| neonatal | (adjective) relating to or affecting the infant during the first month after birth | - |
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| neoplastic | (adjective) of or related to or having the properties of a neoplasm | - |
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| neotenic | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by neoteny | Synonyms: neotenous |
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| neotenous | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by neoteny | Synonyms: neotenic |
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| nephritic | (adjective) of or relating to the kidneys | Synonyms: renal |
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| (adjective) affected by nephritis | - |
| nephrotoxic | (adjective) toxic to the kidney | - |
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| neritic | (adjective) of or relating to the region of the sea over the continental shelf which is less than 200 meters deep | - |
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| (adjective) relating to the region of shallow water adjoining the seacoast | - |
| nerveless | (adjective) marked by calm self-control (especially in trying circumstances); unemotional | Synonyms: cool, coolheaded |
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| (adjective) lacking strength | Synonyms: feeble |
| nervous | (adjective) of or relating to the nervous system | Synonyms: neural |
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| (adjective) unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) | Synonyms: flighty, skittish, spooky |
| (adjective) excited in anticipation | Synonyms: aflutter |
| (adjective) easily agitated | - |
| (adjective) causing or fraught with or showing anxiety | Synonyms: anxious, queasy, uneasy, unquiet |
| nervy | (adjective) showing or requiring courage and contempt of danger | - |
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| (adjective) offensively bold | Synonyms: brash, cheeky |
| (adjective) being in a tense state | Synonyms: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, overstrung, restive, uptight |
| nescient | (adjective) holding that only material phenomena can be known and knowledge of spiritual matters or ultimate causes is impossible | Synonyms: unbelieving |
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| (adjective) uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication | Synonyms: ignorant, unlearned, unlettered |
| nestled | (adjective) drawn or pressed close to someone or something for or as if for affection or protection | Synonyms: snuggled |
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| net | (adjective) remaining after all deductions | Synonyms: nett |
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| (adjective) conclusive in a process or progression | Synonyms: final, last |
| nether | (adjective) lower | - |
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| (adjective) dwelling beneath the surface of the earth | Synonyms: chthonian, chthonic |
| (adjective) located below or beneath something else | Synonyms: under |
| nethermost | (adjective) farthest down | Synonyms: bottommost, lowermost |
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| netlike | (adjective) having open interstices or resembling a web | Synonyms: lacy, netted, webbed, webby, weblike |
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| nett | (adjective) remaining after all deductions | Synonyms: net |
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| netted | (adjective) having open interstices or resembling a web | Synonyms: lacy, netlike, webbed, webby, weblike |
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| nettled | (adjective) aroused to impatience or anger | Synonyms: annoyed, irritated, miffed, peeved, pissed, pissed off, riled, roiled, steamed, stung |
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| nettlesome | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
| networklike | (adjective) having a network of veins or ribs | - |
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| neural | (adjective) of or relating to neurons | Synonyms: neuronal, neuronic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the nervous system | Synonyms: nervous |
| neuralgic | (adjective) of or relating to or suffering from neuralgia | - |
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| neurasthenic | (adjective) of or relating to or suffering from neurasthenia | - |
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| neuroanatomic | (adjective) of or relating to neural tissue or the nervous system | Synonyms: neuroanatomical |
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| neuroanatomical | (adjective) of or relating to neural tissue or the nervous system | Synonyms: neuroanatomic |
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| neurobiological | (adjective) of or relating to the biological study of the nervous system | - |
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| neuroendocrine | (adjective) of or relating to the nervous and endocrine systems (especially as they function together) | - |
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| neurogenic | (adjective) arising in or stimulated by nerve tissues | - |
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| neuroglial | (adjective) relating to or consisting of neuroglia | - |
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| neurologic | (adjective) of or relating to or used in or practicing neurology | Synonyms: neurological |
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| neurological | (adjective) of or relating to or used in or practicing neurology | Synonyms: neurologic |
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| neuromatous | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by neuromas | - |
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| neuromotor | (adjective) relating to a nerve fiber or impulse passing toward motor effectors | - |
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| neuromuscular | (adjective) affecting or characteristic of both neural and muscular tissue | - |
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| neuronal | (adjective) of or relating to neurons | Synonyms: neural, neuronic |
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| neuronic | (adjective) of or relating to neurons | Synonyms: neural, neuronal |
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| neurophysiological | (adjective) of or concerned with neurophysiology | - |
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| neuropsychiatric | (adjective) of or relating to neuropsychiatry | - |
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| neuropsychological | (adjective) of or concerned with neuropsychology | - |
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| neurotic | (adjective) affected with emotional disorder | Synonyms: psychoneurotic |
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| (adjective) characteristic of or affected by neurosis | - |
| neurotoxic | (adjective) poisonous to nerves or nerve cells | - |
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| neurotropic | (adjective) (of a virus, toxin, or chemical) tending to attack or affect the nervous system preferentially | - |
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| neuter | (adjective) neither male nor female (of grammatical gender) | - |
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| (adjective) having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs | Synonyms: sexless |
| neutered | (adjective) having testicles or ovaries removed | Synonyms: altered |
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| neutral | (adjective) having no hue | Synonyms: achromatic |
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| (adjective) possessing no distinctive quality or characteristics | - |
| (adjective) lacking distinguishing quality or characteristics | - |
| (adjective) not supporting or favoring either side in a war, dispute, or contest | - |
| (adjective) having no personal preference | Synonyms: impersonal |
| (adjective) having no net electric charge | Synonyms: electroneutral |
| (adjective) having only a limited ability to react chemically; chemically inactive | Synonyms: indifferent, inert |
| neutralised | (adjective) made neutral in some respect; deprived of distinctive characteristics | Synonyms: neutralized |
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| neutralized | (adjective) made neutral in some respect; deprived of distinctive characteristics | Synonyms: neutralised |
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| new | (adjective) not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered | - |
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| (adjective) unaffected by use or exposure | - |
| (adjective) (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity | Synonyms: young |
| (adjective) lacking training or experience | Synonyms: raw |
| (adjective) original and of a kind not seen before | Synonyms: fresh, novel |
| (adjective) other than the former one(s); different | - |
| (adjective) (often followed by `to') unfamiliar | - |
| (adjective) having no previous example or precedent or parallel | Synonyms: unexampled |
| newborn | (adjective) having just or recently arisen or come into existence | Synonyms: new-sprung |
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| (adjective) recently born | - |
| newfangled | (adjective) (of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new | Synonyms: new-fangled |
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| newfound | (adjective) newly discovered | - |
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| newsless | (adjective) not providing news or information | - |
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| (adjective) not having or receiving news or information | - |
| newsworthy | (adjective) sufficiently interesting to be reported in a newspaper | - |
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| newsy | (adjective) prone to friendly informal communication | Synonyms: chatty, gossipy |
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| (adjective) full of news | - |
| next | (adjective) nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space | Synonyms: adjacent, side by side |
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| (adjective) (of elected officers) elected but not yet serving | Synonyms: future, succeeding |
| (adjective) immediately following in time or order | Synonyms: following |
| (adjective) (of a day of the week) nearest (or nearest but one) after the present moment | - |
| nibbed | (adjective) (used of pens) having a writing point or nib especially of a certain kind | - |
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| nice | (adjective) pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance | - |
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| (adjective) excessively fastidious and easily disgusted | Synonyms: dainty, overnice, prissy, squeamish |
| (adjective) exhibiting courtesy and politeness | Synonyms: courteous, gracious |
| (adjective) socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous | Synonyms: decent |
| (adjective) done with delicacy and skill | Synonyms: skillful |
| nidicolous | (adjective) (of birds) remaining in the nest for a time after hatching | - |
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| nidifugous | (adjective) (of birds) leaving the nest shortly after hatching | - |
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| niffy | (adjective) (British informal) malodorous | - |
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| nifty | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
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| niggardly | (adjective) petty or reluctant in giving or spending | Synonyms: grudging, scrimy |
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| niggling | (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial |
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| nigh | (adjective) not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances | Synonyms: close, near |
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| (adjective) being on the left side | Synonyms: near |
| nighted | (adjective) overtaken by night or darkness | Synonyms: benighted |
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| nightlong | (adjective) lasting, open, or operating through the whole night | Synonyms: all-night, overnight |
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| nightly | (adjective) happening every night | - |
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| nightmarish | (adjective) extremely alarming | Synonyms: bloodcurdling, hair-raising |
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| nihilistic | (adjective) of or relating to nihilism | - |
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| nilpotent | (adjective) equal to zero when raised to a certain power | - |
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| nimble | (adjective) moving quickly and lightly | Synonyms: agile, quick, spry |
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| (adjective) mentally quick | Synonyms: agile |
| nine | (adjective) denoting a quantity consisting of one more than eight and one less than ten | Synonyms: 9, ix |
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| ninefold | (adjective) having nine units or components | Synonyms: nine-fold, nonuple |
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| ninepenny | (adjective) used of nail size; 2 3/4 in or 7 cm long | - |
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| nineteen | (adjective) being one more than eighteen | Synonyms: 19, xix |
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| nineteenth | (adjective) coming next after the eighteenth in position | Synonyms: 19th |
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| ninetieth | (adjective) the ordinal number of ninety in counting order | Synonyms: 90th |
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| ninety | (adjective) being ten more than eighty | Synonyms: 90, xc |
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| ninth | (adjective) coming next after the eighth and just before the tenth in position | Synonyms: 9th |
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| nipping | (adjective) pleasantly cold and invigorating | Synonyms: crisp, frosty, nippy, snappy |
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| (adjective) capable of wounding | Synonyms: barbed, biting, mordacious, pungent |
| nippy | (adjective) pleasantly cold and invigorating | Synonyms: crisp, frosty, nipping, snappy |
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| (adjective) a sharp biting taste | - |
| nisi | (adjective) not final or absolute | - |
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| nitid | (adjective) bright with a steady but subdued shining | Synonyms: agleam, gleaming |
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| nitric | (adjective) of or containing nitrogen | Synonyms: azotic, nitrous |
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| nitrogenous | (adjective) of or relating to or containing nitrogen | Synonyms: nitrogen-bearing |
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| nitrous | (adjective) of or containing nitrogen | Synonyms: azotic, nitric |
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| nitwitted | (adjective) (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment | Synonyms: senseless, soft-witted, witless |
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| no | (adjective) (quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns for indicating a complete or almost complete lack or zero quantity of | - |
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| noble | (adjective) having or showing or indicative of high or elevated character | - |
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| (adjective) of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times | - |
| (adjective) impressive in size, manner, or appearance | Synonyms: baronial, imposing, stately |
| (adjective) inert especially toward oxygen | - |
| nocent | (adjective) having a tendency to cause harm | - |
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| nociceptive | (adjective) caused by or in response to pain | - |
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| noctilucent | (adjective) shining or glowing by night | - |
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| nocturnal | (adjective) belonging to or active during the night | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or occurring in the night | - |
| nodding | (adjective) having branches or flower heads that bend downward | Synonyms: cernuous, drooping, pendulous, weeping |
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| nodular | (adjective) relating to or characterized by or having nodules | - |
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| (adjective) having nodules or occurring in the form of nodules | Synonyms: nodulated, noduled |
| nodulated | (adjective) having nodules or occurring in the form of nodules | Synonyms: nodular, noduled |
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| noduled | (adjective) having nodules or occurring in the form of nodules | Synonyms: nodular, nodulated |
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| nodulose | (adjective) having minute nodules | - |
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| noetic | (adjective) of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind | Synonyms: intellectual, rational |
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