| mannish | (adjective) characteristic of a man as distinguished from a woman | - |
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| (adjective) resembling or imitative of or suggestive of a man rather than a woman | - |
| manoeuvrable | (adjective) capable of maneuvering or changing position | Synonyms: maneuverable |
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| manorial | (adjective) of or relating to or based on the manor | - |
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| manque | (adjective) unfulfilled or frustrated in realizing an ambition | Synonyms: would-be |
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| mansard | (adjective) (of a roof) having two slopes on all sides with the lower slope steeper than the upper | - |
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| mantic | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy | Synonyms: divinatory, sibyllic, sibylline, vatic, vatical |
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| mantled | (adjective) covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak | Synonyms: cloaked, clothed, draped, wrapped |
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| manual | (adjective) requiring human effort | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the hands | - |
| (adjective) doing or requiring physical work | - |
| manufactured | (adjective) produced in a large-scale industrial operation | - |
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| many | (adjective) a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `as' or `too' or `so' or `that'; amounting to a large but indefinite number; quantifier, plural pronoun; quantifier, plural | - |
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| maplelike | (adjective) resembling maple | Synonyms: maple-like |
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| marauding | (adjective) characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding | Synonyms: predatory, raiding |
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| marbled | (adjective) patterned with veins or streaks or color resembling marble | Synonyms: marbleised, marbleized |
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| marbleised | (adjective) patterned with veins or streaks or color resembling marble | Synonyms: marbled, marbleized |
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| marbleized | (adjective) patterned with veins or streaks or color resembling marble | Synonyms: marbled, marbleised |
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| marginal | (adjective) of questionable or minimal quality | Synonyms: borderline |
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| (adjective) just barely adequate or within a lower limit | Synonyms: bare |
| (adjective) at or constituting a border or edge | Synonyms: fringy |
| (adjective) producing at a rate that barely covers production costs | - |
| marine | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or occurring on or in the sea | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the sea | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to military personnel who serve both on land and at sea (specifically the U.S. Marine Corps) | - |
| (adjective) relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen | Synonyms: maritime, nautical |
| (adjective) native to or inhabiting the sea | - |
| marital | (adjective) of or relating to the state of marriage | Synonyms: married, matrimonial |
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| maritime | (adjective) relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen | Synonyms: marine, nautical |
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| (adjective) bordering on or living or characteristic of those near the sea | - |
| marked | (adjective) having or as if having an identifying mark or a mark as specified; often used in combination | - |
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| (adjective) singled out for notice or especially for a dire fate | - |
| (adjective) strongly marked; easily noticeable | Synonyms: pronounced |
| marketable | (adjective) capable of being marketed | - |
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| (adjective) being in demand by especially employers | - |
| (adjective) fit to be offered for sale | Synonyms: merchantable, sellable, vendable, vendible |
| marly | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling or abounding in marl | - |
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| marmoreal | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of marble | Synonyms: marmorean |
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| marmorean | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of marble | Synonyms: marmoreal |
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| maroon | (adjective) of dark brownish to purplish red | Synonyms: brownish-red |
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| marooned | (adjective) cut off or left behind | Synonyms: isolated, stranded |
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| marred | (adjective) blemished by injury or rough wear | Synonyms: scarred |
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| marriageable | (adjective) of girls or women who are eligible to marry | Synonyms: nubile |
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| married | (adjective) joined in matrimony | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the state of marriage | Synonyms: marital, matrimonial |
| marshy | (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged |
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| marsupial | (adjective) of or relating to the marsupials | - |
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| martial | (adjective) of or relating to the armed forces | - |
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| (adjective) suggesting war or military life | Synonyms: warlike |
| (adjective) (of persons) befitting a warrior | Synonyms: soldierlike, soldierly, warriorlike |
| marvellous | (adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: fantastic, grand, howling, marvelous, phenomenal, rattling, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous |
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| (adjective) too improbable to admit of belief | Synonyms: improbable, marvelous, tall |
| (adjective) being or having the character of a miracle | Synonyms: marvelous, miraculous |
| marvelous | (adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: fantastic, grand, howling, marvellous, phenomenal, rattling, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous |
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| (adjective) too improbable to admit of belief | Synonyms: improbable, marvellous, tall |
| (adjective) being or having the character of a miracle | Synonyms: marvellous, miraculous |
| masculine | (adjective) associated with men and not with women | - |
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| (adjective) male (of grammatical gender) | - |
| (adjective) (music or poetry) ending on an accented beat or syllable | - |
| masked | (adjective) having its true character concealed with the intent of misleading | Synonyms: cloaked, disguised |
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| (adjective) having markings suggestive of a mask | - |
| masochistic | (adjective) deriving pleasure or sexual gratification from being abused or dominated | - |
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| masonic | (adjective) of or relating to stonemasons or masonry | - |
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| mass | (adjective) formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole | Synonyms: aggregate, aggregated, aggregative |
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| massive | (adjective) consisting of great mass; containing a great quantity of matter | - |
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| (adjective) imposing in size or bulk or solidity | Synonyms: monolithic, monumental |
| (adjective) being the same substance throughout | - |
| (adjective) imposing in scale or scope or degree or power | - |
| masted | (adjective) having or furnished with a mast; often used in combination | - |
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| master | (adjective) most important element | Synonyms: chief, main, primary, principal |
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| mastered | (adjective) understood perfectly | Synonyms: down, down pat |
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| masterful | (adjective) having or revealing supreme mastery or skill | Synonyms: consummate, masterly, virtuoso |
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| masterless | (adjective) having no lord or master | Synonyms: lordless |
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| masterly | (adjective) having or revealing supreme mastery or skill | Synonyms: consummate, masterful, virtuoso |
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| mastoid | (adjective) relating to or resembling a nipple | Synonyms: mastoidal |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or in the region of the mastoid process | - |
| mastoidal | (adjective) relating to or resembling a nipple | Synonyms: mastoid |
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| mat | (adjective) not reflecting light; not glossy | Synonyms: flat, matt, matte, matted |
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| matched | (adjective) going well together; possessing harmonizing qualities | - |
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| (adjective) provided with a worthy adversary or competitor | - |
| matching | (adjective) intentionally matched | Synonyms: co-ordinated, coordinated |
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| (adjective) being two identical | Synonyms: duplicate, twin, twinned |
| matchless | (adjective) eminent beyond or above comparison | Synonyms: nonpareil, one, one and only, peerless, unmatchable, unmatched, unrivaled, unrivalled |
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| mated | (adjective) mated sexually | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a marriage partner | - |
| (adjective) occurring in pairs or as a pair | Synonyms: paired |
| mateless | (adjective) of someone who has no marriage partner | - |
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| (adjective) without a sexual mate | - |
| material | (adjective) derived from or composed of matter | - |
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| (adjective) directly relevant to a matter especially a law case | - |
| (adjective) having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary | Synonyms: real, substantial |
| (adjective) having material or physical form or substance | Synonyms: corporeal |
| (adjective) concerned with or affecting physical as distinct from intellectual or psychological well-being | - |
| (adjective) concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests | - |
| materialistic | (adjective) conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class | Synonyms: bourgeois, conservative |
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| (adjective) marked by materialism | Synonyms: mercenary, worldly-minded |
| maternal | (adjective) characteristic of a mother | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent | Synonyms: parental, paternal |
| (adjective) relating to or derived from one's mother | - |
| (adjective) related on the mother's side | Synonyms: enate, enatic |
| maternalistic | (adjective) showing maternal instincts | - |
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| matey | (adjective) (used colloquially) having the relationship of friends or pals | Synonyms: chummy, pally, palsy-walsy |
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| mathematical | (adjective) relating to or having ability to think in or work with numbers | Synonyms: numerical |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to or of the nature of mathematics | - |
| (adjective) characterized by the exactness or precision of mathematics | - |
| (adjective) statistically possible though highly improbable | - |
| (adjective) beyond question | - |
| matriarchal | (adjective) characteristic of a matriarchy | - |
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| matriarchic | (adjective) (of societies or families) having a female as the family head or having descent traced through the female line | - |
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| matricentric | (adjective) centered upon the mother | - |
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| matrilineal | (adjective) based on or tracing descent through the female line | Synonyms: matrilinear |
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| matrilinear | (adjective) based on or tracing descent through the female line | Synonyms: matrilineal |
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| matrimonial | (adjective) of or relating to the state of marriage | Synonyms: marital, married |
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| matronly | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a fully mature woman | - |
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| matt | (adjective) not reflecting light; not glossy | Synonyms: flat, mat, matte, matted |
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| matte | (adjective) not reflecting light; not glossy | Synonyms: flat, mat, matt, matted |
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| matted | (adjective) not reflecting light; not glossy | Synonyms: flat, mat, matt, matte |
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| (adjective) tangled in a dense mass | - |
| maturational | (adjective) relating to or involved in maturation | - |
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| mature | (adjective) having reached full natural growth or development | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of maturity | - |
| (adjective) (of birds) having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination | Synonyms: fledged |
| (adjective) fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used | Synonyms: ripe |
| (adjective) fully considered and perfected | Synonyms: matured |
| matured | (adjective) fully considered and perfected | Synonyms: mature |
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| (adjective) fully ripe; at the height of bloom | Synonyms: full-blown |
| matutinal | (adjective) pertaining to or occurring in the morning | - |
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| maudlin | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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| mauve | (adjective) of a pale to moderate greyish violet color | - |
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| maverick | (adjective) independent in behavior or thought | Synonyms: irregular, unorthodox |
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| mawkish | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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| maxi | (adjective) used of women's clothing having a hemline at the ankle | - |
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| maxillary | (adjective) of or relating to the upper jaw | - |
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| maxillodental | (adjective) of or relating to the upper jaw and its associated teeth | - |
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| maxillofacial | (adjective) of or relating to the upper jaw and face (particularly with reference to specialized surgery of the maxilla) | - |
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| maxillomandibular | (adjective) relating to the upper and lower jaws | - |
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| maximal | (adjective) the greatest or most complete or best possible | Synonyms: maximum |
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| maximising | (adjective) making as great as possible | Synonyms: maximizing |
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| maximizing | (adjective) making as great as possible | Synonyms: maximising |
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| maximum | (adjective) the greatest or most complete or best possible | Synonyms: maximal |
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| mayoral | (adjective) of or relating to a mayor or the office of mayor | - |
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| mazed | (adjective) perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at sea, baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mixed-up |
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| mazy | (adjective) resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity | Synonyms: labyrinthian, labyrinthine |
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