nacreous | (adjective) consisting of or resembling mother-of-pearl | - |
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(adjective) having a play of lustrous rainbow colors | Synonyms: iridescent, opalescent, opaline, pearlescent |
nagging | (adjective) continually complaining or faultfinding | Synonyms: shrewish |
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naiant | (adjective) applied to a fish depicted horizontally | Synonyms: swimming |
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naif | (adjective) marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience | Synonyms: naive |
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naive | (adjective) marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience | Synonyms: naif |
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(adjective) not initiated; deficient in relevant experience | Synonyms: uninitiate, uninitiated |
(adjective) inexperienced | - |
(adjective) lacking information or instruction | Synonyms: unenlightened, uninstructed |
(adjective) of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style | Synonyms: primitive |
naked | (adjective) lacking any cover | - |
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(adjective) devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure | Synonyms: raw |
(adjective) (of the eye or ear e.g.) without the aid of an optical or acoustical device or instrument | - |
(adjective) having no clothes on the body | Synonyms: au naturel, bare, nude |
(adjective) having no protecting or concealing cover | Synonyms: defenseless |
nameless | (adjective) being or having an unknown or unnamed source | Synonyms: unidentified, unknown, unnamed |
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naming | (adjective) inclined to or serving for the giving of names | Synonyms: appellative |
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nanocephalic | (adjective) having an abnormally small head and underdeveloped brain | Synonyms: microcephalic, microcephalous |
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napped | (adjective) (of fabrics) having soft nap produced by brushing | Synonyms: brushed, fleecy |
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napping | (adjective) not prepared or vigilant | Synonyms: off-guard, off guard, off her guard, off his guard, off one's guard, off your guard |
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nappy | (adjective) (of hair) in small tight curls | Synonyms: crisp, frizzly, frizzy, kinky |
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narcissistic | (adjective) characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance | Synonyms: egotistic, egotistical, self-loving |
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narcoleptic | (adjective) of or relating to narcolepsy | - |
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narcotic | (adjective) of or relating to or designating narcotics | - |
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(adjective) inducing stupor or narcosis | Synonyms: narcotising, narcotizing |
(adjective) inducing mental lethargy | Synonyms: soporiferous, soporific |
narcotised | (adjective) under the influence of narcotics | Synonyms: doped, drugged, narcotized |
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narcotising | (adjective) inducing stupor or narcosis | Synonyms: narcotic, narcotizing |
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narcotized | (adjective) under the influence of narcotics | Synonyms: doped, drugged, narcotised |
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narcotizing | (adjective) inducing stupor or narcosis | Synonyms: narcotic, narcotising |
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narial | (adjective) of or relating to or near the nares | - |
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narrative | (adjective) consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story | - |
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narrow | (adjective) not wide | - |
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(adjective) very limited in degree | - |
(adjective) lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view | Synonyms: narrow-minded |
(adjective) characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination | Synonyms: minute |
(adjective) limited in extent or scope | - |
narrowed | (adjective) made narrow; limited in breadth | - |
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(adjective) reduced in size as by squeezing together | - |
narrowing | (adjective) (of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom | Synonyms: constricting, constrictive |
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(adjective) becoming gradually narrower | Synonyms: tapered, tapering |
nary | (adjective) (used with singular count nouns) colloquial for `not a' or `not one' or `never a' | - |
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nasal | (adjective) of or in or relating to the nose | Synonyms: rhinal |
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(adjective) sounding as if the nose were pinched | Synonyms: adenoidal, pinched |
nascent | (adjective) being born or beginning | - |
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nasopharyngeal | (adjective) of or relating to or located near the nasopharynx | - |
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nasty | (adjective) offensive or even (of persons) malicious | Synonyms: awful |
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(adjective) exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent | Synonyms: tight |
(adjective) disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter | Synonyms: filthy, foul |
(adjective) characterized by obscenity | Synonyms: cruddy, filthy, foul, smutty |
natal | (adjective) relating to or accompanying birth | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the buttocks | - |
national | (adjective) limited to or in the interests of a particular nation | - |
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(adjective) concerned with or applicable to or belonging to an entire nation or country | - |
(adjective) of or relating to or belonging to a nation or country | - |
(adjective) of or relating to nationality | - |
(adjective) characteristic of or peculiar to the people of a nation | - |
(adjective) inside the country | Synonyms: home, interior, internal |
(adjective) owned or maintained for the public by the national government | - |
nationalist | (adjective) devotion to the interests or culture of a particular nation including promoting the interests of one country over those of others | Synonyms: nationalistic |
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nationalistic | (adjective) devotion to the interests or culture of a particular nation including promoting the interests of one country over those of others | Synonyms: nationalist |
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(adjective) fanatically patriotic | Synonyms: chauvinistic, flag-waving, jingoistic, superpatriotic, ultranationalistic |
nationwide | (adjective) occurring or extending throughout a country or nation | Synonyms: countrywide |
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native | (adjective) characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin | - |
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(adjective) characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning | Synonyms: aboriginal |
(adjective) belonging to one by birth | - |
(adjective) as found in nature in the elemental form | - |
nativist | (adjective) of or relating to or advocating nativism | Synonyms: nativistic |
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(adjective) advocating the perpetuation of native societies | Synonyms: nativistic |
nativistic | (adjective) of or relating to or advocating nativism | Synonyms: nativist |
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(adjective) advocating the perpetuation of native societies | Synonyms: nativist |
natriuretic | (adjective) of or relating to natriuresis | - |
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natty | (adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | Synonyms: dapper, dashing, jaunty, raffish, rakish, snappy, spiffy, spruce |
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natural | (adjective) (of a parent or child) related by blood; genetically related | Synonyms: biological |
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(adjective) in accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature | - |
(adjective) existing in or produced by nature; not artificial or imitation | - |
(adjective) existing in or in conformity with nature or the observable world; neither supernatural nor magical | - |
(adjective) (of a musical note) being neither raised nor lowered by one chromatic semitone | - |
(adjective) being talented through inherited qualities | Synonyms: born, innate |
(adjective) functioning or occurring in a normal way; lacking abnormalities or deficiencies | - |
(adjective) unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct | Synonyms: instinctive |
(adjective) free from artificiality | Synonyms: lifelike |
(adjective) (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes | Synonyms: raw, rude |
naturalised | (adjective) planted so as to give an effect of wild growth | Synonyms: naturalized |
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naturalistic | (adjective) representing what is real; not abstract or ideal | Synonyms: realistic |
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naturalized | (adjective) planted so as to give an effect of wild growth | Synonyms: naturalised |
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(adjective) introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation | Synonyms: established |
naturistic | (adjective) in accord with naturism | - |
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naughty | (adjective) badly behaved | - |
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(adjective) suggestive of sexual impropriety | Synonyms: blue, gamey, gamy, juicy, racy, risque, spicy |
nauseated | (adjective) feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit | Synonyms: nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish |
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nauseating | (adjective) causing or able to cause nausea | Synonyms: loathsome, nauseous, noisome, offensive, queasy, sickening, vile |
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nauseous | (adjective) feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit | Synonyms: nauseated, queasy, sick, sickish |
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(adjective) causing or able to cause nausea | Synonyms: loathsome, nauseating, noisome, offensive, queasy, sickening, vile |
nautical | (adjective) relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen | Synonyms: marine, maritime |
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naval | (adjective) connected with or belonging to or used in a navy | - |
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navicular | (adjective) shaped like a boat | Synonyms: scaphoid |
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navigable | (adjective) able to be sailed on or through safely | - |
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navigational | (adjective) of or relating to navigation | - |
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neandertal | (adjective) ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance | Synonyms: boorish, loutish, neanderthal, oafish, swinish |
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neanderthal | (adjective) ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance | Synonyms: boorish, loutish, neandertal, oafish, swinish |
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near | (adjective) not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances | Synonyms: close, nigh |
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(adjective) closely resembling the genuine article | - |
(adjective) with or in a close or intimate relationship | Synonyms: dear, good |
(adjective) being on the left side | Synonyms: nigh |
(adjective) giving or spending with reluctance | Synonyms: cheeseparing, close, penny-pinching, skinny |
(adjective) very close in resemblance | Synonyms: approximate |
nearby | (adjective) close at hand | - |
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nearsighted | (adjective) unable to see distant objects clearly | Synonyms: myopic, shortsighted |
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neat | (adjective) free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed | Synonyms: clean |
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(adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
(adjective) superficially impressive, but lacking depth and attention to the true complexities of a subject | Synonyms: facile, slick |
(adjective) clean or organized | Synonyms: orderly |
(adjective) (of an alcoholic drink) without water | Synonyms: full-strength, straight |
(adjective) showing care in execution | - |
nebular | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a nebula | Synonyms: nebulous |
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(adjective) resembling a cloud | Synonyms: cloudlike |
nebulose | (adjective) lacking definite form or limits | Synonyms: cloudy, nebulous |
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nebulous | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a nebula | Synonyms: nebular |
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(adjective) lacking definition or definite content | Synonyms: unfixed |
(adjective) lacking definite form or limits | Synonyms: cloudy, nebulose |
necessary | (adjective) absolutely essential | - |
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(adjective) unavoidably determined by prior circumstances | - |
necessitous | (adjective) poor enough to need help from others | Synonyms: destitute, impoverished, indigent, needy, poverty-stricken |
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necked | (adjective) having a neck or having a neck especially as specified | - |
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neckless | (adjective) lacking or apparently lacking a neck | - |
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necklike | (adjective) resembling a neck | - |
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necromantic | (adjective) relating to or associated with necromancy | Synonyms: necromantical |
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(adjective) given to or produced by or used in the art of conjuring up the dead | - |
necromantical | (adjective) relating to or associated with necromancy | Synonyms: necromantic |
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necrotic | (adjective) relating to or affected by necrosis | - |
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nectariferous | (adjective) possessing nectaries | - |
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nectarous | (adjective) extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant | Synonyms: ambrosial, ambrosian |
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nee | (adjective) (meaning literally `born') used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman | - |
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needed | (adjective) necessary for relief or supply | Synonyms: needful, required, requisite |
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needful | (adjective) necessary for relief or supply | Synonyms: needed, required, requisite |
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needled | (adjective) of trees whose leaves are acerate | - |
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needlelike | (adjective) ending in a sharp point | Synonyms: acuate, acute, sharp |
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needless | (adjective) unnecessary and unwarranted | Synonyms: gratuitous, uncalled-for |
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needy | (adjective) demanding or needing attention, affection, or reassurance to an excessive degree | - |
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(adjective) poor enough to need help from others | Synonyms: destitute, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, poverty-stricken |
nefarious | (adjective) extremely wicked | Synonyms: villainous |
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negative | (adjective) expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial | - |
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(adjective) characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features | - |
(adjective) not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition | Synonyms: disconfirming |
(adjective) reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive | - |
(adjective) having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant | - |
(adjective) having a negative charge | Synonyms: electronegative, negatively charged |
(adjective) designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions | Synonyms: damaging |
(adjective) involving disadvantage or harm | Synonyms: minus |
(adjective) less than zero | - |
neglected | (adjective) lacking a caretaker | Synonyms: unattended |
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(adjective) disregarded | Synonyms: ignored, unheeded |
neglectful | (adjective) failing in what duty requires | Synonyms: delinquent, derelict, remiss |
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(adjective) not showing due care or attention | Synonyms: inattentive |
negligent | (adjective) characterized by neglect and undue lack of concern | - |
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negligible | (adjective) so small as to be meaningless; insignificant | - |
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(adjective) not worth considering | Synonyms: paltry, trifling |
negotiable | (adjective) legally transferable to the ownership of another | Synonyms: assignable, conveyable, transferable, transferrable |
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(adjective) able to be negotiated or arranged by compromise | Synonyms: on the table |
(adjective) capable of being passed or negotiated | - |
negro | (adjective) having skin rich in melanin pigments; | Synonyms: colored, coloured |
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neighboring | (adjective) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching | Synonyms: adjacent, conterminous, contiguous, neighbouring |
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neighborly | (adjective) exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor | Synonyms: neighbourly |
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neighbouring | (adjective) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching | Synonyms: adjacent, conterminous, contiguous, neighboring |
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neighbourly | (adjective) exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor | Synonyms: neighborly |
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neither | (adjective) not either; not one or the other; entity, dual, negative pronoun; quantifier, dual, negative | - |
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neo | (adjective) (used as a combining form) recent or new | - |
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neoclassic | (adjective) characteristic of a revival of an earlier classical style | Synonyms: neoclassical |
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neoclassical | (adjective) characteristic of a revival of an earlier classical style | Synonyms: neoclassic |
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neoclassicist | (adjective) relating to or advocating neoclassicism | Synonyms: neoclassicistic |
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neoclassicistic | (adjective) relating to or advocating neoclassicism | Synonyms: neoclassicist |
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neocortical | (adjective) of or relating to the neocortex of the cerebrum | - |
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neoliberal | (adjective) having or showing belief in the need for economic growth in addition to traditional liberalistic values | - |
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neolithic | (adjective) of or relating to the most recent period of the Stone Age (following the mesolithic) | - |
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