| elaborate | (adjective) developed or executed with care and in minute detail | Synonyms: detailed, elaborated |
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| (adjective) marked by complexity and richness of detail | Synonyms: luxuriant |
| elaborated | (adjective) developed or executed with care and in minute detail | Synonyms: detailed, elaborate |
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| elapsed | (adjective) (of time) having passed or slipped by | - |
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| elastic | (adjective) capable of resuming original shape after stretching or compression; springy | - |
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| (adjective) able to adjust readily to different conditions | Synonyms: flexible, pliable, pliant |
| elasticised | (adjective) made with strands or inserts of elastic | Synonyms: elasticized |
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| elasticized | (adjective) made with strands or inserts of elastic | Synonyms: elasticised |
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| elated | (adjective) exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits | - |
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| (adjective) full of high-spirited delight | Synonyms: gleeful, joyful, jubilant |
| elating | (adjective) making lively and joyful | Synonyms: exhilarating |
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| elder | (adjective) used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son | Synonyms: older, sr. |
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| elderly | (adjective) advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables) | Synonyms: aged, older, senior |
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| eldest | (adjective) first in order of birth | Synonyms: firstborn |
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| eldritch | (adjective) suggesting the operation of supernatural influences | Synonyms: uncanny, unearthly, weird |
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| elect | (adjective) elected but not yet installed in office | - |
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| (adjective) selected as the best | Synonyms: elite |
| elected | (adjective) subject to popular election | Synonyms: elective |
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| elective | (adjective) subject to popular election | Synonyms: elected |
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| (adjective) optional | Synonyms: facultative |
| electoral | (adjective) of or relating to elections | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or composed of electors | - |
| electric | (adjective) using or providing or producing or transmitting or operated by electricity | Synonyms: electrical |
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| (adjective) affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling | Synonyms: galvanic, galvanising, galvanizing |
| (adjective) (of a situation) exceptionally tense | - |
| electrical | (adjective) relating to or concerned with electricity | - |
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| (adjective) using or providing or producing or transmitting or operated by electricity | Synonyms: electric |
| electrifying | (adjective) causing a surge of emotion or excitement | Synonyms: thrilling |
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| electrocardiographic | (adjective) of or relating to an electrocardiograph | - |
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| electrochemical | (adjective) of or involving electrochemistry | - |
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| electroencephalographic | (adjective) of or relating to an electroencephalograph | - |
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| electrolytic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing an electrolyte | - |
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| (adjective) of or concerned with or produced by electrolysis | - |
| electromagnetic | (adjective) pertaining to or exhibiting magnetism produced by electric charge in motion | - |
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| electromechanical | (adjective) of or relating to or involving an electrically operated mechanical device | - |
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| electromotive | (adjective) concerned with or producing electric current | - |
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| electronegative | (adjective) having a negative charge | Synonyms: negative, negatively charged |
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| electroneutral | (adjective) having no net electric charge | Synonyms: neutral |
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| electronic | (adjective) of or relating to electronics; concerned with or using devices that operate on principles governing the behavior of electrons | - |
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| (adjective) of or concerned with electrons | - |
| electrophoretic | (adjective) of or relating to electrophoresis | Synonyms: cataphoretic |
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| electropositive | (adjective) having a positive charge | Synonyms: positive, positively charged |
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| electrostatic | (adjective) concerned with or producing or caused by static electricity | Synonyms: static |
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| eleemosynary | (adjective) generous in assistance to the poor | Synonyms: beneficent, benevolent, philanthropic |
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| elegant | (adjective) refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style | - |
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| (adjective) displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution | - |
| (adjective) suggesting taste, ease, and wealth | Synonyms: graceful, refined |
| elegiac | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy | - |
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| (adjective) expressing sorrow often for something past | - |
| elemental | (adjective) relating to or being an element | - |
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| (adjective) relating to severe atmospheric conditions | - |
| (adjective) of or being the essential or basic part | Synonyms: basal, elementary, primary |
| elementary | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of elementary school or elementary education | - |
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| (adjective) of or being the essential or basic part | Synonyms: basal, elemental, primary |
| (adjective) easy and not involved or complicated | Synonyms: simple, uncomplicated, unproblematic |
| elephantine | (adjective) of great mass; huge and bulky | Synonyms: gargantuan, giant, jumbo |
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| elevated | (adjective) increased in amount or degree | Synonyms: raised |
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| (adjective) of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style | Synonyms: exalted, grand, high-flown, high-minded, idealistic, lofty, noble-minded, rarefied, rarified, sublime |
| (adjective) raised above the ground | - |
| eleven | (adjective) being one more than ten | Synonyms: 11, xi |
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| eleventh | (adjective) coming next after the tenth and just before the twelfth in position | Synonyms: 11th |
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| elfin | (adjective) relating to or made or done by or as if by an elf | - |
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| (adjective) usually good-naturedly mischievous | Synonyms: elfish, elvish |
| (adjective) small and delicate | Synonyms: elflike |
| (adjective) suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness | Synonyms: fey |
| elfish | (adjective) usually good-naturedly mischievous | Synonyms: elfin, elvish |
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| elflike | (adjective) small and delicate | Synonyms: elfin |
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| elicited | (adjective) called forth from a latent or potential state by stimulation | Synonyms: evoked |
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| eligible | (adjective) qualified for or allowed or worthy of being chosen | - |
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| elite | (adjective) selected as the best | Synonyms: elect |
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| ellipsoid | (adjective) having the nature or shape of an ellipsoid | Synonyms: ellipsoidal, spheroidal |
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| ellipsoidal | (adjective) having the nature or shape of an ellipsoid | Synonyms: ellipsoid, spheroidal |
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| elliptic | (adjective) characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements | Synonyms: elliptical |
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| (adjective) rounded like an egg | Synonyms: egg-shaped, elliptical, oval-shaped, oval, ovate, oviform, ovoid, prolate |
| (adjective) (of a leaf shape) in the form of an ellipse | - |
| elliptical | (adjective) characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements | Synonyms: elliptic |
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| (adjective) rounded like an egg | Synonyms: egg-shaped, elliptic, oval-shaped, oval, ovate, oviform, ovoid, prolate |
| elocutionary | (adjective) of or relating to elocution | - |
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| (adjective) (used of style of speaking) overly embellished | - |
| elongate | (adjective) having notably more length than width; being long and slender | Synonyms: elongated |
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| (adjective) (of a leaf shape) long and narrow | Synonyms: linear |
| elongated | (adjective) having notably more length than width; being long and slender | Synonyms: elongate |
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| (adjective) drawn out or made longer spatially | Synonyms: extended, lengthened, prolonged |
| eloquent | (adjective) expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively | Synonyms: facile, fluent, silver-tongued, silver, smooth-spoken |
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| elucidative | (adjective) that makes clear | Synonyms: clarifying |
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| elusive | (adjective) skillful at eluding capture | - |
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| (adjective) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | Synonyms: baffling, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough |
| (adjective) difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze | Synonyms: subtle |
| (adjective) difficult to describe | - |
| elvish | (adjective) usually good-naturedly mischievous | Synonyms: elfin, elfish |
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| elysian | (adjective) relating to the Elysian Fields | - |
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| (adjective) being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods | Synonyms: divine, inspired |