| hydroxy | (adjective) being or containing a hydroxyl group | - |
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| icky | (adjective) soft and sticky | Synonyms: gooey |
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| (adjective) very bad | Synonyms: crappy, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky |
| icy | (adjective) extremely cold | Synonyms: arctic, frigid, gelid, glacial, polar |
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| (adjective) devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain | Synonyms: frigid, frosty, frozen, glacial, wintry |
| (adjective) covered with or containing or consisting of ice | - |
| (adjective) shiny and slick as with a thin coating of ice | - |
| iffy | (adjective) subject to accident or chance or change | Synonyms: chancy, flukey, fluky |
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| illusionary | (adjective) marked by or producing illusion | Synonyms: illusional |
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| illusory | (adjective) based on or having the nature of an illusion | Synonyms: illusive |
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| imaginary | (adjective) not based on fact; existing only in the imagination | Synonyms: fanciful, notional |
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| incendiary | (adjective) involving deliberate burning of property | - |
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| (adjective) capable of catching fire spontaneously or causing fires or burning readily | - |
| (adjective) arousing to action or rebellion | Synonyms: incitive, inflammatory, instigative, rabble-rousing, seditious |
| incriminatory | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminative, criminatory, incriminating |
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| inculpatory | (adjective) causing blame to be imputed to | Synonyms: inculpative |
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| indicatory | (adjective) (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly | Synonyms: indicative, revelatory, significative, suggestive |
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| inflammatory | (adjective) arousing to action or rebellion | Synonyms: incendiary, incitive, instigative, rabble-rousing, seditious |
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| (adjective) characterized or caused by inflammation | - |
| inflationary | (adjective) associated with or tending to cause increases in inflation | - |
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| informatory | (adjective) providing or conveying information | Synonyms: informative |
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| inframaxillary | (adjective) relating to the lower jaw | Synonyms: mandibular |
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| ingratiatory | (adjective) calculated to please or gain favor | Synonyms: ingratiating, insinuating |
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| (adjective) pleasingly persuasive or intended to persuade | Synonyms: coaxing |
| inhibitory | (adjective) restrictive of action | Synonyms: repressing, repressive |
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| initiatory | (adjective) serving to set in motion | Synonyms: first, inaugural, initiative, maiden |
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| inky | (adjective) of the color of black ink | Synonyms: ink-black, inky-black |
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| inquisitory | (adjective) diligent and thorough in inquiry or investigation | Synonyms: probing, searching |
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| insanitary | (adjective) not sanitary or healthful | Synonyms: unhealthful, unsanitary |
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| inspiratory | (adjective) pertaining to the drawing in phase of respiration | - |
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| insurrectionary | (adjective) of or relating to or given to insurrection | Synonyms: insurrectional |
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| integumentary | (adjective) of or relating to the integument | Synonyms: integumental |
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| intercalary | (adjective) having a day or month inserted to make the calendar year correspond to the solar year: | - |
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| interdisciplinary | (adjective) drawing from or characterized by participation of two or more fields of study | - |
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| interlocutory | (adjective) consisting of dialogue | - |
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| interplanetary | (adjective) between or among planets | - |
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| interrogatory | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of an interrogation | Synonyms: interrogative |
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| intrapulmonary | (adjective) being or occurring within a lung | - |
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| introductory | (adjective) serving as a base or starting point | Synonyms: basic |
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| (adjective) serving to open or begin | - |
| (adjective) serving as an introduction or preface | Synonyms: prefatorial, prefatory |
| investigatory | (adjective) designed to find information or ascertain facts | Synonyms: fact-finding, investigative |
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| invitatory | (adjective) conveying an invitation | - |
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| involuntary | (adjective) not subject to the control of the will | Synonyms: nonvoluntary, unvoluntary |
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| (adjective) controlled by the autonomic nervous system; without conscious control | - |
| itchy | (adjective) causing an irritating cutaneous sensation; being affect with an itch | - |
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| (adjective) nervous and unable to relax | Synonyms: antsy, fidgety, fretful, restless |
| jaggy | (adjective) having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed | Synonyms: erose, jagged, notched, toothed |
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| (adjective) having a sharply uneven surface or outline | Synonyms: jagged, scraggy |
| jangly | (adjective) like the discordant ringing of nonmusical metallic objects striking together | Synonyms: jangling |
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| jaunty | (adjective) having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air | Synonyms: chipper, debonair, debonaire |
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| (adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | Synonyms: dapper, dashing, natty, raffish, rakish, snappy, spiffy, spruce |
| jazzy | (adjective) (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display | Synonyms: flashy, gaudy, showy, sporty |
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| (adjective) resembling jazz (especially in its rhythm) | - |
| jerky | (adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: anserine, dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosey, goosy |
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| (adjective) marked by abrupt transitions | Synonyms: choppy |
| (adjective) lacking a steady rhythm | Synonyms: arrhythmic, jerking |
| jingly | (adjective) having a series of high-pitched ringing sounds like many small bells | Synonyms: jingling |
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| jittery | (adjective) characterized by jerky movements | - |
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| (adjective) being in a tense state | Synonyms: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive, uptight |
| jolly | (adjective) full of or showing high-spirited merriment | Synonyms: gay, jocund, jovial, merry, mirthful |
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| jolty | (adjective) causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements | Synonyms: bumpy, jolting, jumpy, rocky, rough |
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| jowly | (adjective) having sagging folds of flesh beneath the chin or lower jaw | Synonyms: double-chinned, loose-jowled |
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| juicy | (adjective) abounding in juice | - |
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| (adjective) lucrative | Synonyms: fat |
| (adjective) having strong sexual appeal | Synonyms: luscious, lush, red-hot, toothsome, voluptuous |
| (adjective) suggestive of sexual impropriety | Synonyms: blue, gamey, gamy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy |
| jumpy | (adjective) causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements | Synonyms: bumpy, jolting, jolty, rocky, rough |
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| (adjective) being in a tense state | Synonyms: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jittery, nervy, overstrung, restive, uptight |
| jungly | (adjective) overgrown with tropical vegetation | - |
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| justificatory | (adjective) attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing | Synonyms: defensive, justificative |
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| (adjective) providing justification | Synonyms: justificative, vindicatory |
| key | (adjective) serving as an essential component | Synonyms: cardinal, central, fundamental, primal |
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| kindly | (adjective) pleasant and agreeable | - |
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| (adjective) showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity | Synonyms: benevolent, charitable, good-hearted, large-hearted, openhearted, sympathetic |
| kingly | (adjective) having the rank of or resembling or befitting a king | Synonyms: kinglike |
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| kinky | (adjective) (used of sexual behavior) showing or appealing to bizarre or deviant tastes | Synonyms: perverted |
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| (adjective) (of hair) in small tight curls | Synonyms: crisp, frizzly, frizzy, nappy |
| (adjective) (informal) strikingly unconventional | Synonyms: far-out, offbeat, quirky, way-out |
| kitschy | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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| knightly | (adjective) being attentive to women like an ideal knight | Synonyms: chivalrous, gallant |
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| (adjective) characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: chivalric, mediaeval, medieval |
| knobbly | (adjective) having knobs | Synonyms: knobby |
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| knobby | (adjective) having knobs | Synonyms: knobbly |
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| knotty | (adjective) highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious | Synonyms: Byzantine, convoluted, involved, labyrinthine, tangled, tortuous |
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| (adjective) used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots | Synonyms: gnarled, gnarly, knobbed, knotted |
| (adjective) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | Synonyms: baffling, elusive, problematic, problematical, tough |
| (adjective) tangled in knots or snarls | Synonyms: snarled, snarly |
| kooky | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| lachrymatory | (adjective) relating to or prompting tears | Synonyms: lacrimatory |
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| lacrimatory | (adjective) relating to or prompting tears | Synonyms: lachrymatory |
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| lacy | (adjective) made of or resembling lace | Synonyms: lacelike |
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| (adjective) having open interstices or resembling a web | Synonyms: netlike, netted, webbed, webby, weblike |
| landlubberly | (adjective) inexperienced in seamanship | Synonyms: lubberly |
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| laniary | (adjective) of or relating to a pointed conical tooth | Synonyms: canine |
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| lanky | (adjective) tall and thin and having long slender limbs | Synonyms: gangling, gangly, rangy |
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| (adjective) tall and thin | Synonyms: gangling, gangly |
| lapidary | (adjective) of or relating to precious stones or the art of working with them | - |
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| lathery | (adjective) resembling lather or covered with lather | Synonyms: sudsy |
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| laudatory | (adjective) full of or giving praise | Synonyms: praiseful, praising |
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| lay | (adjective) not of or from a profession | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of those who are not members of the clergy | Synonyms: laic, secular |
| lazy | (adjective) disinclined to work or exertion | Synonyms: faineant, indolent, otiose, slothful, work-shy |
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| (adjective) moving slowly and gently | - |
| leafy | (adjective) having or covered with leaves | - |
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| leaky | (adjective) permitting the unwanted passage of fluids or gases | - |
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| (adjective) prone to communicate confidential information | Synonyms: blabbermouthed, talebearing, tattling |
| (adjective) used informally; unable to retain urine | - |
| leathery | (adjective) resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable | Synonyms: coriaceous, leathered, leatherlike |
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| leery | (adjective) openly distrustful and unwilling to confide | Synonyms: mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting, wary |
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| legendary | (adjective) so celebrated as to having taken on the nature of a legend | - |
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| (adjective) celebrated in fable or legend | Synonyms: fabled |
| leggy | (adjective) having long legs | Synonyms: long-legged, long-shanked |
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| (adjective) (of plants) having tall spindly stems | Synonyms: tall-growing |
| leisurely | (adjective) not hurried or forced | Synonyms: easy, easygoing |
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| lemony | (adjective) tasting sour like a lemon | Synonyms: lemonlike, sourish, tangy, tart |
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| lengthy | (adjective) relatively long in duration; tediously protracted | Synonyms: drawn-out, extended, prolonged, protracted |
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| levorotary | (adjective) rotating to the left | Synonyms: left-handed, levorotatory |
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| levorotatory | (adjective) rotating to the left | Synonyms: left-handed, levorotary |
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| likely | (adjective) has a good chance of being the case or of coming about | - |
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| (adjective) within the realm of credibility | - |
| (adjective) expected to become or be; in prospect | Synonyms: potential |
| literary | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of literature | - |
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| (adjective) appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing | - |
| (adjective) knowledgeable about literature | - |
| lively | (adjective) full of life and energy | - |
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| (adjective) full of spirit; full of life | Synonyms: vital |
| (adjective) elastic; rebounds readily | Synonyms: bouncy, live, resilient, springy |
| (adjective) quick and energetic | Synonyms: alert, brisk, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy |
| (adjective) filled with events or activity | - |
| (adjective) full of zest or vigor | Synonyms: racy |
| livery | (adjective) suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress | Synonyms: bilious, liverish |
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| loamy | (adjective) consisting of or having the character of loam | - |
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| loathly | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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| lofty | (adjective) of imposing height; especially standing out above others | Synonyms: eminent, soaring, towering |
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| (adjective) having or displaying great dignity or nobility | Synonyms: gallant, majestic, proud |
| (adjective) of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style | Synonyms: elevated, exalted, grand, high-flown, high-minded, idealistic, noble-minded, rarefied, rarified, sublime |
| logy | (adjective) stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion) | Synonyms: dazed, foggy, groggy, stuporous |
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| lonely | (adjective) marked by dejection from being alone | Synonyms: lonesome |
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| (adjective) lacking companions or companionship | Synonyms: alone, lone, solitary |
| (adjective) devoid of creatures | Synonyms: solitary, unfrequented |
| (adjective) characterized by or preferring solitude | Synonyms: lone, solitary |
| loony | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| loopy | (adjective) consisting of or covered with or having loops | - |
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| (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
| lordly | (adjective) of or befitting a lord | Synonyms: august, grand |
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| (adjective) having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy | Synonyms: disdainful, haughty, imperious, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering |
| lossy | (adjective) characterized by or causing dissipation of energy | - |
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| lousy | (adjective) very bad | Synonyms: crappy, icky, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky |
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| (adjective) infested with lice | - |
| (adjective) vile; despicable | Synonyms: dirty, filthy |
| lovely | (adjective) appealing to the emotions as well as the eye | - |
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| (adjective) lovable especially in a childlike or naive way | Synonyms: adorable, endearing |
| loverly | (adjective) like or in the manner of a lover | Synonyms: loverlike |
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| lowly | (adjective) low or inferior in station or quality | Synonyms: humble, low, modest, small |
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| (adjective) inferior in rank or status | Synonyms: junior-grade, lower-ranking, petty, secondary, subaltern |
| (adjective) of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense) | Synonyms: base, baseborn, humble |
| (adjective) used of unskilled work (especially domestic work) | Synonyms: humble, menial |
| lubberly | (adjective) inexperienced in seamanship | Synonyms: landlubberly |
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| (adjective) clumsy and unskilled | - |
| lucky | (adjective) having or bringing good fortune | - |
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| (adjective) occurring by chance | - |
| (adjective) presaging or likely to bring good luck or a good outcome | Synonyms: favorable, favourable, golden, prosperous |