| 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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| 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 | - |