| dependent | (adjective) relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed | - |
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| (adjective) (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence | Synonyms: subordinate |
| (adjective) addicted to a drug | Synonyms: dependant, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out |
| (adjective) contingent on something else | Synonyms: dependant, qualified |
| (adjective) being under the power or sovereignty of another or others | Synonyms: subject |
| (adjective) held from above and hanging down | Synonyms: pendant, pendent |
| depicted | (adjective) represented graphically by sketch or design or lines | Synonyms: pictured, portrayed |
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| depictive | (adjective) depicted in a recognizable manner | Synonyms: delineative |
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| depilatory | (adjective) able to remove hair or render hairless | - |
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| depilous | (adjective) completely hairless | - |
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| depletable | (adjective) capable of being depleted | - |
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| depleted | (adjective) no longer sufficient | Synonyms: low |
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| deplorable | (adjective) bad; unfortunate | Synonyms: distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry |
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| (adjective) of very poor quality or condition | Synonyms: execrable, miserable, woeful, wretched |
| (adjective) bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure | Synonyms: condemnable, criminal, reprehensible, vicious |
| depopulated | (adjective) having lost inhabitants as by war or disease | - |
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| depraved | (adjective) deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good | Synonyms: perverse, perverted, reprobate |
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| deprecating | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
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| deprecative | (adjective) given to expressing disapproval | - |
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| (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
| deprecatory | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
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| depreciating | (adjective) tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value | Synonyms: depreciative, depreciatory |
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| depreciative | (adjective) tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value | Synonyms: depreciating, depreciatory |
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| (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciatory, slighting |
| depreciatory | (adjective) tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value | Synonyms: depreciating, depreciative |
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| (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, slighting |
| depressant | (adjective) capable of depressing physiological or psychological activity or response by a chemical agent | - |
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| depressed | (adjective) filled with melancholy and despondency | Synonyms: blue, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low-spirited, low |
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| (adjective) lower than previously | Synonyms: down |
| (adjective) flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces | - |
| depressing | (adjective) causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy | Synonyms: cheerless, uncheerful |
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| deprived | (adjective) marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences | Synonyms: disadvantaged |
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| deranged | (adjective) driven insane | Synonyms: crazed, half-crazed |
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| derelict | (adjective) in deplorable condition | Synonyms: bedraggled, broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down |
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| (adjective) failing in what duty requires | Synonyms: delinquent, neglectful, remiss |
| (adjective) forsaken by owner or inhabitants | Synonyms: abandoned, deserted |
| (adjective) worn and broken down by hard use | Synonyms: creaky, decrepit, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone |
| derisive | (adjective) abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule | Synonyms: gibelike, jeering, mocking, taunting |
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| derisory | (adjective) so unreasonable as to invite derision | Synonyms: absurd, cockeyed, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous |
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| derivable | (adjective) capable of being derived | - |
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| derivational | (adjective) characterized by inflections indicating a semantic relation between a word and its base | - |
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| derivative | (adjective) resulting from or employing derivation | - |
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| derived | (adjective) formed or developed from something else; not original | - |
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| dermal | (adjective) of or relating to or located in the dermis | Synonyms: dermic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula | Synonyms: cuticular, epidermal, epidermic |
| (adjective) relating to or existing on or affecting the skin | Synonyms: cutaneal, cutaneous |
| dermatologic | (adjective) of or relating to or practicing dermatology | Synonyms: dermatological |
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| dermatological | (adjective) of or relating to or practicing dermatology | Synonyms: dermatologic |
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| dermic | (adjective) of or relating to or located in the dermis | Synonyms: dermal |
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| derogative | (adjective) expressive of low opinion | Synonyms: derogatory, disparaging |
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| derogatory | (adjective) expressive of low opinion | Synonyms: derogative, disparaging |
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| derp | (adjective) appearing silly or stupid especially in a cute manner | - |
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| descendant | (adjective) going or coming down | Synonyms: descendent |
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| (adjective) proceeding by descent from an ancestor | Synonyms: descendent |
| descendent | (adjective) going or coming down | Synonyms: descendant |
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| (adjective) proceeding by descent from an ancestor | Synonyms: descendant |
| descending | (adjective) coming down or downward | - |
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| describable | (adjective) capable of being described | - |
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| described | (adjective) represented in words especially with sharpness and detail | - |
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| descriptive | (adjective) of or relating to an approach to linguistic analysis that aims at the description of a language's forms, structures and usage | - |
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| (adjective) serving to describe or inform or characterized by description | - |
| desecrated | (adjective) treated with disrespect and contempt | - |
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| desegrated | (adjective) rid of segregation; having had segregation ended | Synonyms: nonsegregated, unsegregated |
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| desensitising | (adjective) making less susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli | Synonyms: desensitizing |
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| desensitizing | (adjective) making less susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli | Synonyms: desensitising |
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| deserted | (adjective) forsaken by owner or inhabitants | Synonyms: abandoned, derelict |
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| deserved | (adjective) properly deserved | Synonyms: merited |
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| deserving | (adjective) (often used ironically) worthy of being treated in a particular way | Synonyms: worth |
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| desiccate | (adjective) lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless | Synonyms: arid, desiccated |
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| desiccated | (adjective) thoroughly dried out | Synonyms: dried-out |
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| (adjective) lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless | Synonyms: arid, desiccate |
| (adjective) preserved by removing natural moisture | Synonyms: dehydrated, dried |
| designate | (adjective) appointed but not yet installed in office | - |
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| designative | (adjective) serving to designate | - |
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| designed | (adjective) done or made or performed with purpose and intent | Synonyms: intentional, unintentional |
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| designing | (adjective) concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest | Synonyms: scheming |
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| desirable | (adjective) worth having or seeking or achieving | - |
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| (adjective) worthy of being chosen especially as a spouse | Synonyms: suitable, worthy |
| desired | (adjective) wanted intensely | Synonyms: craved |
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| desirous | (adjective) having or expressing desire for something | Synonyms: wishful |
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| deskbound | (adjective) restricted to working in an office rather than in an active physical capacity | Synonyms: desk-bound |
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| desolate | (adjective) crushed by grief | - |
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| (adjective) providing no shelter or sustenance | Synonyms: bare, barren, bleak, stark |
| despairing | (adjective) arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope | Synonyms: desperate |
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| desperate | (adjective) showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort | Synonyms: heroic |
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| (adjective) fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless | Synonyms: dire |
| (adjective) arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope | Synonyms: despairing |
| (adjective) showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire | - |
| (adjective) desperately determined | Synonyms: do-or-die |
| (adjective) (of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair | - |
| despicable | (adjective) morally reprehensible | Synonyms: slimy, ugly, unworthy, vile, worthless, wretched |
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| despised | (adjective) treated with dislike or contempt | Synonyms: detested, hated, scorned |
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| despiteful | (adjective) showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite | Synonyms: spiteful, vindictive |
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| despoiled | (adjective) having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence | Synonyms: pillaged, raped, ravaged, sacked |
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| despondent | (adjective) without or almost without hope | Synonyms: heartsick |
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| despotic | (adjective) belonging to or having the characteristics of a despot | Synonyms: despotical |
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| (adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: authoritarian, autocratic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical |
| (adjective) ruled by or characteristic of a despot | - |
| despotical | (adjective) belonging to or having the characteristics of a despot | Synonyms: despotic |
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| destined | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') governed by fate | Synonyms: bound |
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| (adjective) headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students' | Synonyms: bound |
| destitute | (adjective) completely wanting or lacking | Synonyms: barren, devoid, free, innocent |
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| (adjective) poor enough to need help from others | Synonyms: impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken |
| destroyable | (adjective) capable of being destroyed | - |
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| destroyed | (adjective) spoiled or ruined or demolished | - |
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| (adjective) destroyed physically or morally | Synonyms: ruined |
| destructible | (adjective) easily destroyed | - |
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| destructive | (adjective) causing destruction or much damage | - |
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| desultory | (adjective) marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose; jumping from one thing to another | - |
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| detachable | (adjective) designed to be unfastened or disconnected without damage | - |
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| detached | (adjective) used of buildings; standing apart from others | - |
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| (adjective) being or feeling set or kept apart from others | Synonyms: isolated, separated, set-apart |
| (adjective) showing lack of emotional involvement | Synonyms: degage, uninvolved |
| (adjective) no longer connected or joined | Synonyms: separated |
| (adjective) not fixed in position | Synonyms: free |
| (adjective) lacking affection or warm feeling | Synonyms: unaffectionate, uncaring |
| detailed | (adjective) developed or executed with care and in minute detail | Synonyms: elaborate, elaborated |
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| detectable | (adjective) easily seen or detected | Synonyms: perceptible |
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| (adjective) capable of being detected | Synonyms: noticeable |
| detected | (adjective) perceived or discerned | - |
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| (adjective) perceived with the mind | - |
| detergent | (adjective) having cleansing power | Synonyms: detersive |
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| determinable | (adjective) capable of being determined or limited or fixed | - |
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| determinant | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: deciding, determinative, determining |
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| determinate | (adjective) precisely determined or limited or defined; especially fixed by rule or by a specific and constant cause | - |
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| (adjective) not continuing to grow indefinitely at the apex | - |
| (adjective) supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement | Synonyms: definitive |
| determinative | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: deciding, determinant, determining |
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| determined | (adjective) having been learned or found or determined especially by investigation | - |
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| (adjective) strongly motivated to succeed | Synonyms: compulsive, driven |
| (adjective) characterized by great determination | - |
| (adjective) determined or decided upon as by an authority | Synonyms: dictated, set |
| (adjective) devoting full strength and concentrated attention to | - |
| determining | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: deciding, determinant, determinative |
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| deterministic | (adjective) an inevitable consequence of antecedent sufficient causes | - |
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| deterrent | (adjective) tending to deter | - |
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| detersive | (adjective) having cleansing power | Synonyms: detergent |
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| detestable | (adjective) unequivocally detestable | Synonyms: abominable, execrable, odious |
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| (adjective) offensive to the mind | Synonyms: abhorrent, obscene, repugnant, repulsive |
| detested | (adjective) treated with dislike or contempt | Synonyms: despised, hated, scorned |
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| detonative | (adjective) exploding almost instantaneously | - |
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| detractive | (adjective) causing to decrease in importance or value | - |
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| detrimental | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury | Synonyms: damaging, prejudicial, prejudicious |
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| deuced | (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, darned, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
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| deuteranopic | (adjective) inability to see the color green or to distinguish green and purplish-red | Synonyms: green-blind |
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| devalued | (adjective) lowered in value | Synonyms: debased, degraded |
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| devastating | (adjective) physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination | Synonyms: crushing |
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| (adjective) making light of | Synonyms: annihilating, withering |
| (adjective) wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction | Synonyms: annihilating, annihilative, withering |
| developed | (adjective) being changed over time so as to be e.g. stronger or more complete or more useful | - |
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| (adjective) (of real estate) made more useful and profitable as by building or laying out roads | - |
| (adjective) (used of societies) having high industrial development | Synonyms: highly-developed |