| strengthened | (adjective) given added strength or support | Synonyms: reinforced |
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| strenuous | (adjective) taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance | Synonyms: arduous, straining |
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| (adjective) characterized by or performed with much energy or force | - |
| strep | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by streptococci | Synonyms: streptococcal, streptococcic |
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| streptococcal | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by streptococci | Synonyms: strep, streptococcic |
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| streptococcic | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by streptococci | Synonyms: strep, streptococcal |
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| stressed | (adjective) bearing a stress or accent | Synonyms: accented |
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| (adjective) suffering severe physical strain or distress | Synonyms: distressed |
| stressful | (adjective) extremely irritating to the nerves | Synonyms: nerve-racking, nerve-wracking, trying |
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| stretch | (adjective) easily stretched | - |
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| (adjective) having an elongated seating area | - |
| stretchable | (adjective) capable of being easily stretched and resuming former size or shape | Synonyms: stretchy |
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| stretched | (adjective) (of muscles) relieved of stiffness by stretching | - |
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| (adjective) extended or spread over a wide area or distance | - |
| stretchy | (adjective) capable of being easily stretched and resuming former size or shape | Synonyms: stretchable |
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| striate | (adjective) marked with stria or striations | - |
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| stricken | (adjective) (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming | Synonyms: smitten, struck |
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| (adjective) grievously affected especially by disease | Synonyms: afflicted |
| (adjective) put out of action (by illness) | Synonyms: laid low |
| strict | (adjective) characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint | Synonyms: nonindulgent |
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| (adjective) severe and unremitting in making demands | Synonyms: exacting, stern |
| (adjective) rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard | Synonyms: rigorous |
| (adjective) incapable of compromise or flexibility | Synonyms: rigid |
| (adjective) (of rules) stringently enforced | Synonyms: hard-and-fast |
| strident | (adjective) unpleasantly loud and harsh | Synonyms: raucous |
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| (adjective) being sharply insistent on being heard | Synonyms: shrill |
| (adjective) conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry | Synonyms: blatant, clamant, clamorous, vociferous |
| (adjective) of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') | Synonyms: continuant, fricative, sibilant, spirant |
| strikebound | (adjective) closed or immobilized by a strike | - |
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| striking | (adjective) having a quality that thrusts itself into attention | Synonyms: outstanding, prominent, salient, spectacular |
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| (adjective) sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect | Synonyms: dramatic, spectacular |
| stringent | (adjective) demanding strict attention to rules and procedures | Synonyms: rigorous, tight |
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| stringy | (adjective) consisting of or containing string or strings | - |
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| (adjective) forming viscous or glutinous threads | Synonyms: ropey, ropy, thready |
| (adjective) lean and sinewy | Synonyms: wiry |
| (adjective) (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew | Synonyms: fibrous, sinewy, unchewable |
| striped | (adjective) marked or decorated with stripes | Synonyms: stripy |
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| stripped | (adjective) having everything extraneous removed including contents | Synonyms: bare |
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| (adjective) having only essential or minimal features | Synonyms: stripped-down |
| (adjective) with clothing stripped off | - |
| stripy | (adjective) marked or decorated with stripes | Synonyms: striped |
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| strong | (adjective) having strength or power greater than average or expected | - |
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| (adjective) having a strong physiological or chemical effect | Synonyms: potent, stiff |
| (adjective) being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content | Synonyms: hard |
| (adjective) strong and sure | Synonyms: firm |
| (adjective) freshly made or left | Synonyms: warm |
| (adjective) not faint or feeble | - |
| (adjective) immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with | Synonyms: impregnable, inviolable, secure, unassailable, unattackable |
| (adjective) of verbs not having standard (or regular) inflection | - |
| (adjective) having or wielding force or authority | Synonyms: potent |
| (adjective) of good quality and condition; solidly built | Synonyms: solid, substantial |
| stroppy | (adjective) obstreperous | Synonyms: bolshy |
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| struck | (adjective) (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming | Synonyms: smitten, stricken |
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| structural | (adjective) relating to or having or characterized by structure | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or caused by structure, especially political or economic structure | - |
| (adjective) relating to or concerned with the morphology of plants and animals | Synonyms: morphologic, morphological |
| (adjective) pertaining to geological structure | Synonyms: geomorphologic, geomorphological, morphologic, morphological |
| (adjective) concerned with systematic structure in a particular field of study | - |
| (adjective) affecting or involved in structure or construction | - |
| structured | (adjective) having definite and highly organized structure | - |
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| (adjective) resembling a living organism in organization or development | Synonyms: integrated |
| struggling | (adjective) engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity | - |
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| strung | (adjective) that is on a string | - |
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| stubbled | (adjective) having a short growth of beard | Synonyms: bestubbled, stubbly |
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| stubbly | (adjective) having a short growth of beard | Synonyms: bestubbled, stubbled |
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| stubborn | (adjective) tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield | Synonyms: obstinate, unregenerate |
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| (adjective) not responding to treatment | Synonyms: refractory |
| stubby | (adjective) short and blunt | - |
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| stuck | (adjective) caught or fixed | - |
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| (adjective) baffled | - |
| studded | (adjective) dotted or adorned with or as with studs or nailheads; usually used in combination | - |
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| studied | (adjective) produced or marked by conscious design or premeditation | - |
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| studious | (adjective) marked by care and effort | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading | Synonyms: bookish |
| stuffed | (adjective) filled with something | - |
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| (adjective) crammed with food | - |
| stuffy | (adjective) excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull | Synonyms: stodgy |
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| (adjective) affected with a sensation of stoppage or obstruction | - |
| (adjective) lacking fresh air | Synonyms: airless, close, unaired |
| stumpy | (adjective) short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature | Synonyms: chunky, dumpy, low-set, squat, squatty |
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| stung | (adjective) aroused to impatience or anger | Synonyms: annoyed, irritated, miffed, nettled, peeved, pissed, pissed off, riled, roiled, steamed |
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| stunned | (adjective) in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock | Synonyms: dazed, stupefied, stupid |
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| (adjective) filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock | Synonyms: amazed, astonied, astonished, astounded |
| (adjective) knocked unconscious by a heavy blow | Synonyms: kayoed, knocked out, KO'd, out |
| stunning | (adjective) strikingly beautiful or attractive | - |
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| (adjective) causing or capable of causing bewilderment or shock or insensibility | - |
| (adjective) commanding attention | Synonyms: arresting, sensational |
| (adjective) causing great astonishment and consternation | - |
| stunted | (adjective) inferior in size or quality | Synonyms: scrawny, scrubby |
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| stupefied | (adjective) in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock | Synonyms: dazed, stunned, stupid |
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| (adjective) as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise | Synonyms: dumbfounded, dumbstricken, dumbstruck, dumfounded, flabbergasted, thunderstruck |
| stupefying | (adjective) shocking with surprise and consternation | - |
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| (adjective) making physically stupid or dull or insensible | - |
| (adjective) so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm | Synonyms: astonishing, astounding, staggering |
| stupendous | (adjective) so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe | Synonyms: colossal, prodigious |
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| stupid | (adjective) lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity | - |
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| (adjective) lacking intelligence | Synonyms: unintelligent |
| (adjective) in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock | Synonyms: dazed, stunned, stupefied |
| stuporous | (adjective) stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion) | Synonyms: dazed, foggy, groggy, logy |
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| sturdy | (adjective) not making concessions | Synonyms: inflexible, uncompromising |
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| (adjective) having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships | Synonyms: hardy, stalwart, stout |
| (adjective) substantially made or constructed | Synonyms: tough |
| styleless | (adjective) lacking in style or elegance | Synonyms: unstylish |
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| stylised | (adjective) using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous | Synonyms: conventionalised, conventionalized, stylized |
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| stylish | (adjective) having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress | Synonyms: fashionable |
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| (adjective) being or in accordance with current social fashions | Synonyms: fashionable |
| stylistic | (adjective) of or relating to style (especially in the use of language) | - |
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| stylized | (adjective) using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous | Synonyms: conventionalised, conventionalized, stylised |
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| styptic | (adjective) tending to check bleeding by contracting the tissues or blood vessels | Synonyms: hemostatic |
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