| rusty | (adjective) of the brown color of rust | Synonyms: rust-brown, rust |
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| (adjective) ancient | Synonyms: hoary |
| (adjective) covered with or consisting of rust | - |
| (adjective) impaired in skill by neglect | Synonyms: out of practice |
| rutty | (adjective) full of ruts | Synonyms: rutted |
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| saintly | (adjective) marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint | Synonyms: angelic, angelical, beatific, sainted, saintlike |
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| salivary | (adjective) of or relating to saliva | - |
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| salty | (adjective) containing or filled with salt | - |
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| (adjective) engagingly stimulating or provocative | Synonyms: piquant |
| (adjective) one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water | - |
| salutary | (adjective) tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health | Synonyms: good |
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| sandpapery | (adjective) having the abrasive texture of sandpaper | - |
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| sandy | (adjective) resembling or containing or abounding in sand; or growing in sandy areas | Synonyms: arenaceous, sandlike |
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| (adjective) of hair color; pale yellowish to yellowish brown | Synonyms: flaxen |
| sanguinary | (adjective) marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed | Synonyms: bloodthirsty, bloody-minded |
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| (adjective) accompanied by bloodshed | Synonyms: butcherly, gory, sanguineous, slaughterous |
| sanitary | (adjective) free from filth and pathogens | Synonyms: healthful |
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| sappy | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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| (adjective) abounding in sap | - |
| sassy | (adjective) improperly forward or bold | Synonyms: fresh, impertinent, impudent, overbold, saucy, smart, wise |
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| satiny | (adjective) having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk | Synonyms: silken, silklike, silky, sleek, slick |
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| satisfactory | (adjective) giving satisfaction | - |
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| (adjective) meeting requirements | Synonyms: acceptable, decent |
| saucy | (adjective) improperly forward or bold | Synonyms: fresh, impertinent, impudent, overbold, sassy, smart, wise |
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| (adjective) characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality | Synonyms: impertinent, irreverent, pert |
| savory | (adjective) morally wholesome or acceptable | Synonyms: savoury |
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| (adjective) having a pleasant taste | Synonyms: mouth-watering, savoury |
| (adjective) having an agreeably pungent taste | Synonyms: piquant, savoury, zesty |
| savoury | (adjective) morally wholesome or acceptable | Synonyms: savory |
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| (adjective) having a pleasant taste | Synonyms: mouth-watering, savory |
| (adjective) having an agreeably pungent taste | Synonyms: piquant, savory, zesty |
| scabby | (adjective) covered with scabs | - |
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| scaley | (adjective) having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles | Synonyms: scaled, scaly |
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| scaly | (adjective) having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles | Synonyms: scaled, scaley |
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| (adjective) rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf | Synonyms: lepidote, leprose, scabrous, scurfy |
| scanty | (adjective) lacking in magnitude or quantity | Synonyms: bare, spare |
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| (adjective) (of clothing) revealing the body | Synonyms: skimpy |
| scary | (adjective) provoking fear or terror | Synonyms: chilling, shivery, shuddery |
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| scatty | (adjective) lacking sense or discretion | Synonyms: rattlebrained, rattlepated, scatterbrained |
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| (adjective) lost in thought; showing preoccupation | Synonyms: absent, absentminded, abstracted |
| schmaltzy | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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| schmalzy | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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| scholarly | (adjective) characteristic of scholars or scholarship | - |
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| scoundrelly | (adjective) lacking principles or scruples | Synonyms: blackguardly, rascally, roguish |
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| scrabbly | (adjective) sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush | Synonyms: scrubby |
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| scraggly | (adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: boney, bony, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy |
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| (adjective) ragged, thin, or untidy in appearance | - |
| scraggy | (adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: boney, bony, scraggly, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy |
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| (adjective) having a sharply uneven surface or outline | Synonyms: jagged, jaggy |
| scrappy | (adjective) full of fighting spirit | - |
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| scratchy | (adjective) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound | Synonyms: grating, gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough |
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| (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, techy, testy, tetchy |
| (adjective) lacking consistency | Synonyms: spotty, uneven |
| (adjective) causing abrasion | Synonyms: abrasive |
| scrawny | (adjective) inferior in size or quality | Synonyms: scrubby, stunted |
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| (adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: boney, bony, scraggly, scraggy, skinny, underweight, weedy |
| screaky | (adjective) having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge | Synonyms: screechy, squeaking, squeaky, squealing |
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| (adjective) having a rasping or grating sound | Synonyms: creaky |
| screechy | (adjective) having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge | Synonyms: screaky, squeaking, squeaky, squealing |
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| screwy | (adjective) not behaving normally | Synonyms: screw-loose |
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| scrimpy | (adjective) deficient in amount or quality or extent | Synonyms: meager, meagerly, meagre, stingy |
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| scrimy | (adjective) dirty and disgusting | - |
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| (adjective) petty or reluctant in giving or spending | Synonyms: grudging, niggardly |
| scrubby | (adjective) inferior in size or quality | Synonyms: scrawny, stunted |
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| (adjective) sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush | Synonyms: scrabbly |
| scruffy | (adjective) shabby and untidy | Synonyms: seedy |
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| scummy | (adjective) of the most contemptible kind | Synonyms: abject, low-down, low, miserable, scurvy |
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| (adjective) covered with scum | - |
| scurfy | (adjective) having or producing or covered with scurf | - |
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| (adjective) rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf | Synonyms: lepidote, leprose, scabrous, scaly |
| scurvy | (adjective) of the most contemptible kind | Synonyms: abject, low-down, low, miserable, scummy |
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| seamanly | (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a seaman; indicating competent seamanship | Synonyms: seamanlike |
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| seamy | (adjective) morally degraded | Synonyms: seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid |
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| (adjective) showing a seam | - |
| seaworthy | (adjective) fit for a sea voyage | - |
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| secondary | (adjective) being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate | - |
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| (adjective) depending on or incidental to what is original or primary | - |
| (adjective) inferior in rank or status | Synonyms: junior-grade, lower-ranking, lowly, petty, subaltern |
| (adjective) not of major importance | - |
| (adjective) belonging to a lower class or rank | - |
| secretory | (adjective) of or relating to or producing a secretion | - |
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| sedentary | (adjective) requiring sitting or little activity | - |
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| sedgy | (adjective) covered with sedges (grasslike marsh plants) | - |
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| sedimentary | (adjective) produced by the action of water | Synonyms: aqueous |
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| (adjective) resembling or containing or formed by the accumulation of sediment | - |
| seedy | (adjective) full of seeds | - |
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| (adjective) morally degraded | Synonyms: seamy, sleazy, sordid, squalid |
| (adjective) somewhat ill or prone to illness | Synonyms: ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, sickly, under the weather, unwell |
| (adjective) shabby and untidy | Synonyms: scruffy |
| seemly | (adjective) according with custom or propriety | Synonyms: becoming, comely, comme il faut, decorous |
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| semicentenary | (adjective) of or relating to or marking the 50th anniversary | Synonyms: semicentennial |
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| semimonthly | (adjective) occurring twice a month | Synonyms: bimonthly |
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| semiweekly | (adjective) occurring twice a week | Synonyms: biweekly |
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| sensory | (adjective) involving or derived from the senses | Synonyms: sensorial |
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| (adjective) relating to or concerned in sensation | Synonyms: sensational |
| (adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system | Synonyms: centripetal, receptive |
| seventy | (adjective) being ten more than sixty | Synonyms: 70, lxx |
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| sexy | (adjective) marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest | - |
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| (adjective) stimulating sexual desire | Synonyms: aphrodisiac, aphrodisiacal |
| shabby | (adjective) mean and unworthy and despicable | - |
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| (adjective) showing signs of wear and tear | Synonyms: moth-eaten, ratty, tatty |
| shadowy | (adjective) lacking clarity or distinctness | Synonyms: dim, faint, vague, wispy |
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| (adjective) lacking in substance | Synonyms: wraithlike |
| (adjective) filled with shade | Synonyms: shadowed, shady, umbrageous |
| shady | (adjective) quiet, dark, or concealed | - |
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| (adjective) of questionable honesty or legality | - |
| (adjective) not as expected | Synonyms: fishy, funny, suspect, suspicious |
| (adjective) filled with shade | Synonyms: shadowed, shadowy, umbrageous |
| shaggy | (adjective) having a very rough nap or covered with hanging shags | Synonyms: shagged |
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| (adjective) used of hair; thick and poorly groomed | Synonyms: bushy, shaggy-coated, shaggy-haired |
| shaky | (adjective) not secure; beset with difficulties | Synonyms: precarious |
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| (adjective) inclined to shake as from weakness or defect | Synonyms: rickety, wobbly, wonky |
| (adjective) vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze | Synonyms: shivering, trembling |
| shapely | (adjective) having a well-proportioned and pleasing shape | - |
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| sheeny | (adjective) reflecting light | Synonyms: glistening, glossy, lustrous, shining, shiny |
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| shelfy | (adjective) full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals | Synonyms: reefy, shelvy, shoaly |
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| shelvy | (adjective) full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals | Synonyms: reefy, shelfy, shoaly |
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| shifty | (adjective) changing position or direction | Synonyms: shifting |
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| (adjective) characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive | Synonyms: devious |
| shimmery | (adjective) glistening tremulously | - |
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| shingly | (adjective) abounding in small stones | Synonyms: gravelly, pebbly |
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| shiny | (adjective) having a shiny surface or coating | Synonyms: glazed |
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| (adjective) reflecting light | Synonyms: glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shining |
| (adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: bright, burnished, lustrous, shining |
| shirty | (adjective) (British informal) ill-tempered or annoyed | Synonyms: snorty |
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| shitty | (adjective) very bad | Synonyms: crappy, icky, lousy, rotten, stinking, stinky |
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| shivery | (adjective) provoking fear or terror | Synonyms: chilling, scary, shuddery |
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| (adjective) cold enough to cause shivers | - |
| shoaly | (adjective) full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals | Synonyms: reefy, shelfy, shelvy |
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| shoddy | (adjective) unethical or dishonest | Synonyms: dirty, sordid |
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| (adjective) made of inferior workmanship and materials | Synonyms: cheapjack, tawdry |
| showery | (adjective) (of weather) wet by periods of rain | Synonyms: rainy |
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| showy | (adjective) superficially attractive and stylish; suggesting wealth or expense | Synonyms: glossy |
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| (adjective) (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display | Synonyms: flashy, gaudy, jazzy, sporty |
| (adjective) marked by ostentation but often tasteless | Synonyms: flamboyant, splashy |
| (adjective) displaying brilliance and virtuosity | - |
| shrimpy | (adjective) (used especially of persons) of inferior size | Synonyms: puny, runty |
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| shrubby | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a shrub | Synonyms: fruticose, fruticulose |
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| shuddery | (adjective) provoking fear or terror | Synonyms: chilling, scary, shivery |
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| shy | (adjective) lacking self-confidence | Synonyms: diffident, timid, unsure |
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| (adjective) short | - |
| (adjective) wary and distrustful; disposed to avoid persons or things | - |
| sickly | (adjective) somewhat ill or prone to illness | Synonyms: ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, seedy, under the weather, unwell |
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| (adjective) unhealthy looking | Synonyms: sallow |
| sightly | (adjective) very pleasing to the eye | Synonyms: bonnie, bonny, comely, fair |
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| silky | (adjective) having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk | Synonyms: satiny, silken, silklike, sleek, slick |
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| silly | (adjective) dazed from or as if from repeated blows | Synonyms: punch-drunk, slaphappy |
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| (adjective) ludicrous, foolish | Synonyms: goofy, wacky, whacky, zany |
| (adjective) lacking seriousness; given to frivolity | Synonyms: airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, light-headed, lightheaded |
| (adjective) inspiring scornful pity | Synonyms: pathetic, ridiculous |
| silty | (adjective) full of silt | - |
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| silvery | (adjective) of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver | Synonyms: argent, silver, silverish |
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| (adjective) having the white lustrous sheen of silver | Synonyms: silver, silvern |
| (adjective) resembling or reminiscent of silver | Synonyms: silvern |
| sinewy | (adjective) consisting of tendons or resembling a tendon | Synonyms: tendinous |
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| (adjective) (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful | Synonyms: brawny, hefty, muscular, powerful |
| (adjective) (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew | Synonyms: fibrous, stringy, unchewable |
| sissy | (adjective) having unsuitable feminine qualities | Synonyms: cissy, effeminate, emasculate, epicene, sissified, sissyish |
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| sisterly | (adjective) like or characteristic of or befitting a sister | Synonyms: sisterlike, sororal |
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| sixpenny | (adjective) of trifling worth | Synonyms: threepenny, tuppeny, two-a-penny, twopenny-halfpenny, twopenny |
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| sixty | (adjective) being ten more than fifty | Synonyms: 60, lx, threescore |
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| skanky | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, wicked, yucky |
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| sketchy | (adjective) giving only major points; lacking completeness | Synonyms: unelaborated |
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| skimpy | (adjective) containing little excess | Synonyms: lean |
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| (adjective) (of clothing) revealing the body | Synonyms: scanty |
| skinny | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling skin | - |
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| (adjective) giving or spending with reluctance | Synonyms: cheeseparing, close, near, penny-pinching |
| (adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: boney, bony, scraggly, scraggy, scrawny, underweight, weedy |
| (adjective) fitting snugly | Synonyms: tight-fitting, tight fitting, tightfitting, tightly fitting |
| slangy | (adjective) constituting or expressed in slang or given to the use of slang | - |
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| slaphappy | (adjective) dazed from or as if from repeated blows | Synonyms: punch-drunk, silly |
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| (adjective) cheerfully irresponsible | Synonyms: carefree, devil-may-care, freewheeling, happy-go-lucky, harum-scarum |