| statutory | (adjective) relating to or created by statutes | - |
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| (adjective) prescribed or authorized by or punishable under a statute | - |
| steady | (adjective) not subject to change or variation especially in behavior | - |
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| (adjective) relating to a person who does something regularly | Synonyms: regular |
| (adjective) marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable | Synonyms: firm, steadfast, stiff, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering |
| (adjective) securely in position; not shaky | - |
| (adjective) not liable to fluctuate or especially to fall | Synonyms: firm, unfluctuating |
| (adjective) not easily excited or upset | - |
| stealthy | (adjective) marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed | Synonyms: furtive, sneak, sneaky, surreptitious |
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| steamy | (adjective) feeling great sexual desire | Synonyms: aroused, horny, randy, ruttish, turned on |
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| (adjective) hot or warm and humid | Synonyms: muggy, sticky |
| (adjective) filled with steam or emitting moisture in the form of vapor or mist | Synonyms: steaming |
| steely | (adjective) resembling steel in hardness | - |
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| (adjective) resembling steel as in hardness | - |
| sternutatory | (adjective) tending to cause sneezing | - |
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| (adjective) causing sneezing | Synonyms: sternutative |
| sticky | (adjective) having the sticky properties of an adhesive | Synonyms: gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, viscid, viscous |
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| (adjective) hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment | Synonyms: awkward, embarrassing, unenviable |
| (adjective) covered with an adhesive material | - |
| (adjective) hot or warm and humid | Synonyms: muggy, steamy |
| (adjective) moist as with undried perspiration and with clothing sticking to the body | - |
| stilly | (adjective) (poetic) still or calm | - |
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| stingy | (adjective) unwilling to spend (money, time, resources, etc.) | Synonyms: ungenerous |
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| (adjective) deficient in amount or quality or extent | Synonyms: meager, meagerly, meagre, scrimpy |
| stinky | (adjective) having an unpleasant smell | Synonyms: ill-smelling, malodorous, malodourous, unpleasant-smelling |
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| (adjective) very bad | Synonyms: crappy, icky, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinking |
| stipendiary | (adjective) pertaining to or of the nature of a stipend or allowance | - |
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| (adjective) for which money is paid | Synonyms: compensable, paying, remunerative, salaried |
| (adjective) receiving or eligible for compensation | Synonyms: compensated, remunerated, salaried |
| stipulatory | (adjective) constituted or contracted by stipulation or agreement | Synonyms: agreed upon |
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| stocky | (adjective) having a short and solid form or stature | Synonyms: compact, heavyset, thick, thickset |
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| stodgy | (adjective) excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull | Synonyms: stuffy |
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| (adjective) heavy and starchy and hard to digest | - |
| (adjective) (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned | Synonyms: fogyish, moss-grown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud |
| stony | (adjective) hard as granite | Synonyms: granitelike, granitic, rocklike |
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| (adjective) showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings | Synonyms: flint, flinty, granitic, obdurate |
| (adjective) abounding in rocks or stones | Synonyms: bouldered, bouldery, rocky |
| stormy | (adjective) (especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by violent emotions or behavior | Synonyms: tempestuous |
| straggly | (adjective) growing or spreading sparsely or irregularly | - |
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| (adjective) spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly | Synonyms: rambling, sprawling, straggling |
| straightaway | (adjective) performed with little or no delay | Synonyms: immediate, prompt, quick |
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| stray | (adjective) (of an animal) having no home or having wandered away from home | - |
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| (adjective) not close together in time | Synonyms: isolated |
| streaky | (adjective) marked with or as if with stripes or linear discolorations | Synonyms: streaked |
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| stretchy | (adjective) capable of being easily stretched and resuming former size or shape | Synonyms: stretchable |
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| stringy | (adjective) consisting of or containing string or strings | - |
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| (adjective) forming viscous or glutinous threads | Synonyms: ropey, ropy, thready |
| (adjective) lean and sinewy | Synonyms: wiry |
| (adjective) (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew | Synonyms: fibrous, sinewy, unchewable |
| stripy | (adjective) marked or decorated with stripes | Synonyms: striped |
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| stroppy | (adjective) obstreperous | Synonyms: bolshy |
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| stubbly | (adjective) having a short growth of beard | Synonyms: bestubbled, stubbled |
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| stubby | (adjective) short and blunt | - |
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| stuffy | (adjective) excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull | Synonyms: stodgy |
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| (adjective) affected with a sensation of stoppage or obstruction | - |
| (adjective) lacking fresh air | Synonyms: airless, close, unaired |
| stumpy | (adjective) short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature | Synonyms: chunky, dumpy, low-set, squat, squatty |
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| sturdy | (adjective) not making concessions | Synonyms: inflexible, uncompromising |
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| (adjective) having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships | Synonyms: hardy, stalwart, stout |
| (adjective) substantially made or constructed | Synonyms: tough |
| subliterary | (adjective) not written as or intended to be literature | - |
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| sublunary | (adjective) situated between the earth and the moon | Synonyms: cislunar, sublunar |
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| (adjective) of this earth | Synonyms: sublunar, terrestrial |
| subsidiary | (adjective) functioning in a supporting capacity | Synonyms: auxiliary, supplemental, supplementary |
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| sudsy | (adjective) resembling lather or covered with lather | Synonyms: lathery |
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| suety | (adjective) like or full of suet | - |
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| sugary | (adjective) containing sugar | - |
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| sulky | (adjective) depressingly dark | Synonyms: gloomful, glooming, gloomy |
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| (adjective) sullen or moody | Synonyms: huffish |
| (adjective) slow or slothful | Synonyms: sluggish |
| sultry | (adjective) characterized by oppressive heat and humidity | Synonyms: stifling, sulfurous, sulphurous |
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| (adjective) sexually exciting or gratifying | Synonyms: sensual |
| summary | (adjective) briefly giving the gist of something | Synonyms: compact, compendious, succinct |
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| (adjective) performed speedily and without formality | Synonyms: drumhead |
| summery | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of or occurring in summer | - |
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| sumptuary | (adjective) regulating or controlling expenditure or personal behavior | - |
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| sundry | (adjective) consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds | Synonyms: assorted, miscellaneous, mixed, motley |
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| sunny | (adjective) bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer | Synonyms: cheery, gay |
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| supererogatory | (adjective) more than is needed, desired, or required | Synonyms: excess, extra, redundant, spare, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus |
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| superlunary | (adjective) situated beyond the moon or its orbit around the earth | Synonyms: superlunar, translunar, translunary |
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| (adjective) unworldly or ethereal | Synonyms: superlunar, translunar, translunary |
| supernumerary | (adjective) more than is needed, desired, or required | Synonyms: excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, surplus |
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| supervisory | (adjective) of or limited to or involving supervision | - |
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| supplementary | (adjective) added to complete or make up a deficiency | Synonyms: supplemental |
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| (adjective) functioning in a supporting capacity | Synonyms: auxiliary, subsidiary, supplemental |
| supplicatory | (adjective) humbly entreating | Synonyms: suppliant, supplicant |
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| surly | (adjective) inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace | Synonyms: ugly |
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| swampy | (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, waterlogged |
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| swanky | (adjective) imposingly fashionable and elegant | Synonyms: swank |
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| swarthy | (adjective) naturally having skin of a dark color | Synonyms: dark-skinned, dusky, swart |
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| sweltry | (adjective) excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and faintness | Synonyms: sweltering |
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| swingy | (adjective) characterized by a buoyant rhythm | Synonyms: lilting, swinging, tripping |
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| swishy | (adjective) resembling a sustained `sh' or soft whistle | - |
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| syrupy | (adjective) with honey added | Synonyms: honeyed, honied |
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| (adjective) overly sweet | Synonyms: cloying, saccharine, treacly |
| (adjective) having a relatively high resistance to flow | Synonyms: viscous |
| tabby | (adjective) having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats | Synonyms: brinded, brindle, brindled |
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| tacky | (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
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| (adjective) (of a glutinous liquid such as paint) not completely dried and slightly sticky to the touch | - |
| talky | (adjective) full of trivial conversation | Synonyms: chatty, gabby, garrulous, loquacious, talkative |
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| tangy | (adjective) tasting sour like a lemon | Synonyms: lemonlike, lemony, sourish, tart |
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| tardy | (adjective) after the expected or usual time; delayed | Synonyms: belated, late |
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| tarry | (adjective) having the characteristics of pitch or tar | Synonyms: pitchy, resinous, resiny |
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| tasty | (adjective) pleasing to the sense of taste | - |
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| tatty | (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tawdry, trashy |
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| (adjective) showing signs of wear and tear | Synonyms: moth-eaten, ratty, shabby |
| tawdry | (adjective) made of inferior workmanship and materials | Synonyms: cheapjack, shoddy |
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| (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, trashy |
| tawny | (adjective) of a light brown to brownish orange color; the color of tanned leather | Synonyms: tawny-brown |
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| tearaway | (adjective) characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | Synonyms: brainish, hotheaded, impetuous, impulsive, madcap |
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| teary | (adjective) with eyes full of tears | Synonyms: teary-eyed, watery-eyed |
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| techy | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, testy, tetchy |
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| teensy | (adjective) (used informally) little or tiny | Synonyms: bittie, bitty, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, teensy-weensy, teentsy, teeny-weeny, teeny, wee, weensy, weeny |
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| teentsy | (adjective) (used informally) little or tiny | Synonyms: bittie, bitty, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, teensy-weensy, teensy, teeny-weeny, teeny, wee, weensy, weeny |
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| teeny | (adjective) (used informally) little or tiny | Synonyms: bittie, bitty, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, teensy-weensy, teensy, teentsy, teeny-weeny, wee, weensy, weeny |
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| temporary | (adjective) not permanent; not lasting | Synonyms: impermanent |
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| (adjective) lacking continuity or regularity | Synonyms: irregular |
| ternary | (adjective) having three units or components or elements | Synonyms: treble, triple, triplex |
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| tertiary | (adjective) coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position | Synonyms: 3rd, third |
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| testamentary | (adjective) of or relating to a will or testament or bequeathed by a will or testament | - |
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| testy | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, tetchy |
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| tetchy | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy |
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| thirsty | (adjective) feeling a need or desire to drink | - |
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| (adjective) able to take in large quantities of moisture | - |
| (adjective) (usually followed by `for') extremely desirous | Synonyms: athirst, hungry |
| (adjective) needing moisture | - |
| thirty | (adjective) being ten more than twenty | Synonyms: 30, xxx |
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| thorny | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny |
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| (adjective) bristling with perplexities | - |
| thready | (adjective) forming viscous or glutinous threads | Synonyms: ropey, ropy, stringy |
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| (adjective) thin in diameter; resembling a thread | Synonyms: filamentlike, filamentous, filiform, threadlike |
| threepenny | (adjective) of trifling worth | Synonyms: sixpenny, tuppeny, two-a-penny, twopenny-halfpenny, twopenny |
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| (adjective) used of nail size; 1 1/4 in long | - |
| thrifty | (adjective) careful and diligent in the use of resources | - |
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| (adjective) mindful of the future in spending money | Synonyms: careful |
| throaty | (adjective) sounding as if pronounced low in the throat | - |
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| throwaway | (adjective) intended to be thrown away after use | - |
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| (adjective) thrown away | Synonyms: cast-off, discarded, thrown-away |
| thundery | (adjective) loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss | Synonyms: deafening, earsplitting, thunderous |
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| (adjective) accompanied with thunder | - |
| tiddly | (adjective) slightly intoxicated | Synonyms: potty, tipsy |
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| tidy | (adjective) marked by order and cleanliness in appearance or habits | - |
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| (adjective) large in amount or extent or degree | Synonyms: goodish, goodly, healthy, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable |
| (adjective) (of hair) neat and tidy | Synonyms: kempt |
| timely | (adjective) done or happening at the appropriate or proper time | Synonyms: seasonable, well-timed, well timed |
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| (adjective) before a time limit expires | - |
| tinkly | (adjective) like the short high ringing sound of a small bell | Synonyms: tinkling |
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| tinny | (adjective) of or containing tin | - |
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| (adjective) of very poor quality; flimsy | Synonyms: bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy |
| (adjective) thin and metallic in sound; lacking resonance | - |
| tinselly | (adjective) glittering with gold or silver | Synonyms: clinquant, tinseled |
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| tiny | (adjective) very small | Synonyms: bantam, diminutive, flyspeck, lilliputian, midget, petite |
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| tippy | (adjective) (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail | Synonyms: crank, cranky, tender |
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| tipsy | (adjective) slightly intoxicated | Synonyms: potty, tiddly |
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| (adjective) unstable and prone to tip as if intoxicated | - |
| titulary | (adjective) of or relating to a legal title to something | Synonyms: titular |
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| toothy | (adjective) having or showing prominent teeth | - |
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| tottery | (adjective) unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age | Synonyms: tottering |
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| touchy | (adjective) difficult to handle; requiring great tact | Synonyms: delicate, ticklish |
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| (adjective) quick to take offense | Synonyms: feisty, huffy, thin-skinned |