| grabby | (adjective) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth | Synonyms: avaricious, covetous, grasping, greedy, prehensile |
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| graceful | (adjective) characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution | - |
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| (adjective) suggesting taste, ease, and wealth | Synonyms: elegant, refined |
| graceless | (adjective) lacking grace; clumsy | Synonyms: ungraceful |
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| (adjective) lacking social polish | Synonyms: gauche, unpolished |
| (adjective) lacking graciousness | - |
| gracile | (adjective) slender and graceful | Synonyms: willowy |
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| gracious | (adjective) characterized by charm, good taste, and generosity of spirit | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by kindness and warm courtesy especially of a king to his subjects | Synonyms: benignant |
| (adjective) exhibiting courtesy and politeness | Synonyms: courteous, nice |
| (adjective) disposed to bestow favors | - |
| gradable | (adjective) capable of being graded (for quality or rank or size etc.) | - |
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| gradational | (adjective) taking place by degrees | Synonyms: gradatory, graduated |
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| gradatory | (adjective) taking place by degrees | Synonyms: gradational, graduated |
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| graded | (adjective) arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks | Synonyms: ranked, stratified |
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| gradual | (adjective) proceeding in small stages | - |
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| (adjective) (of a topographical gradient) not steep or abrupt | - |
| graduate | (adjective) of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree | Synonyms: postgraduate |
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| graduated | (adjective) marked with or divided into degrees | Synonyms: calibrated |
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| (adjective) taking place by degrees | Synonyms: gradational, gradatory |
| grainy | (adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency | Synonyms: coarse-grained, farinaceous, granular, granulose, gritty, mealy |
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| grammatic | (adjective) of or pertaining to grammar | Synonyms: grammatical |
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| grammatical | (adjective) conforming to the rules of grammar or usage accepted by native speakers | Synonyms: well-formed |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to grammar | Synonyms: grammatic |
| grand | (adjective) used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person | Synonyms: distinguished, imposing, magisterial |
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| (adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: fantastic, howling, marvellous, marvelous, phenomenal, rattling, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous |
| (adjective) the most important and magnificent in adornment | - |
| (adjective) of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope | Synonyms: expansive, heroic |
| (adjective) large and impressive in physical size or extent | - |
| (adjective) of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style | Synonyms: elevated, exalted, high-flown, high-minded, idealistic, lofty, noble-minded, rarefied, rarified, sublime |
| (adjective) of or befitting a lord | Synonyms: august, lordly |
| (adjective) ostentatiously rich and superior in quality | Synonyms: deluxe, gilded, lush, luxurious, opulent, princely, sumptuous |
| grandiloquent | (adjective) puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous |
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| (adjective) lofty in style | Synonyms: magniloquent, tall |
| grandiose | (adjective) impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur; used to show disapproval | - |
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| (adjective) affectedly genteel; to carry an air of affected importance; to be snobbish and haughty | Synonyms: hifalutin, highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, la-di-da |
| granitelike | (adjective) hard as granite | Synonyms: granitic, rocklike, stony |
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| granitic | (adjective) hard as granite | Synonyms: granitelike, rocklike, stony |
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| (adjective) showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings | Synonyms: flint, flinty, obdurate, stony |
| granted | (adjective) acknowledged as a supposition | Synonyms: given |
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| granular | (adjective) having a granular structure like that of chondrites | Synonyms: chondritic |
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| (adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency | Synonyms: coarse-grained, farinaceous, grainy, granulose, gritty, mealy |
| granulated | (adjective) made grainy or formed into granules | - |
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| granuliferous | (adjective) producing or full of granules | - |
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| granulocytic | (adjective) of or relating to granulocytes | - |
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| granulomatous | (adjective) relating to or characterized by granulomas | - |
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| granulose | (adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency | Synonyms: coarse-grained, farinaceous, grainy, granular, gritty, mealy |
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| grapelike | (adjective) resembling the fruit of a grape vine | - |
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| grapey | (adjective) having a taste like that of grapes | Synonyms: grapy |
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| graphic | (adjective) relating to or presented by a graph | Synonyms: graphical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the graphic arts | - |
| (adjective) describing nudity or sexual activity in graphic detail | - |
| (adjective) evoking lifelike images within the mind | Synonyms: lifelike, pictorial, vivid |
| (adjective) written or drawn or engraved | Synonyms: graphical, in writing |
| graphical | (adjective) relating to or presented by a graph | Synonyms: graphic |
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| (adjective) written or drawn or engraved | Synonyms: graphic, in writing |
| grapy | (adjective) having a taste like that of grapes | Synonyms: grapey |
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| graspable | (adjective) capable of being apprehended or understood | Synonyms: apprehensible, intelligible, perceivable, understandable |
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| grasping | (adjective) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth | Synonyms: avaricious, covetous, grabby, greedy, prehensile |
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| grassless | (adjective) lacking grass | - |
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| grasslike | (adjective) resembling grass | - |
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| grassroots | (adjective) fundamental | - |
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| (adjective) of or involving the common people as constituting a fundamental political and economic group | - |
| grassy | (adjective) abounding in grass | - |
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| grateful | (adjective) feeling or showing gratitude | Synonyms: thankful |
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| (adjective) affording comfort or pleasure | - |
| gratified | (adjective) having received what was desired | - |
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| gratifying | (adjective) affording satisfaction or pleasure | Synonyms: enjoyable, pleasurable |
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| (adjective) pleasing to the mind or feeling | Synonyms: sweet |
| grating | (adjective) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound | Synonyms: gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough, scratchy |
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| gratis | (adjective) costing nothing | Synonyms: complimentary, costless, free, gratuitous |
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| gratuitous | (adjective) without cause | - |
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| (adjective) unnecessary and unwarranted | Synonyms: needless, uncalled-for |
| (adjective) costing nothing | Synonyms: complimentary, costless, free, gratis |
| gratulatory | (adjective) expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune | Synonyms: congratulatory |
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| grave | (adjective) causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm | Synonyms: dangerous, grievous, life-threatening, serious, severe |
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| (adjective) of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought | Synonyms: grievous, heavy, weighty |
| (adjective) dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises | Synonyms: sedate, sober, solemn |
| gravelly | (adjective) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound | Synonyms: grating, rasping, raspy, rough, scratchy |
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| (adjective) abounding in small stones | Synonyms: pebbly, shingly |
| graven | (adjective) cut or impressed into a surface | Synonyms: engraved, etched, incised, inscribed |
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| (adjective) cut into a desired shape | Synonyms: sculpted, sculptured |
| gravid | (adjective) in an advanced stage of pregnancy | Synonyms: big, enceinte, expectant, great, heavy, large, with child |
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| gravimetric | (adjective) of or relating to hydrometry | Synonyms: hydrometric |
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| gravitational | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by gravitation | Synonyms: gravitative |
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| gravitative | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by gravitation | Synonyms: gravitational |
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| gray | (adjective) of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black | Synonyms: grayish, grey, greyish |
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| (adjective) intermediate in character or position | Synonyms: grey |
| (adjective) showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair | Synonyms: gray-haired, gray-headed, grey-haired, grey-headed, grey, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired |
| (adjective) used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms) | Synonyms: grey |
| grayish | (adjective) of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black | Synonyms: gray, grey, greyish |
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| grazed | (adjective) scraped or touched lightly in passing | - |
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| greased | (adjective) smeared with oil or grease to reduce friction | Synonyms: lubricated |
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| greaseproof | (adjective) resistant to penetration by grease or oil or wax | - |
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| 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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