| enlightening | (adjective) tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance | Synonyms: illuminating, informative |
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| (adjective) enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement | Synonyms: edifying |
| enlivened | (adjective) made sprightly or cheerful | - |
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| (adjective) made lively or spirited | Synonyms: spirited |
| enlivening | (adjective) giving spirit and vivacity | Synonyms: animating |
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| enmeshed | (adjective) caught as if in a mesh | Synonyms: intermeshed |
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| ennobling | (adjective) tending to exalt | Synonyms: exalting |
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| (adjective) investing with dignity or honor | Synonyms: dignifying |
| enolic | (adjective) of or relating to or consisting of enol | - |
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| enormous | (adjective) extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree | Synonyms: tremendous |
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| enough | (adjective) sufficient for the purpose | Synonyms: adequate |
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| enraged | (adjective) marked by extreme anger | Synonyms: angered, furious, infuriated, maddened |
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| enraptured | (adjective) feeling great rapture or delight | Synonyms: ecstatic, rapt, rapturous, rhapsodic |
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| ensiform | (adjective) shaped like a sword blade | Synonyms: bladelike, sword-shaped, swordlike |
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| ensorcelled | (adjective) captured, as if under a spell | Synonyms: bewitched |
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| ensuant | (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, attendant, collateral, concomitant, consequent, incidental, resultant, sequent |
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| ensuing | (adjective) following immediately and as a result of what went before | - |
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| entangled | (adjective) deeply involved especially in something complicated | Synonyms: embroiled |
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| (adjective) involved in difficulties | - |
| (adjective) twisted together in a tangled mass | - |
| enteral | (adjective) of or relating to the enteron | Synonyms: enteric |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or inside the intestines | Synonyms: enteric, intestinal |
| enteric | (adjective) of or relating to the enteron | Synonyms: enteral |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or inside the intestines | Synonyms: enteral, intestinal |
| enterprising | (adjective) marked by imagination, initiative, and readiness to undertake new projects | - |
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| entertained | (adjective) pleasantly occupied | Synonyms: amused, diverted |
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| entertaining | (adjective) agreeably diverting | - |
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| enthralled | (adjective) filled with wonder and delight | Synonyms: beguiled, captivated, charmed, delighted, entranced |
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| enthralling | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: bewitching, captivating, enchanting, entrancing, fascinating |
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| enthusiastic | (adjective) having or showing great excitement and interest | - |
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| enticing | (adjective) highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire | Synonyms: alluring, beguiling, tempting |
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| entire | (adjective) (of leaves or petals) having a smooth edge; not broken up into teeth or lobes | - |
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| (adjective) (used of domestic animals) sexually competent | Synonyms: intact |
| (adjective) constituting the full quantity or extent; complete | Synonyms: full, total |
| (adjective) constituting the undiminished entirety; lacking nothing essential especially not damaged | Synonyms: intact, integral |
| entitled | (adjective) qualified for by right according to law | - |
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| entomologic | (adjective) of or relating to the biological science of entomology | Synonyms: entomological |
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| entomological | (adjective) of or relating to the biological science of entomology | Synonyms: entomologic |
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| entomophilous | (adjective) of flowering plants (especially orchids etc) that are pollinated by insects | - |
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| entozoan | (adjective) living within a living animal usually as a parasite | Synonyms: endozoic, entozoic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to entozoa | Synonyms: endozoan |
| entozoic | (adjective) living within a living animal usually as a parasite | Synonyms: endozoic, entozoan |
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| entranced | (adjective) filled with wonder and delight | Synonyms: beguiled, captivated, charmed, delighted, enthralled |
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| entrancing | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: bewitching, captivating, enchanting, enthralling, fascinating |
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| entrenched | (adjective) established firmly and securely | - |
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| (adjective) dug in | - |
| entrepreneurial | (adjective) of or relating to an entrepreneur | - |
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| (adjective) willing to take risks in order to make a profit | - |
| enumerable | (adjective) that can be counted | Synonyms: countable, denumerable, numerable |
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| enured | (adjective) made tough by habitual exposure | Synonyms: hardened, inured |
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| enveloping | (adjective) surrounding and closing in on or hemming in | - |
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| enviable | (adjective) causing envy | - |
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| envious | (adjective) showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages | Synonyms: covetous, jealous |
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| environmental | (adjective) concerned with the ecological effects of altering the environment | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the external conditions or surroundings | - |
| envisioned | (adjective) seen in the mind as a mental image | Synonyms: pictured, visualised, visualized |
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| enwrapped | (adjective) giving or marked by complete attention to | Synonyms: absorbed, captive, engrossed, intent, rapt, wrapped |
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| enzootic | (adjective) of a disease that is constantly present in an animal community but only occurs in a small number of cases | - |
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| enzymatic | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by an enzyme | - |
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| eolithic | (adjective) of or relating to the earliest period of the Stone Age (characterized by the use of eoliths) | - |
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| eolotropic | (adjective) having properties with different values along different axes | Synonyms: aeolotropic |
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| eonian | (adjective) of or relating to a geological eon (longer than an era) | Synonyms: aeonian |
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| (adjective) continuing forever or indefinitely | Synonyms: aeonian, ageless, eternal, everlasting, perpetual, unceasing, unending |
| eosinophilic | (adjective) of or relating to eosinophil | - |
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| eparchial | (adjective) of or relating to an eparchy | - |
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| epenthetic | (adjective) of or pertaining to epenthesis | Synonyms: parasitic |
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| ephemeral | (adjective) lasting a very short time | Synonyms: fugacious, passing, short-lived, transient, transitory |
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| epic | (adjective) constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic | Synonyms: epical |
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| (adjective) very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale) | Synonyms: heroic, larger-than-life |
| epical | (adjective) constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic | Synonyms: epic |
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| epicanthic | (adjective) relating to the epicanthus | - |
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| epicarpal | (adjective) of or relating to the epicarp | - |
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| epicene | (adjective) having an ambiguous sexual identity | Synonyms: bisexual |
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| (adjective) having unsuitable feminine qualities | Synonyms: cissy, effeminate, emasculate, sissified, sissy, sissyish |
| epicurean | (adjective) displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses | Synonyms: luxuriant, luxurious, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous |
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| (adjective) devoted to pleasure | Synonyms: hedonic, hedonistic |
| epicyclic | (adjective) of or relating to an epicycle | Synonyms: epicyclical |
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| epicyclical | (adjective) of or relating to an epicycle | Synonyms: epicyclic |
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| epideictic | (adjective) designed primarily for rhetorical display | Synonyms: epideictical |
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| epideictical | (adjective) designed primarily for rhetorical display | Synonyms: epideictic |
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| epidemic | (adjective) (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously | - |
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| epidemiologic | (adjective) of or relating to epidemiology | Synonyms: epidemiological |
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| epidemiological | (adjective) of or relating to epidemiology | Synonyms: epidemiologic |
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| epidermal | (adjective) of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula | Synonyms: cuticular, dermal, epidermic |
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| epidermic | (adjective) of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula | Synonyms: cuticular, dermal, epidermal |
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| epidural | (adjective) on or outside the dura mater | Synonyms: extradural |
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| epigastric | (adjective) lying on or over the stomach | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the anterior walls of the abdomen | - |
| epigrammatic | (adjective) terse and witty and like a maxim | Synonyms: aphoristic, apothegmatic |
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| epileptic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of epilepsy | - |
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| epilithic | (adjective) growing on stone | - |
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| epimorphic | (adjective) characterized by incomplete metamorphosis; having the same number of body segments in successive stages | - |
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| epiphyseal | (adjective) relating to the epiphysis of a bone | Synonyms: epiphysial |
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| epiphysial | (adjective) relating to the epiphysis of a bone | Synonyms: epiphyseal |
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| epiphytic | (adjective) of or relating to epiphytes | - |
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| epiphytotic | (adjective) (of plants) epidemic among plants of a single kind especially over a wide area | - |
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| episcopal | (adjective) denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops | Synonyms: pontifical |
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| episodic | (adjective) of writing or narration; divided into or composed of episodes | - |
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| (adjective) limited in duration to a single episode | - |
| (adjective) occurring or appearing at usually irregular intervals | Synonyms: occasional |
| epistemic | (adjective) of or relating to epistemology | Synonyms: epistemological |
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| epistemological | (adjective) of or relating to epistemology | Synonyms: epistemic |
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| epistolary | (adjective) written in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence | Synonyms: epistolatory |
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| epistolatory | (adjective) written in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence | Synonyms: epistolary |
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| epithelial | (adjective) of or belonging to the epithelium | Synonyms: epithelioid |
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| epithelioid | (adjective) of or belonging to the epithelium | Synonyms: epithelial |
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| epizoan | (adjective) of or relating to epizoa | Synonyms: ectozoan |
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| epizoic | (adjective) living or growing on the exterior surface of an animal usually as a parasite | - |
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| epizootic | (adjective) (of animals) epidemic among animals of a single kind within a particular region | - |
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| epochal | (adjective) highly significant or important especially bringing about or marking the beginning of a new development or era | Synonyms: epoch-making |
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| eponymic | (adjective) being or relating to or bearing the name of an eponym | Synonyms: eponymous |
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| eponymous | (adjective) being or relating to or bearing the name of an eponym | Synonyms: eponymic |
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| equable | (adjective) not easily irritated | Synonyms: even-tempered, good-tempered, placid |
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| (adjective) not varying | - |
| equal | (adjective) having the same quantity, value, or measure as another | - |
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| (adjective) having the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task | Synonyms: adequate |
| equanimous | (adjective) in full control of your faculties | Synonyms: collected, poised, self-collected, self-contained, self-possessed |
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| equatorial | (adjective) of or existing at or near the geographic equator | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to conditions at the geographical equator | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or at an equator | - |
| equestrian | (adjective) of or relating to or featuring horseback riding | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or composed of knights | - |
| equiangular | (adjective) having all angles equal | - |
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| equidistant | (adjective) the same distance apart at every point | - |
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| equilateral | (adjective) having all sides or faces equal | - |
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| equine | (adjective) resembling a horse | - |
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| (adjective) of or belonging to the family Equidae | - |