| rabbinic | (adjective) of or relating to rabbis or their teachings | Synonyms: rabbinical |
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| rabbinical | (adjective) of or relating to rabbis or their teachings | Synonyms: rabbinic |
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| rabid | (adjective) of or infected by rabies | - |
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| (adjective) marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea | Synonyms: fanatic, fanatical, overzealous |
| racemose | (adjective) having stalked flowers along an elongated stem that continue to open in succession from below as the stem continues to grow | - |
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| rachitic | (adjective) affected with, suffering from, or characteristic of rickets | Synonyms: rickety |
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| racial | (adjective) of or characteristic of race or races or arising from differences among groups | - |
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| (adjective) of or related to genetically distinguished groups of people | - |
| racist | (adjective) discriminatory especially on the basis of race or religion | Synonyms: anti-Semite, antiblack |
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| (adjective) based on racial intolerance | - |
| rackety | (adjective) uncontrollably noisy | Synonyms: rip-roaring, uproarious |
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| racking | (adjective) causing great physical or mental suffering | Synonyms: wrenching |
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| racy | (adjective) designed or suitable for competing in a race | - |
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| (adjective) suggestive of sexual impropriety | Synonyms: blue, gamey, gamy, juicy, naughty, risque, spicy |
| (adjective) full of zest or vigor | Synonyms: lively |
| (adjective) marked by richness and fullness of flavor | Synonyms: full-bodied, rich, robust |
| raddled | (adjective) showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering | Synonyms: careworn, drawn, haggard, worn |
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| (adjective) used until no longer useful | Synonyms: worn-out |
| radial | (adjective) relating to or moving along or having the direction of a radius | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or near the radius | - |
| (adjective) issuing in rays from a common center; relating to rays of light | - |
| (adjective) arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common center | Synonyms: radiate, stellate |
| radiant | (adjective) radiating or as if radiating light | Synonyms: beaming, beamy, effulgent, refulgent |
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| radiate | (adjective) having rays or ray-like parts as in the flower heads of daisies | - |
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| (adjective) arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common center | Synonyms: radial, stellate |
| radiating | (adjective) diverging from a common point | - |
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| radical | (adjective) especially of leaves; located at the base of a plant or stem; especially arising directly from the root or rootstock or a root-like stem | Synonyms: basal |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or constituting a linguistic root | - |
| (adjective) arising from or going to the root or source | - |
| (adjective) (used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm | Synonyms: extremist, ultra |
| (adjective) markedly new or introducing radical change | Synonyms: revolutionary |
| radio | (adjective) indicating radiation or radioactivity | - |
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| radioactive | (adjective) exhibiting or caused by radioactivity | - |
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| radiographic | (adjective) relating to or produced by radiography | - |
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| radiological | (adjective) of or relating to radiology | - |
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| radiolucent | (adjective) almost complete transparent to X-rays or other forms of radiation | - |
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| radiopaque | (adjective) not transparent to X-rays or other forms of radiation | Synonyms: radio-opaque |
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| radiophonic | (adjective) relating to or by means of radiotelephony | Synonyms: radiotelephonic |
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| radiosensitive | (adjective) sensitive to radiation | - |
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| radiotelephonic | (adjective) relating to or by means of radiotelephony | Synonyms: radiophonic |
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| raffish | (adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | Synonyms: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, rakish, snappy, spiffy, spruce |
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| (adjective) marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness | Synonyms: devil-may-care, rakish |
| raftered | (adjective) having the rafters especially having them visible | - |
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| ragged | (adjective) worn out from stress or strain | - |
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| (adjective) having an irregular outline | - |
| (adjective) being or dressed in clothes that are worn or torn | - |
| raging | (adjective) very severe | - |
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| (adjective) (of the elements) as if showing violent anger | Synonyms: angry, furious, tempestuous, wild |
| (adjective) characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement; very intense | Synonyms: hot |
| raiding | (adjective) characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding | Synonyms: marauding, predatory |
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| raimentless | (adjective) possessing no clothing | Synonyms: clothesless, garmentless |
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| raining | (adjective) falling in drops or as if falling like rain | - |
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| rainless | (adjective) lacking rain | - |
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| rainproof | (adjective) not permitting the passage of water | Synonyms: waterproof, waterproofed |
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| rainy | (adjective) (of weather) wet by periods of rain | Synonyms: showery |
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| raisable | (adjective) capable of being raised | Synonyms: raiseable |
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| raiseable | (adjective) capable of being raised | Synonyms: raisable |
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| raised | (adjective) located or moved above the surround or above the normal position | - |
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| (adjective) increased in amount or degree | Synonyms: elevated |
| (adjective) embellished with a raised pattern created by pressure or embroidery | Synonyms: brocaded, embossed |
| raising | (adjective) increasing in quantity or value | - |
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| rakish | (adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | Synonyms: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, snappy, spiffy, spruce |
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| (adjective) marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness | Synonyms: devil-may-care, raffish |
| rallentando | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in tempo | Synonyms: rit., ritardando, ritenuto |
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| rallying | (adjective) rousing or recalling to unity and renewed effort | - |
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| ramate | (adjective) having branches | Synonyms: branched, branching, ramose, ramous |
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| rambling | (adjective) of a path e.g. | Synonyms: meandering, wandering, winding |
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| (adjective) (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects | Synonyms: digressive, discursive, excursive |
| (adjective) spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly | Synonyms: sprawling, straggling, straggly |
| rambunctious | (adjective) noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline | Synonyms: boisterous, robustious, rumbustious, unruly |
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| ramose | (adjective) having branches | Synonyms: branched, branching, ramate, ramous |
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| ramous | (adjective) having branches | Synonyms: branched, branching, ramate, ramose |
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| rampageous | (adjective) displaying raging violence; often destructive | - |
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| rampant | (adjective) (of a plant) having a lush and unchecked growth | - |
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| (adjective) rearing on left hind leg with forelegs elevated and head usually in profile | Synonyms: rearing |
| (adjective) unrestrained and violent | - |
| ramshackle | (adjective) in deplorable condition | Synonyms: bedraggled, broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, tatterdemalion, tumble-down |
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| rancid | (adjective) smelling of fermentation or staleness | Synonyms: sour |
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| (adjective) (used of decomposing oils or fats) having a rank smell or taste usually due to a chemical change or decomposition | - |
| rancorous | (adjective) showing deep-seated resentment | - |
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| random | (adjective) lacking any definite plan or order or purpose; governed by or depending on chance | - |
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| randomised | (adjective) set up or distributed in a deliberately random way | Synonyms: randomized |
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| randomized | (adjective) set up or distributed in a deliberately random way | Synonyms: randomised |
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| randy | (adjective) feeling great sexual desire | Synonyms: aroused, horny, ruttish, steamy, turned on |
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| ranging | (adjective) wandering freely | - |
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| rangy | (adjective) allowing ample room for ranging | - |
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| (adjective) adapted to wandering or roaming | - |
| (adjective) tall and thin and having long slender limbs | Synonyms: gangling, gangly, lanky |
| rank | (adjective) growing profusely | - |
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| (adjective) complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: absolute, downright, out-and-out, right-down, sheer |
| (adjective) conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible | Synonyms: crying, egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross |
| (adjective) very fertile; producing profuse growth | - |
| (adjective) very offensive in smell or taste | - |
| ranked | (adjective) arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks | Synonyms: graded, stratified |
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| ranking | (adjective) having a higher rank | Synonyms: higher-ranking, superior |
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| ransacked | (adjective) wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value | Synonyms: looted, pillaged, plundered |
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| ransomed | (adjective) reclaimed by payment of a ransom | - |
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| (adjective) saved from the bondage of sin | Synonyms: redeemed |
| rapacious | (adjective) excessively greedy and grasping | Synonyms: ravening, voracious |
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| (adjective) living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey | Synonyms: predatory, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous |
| (adjective) devouring or craving food in great quantities | Synonyms: edacious, esurient, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish |
| raped | (adjective) having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence | Synonyms: despoiled, pillaged, ravaged, sacked |
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| rapid | (adjective) done or occurring in a brief period of time | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by speed; moving with or capable of moving with high speed | Synonyms: speedy |
| rapt | (adjective) feeling great rapture or delight | Synonyms: ecstatic, enraptured, rapturous, rhapsodic |
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| (adjective) giving or marked by complete attention to | Synonyms: absorbed, captive, engrossed, enwrapped, intent, wrapped |
| raptorial | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of birds of prey | - |
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| (adjective) living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey | Synonyms: predatory, rapacious, ravening, vulturine, vulturous |
| rapturous | (adjective) feeling great rapture or delight | Synonyms: ecstatic, enraptured, rapt, rhapsodic |
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| rare | (adjective) marked by an uncommon quality; especially superlative or extreme of its kind | Synonyms: uncommon |
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| (adjective) recurring only at long intervals | - |
| (adjective) (of meat) cooked a short time; still red inside | - |
| (adjective) not widely distributed | - |
| (adjective) having low density | Synonyms: rarefied, rarified |
| (adjective) not widely known; especially valued for its uncommonness | - |
| rarefied | (adjective) of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style | Synonyms: elevated, exalted, grand, high-flown, high-minded, idealistic, lofty, noble-minded, rarified, sublime |
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| (adjective) having low density | Synonyms: rare, rarified |
| rarified | (adjective) of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style | Synonyms: elevated, exalted, grand, high-flown, high-minded, idealistic, lofty, noble-minded, rarefied, sublime |
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| (adjective) having low density | Synonyms: rare, rarefied |
| raring | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') full of eagerness | Synonyms: impatient |
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| rascally | (adjective) lacking principles or scruples | Synonyms: blackguardly, roguish, scoundrelly |
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| (adjective) playful in an appealingly bold way | Synonyms: devilish, roguish |
| rash | (adjective) marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences | Synonyms: foolhardy, heady, reckless |
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| (adjective) imprudently incurring risk | - |
| rasping | (adjective) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound | Synonyms: grating, gravelly, raspy, rough, scratchy |
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| raspy | (adjective) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound | Synonyms: grating, gravelly, rasping, rough, scratchy |
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| ratable | (adjective) liable to payment of locally assessed property taxes | Synonyms: rateable |
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| rateable | (adjective) liable to payment of locally assessed property taxes | Synonyms: ratable |
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| ratified | (adjective) formally approved and invested with legal authority | Synonyms: sanctioned |
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| ratiocinative | (adjective) based on exact thinking | - |
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| rational | (adjective) consistent with or based on or using reason | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being expressed as a quotient of integers | - |
| (adjective) having its source in or being guided by the intellect (as distinguished from experience or emotion) | - |
| (adjective) of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind | Synonyms: intellectual, noetic |
| rationalist | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of rationalism | - |
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| rationalistic | (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of rationalism | - |
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| rationed | (adjective) distributed equitably in limited individual portions | - |
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| ratlike | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a rat | - |
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| rattlebrained | (adjective) lacking sense or discretion | Synonyms: rattlepated, scatterbrained, scatty |
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| rattled | (adjective) thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term) | Synonyms: flustered, hot and bothered, perturbed |
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| rattlepated | (adjective) lacking sense or discretion | Synonyms: rattlebrained, scatterbrained, scatty |
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| rattling | (adjective) quick and energetic | Synonyms: alert, brisk, lively, merry, snappy, spanking, zippy |
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| (adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: fantastic, grand, howling, marvellous, marvelous, phenomenal, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous |
| ratty | (adjective) of or characteristic of rats | - |
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| (adjective) dirty and infested with rats | - |
| (adjective) showing signs of wear and tear | Synonyms: moth-eaten, shabby, tatty |
| raucous | (adjective) unpleasantly loud and harsh | Synonyms: strident |
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| (adjective) disturbing the public peace; loud and rough | Synonyms: rowdy |
| raunchy | (adjective) thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot | Synonyms: begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy |
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| (adjective) suggestive of or tending to moral looseness | Synonyms: lewd, obscene, salacious |
| (adjective) earthy and sexually explicit | - |
| ravaged | (adjective) having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence | Synonyms: despoiled, pillaged, raped, sacked |
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| ravaging | (adjective) ruinously destructive and wasting | - |
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| ravening | (adjective) excessively greedy and grasping | Synonyms: rapacious, voracious |
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| (adjective) living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey | Synonyms: predatory, rapacious, raptorial, vulturine, vulturous |
| (adjective) devouring or craving food in great quantities | Synonyms: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravenous, voracious, wolfish |
| ravenous | (adjective) devouring or craving food in great quantities | Synonyms: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, voracious, wolfish |
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| (adjective) extremely hungry | Synonyms: esurient, famished, sharp-set, starved |
| raving | (adjective) talking or behaving irrationally | Synonyms: raving mad, wild |
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| ravishing | (adjective) stunningly beautiful | - |
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| raw | (adjective) not treated with heat to prepare it for eating | - |
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| (adjective) unpleasantly cold and damp | Synonyms: bleak, cutting |
| (adjective) lacking training or experience | Synonyms: new |
| (adjective) having the surface exposed and painful | - |
| (adjective) devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure | Synonyms: naked |
| (adjective) hurting | Synonyms: sensitive, sore, tender |
| (adjective) not processed or subjected to analysis | Synonyms: crude |
| (adjective) (used informally) completely unclothed | Synonyms: bare-ass, bare-assed, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, naked as a jaybird, peeled, stark naked |
| (adjective) brutally unfair or harsh | - |
| (adjective) used of wood and furniture | Synonyms: unsanded |
| (adjective) untempered and unrefined | - |
| (adjective) (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes | Synonyms: natural, rude |
| (adjective) not processed or refined | - |