| 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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