poor | Synonyms: benevolent, eleemosynary, philanthropic |
| benevolent | (adjective) intending or showing kindness | - |
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| (adjective) generous in assistance to the poor | Synonyms: beneficent, eleemosynary, philanthropic |
| (adjective) generous in providing aid to others | Synonyms: freehearted |
| (adjective) showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity | Synonyms: charitable, good-hearted, kindly, large-hearted, openhearted, sympathetic |
| benignant | (adjective) pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence | Synonyms: benign |
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| (adjective) characterized by kindness and warm courtesy especially of a king to his subjects | Synonyms: gracious |
| bent | (adjective) of metal e.g. | Synonyms: crumpled, dented |
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| (adjective) fixed in your purpose | Synonyms: bent on, dead set, out to |
| (adjective) used of the back and knees; stooped | Synonyms: bended |
| bereft | (adjective) sorrowful through loss or deprivation | Synonyms: bereaved, grief-stricken, grieving, mourning, sorrowing |
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| (adjective) unhappy in love; suffering from unrequited love | Synonyms: lovelorn, unbeloved |
| besprent | (adjective) sprinkled over | - |
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| best | (adjective) (superlative of `good') having the most positive qualities | - |
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| (adjective) (comparative and superlative of `well') wiser or more advantageous and hence advisable | Synonyms: better |
| bioluminescent | (adjective) (of living organisms) emitting light | - |
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| birefringent | (adjective) relating to or characterized by double refraction | - |
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| bittersweet | (adjective) tinged with sadness | - |
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| (adjective) having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness | Synonyms: semisweet |
| bivalent | (adjective) used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis | Synonyms: double |
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| (adjective) having a valence of two or having two valences | Synonyms: divalent |
| blanket | (adjective) broad in scope or content | Synonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, broad, encompassing, extensive, panoptic, wide |
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| blatant | (adjective) conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry | Synonyms: clamant, clamorous, strident, vociferous |
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| (adjective) without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious | Synonyms: blazing, conspicuous |
| blest | (adjective) highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace) | Synonyms: blessed |
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| bloodshot | (adjective) (of an eye) reddened as a result of locally congested blood vessels; inflamed | - |
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| blunt | (adjective) characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion | Synonyms: candid, forthright, frank, free-spoken, outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank, straight-from-the-shoulder |
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| (adjective) used of a knife or other blade; not sharp | - |
| (adjective) having a broad or rounded end | - |
| (adjective) devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment | Synonyms: crude, stark |
| bottommost | (adjective) farthest down | Synonyms: lowermost, nethermost |
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| bouffant | (adjective) being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing | Synonyms: puffy |
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| bowfront | (adjective) having an outward curving front | - |
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| braggart | (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: big, boastful, bragging, braggy, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
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| bright | (adjective) emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts | - |
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| (adjective) not made dim or less bright | Synonyms: undimmed |
| (adjective) likely to turn out well in the future | Synonyms: hopeful, promising |
| (adjective) having strong or striking color | Synonyms: brilliant, vivid |
| (adjective) splendid | - |
| (adjective) characterized by happiness or gladness | - |
| (adjective) characterized by quickness and ease in learning | Synonyms: smart |
| (adjective) having lots of light either natural or artificial | - |
| (adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: burnished, lustrous, shining, shiny |
| (adjective) clear and sharp and ringing | Synonyms: brilliant |
| brilliant | (adjective) full of light; shining intensely | - |
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| (adjective) having strong or striking color | Synonyms: bright, vivid |
| (adjective) characterized by grandeur | Synonyms: glorious, magnificent, splendid |
| (adjective) having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence | Synonyms: brainy, smart as a whip |
| (adjective) clear and sharp and ringing | Synonyms: bright |
| (adjective) of surpassing excellence | Synonyms: superb |
| brisant | (adjective) of or relating to the power (the shattering effect) of an explosive | - |
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| brunet | (adjective) marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes | Synonyms: brunette |
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| brut | (adjective) (of champagne) extremely dry | - |
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| built | (adjective) (used of soaps or cleaning agents) having a substance (an abrasive or filler) added to increase effectiveness | Synonyms: reinforced |
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| buoyant | (adjective) characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness | Synonyms: chirpy, perky |
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| (adjective) tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas | Synonyms: floaty |
| burnt | (adjective) ruined by overcooking | Synonyms: burned |
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| (adjective) destroyed or badly damaged by fire | Synonyms: burned-out, burned-over, burned, burnt-out |
| (adjective) treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point | Synonyms: burned |
| bust | (adjective) lacking funds | Synonyms: broke, skint, stone-broke, stony-broke |
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| bypast | (adjective) well in the past; former | Synonyms: bygone, departed, foregone, gone |
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| cadent | (adjective) marked by a rhythmical cadence | Synonyms: cadenced |
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| calefacient | (adjective) producing the sensation of heat when applied to the body | Synonyms: warming |
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| calorifacient | (adjective) producing heat; usually used of foods | - |
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| candent | (adjective) emitting light as a result of being heated | Synonyms: incandescent |
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| candescent | (adjective) glowing from great heat | - |
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| canescent | (adjective) of greyish white | - |
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| (adjective) covered with fine whitish hairs or down | Synonyms: hoary |
| canonist | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of a body of rules and principles accepted as axiomatic; e.g. "canonist communism" | - |
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| capitalist | (adjective) favoring or practicing capitalism | Synonyms: capitalistic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to capitalism or capitalists | Synonyms: capitalistic |
| caulescent | (adjective) (of plants) producing a well-developed stem above ground | Synonyms: cauline, stemmed |
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| centralist | (adjective) advocating centralization | Synonyms: centralistic |
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| centrist | (adjective) supporting or pursuing a course of action that is neither liberal nor conservative | Synonyms: middle-of-the-road |
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| chatoyant | (adjective) varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles | Synonyms: changeable, iridescent, shot |
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| chemiluminescent | (adjective) relating to the phenomenon of chemiluminescence | - |
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| chestnut | (adjective) (of hair or feathers) of a golden brown to reddish brown color | - |
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| circumferent | (adjective) closely encircling | Synonyms: encompassing, surrounding |
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| circumspect | (adjective) heedful of potential consequences | Synonyms: discreet |
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| clairvoyant | (adjective) perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses | - |
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| (adjective) foreseeing the future | Synonyms: precognitive, second-sighted |
| clamant | (adjective) demanding attention | Synonyms: crying, exigent, insistent, instant |
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| (adjective) conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry | Synonyms: blatant, clamorous, strident, vociferous |
| cleft | (adjective) having one or more indentations reaching nearly to the midrib | Synonyms: dissected |
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| (adjective) split or divided | - |
| clement | (adjective) (used of persons or behavior) inclined to show mercy | - |
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| (adjective) (of weather or climate) physically mild | - |
| clinquant | (adjective) glittering with gold or silver | Synonyms: tinseled, tinselly |
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| coalescent | (adjective) growing together, fusing | Synonyms: coalescing |
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| coexistent | (adjective) existing at the same time | Synonyms: coexisting |
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| cogent | (adjective) powerfully persuasive | Synonyms: telling, weighty |
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| cognisant | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception | Synonyms: aware, cognizant |
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| cognizant | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception | Synonyms: aware, cognisant |
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| coherent | (adjective) marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: consistent, logical, ordered |
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| (adjective) (physics) of waves having a constant phase relation | - |
| (adjective) sticking together | Synonyms: tenacious |
| (adjective) capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner | Synonyms: logical, lucid |
| coincident | (adjective) matching point for point | - |
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| (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincidental, coinciding, concurrent, cooccurring, simultaneous |
| collect | (adjective) payable by the recipient on delivery | Synonyms: cod |
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| collectivist | (adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivised, collectivistic, collectivized, state-controlled |
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| colorfast | (adjective) having color that is resistant to fading or running | - |
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| combatant | (adjective) engaging in or ready for combat | - |
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| comburant | (adjective) supporting combustion | Synonyms: comburent, combustive |
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| comburent | (adjective) supporting combustion | Synonyms: comburant, combustive |
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| communist | (adjective) relating to or marked by communism | Synonyms: communistic |
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| compact | (adjective) closely and firmly united or packed together | - |
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| (adjective) briefly giving the gist of something | Synonyms: compendious, succinct, summary |
| (adjective) having a short and solid form or stature | Synonyms: heavyset, stocky, thick, thickset |
| competent | (adjective) properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient | - |
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| (adjective) legally qualified or sufficient | - |
| (adjective) adequate, but not outstanding or exceptional | - |
| complacent | (adjective) contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions | Synonyms: self-complacent, self-satisfied |
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| complaisant | (adjective) showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others | Synonyms: obliging |
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| compliant | (adjective) inclined to comply | - |
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| complicit | (adjective) involved with others in an activity that is unlawful or morally wrong | - |
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| concomitant | (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, attendant, collateral, consequent, ensuant, incidental, resultant, sequent |
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| concordant | (adjective) being of the same opinion | Synonyms: concurring |
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| (adjective) in keeping | Synonyms: accordant, agreeable, conformable, consonant |
| concupiscent | (adjective) vigorously passionate | Synonyms: lustful, lusty |
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| concurrent | (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincident, coincidental, coinciding, cooccurring, simultaneous |
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| condolent | (adjective) expressing sympathy with a person who experienced the death of a loved one | - |
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| confident | (adjective) having or marked by confidence or assurance | - |
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| (adjective) not liable to error in judgment or action | Synonyms: sure-footed, surefooted |
| (adjective) persuaded of; very sure | Synonyms: convinced, positive |
| confluent | (adjective) flowing together | Synonyms: merging |
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| conformist | (adjective) marked by convention and conformity to customs or rules or styles | - |
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| (adjective) adhering to established customs or doctrines (especially in religion) | Synonyms: conforming |
| congruent | (adjective) coinciding when superimposed | - |
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| (adjective) corresponding in character or kind | Synonyms: congruous |
| conjoint | (adjective) consisting of two or more associated entities | Synonyms: conjoined |
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| conjunct | (adjective) progressing melodically by intervals of a second | - |
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| (adjective) involving the joint activity of two or more | Synonyms: concerted, conjunctive, cooperative, united |
| (adjective) bound in close association | - |
| consentient | (adjective) in complete agreement | Synonyms: consentaneous, unanimous |
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| consequent | (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, attendant, collateral, concomitant, ensuant, incidental, resultant, sequent |
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| consistent | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `with') in agreement or consistent or reliable | - |
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| (adjective) marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: coherent, logical, ordered |
| (adjective) capable of being reproduced | Synonyms: reproducible |
| (adjective) the same throughout in structure or composition | Synonyms: uniform |
| consonant | (adjective) in keeping | Synonyms: accordant, agreeable, concordant, conformable |
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| (adjective) involving or characterized by harmony | Synonyms: harmonic, harmonical, harmonised, harmonized |
| constant | (adjective) steadfast in purpose or devotion or affection | - |
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| (adjective) uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing | Synonyms: ceaseless, incessant, never-ending, perpetual, unceasing, unremitting |
| (adjective) unvarying in nature | Synonyms: changeless, invariant, unvarying |
| constituent | (adjective) constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup) | Synonyms: constitutional, constitutive, organic |
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| content | (adjective) satisfied or showing satisfaction with things as they are | Synonyms: contented |
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