| geostationary | (adjective) of or having a geosynchronous orbit such that the position in such an orbit is fixed with respect to the earth | - |
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| geostrategic | (adjective) of or relating to geostrategy | - |
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| geosynchronous | (adjective) of or having an orbit with a fixed period of 24 hours (although the position in the orbit may not be fixed with respect to the earth) | - |
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| geothermal | (adjective) of or relating to the heat in the interior of the earth | Synonyms: geothermic |
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| geothermic | (adjective) of or relating to the heat in the interior of the earth | Synonyms: geothermal |
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| geriatric | (adjective) of or relating to or practicing geriatrics | Synonyms: gerontological |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the aged | - |
| germane | (adjective) relevant and appropriate | - |
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| germfree | (adjective) free from germs or pathogenic organisms; sterile | - |
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| germicidal | (adjective) preventing infection by inhibiting the growth or action of microorganisms | Synonyms: bactericidal, disinfectant |
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| germinal | (adjective) containing seeds of later development | Synonyms: originative, seminal |
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| germy | (adjective) full of germs or pathological microorganisms | - |
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| gerontological | (adjective) of or relating to or practicing geriatrics | Synonyms: geriatric |
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| gerundial | (adjective) relating to or like a gerund | - |
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| gestational | (adjective) of or relating to gestation | - |
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| gesticulating | (adjective) making gestures while speaking | - |
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| gestural | (adjective) being other than verbal communication | Synonyms: nonverbal |
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| (adjective) used of the language of the deaf | Synonyms: sign-language, sign, signed |
| getable | (adjective) capable of being obtained | Synonyms: gettable, obtainable, procurable |
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| getatable | (adjective) capable of being reached or attained | Synonyms: come-at-able, get-at-able |
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| gettable | (adjective) capable of being obtained | Synonyms: getable, obtainable, procurable |
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| ghastly | (adjective) shockingly repellent; inspiring horror | Synonyms: grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick |
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| (adjective) gruesomely indicative of death or the dead | Synonyms: charnel, sepulchral |
| ghostlike | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a phantom | Synonyms: apparitional, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual |
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| ghostly | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a phantom | Synonyms: apparitional, ghostlike, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual |
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| ghoulish | (adjective) suggesting the horror of death and decay | Synonyms: morbid |
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| giant | (adjective) of great mass; huge and bulky | Synonyms: elephantine, gargantuan, jumbo |
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| gibbose | (adjective) (used of the moon) more than half full | Synonyms: gibbous |
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| gibbous | (adjective) (used of the moon) more than half full | Synonyms: gibbose |
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| (adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookback, crookbacked, humpbacked, humped, hunchbacked, kyphotic |
| gibelike | (adjective) abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule | Synonyms: derisive, jeering, mocking, taunting |
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| giddy | (adjective) lacking seriousness; given to frivolity | Synonyms: airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, light-headed, lightheaded, silly |
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| (adjective) having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling | Synonyms: dizzy, vertiginous, woozy |
| gifted | (adjective) endowed with talent or talents | Synonyms: talented |
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| gigantic | (adjective) so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth | Synonyms: mammoth |
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| gilded | (adjective) having the deep slightly brownish color of gold | Synonyms: aureate, gilt, gold, golden |
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| (adjective) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing | Synonyms: glossy, meretricious, specious |
| (adjective) made from or covered with gold | Synonyms: gold, golden |
| (adjective) ostentatiously rich and superior in quality | Synonyms: deluxe, grand, lush, luxurious, opulent, princely, sumptuous |
| gilled | (adjective) provided with gills | Synonyms: branchiate |
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| gilt | (adjective) having the deep slightly brownish color of gold | Synonyms: aureate, gilded, gold, golden |
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| gimbaled | (adjective) supported on gimbals and remaining steady or level when the base tips | - |
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| gimcrack | (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
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| gimpy | (adjective) disabled in the feet or legs | Synonyms: crippled, game, halt, halting, lame |
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| ginger | (adjective) (used especially of hair or fur) having a bright orange-brown color | Synonyms: gingery |
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| gingerly | (adjective) with extreme care or delicacy | - |
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| gingery | (adjective) (used especially of hair or fur) having a bright orange-brown color | Synonyms: ginger |
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| (adjective) having a taste like that of ginger | - |
| gingival | (adjective) of or relating to the gums | - |
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| girlish | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a young girl | Synonyms: schoolgirlish |
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| given | (adjective) acknowledged as a supposition | Synonyms: granted |
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| (adjective) (usually followed by `to') naturally disposed toward | Synonyms: apt, disposed, minded, tending |
| giving | (adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, liberal, openhanded |
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| glabellar | (adjective) of or relating to the glabella | - |
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| glabrescent | (adjective) lacking hair or a similar growth or tending to become hairless | - |
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| glabrous | (adjective) having no hair or similar growth; smooth | - |
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| glace | (adjective) (used especially of fruits) preserved by coating with or allowing to absorb sugar | Synonyms: candied, crystalised, crystalized |
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| glacial | (adjective) relating to or derived from a glacier | - |
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| (adjective) extremely cold | Synonyms: arctic, frigid, gelid, icy, polar |
| (adjective) devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain | Synonyms: frigid, frosty, frozen, icy, wintry |
| glaciated | (adjective) covered with ice (as by a glacier) or affected by glacial action | - |
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| glad | (adjective) showing or causing joy and pleasure; especially made happy | - |
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| (adjective) cheerful and bright | Synonyms: beaming |
| (adjective) feeling happy appreciation | - |
| (adjective) eagerly disposed to act or to be of service | Synonyms: happy |
| gladdened | (adjective) made joyful | Synonyms: exhilarated |
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| gladiatorial | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling gladiators or their combat | - |
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| gladsome | (adjective) experiencing or expressing gladness or joy | - |
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| glamorous | (adjective) having an air of allure, romance and excitement | Synonyms: glamourous |
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| glamourous | (adjective) having an air of allure, romance and excitement | Synonyms: glamorous |
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| glandular | (adjective) relating to or affecting or functioning as a gland | - |
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| glaring | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blazing, blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glary |
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| (adjective) conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible | Synonyms: crying, egregious, flagrant, gross, rank |
| glary | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blazing, blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring |
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| glassed | (adjective) fitted or covered with glass | Synonyms: glazed |
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| glassless | (adjective) not furnished with glass | Synonyms: unglazed |
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| glassy | (adjective) (used of eyes) lacking liveliness | Synonyms: glazed |
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| (adjective) (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it | Synonyms: vitreous, vitrified |
| (adjective) resembling glass in smoothness and shininess and slickness | - |
| glaucous | (adjective) having a frosted look from a powdery coating, as on plants | - |
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| glazed | (adjective) having a shiny surface or coating | Synonyms: shiny |
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| (adjective) fitted or covered with glass | Synonyms: glassed |
| (adjective) (of foods) covered with a shiny coating by applying e.g. beaten egg or a sugar or gelatin mixture | - |
| (adjective) (used of eyes) lacking liveliness | Synonyms: glassy |
| gleaming | (adjective) bright with a steady but subdued shining | Synonyms: agleam, nitid |
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| gleeful | (adjective) full of high-spirited delight | Synonyms: elated, joyful, jubilant |
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| glial | (adjective) of or relating to neuroglia | - |
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| glib | (adjective) artfully persuasive in speech | Synonyms: glib-tongued, smooth-tongued |
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| (adjective) having only superficial plausibility | Synonyms: pat, slick |
| (adjective) marked by lack of intellectual depth | - |
| glimmery | (adjective) shining softly and intermittently | - |
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| glinting | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| glistening | (adjective) reflecting light | Synonyms: glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shining, shiny |
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| glistering | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| glittering | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| glittery | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| global | (adjective) involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope | Synonyms: planetary, world-wide, world, worldwide |
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| (adjective) having the shape of a sphere or ball | Synonyms: ball-shaped, globose, globular, orbicular, spheric, spherical |
| globose | (adjective) having the shape of a sphere or ball | Synonyms: ball-shaped, global, globular, orbicular, spheric, spherical |
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| globular | (adjective) having the shape of a sphere or ball | Synonyms: ball-shaped, global, globose, orbicular, spheric, spherical |
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| glomerular | (adjective) of or relating to glomeruli | - |
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| gloomful | (adjective) depressingly dark | Synonyms: glooming, gloomy, sulky |
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| glooming | (adjective) depressingly dark | Synonyms: gloomful, gloomy, sulky |
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| gloomy | (adjective) depressingly dark | Synonyms: gloomful, glooming, sulky |
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| (adjective) filled with melancholy and despondency | Synonyms: blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, grim, low-spirited, low |
| (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, grim, sorry |
| glorified | (adjective) accorded sacrosanct or authoritative standing | Synonyms: canonised, canonized |
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| glorious | (adjective) having or deserving or conferring glory | - |
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| (adjective) having great beauty and splendor | Synonyms: resplendent, splendid, splendiferous |
| (adjective) characterized by grandeur | Synonyms: brilliant, magnificent, splendid |
| glossopharyngeal | (adjective) pertaining to the tongue and throat | - |
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| glossy | (adjective) superficially attractive and stylish; suggesting wealth or expense | Synonyms: showy |
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| (adjective) reflecting light | Synonyms: glistening, lustrous, sheeny, shining, shiny |
| (adjective) (of paper and fabric and leather) having a surface made smooth and shiny especially by pressing between rollers | Synonyms: calendered |
| (adjective) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing | Synonyms: gilded, meretricious, specious |
| glottal | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by the glottis | - |
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| glottochronological | (adjective) pertaining to the study of the evolution of languages from a common source | - |
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| gloved | (adjective) having the hands covered with gloves | - |
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| gloveless | (adjective) devoid of gloves | - |
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| glowering | (adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, dour, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen |
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| glowing | (adjective) highly enthusiastic | - |
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| glowy | (adjective) appearing to be glowing | - |
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| glued | (adjective) affixed or as if affixed with glue or paste | Synonyms: pasted |
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| gluey | (adjective) having the sticky properties of an adhesive | Synonyms: glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous |
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| glum | (adjective) moody and melancholic | - |
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| (adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, dour, glowering, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen |
| gluteal | (adjective) of or relating to or near the gluteus muscles | - |
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| glutinous | (adjective) having the sticky properties of an adhesive | Synonyms: gluey, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous |
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| glutted | (adjective) exceeding demand | Synonyms: overfull |
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| gluttonous | (adjective) given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink | - |
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| glycogenic | (adjective) of or relating to or involving glycogen | - |
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| gnarled | (adjective) used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots | Synonyms: gnarly, knobbed, knotted, knotty |
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