disastrous | (adjective) (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin | Synonyms: black, calamitous, fatal, fateful |
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discomycetous | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of fungi of the subclass Discomycetes | - |
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discontinuous | (adjective) not continuing without interruption in time or space | Synonyms: noncontinuous |
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(adjective) of a function or curve; possessing one or more discontinuities | - |
discourteous | (adjective) showing no courtesy; rude | - |
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(adjective) lacking social graces | Synonyms: ungracious |
disharmonious | (adjective) lacking in harmony | Synonyms: discordant, dissonant, inharmonic |
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disingenuous | (adjective) not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness | Synonyms: artful |
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disputatious | (adjective) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits | Synonyms: combative, contentious, disputative, litigious |
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dissentious | (adjective) dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion) | Synonyms: divisive, factious |
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dizygous | (adjective) derived from two separately fertilized eggs | Synonyms: dizygotic |
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dolorous | (adjective) showing sorrow | Synonyms: dolourous, lachrymose, tearful, weeping |
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dolourous | (adjective) showing sorrow | Synonyms: dolorous, lachrymose, tearful, weeping |
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drupaceous | (adjective) of or related to a drupe | - |
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dubious | (adjective) open to doubt or suspicion | Synonyms: doubtful, dubitable, in question |
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(adjective) fraught with uncertainty or doubt | Synonyms: doubtful |
(adjective) not convinced | - |
duplicitous | (adjective) marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another | Synonyms: ambidextrous, deceitful, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, Janus-faced, two-faced |
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duteous | (adjective) willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect | Synonyms: dutiful |
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edacious | (adjective) devouring or craving food in great quantities | Synonyms: esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish |
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edematous | (adjective) swollen with an excessive accumulation of fluid | Synonyms: dropsical |
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edentulous | (adjective) having lost teeth | - |
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efficacious | (adjective) marked by qualities giving the power to produce an intended effect | - |
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(adjective) producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect | Synonyms: effective, effectual |
egregious | (adjective) conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible | Synonyms: crying, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank |
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emeritus | (adjective) honorably retired from assigned duties and retaining your title along with the additional title `emeritus' as in `professor emeritus' | - |
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emphysematous | (adjective) relating to or resembling or being emphysema | - |
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emulous | (adjective) characterized by or arising from emulation or imitation | - |
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(adjective) eager to surpass others | Synonyms: rivalrous |
endogamous | (adjective) pertaining to or characterized by the custom of marrying only within the limits of a clan or tribe | Synonyms: endogamic |
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(adjective) characterized by or fit for fertilization by pollen from another flower of the same kind | Synonyms: endogamic |
endogenous | (adjective) derived or originating internally | Synonyms: endogenic |
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(adjective) of or resembling an endogen | - |
endovenous | (adjective) within or by means of a vein | Synonyms: intravenous |
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enormous | (adjective) extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree | Synonyms: tremendous |
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entomophilous | (adjective) of flowering plants (especially orchids etc) that are pollinated by insects | - |
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envious | (adjective) showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages | Synonyms: covetous, jealous |
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eponymous | (adjective) being or relating to or bearing the name of an eponym | Synonyms: eponymic |
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equanimous | (adjective) in full control of your faculties | Synonyms: collected, poised, self-collected, self-contained, self-possessed |
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erogenous | (adjective) sensitive to sexual stimulation | - |
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erroneous | (adjective) containing or characterized by error | - |
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erythematous | (adjective) relating to or characterized by erythema | - |
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estrous | (adjective) (of lower mammals) showing or in a state of estrus; in heat | - |
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euphonious | (adjective) having a pleasant sound | Synonyms: euphonous |
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(adjective) (of speech or dialect) pleasing in sound; not harsh or strident | - |
euphonous | (adjective) having a pleasant sound | Synonyms: euphonious |
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exiguous | (adjective) extremely scanty | - |
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exogamous | (adjective) pertaining to or characterized by the custom of marrying only outside the limits of a clan or tribe | Synonyms: exogamic |
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(adjective) characterized by or fit for fertilization by a flower that is not closely related | Synonyms: exogamic |
exogenous | (adjective) derived or originating externally | Synonyms: exogenic |
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expeditious | (adjective) marked by speed and efficiency | - |
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exsanguinous | (adjective) destitute of blood or apparently so | Synonyms: bloodless, exsanguine |
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extemporaneous | (adjective) with little or no preparation or forethought | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporary, extempore, impromptu, off-the-cuff, offhand, offhanded, unrehearsed |
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extraneous | (adjective) not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source | Synonyms: foreign |
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(adjective) not pertinent to the matter under consideration | Synonyms: immaterial, impertinent, orthogonal |
(adjective) coming from the outside | Synonyms: external, outside |
(adjective) not essential | - |
fabulous | (adjective) barely credible | - |
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(adjective) extremely pleasing | Synonyms: fab |
(adjective) based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity | Synonyms: mythic, mythical, mythologic, mythological |
facetious | (adjective) cleverly amusing in tone | Synonyms: bantering, tongue-in-cheek |
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factious | (adjective) dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion) | Synonyms: dissentious, divisive |
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factitious | (adjective) not produced by natural forces | - |
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fallacious | (adjective) involving deception | Synonyms: deceitful, fraudulent |
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(adjective) based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information | - |
(adjective) containing or based on a fallacy | Synonyms: unsound |
famous | (adjective) widely known and esteemed | Synonyms: celebrated, famed, far-famed, illustrious, notable, noted, renowned |
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fantabulous | (adjective) very good; of the highest quality | Synonyms: excellent, first-class, mean, ripping, splendid |
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farinaceous | (adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency | Synonyms: coarse-grained, grainy, granular, granulose, gritty, mealy |
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(adjective) resembling starch | Synonyms: amylaceous, amyloid, amyloidal, starchlike |
fastidious | (adjective) giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness | - |
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(adjective) having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures | Synonyms: exacting |
fatuous | (adjective) extremely silly or stupid | Synonyms: asinine, inane |
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felicitous | (adjective) exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style | - |
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(adjective) marked by good fortune | Synonyms: happy |
felonious | (adjective) involving or being or having the nature of a crime | Synonyms: criminal |
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ferocious | (adjective) marked by extreme and violent energy | Synonyms: fierce, furious, savage |
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ferrous | (adjective) of or relating to or containing iron | Synonyms: ferric |
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feverous | (adjective) having or affected by a fever | Synonyms: feverish |
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fibrinous | (adjective) characterized by the presence of fibrin | - |
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fibrocartilaginous | (adjective) of or relating to fibrocartilage | - |
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fibrous | (adjective) (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew | Synonyms: sinewy, stringy, unchewable |
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(adjective) having or resembling fibers especially fibers used in making cordage such as those of jute | Synonyms: hempen |
fictitious | (adjective) adopted in order to deceive | Synonyms: assumed, false, fictive, pretended, put on, sham |
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(adjective) formed or conceived by the imagination | Synonyms: fabricated, fancied, fictional |
filamentous | (adjective) thin in diameter; resembling a thread | Synonyms: filamentlike, filiform, threadlike, thready |
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fissiparous | (adjective) reproducing by fission | - |
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(adjective) having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude | Synonyms: breakaway, separatist |
fistulous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or resembling a fistula | - |
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(adjective) hollow and tube-shaped like a reed | Synonyms: fistular, fistulate |
flagitious | (adjective) shockingly brutal or cruel | Synonyms: atrocious, grievous, monstrous |
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(adjective) extremely wicked, deeply criminal | Synonyms: heinous |
flavorous | (adjective) full of flavor | Synonyms: flavorful, flavorsome, flavourful, flavourous, flavoursome, sapid, saporous |
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flavourous | (adjective) full of flavor | Synonyms: flavorful, flavorous, flavorsome, flavourful, flavoursome, sapid, saporous |
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flexuous | (adjective) having turns or windings | - |
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flirtatious | (adjective) like a coquette | Synonyms: coquettish |
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foliaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or resembling the leaf of a plant | - |
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(adjective) bearing numerous leaves | Synonyms: foliaged, foliose |
(adjective) (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata | Synonyms: foliate, foliated |
fortuitous | (adjective) occurring by happy chance | - |
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(adjective) having no cause or apparent cause | Synonyms: causeless, uncaused |
fossiliferous | (adjective) bearing or containing fossils | - |
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fractious | (adjective) unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome | - |
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(adjective) stubbornly resistant to authority or control | Synonyms: recalcitrant, refractory |
(adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
frivolous | (adjective) not serious in content or attitude or behavior | - |
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fugacious | (adjective) lasting a very short time | Synonyms: ephemeral, passing, short-lived, transient, transitory |
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fulgurous | (adjective) amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning | Synonyms: dazzling, eye-popping, fulgurant |
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fungous | (adjective) of or relating to fungi | Synonyms: fungal |
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furious | (adjective) marked by extreme anger | Synonyms: angered, enraged, infuriated, maddened |
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(adjective) (of the elements) as if showing violent anger | Synonyms: angry, raging, tempestuous, wild |
(adjective) marked by extreme and violent energy | Synonyms: ferocious, fierce, savage |
fuscous | (adjective) of something having a dusky brownish grey color | Synonyms: taupe |
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gallinaceous | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a gallinacean | - |
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gamopetalous | (adjective) having a corolla composed of partially or wholly fused petals forming a corolla shaped like a tube or funnel | Synonyms: sympetalous |
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gangrenous | (adjective) suffering from tissue death | Synonyms: mortified |
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garrulous | (adjective) full of trivial conversation | Synonyms: chatty, gabby, loquacious, talkative, talky |
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gaseous | (adjective) existing as or having characteristics of a gas | - |
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gelatinous | (adjective) thick like gelatin | Synonyms: gelatinlike, jellylike |
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gemmiferous | (adjective) bearing or reproducing by a gemma | - |
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generous | (adjective) willing to give and share unstintingly | - |
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(adjective) not petty in character and mind | - |
(adjective) more than is usual or necessary | - |
geosynchronous | (adjective) of or having an orbit with a fixed period of 24 hours (although the position in the orbit may not be fixed with respect to the earth) | - |
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gibbous | (adjective) (used of the moon) more than half full | Synonyms: gibbose |
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(adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookback, crookbacked, humpbacked, humped, hunchbacked, kyphotic |
glabrous | (adjective) having no hair or similar growth; smooth | - |
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glamorous | (adjective) having an air of allure, romance and excitement | Synonyms: glamourous |
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glamourous | (adjective) having an air of allure, romance and excitement | Synonyms: glamorous |
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glaucous | (adjective) having a frosted look from a powdery coating, as on plants | - |
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glorious | (adjective) having or deserving or conferring glory | - |
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(adjective) having great beauty and splendor | Synonyms: resplendent, splendid, splendiferous |
(adjective) characterized by grandeur | Synonyms: brilliant, magnificent, splendid |
glutinous | (adjective) having the sticky properties of an adhesive | Synonyms: gluey, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous |
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gluttonous | (adjective) given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink | - |
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gorgeous | (adjective) dazzlingly beautiful | - |
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gracious | (adjective) characterized by charm, good taste, and generosity of spirit | - |
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(adjective) characterized by kindness and warm courtesy especially of a king to his subjects | Synonyms: benignant |
(adjective) exhibiting courtesy and politeness | Synonyms: courteous, nice |
(adjective) disposed to bestow favors | - |