| greasy | (adjective) smeared or soiled with grease or oil | Synonyms: oily |
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| (adjective) containing an unusual amount of grease or oil | Synonyms: oily, oleaginous, sebaceous |
| great | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
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| (adjective) in an advanced stage of pregnancy | Synonyms: big, enceinte, expectant, gravid, heavy, large, with child |
| (adjective) uppercase | Synonyms: capital, majuscule |
| (adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect | - |
| (adjective) of major significance or importance | Synonyms: outstanding |
| (adjective) relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind | - |
| greater | (adjective) greater in size or importance or degree | - |
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| greatest | (adjective) highest in quality | Synonyms: sterling, superlative |
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| greathearted | (adjective) noble and generous in spirit | Synonyms: magnanimous |
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| greedy | (adjective) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth | Synonyms: avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, prehensile |
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| (adjective) (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous | Synonyms: avid, devouring, esurient |
| (adjective) wanting to eat or drink more than one can reasonably consume | - |
| green | (adjective) not fully developed or mature; not ripe | Synonyms: immature, unripe, unripened |
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| (adjective) concerned with or supporting or in conformity with the political principles of the Green Party | - |
| (adjective) of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass | Synonyms: dark-green, greenish, light-green |
| (adjective) looking pale and unhealthy | - |
| (adjective) naive and easily deceived or tricked | Synonyms: fleeceable, gullible |
| greenhouse | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by the greenhouse effect | - |
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| greenish | (adjective) of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass | Synonyms: dark-green, green, light-green |
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| greensick | (adjective) of or pertaining to or suffering from chlorosis | Synonyms: chlorotic |
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| greenside | (adjective) adjacent to a putting green | - |
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| gregarious | (adjective) (of animals) tending to form a group with others of the same species | - |
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| (adjective) (of plants) growing in groups that are close together | - |
| (adjective) instinctively or temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others | - |
| grey | (adjective) of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black | Synonyms: gray, grayish, greyish |
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| (adjective) intermediate in character or position | Synonyms: gray |
| (adjective) showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair | Synonyms: gray-haired, gray-headed, gray, grey-haired, grey-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired |
| (adjective) used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms) | Synonyms: gray |
| greyed | (adjective) deprived of color | Synonyms: dulled |
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| greyish | (adjective) of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black | Synonyms: gray, grayish, grey |
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| grieving | (adjective) sorrowful through loss or deprivation | Synonyms: bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, mourning, sorrowing |
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| grievous | (adjective) causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm | Synonyms: dangerous, grave, life-threatening, serious, severe |
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| (adjective) shockingly brutal or cruel | Synonyms: atrocious, flagitious, monstrous |
| (adjective) of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought | Synonyms: grave, heavy, weighty |
| (adjective) causing or marked by grief or anguish | Synonyms: heartbreaking, heartrending |
| grilled | (adjective) cooked over an outdoor grill | Synonyms: barbecued |
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| (adjective) cooked by radiant heat (as over a grill) | Synonyms: broiled |
| grim | (adjective) shockingly repellent; inspiring horror | Synonyms: ghastly, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick |
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| (adjective) filled with melancholy and despondency | Synonyms: blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, low-spirited, low |
| (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, sorry |
| (adjective) not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty | Synonyms: inexorable, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting |
| (adjective) harshly ironic or sinister | Synonyms: black, mordant |
| (adjective) harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance | Synonyms: dour, forbidding |
| grimy | (adjective) thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot | Synonyms: begrimed, dingy, grubby, grungy, raunchy |
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| gripping | (adjective) capable of arousing and holding the attention | Synonyms: absorbing, engrossing, fascinating, riveting |
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| grisly | (adjective) shockingly repellent; inspiring horror | Synonyms: ghastly, grim, gruesome, macabre, sick |
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| gristly | (adjective) difficult to chew | Synonyms: cartilaginous, rubbery |
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| gritty | (adjective) willing to face danger | Synonyms: game, gamey, gamy, mettlesome, spirited, spunky |
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| (adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency | Synonyms: coarse-grained, farinaceous, grainy, granular, granulose, mealy |
| grizzled | (adjective) having dark hairs mixed with grey or white | - |
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| grizzly | (adjective) showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair | Synonyms: gray-haired, gray-headed, gray, grey-haired, grey-headed, grey, hoar, hoary, white-haired |
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| groggy | (adjective) stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion) | Synonyms: dazed, foggy, logy, stuporous |
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| groomed | (adjective) neat and smart in appearance; well cared for | - |
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| grooved | (adjective) established as if settled into a groove or rut | Synonyms: well-grooved |
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| groovy | (adjective) (British informal) very chic | Synonyms: swagger |
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| (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
| groping | (adjective) acting with uncertainty or hesitance or lack of confidence | - |
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| gross | (adjective) before any deductions | - |
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| (adjective) conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible | Synonyms: crying, egregious, flagrant, glaring, rank |
| (adjective) repellently fat | Synonyms: porcine |
| (adjective) lacking fine distinctions or detail | - |
| (adjective) conspicuously and tastelessly indecent | Synonyms: crude, earthy, vulgar |
| (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
| (adjective) visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features) | Synonyms: megascopic |
| grotesque | (adjective) ludicrously odd | Synonyms: antic, fantastic, fantastical |
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| (adjective) distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous | Synonyms: monstrous |
| grotty | (adjective) very unpleasant or offensive | - |
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| grouchy | (adjective) annoyed and irritable | Synonyms: bad-tempered, crabbed, crabby, cross, fussy, grumpy, ill-tempered |
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| groundbreaking | (adjective) being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before | Synonyms: innovational, innovative |
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| groundless | (adjective) without a basis in reason or fact | Synonyms: baseless, idle, unfounded, unwarranted, wild |
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| grouped | (adjective) arranged into groups | Synonyms: sorted |
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| groveling | (adjective) totally submissive | Synonyms: cringing, grovelling, wormlike, wormy |
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| grovelling | (adjective) totally submissive | Synonyms: cringing, groveling, wormlike, wormy |
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| growing | (adjective) relating to or suitable for growth | - |
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| grown | (adjective) (of animals) fully developed | Synonyms: adult, big, full-grown, fully grown, grownup |
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| grownup | (adjective) (of animals) fully developed | Synonyms: adult, big, full-grown, fully grown, grown |
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| grubby | (adjective) infested with grubs | - |
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| (adjective) thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot | Synonyms: begrimed, dingy, grimy, grungy, raunchy |
| grudging | (adjective) petty or reluctant in giving or spending | Synonyms: niggardly, scrimy |
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| (adjective) of especially an attitude | - |
| grueling | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
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| gruelling | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
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| gruesome | (adjective) shockingly repellent; inspiring horror | Synonyms: ghastly, grim, grisly, macabre, sick |
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| gruff | (adjective) deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion | Synonyms: hoarse, husky |
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| (adjective) brusque and surly and forbidding | Synonyms: crusty, curmudgeonly, ill-humored, ill-humoured |
| grumbling | (adjective) continuous full and low-pitched throbbing sound | Synonyms: rumbling |
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| grumose | (adjective) transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass | Synonyms: coagulate, coagulated, curdled, grumous |
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| grumous | (adjective) transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass | Synonyms: coagulate, coagulated, curdled, grumose |
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| grumpy | (adjective) annoyed and irritable | Synonyms: bad-tempered, crabbed, crabby, cross, fussy, grouchy, ill-tempered |
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| grungy | (adjective) thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot | Synonyms: begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, raunchy |
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| guardant | (adjective) looking forward | Synonyms: full-face, gardant |
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| guarded | (adjective) prudent | Synonyms: restrained |
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| gubernatorial | (adjective) relating to a governor | - |
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| guided | (adjective) subject to guidance or control especially after launching | - |
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| guiding | (adjective) exerting control or influence | - |
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| (adjective) showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on | Synonyms: directing, directional, directive |
| guileful | (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily |
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| guileless | (adjective) free of deceit | Synonyms: transparent |
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| guiltless | (adjective) free from evil or guilt | Synonyms: clean-handed, innocent |
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| guilty | (adjective) responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act | - |
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| (adjective) showing a sense of guilt | Synonyms: hangdog, shamed, shamefaced |
| gullible | (adjective) naive and easily deceived or tricked | Synonyms: fleeceable, green |
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| (adjective) easily tricked because of being too trusting | - |
| gummed | (adjective) covered with adhesive gum | Synonyms: gummy |
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| gummy | (adjective) having the sticky properties of an adhesive | Synonyms: gluey, glutinous, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous |
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| (adjective) covered with adhesive gum | Synonyms: gummed |
| gumptious | (adjective) working hard to promote an enterprise | Synonyms: energetic, industrious, up-and-coming |
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| gushing | (adjective) extravagantly demonstrative | Synonyms: effusive, gushy |
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| (adjective) uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm | Synonyms: burbling, burbly, effusive |
| (adjective) flowing profusely | Synonyms: pouring |
| gushy | (adjective) extravagantly demonstrative | Synonyms: effusive, gushing |
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| gusseted | (adjective) provided or reinforced with gussets | - |
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| gustative | (adjective) of or relating to gustation | Synonyms: gustatorial, gustatory |
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| gustatorial | (adjective) of or relating to gustation | Synonyms: gustative, gustatory |
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| gustatory | (adjective) of or relating to gustation | Synonyms: gustative, gustatorial |
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| gusty | (adjective) blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts | Synonyms: puffy |
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| gutless | (adjective) lacking courage or vitality | Synonyms: namby-pamby, spineless, wishy-washy |
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| gutsy | (adjective) marked by courage and determination in the face of difficulties or danger; robust and uninhibited | Synonyms: plucky |
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| guttural | (adjective) relating to or articulated in the throat | - |
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| (adjective) like the sounds of frogs and crows | Synonyms: croaky |
| gymnastic | (adjective) of or relating to or used in exercises intended to develop strength and agility | - |
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| (adjective) vigorously active | Synonyms: acrobatic, athletic |
| gymnosophical | (adjective) of or relating to gymnosophy | - |
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| gymnospermous | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of plants of the class Gymnospermae | - |
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| gynaecological | (adjective) of or relating to or practicing gynecology | Synonyms: gynecologic, gynecological |
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| gynandromorphic | (adjective) having both male and female morphological characteristics | Synonyms: gynandromorphous |
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| gynandromorphous | (adjective) having both male and female morphological characteristics | Synonyms: gynandromorphic |
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| gynecologic | (adjective) of or relating to or practicing gynecology | Synonyms: gynaecological, gynecological |
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| gynecological | (adjective) of or relating to or practicing gynecology | Synonyms: gynaecological, gynecologic |
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| gyral | (adjective) relating to or associated with or comprising a convolution of the brain | - |
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| gyroscopic | (adjective) having the characteristics of a gyroscope | - |
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