jade | (adjective) of something having the color of jade; especially varying from bluish green to yellowish green | Synonyms: jade-green |
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jaded | (adjective) dulled by surfeit | - |
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(adjective) exhausted | Synonyms: wearied |
jagged | (adjective) having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed | Synonyms: erose, jaggy, notched, toothed |
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(adjective) having a sharply uneven surface or outline | Synonyms: jaggy, scraggy |
jaggy | (adjective) having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed | Synonyms: erose, jagged, notched, toothed |
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(adjective) having a sharply uneven surface or outline | Synonyms: jagged, scraggy |
jailed | (adjective) being in captivity | Synonyms: captive, confined, imprisoned |
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jammed | (adjective) extremely crowed or filled to capacity | Synonyms: jam-packed, packed |
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jangling | (adjective) like the discordant ringing of nonmusical metallic objects striking together | Synonyms: jangly |
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jangly | (adjective) like the discordant ringing of nonmusical metallic objects striking together | Synonyms: jangling |
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jarring | (adjective) making or causing a harsh and irritating sound | - |
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jaundiced | (adjective) showing or affected by prejudice or envy or distaste | - |
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(adjective) affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc | Synonyms: icteric, yellow |
jaunty | (adjective) having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air | Synonyms: chipper, debonair, debonaire |
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(adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | Synonyms: dapper, dashing, natty, raffish, rakish, snappy, spiffy, spruce |
jawed | (adjective) of animals having jaws of a specified type | - |
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jawless | (adjective) of animals having no jaw | - |
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jazzy | (adjective) (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display | Synonyms: flashy, gaudy, showy, sporty |
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(adjective) resembling jazz (especially in its rhythm) | - |
jealous | (adjective) showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages | Synonyms: covetous, envious |
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(adjective) suspicious or unduly suspicious or fearful of being displaced by a rival | Synonyms: green-eyed, overjealous |
jeering | (adjective) abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule | Synonyms: derisive, gibelike, mocking, taunting |
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jejune | (adjective) displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity | Synonyms: adolescent, juvenile, puerile |
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(adjective) of insufficient quantity to meet a need | Synonyms: inadequate, poor, short |
(adjective) lacking interest or significance or impact | Synonyms: insipid |
jelled | (adjective) congealed into jelly; solidified by cooling | Synonyms: congealed, jellied |
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jellied | (adjective) congealed into jelly; solidified by cooling | Synonyms: congealed, jelled |
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jellylike | (adjective) thick like gelatin | Synonyms: gelatinlike, gelatinous |
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jerking | (adjective) lacking a steady rhythm | Synonyms: arrhythmic, jerky |
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jerkwater | (adjective) small and remote and insignificant | Synonyms: one-horse, pokey, poky |
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jerky | (adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: anserine, dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosey, goosy |
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(adjective) marked by abrupt transitions | Synonyms: choppy |
(adjective) lacking a steady rhythm | Synonyms: arrhythmic, jerking |
jesting | (adjective) characterized by jokes and good humor | Synonyms: jocose, jocular, joking |
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jet | (adjective) of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal | Synonyms: coal-black, jet-black, pitchy, sooty |
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jetting | (adjective) propelled violently in a usually narrow stream | Synonyms: spouting, spurting, squirting |
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jeweled | (adjective) covered with beads or jewels or sequins | Synonyms: beady, gemmed, jewelled, sequined, spangled, spangly |
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jewelled | (adjective) covered with beads or jewels or sequins | Synonyms: beady, gemmed, jeweled, sequined, spangled, spangly |
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jiggered | (adjective) (British informal expletive) surprised | - |
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jihadi | (adjective) of or relating to a jihad | - |
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jilted | (adjective) rebuffed (by a lover) without warning | Synonyms: rejected, spurned |
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jingling | (adjective) having a series of high-pitched ringing sounds like many small bells | Synonyms: jingly |
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jingly | (adjective) having a series of high-pitched ringing sounds like many small bells | Synonyms: jingling |
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jingoistic | (adjective) fanatically patriotic | Synonyms: chauvinistic, flag-waving, nationalistic, superpatriotic, ultranationalistic |
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jinxed | (adjective) (usually used colloquially) causing or accompanied by misfortune | Synonyms: hexed |
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jittering | (adjective) undergoing small rapid variations | - |
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jittery | (adjective) characterized by jerky movements | - |
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(adjective) being in a tense state | Synonyms: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive, uptight |
jobless | (adjective) not having a job | Synonyms: idle, out of work |
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jocose | (adjective) characterized by jokes and good humor | Synonyms: jesting, jocular, joking |
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jocular | (adjective) characterized by jokes and good humor | Synonyms: jesting, jocose, joking |
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jocund | (adjective) full of or showing high-spirited merriment | Synonyms: gay, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful |
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joined | (adjective) connected by a link, as railway cars or trailer trucks | Synonyms: coupled, linked |
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(adjective) of or relating to two people who are married to each other | Synonyms: united |
joint | (adjective) united or combined | - |
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(adjective) involving both houses of a legislature | - |
(adjective) affecting or involving two or more | - |
jointed | (adjective) having joints or jointed segments | - |
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joking | (adjective) characterized by jokes and good humor | Synonyms: jesting, jocose, jocular |
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jolly | (adjective) full of or showing high-spirited merriment | Synonyms: gay, jocund, jovial, merry, mirthful |
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jolted | (adjective) disturbed psychologically as if by a physical jolt or shock | Synonyms: shaken |
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(adjective) bumped or shaken jerkily | - |
jolting | (adjective) causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements | Synonyms: bumpy, jolty, jumpy, rocky, rough |
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jolty | (adjective) causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements | Synonyms: bumpy, jolting, jumpy, rocky, rough |
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journalistic | (adjective) of or relating to or having the characteristics of journalism | - |
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jovial | (adjective) full of or showing high-spirited merriment | Synonyms: gay, jocund, jolly, merry, mirthful |
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jowly | (adjective) having sagging folds of flesh beneath the chin or lower jaw | Synonyms: double-chinned, loose-jowled |
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joyful | (adjective) full of or producing joy | - |
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(adjective) full of high-spirited delight | Synonyms: elated, gleeful, jubilant |
joyless | (adjective) not experiencing or inspiring joy | - |
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joyous | (adjective) full of or characterized by joy | - |
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jubilant | (adjective) joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success | Synonyms: exultant, exulting, prideful, rejoicing, triumphal, triumphant |
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(adjective) full of high-spirited delight | Synonyms: elated, gleeful, joyful |
judgmental | (adjective) depending on judgment | - |
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judicable | (adjective) capable of being judged or decided | - |
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judicial | (adjective) relating to the administration of justice or the function of a judge | Synonyms: juridic, juridical |
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(adjective) belonging or appropriate to the office of a judge | - |
(adjective) expressing careful judgment | Synonyms: discriminative |
(adjective) decreed by or proceeding from a court of justice | - |
judicious | (adjective) marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters | Synonyms: heady, wise |
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jugular | (adjective) relating to or located in the region of the neck or throat | - |
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juiceless | (adjective) lacking juice | - |
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(adjective) lacking interest or stimulation; dull and lifeless | Synonyms: dry |
juicy | (adjective) abounding in juice | - |
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(adjective) lucrative | Synonyms: fat |
(adjective) having strong sexual appeal | Synonyms: luscious, lush, red-hot, toothsome, voluptuous |
(adjective) suggestive of sexual impropriety | Synonyms: blue, gamey, gamy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy |
jumbled | (adjective) in utter disorder | Synonyms: disorderly, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, topsy-turvy |
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jumbo | (adjective) of great mass; huge and bulky | Synonyms: elephantine, gargantuan, giant |
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jumentous | (adjective) smelling strongly like a beast of burden | - |
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jumpy | (adjective) causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements | Synonyms: bumpy, jolting, jolty, rocky, rough |
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(adjective) being in a tense state | Synonyms: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jittery, nervy, overstrung, restive, uptight |
jungly | (adjective) overgrown with tropical vegetation | - |
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junior | (adjective) younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or service | - |
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(adjective) used of the third or next to final year in United States high school or college | Synonyms: next-to-last, third-year |
(adjective) including or intended for youthful persons | - |
jural | (adjective) of or relating to law or to legal rights and obligations | Synonyms: juristic |
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juridic | (adjective) relating to the administration of justice or the function of a judge | Synonyms: judicial, juridical |
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(adjective) of or relating to the law or jurisprudence | Synonyms: juridical |
juridical | (adjective) relating to the administration of justice or the function of a judge | Synonyms: judicial, juridic |
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(adjective) of or relating to the law or jurisprudence | Synonyms: juridic |
jurisdictional | (adjective) restricted to the geographic area under a particular jurisdiction | - |
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jurisprudential | (adjective) relating to the science or philosophy of law or a system of laws | - |
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juristic | (adjective) of or relating to law or to legal rights and obligations | Synonyms: jural |
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just | (adjective) used especially of what is legally or ethically right or proper or fitting | - |
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(adjective) fair to all parties as dictated by reason and conscience | Synonyms: equitable |
(adjective) free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; conforming with established standards or rules | Synonyms: fair |
(adjective) of moral excellence | Synonyms: good, upright |
justifiable | (adjective) capable of being justified | - |
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justificative | (adjective) attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing | Synonyms: defensive, justificatory |
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(adjective) providing justification | Synonyms: justificatory, vindicatory |
justificatory | (adjective) attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing | Synonyms: defensive, justificative |
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(adjective) providing justification | Synonyms: justificative, vindicatory |
justified | (adjective) having words so spaced that lines have straight even margins | - |
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jutting | (adjective) extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary | Synonyms: projected, projecting, protruding, relieved, sticking, sticking out |
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juvenile | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of or appropriate for children or young people | - |
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(adjective) displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity | Synonyms: adolescent, jejune, puerile |
juxtaposed | (adjective) placed side by side often for comparison | - |
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