| wacky | (adjective) ludicrous, foolish | Synonyms: goofy, silly, whacky, zany |
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| (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, whacky |
| waggish | (adjective) witty or joking | - |
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| wailful | (adjective) vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression | Synonyms: lamenting, wailing |
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| wailing | (adjective) vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression | Synonyms: lamenting, wailful |
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| wainscoted | (adjective) fitted or decorated with panels or wainscoting | Synonyms: paneled, panelled |
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| waiting | (adjective) being and remaining ready and available for use | Synonyms: ready and waiting |
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| wakeful | (adjective) carefully observant or attentive; on the lookout for possible danger | Synonyms: argus-eyed, open-eyed, vigilant, watchful |
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| (adjective) marked by full consciousness or alertness | Synonyms: waking |
| (adjective) (of sleep) easily disturbed | Synonyms: light |
| wakeless | (adjective) (of sleep) deep and complete | Synonyms: heavy, profound, sound |
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| waking | (adjective) marked by full consciousness or alertness | Synonyms: wakeful |
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| walking | (adjective) close enough to be walked to | Synonyms: walk-to |
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| walleyed | (adjective) having divergent strabismus | - |
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| walloping | (adjective) (used informally) very large | Synonyms: banging, humongous, thumping, whopping |
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| wan | (adjective) abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress | Synonyms: pale, pallid |
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| (adjective) (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble | Synonyms: pale, pallid, sick |
| (adjective) lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness | - |
| wandering | (adjective) of a path e.g. | Synonyms: meandering, rambling, winding |
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| (adjective) having no fixed course | Synonyms: erratic, planetary |
| (adjective) migratory | Synonyms: mobile, nomadic, peregrine, roving |
| waning | (adjective) (of the Moon) pertaining to the period during which the visible surface of the moon decreases | - |
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| wanted | (adjective) desired or wished for or sought | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by feeling or showing fond affection for | Synonyms: cherished, precious, treasured |
| wanting | (adjective) inadequate in amount or degree | Synonyms: deficient, lacking |
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| (adjective) nonexistent | Synonyms: absent, lacking, missing |
| wanton | (adjective) casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior | Synonyms: easy, light, loose, promiscuous, sluttish |
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| (adjective) occurring without motivation or provocation | Synonyms: motiveless, unprovoked |
| warlike | (adjective) suggesting war or military life | Synonyms: martial |
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| (adjective) disposed to warfare or hard-line policies | Synonyms: hawkish, militant |
| warm | (adjective) having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat | - |
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| (adjective) psychologically warm; friendly and responsive | - |
| (adjective) inducing the impression of warmth; used especially of reds and oranges and yellows when referring to color | - |
| (adjective) characterized by strong enthusiasm | Synonyms: ardent |
| (adjective) easily aroused or excited | Synonyms: quick |
| (adjective) freshly made or left | Synonyms: strong |
| (adjective) characterized by liveliness or excitement or disagreement | - |
| (adjective) of a seeker; near to the object sought | - |
| (adjective) uncomfortable because of possible danger or trouble | - |
| warmed | (adjective) having been warmed up | - |
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| warmhearted | (adjective) marked by warmth of feeling like kindness and sympathy and generosity | - |
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| warming | (adjective) producing the sensation of heat when applied to the body | Synonyms: calefacient |
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| (adjective) imparting heat | - |
| warning | (adjective) serving to warn | Synonyms: admonitory, cautionary, exemplary, monitory |
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| warped | (adjective) used especially of timbers or boards; bent out of shape usually by moisture | - |
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| warring | (adjective) engaged in war | Synonyms: belligerent, militant, war-ridden |
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| warriorlike | (adjective) (of persons) befitting a warrior | Synonyms: martial, soldierlike, soldierly |
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| wartlike | (adjective) (of skin) covered with warts or projections that resemble warts | Synonyms: verrucose, warty |
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| warty | (adjective) (of skin) covered with warts or projections that resemble warts | Synonyms: verrucose, wartlike |
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| wary | (adjective) marked by keen caution and watchful prudence | - |
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| (adjective) openly distrustful and unwilling to confide | Synonyms: leery, mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting |
| washable | (adjective) capable of being washed without injury | - |
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| washed | (adjective) clean by virtue of having been washed in water | Synonyms: water-washed |
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| (adjective) wet as from washing; sometimes used in combination | - |
| washy | (adjective) having lost freshness or brilliance of color | Synonyms: bleached, faded, washed-out |
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| (adjective) overly diluted; thin and insipid | Synonyms: watery, weak |
| waspish | (adjective) very irritable | Synonyms: bristly, prickly, splenetic |
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| waste | (adjective) located in a dismal or remote area; desolate | Synonyms: godforsaken, wild |
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| wasted | (adjective) (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use | Synonyms: atrophied, diminished |
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| (adjective) not used to good advantage | Synonyms: squandered |
| (adjective) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold | Synonyms: cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal |
| (adjective) serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being | Synonyms: otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous |
| wasteful | (adjective) tending to squander and waste | - |
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| (adjective) laying waste | - |
| (adjective) inefficient in use of time and effort and materials | Synonyms: uneconomical |
| watchful | (adjective) engaged in or accustomed to close observation | Synonyms: alert |
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| (adjective) experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness | Synonyms: insomniac, sleepless |
| (adjective) carefully observant or attentive; on the lookout for possible danger | Synonyms: argus-eyed, open-eyed, vigilant, wakeful |
| waterborne | (adjective) supported by water | - |
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| (adjective) transported by water | - |
| watercress | (adjective) of a moderate yellow-green color that is greener and deeper than moss green and yellower and darker than pea green | Synonyms: cress green, cresson |
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| watered | (adjective) (of silk fabric) having a wavelike pattern | Synonyms: moire |
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| waterless | (adjective) lacking sufficient water or rainfall | Synonyms: arid |
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| waterlogged | (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy |
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| waterproof | (adjective) not permitting the passage of water | Synonyms: rainproof, waterproofed |
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| waterproofed | (adjective) not permitting the passage of water | Synonyms: rainproof, waterproof |
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| watertight | (adjective) without flaws or loopholes | Synonyms: bulletproof, ironclad, unassailable, unshakable |
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| (adjective) not allowing water to pass in or out | - |
| waterworn | (adjective) (of rocks especially) worn smooth by the action of water | - |
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| watery | (adjective) overly diluted; thin and insipid | Synonyms: washy, weak |
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| (adjective) relating to or resembling or consisting of water | - |
| (adjective) wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears | Synonyms: reeking |
| (adjective) filled with water | - |
| wavelike | (adjective) uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves | Synonyms: crinkled, crinkly, rippled, wavy |
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| wavering | (adjective) uncertain in purpose or action | Synonyms: vacillant, vacillating |
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| wavy | (adjective) (of hair) having waves | - |
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| (adjective) uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves | Synonyms: crinkled, crinkly, rippled, wavelike |
| waxed | (adjective) treated with wax | - |
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| waxen | (adjective) made of or covered with wax | Synonyms: waxy |
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| (adjective) having the paleness of wax | Synonyms: waxlike, waxy |
| waxing | (adjective) (of the moon) pertaining to the period during which the visible surface of the moon increases | - |
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| waxlike | (adjective) having the paleness of wax | Synonyms: waxen, waxy |
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| waxy | (adjective) easily impressed or influenced | Synonyms: impressible, impressionable |
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| (adjective) made of or covered with wax | Synonyms: waxen |
| (adjective) having the paleness of wax | Synonyms: waxen, waxlike |
| (adjective) capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking | Synonyms: bendable, pliable, pliant |
| wayfaring | (adjective) traveling especially on foot | Synonyms: peripatetic |
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| wayward | (adjective) resistant to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: contrary, obstinate, perverse |
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| weak | (adjective) wanting in physical strength | - |
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| (adjective) overly diluted; thin and insipid | Synonyms: washy, watery |
| (adjective) tending downward in price | - |
| (adjective) likely to fail under stress or pressure | - |
| (adjective) lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality | Synonyms: debile, decrepit, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weakly |
| (adjective) wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings | Synonyms: fallible, frail, imperfect |
| (adjective) deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc | Synonyms: faint |
| (adjective) not having authority, political strength, or governing power | - |
| (adjective) (used of verbs) having standard (or regular) inflection | - |
| (adjective) deficient in intelligence or mental power | - |
| (adjective) deficient or lacking in some skill | - |
| (adjective) (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress | Synonyms: light, unaccented |
| weakened | (adjective) damaged; used of inanimate objects or their value | Synonyms: hurt |
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| (adjective) reduced in strength | Synonyms: attenuate, attenuated, faded |
| (adjective) mixed with water | Synonyms: cut, thinned |
| (adjective) impaired by diminution | Synonyms: diminished, lessened, vitiated |
| (adjective) made weak or weaker | - |
| weakening | (adjective) causing debilitation | Synonyms: debilitative, enervating, enfeebling |
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| (adjective) moderating by making pain or sorrow weaker | - |
| weakly | (adjective) lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality | Synonyms: debile, decrepit, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak |
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| wealthy | (adjective) having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value | Synonyms: affluent, flush, loaded, moneyed, substantial |
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| weaned | (adjective) freed of dependence on something especially (for mammals) mother's milk | - |
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| weaponed | (adjective) carrying weapons | Synonyms: equipped |
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| weaponless | (adjective) without a weapon | - |
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| wearable | (adjective) suitable for wear or able to be worn | - |
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| wearied | (adjective) exhausted | Synonyms: jaded |
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| wearing | (adjective) producing exhaustion | Synonyms: exhausting, tiring, wearying |
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| wearisome | (adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | Synonyms: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome |
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| weary | (adjective) physically and mentally fatigued | Synonyms: aweary |
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| wearying | (adjective) producing exhaustion | Synonyms: exhausting, tiring, wearing |
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| weather | (adjective) towards the side exposed to wind | Synonyms: upwind |
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| weathered | (adjective) worn by exposure to the weather | Synonyms: weather-beaten, weatherworn |
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| weatherly | (adjective) (of a sailing vessel) making very little leeway when close-hauled | - |
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| weatherproof | (adjective) able to withstand exposure to weather without damage | - |
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| weatherworn | (adjective) worn by exposure to the weather | Synonyms: weather-beaten, weathered |
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| webbed | (adjective) (of the feet of some animals) having the digits connected by a thin fold of skin | - |
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| (adjective) having open interstices or resembling a web | Synonyms: lacy, netlike, netted, webby, weblike |
| webby | (adjective) having open interstices or resembling a web | Synonyms: lacy, netlike, netted, webbed, weblike |
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| weblike | (adjective) having open interstices or resembling a web | Synonyms: lacy, netlike, netted, webbed, webby |
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| wed | (adjective) having been taken in marriage | Synonyms: wedded |
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| wedded | (adjective) having been taken in marriage | Synonyms: wed |
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| wedged | (adjective) wedged or packed in together | Synonyms: impacted |
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| wee | (adjective) very early | - |
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| (adjective) (used informally) little or tiny | Synonyms: bittie, bitty, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, teensy-weensy, teensy, teentsy, teeny-weeny, teeny, weensy, weeny |
| weedless | (adjective) free from weeds | - |
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| weedy | (adjective) abounding with or resembling weeds | - |
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| (adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: boney, bony, scraggly, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight |
| weeklong | (adjective) lasting through a week | Synonyms: seven-day |
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| weekly | (adjective) of or occurring every seven days | Synonyms: hebdomadal, hebdomadary |
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| weensy | (adjective) (used informally) little or tiny | Synonyms: bittie, bitty, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, teensy-weensy, teensy, teentsy, teeny-weeny, teeny, wee, weeny |
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| weeny | (adjective) (used informally) little or tiny | Synonyms: bittie, bitty, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, teensy-weensy, teensy, teentsy, teeny-weeny, teeny, wee, weensy |
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| weeping | (adjective) showing sorrow | Synonyms: dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, tearful |
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| (adjective) having branches or flower heads that bend downward | Synonyms: cernuous, drooping, nodding, pendulous |
| weepy | (adjective) liable to weep easily | - |
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| weighted | (adjective) adjusted to reflect value or proportion | - |
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| (adjective) made heavy or weighted down with weariness | Synonyms: leaden |
| weightless | (adjective) having little or no weight or apparent gravitational pull; light | - |
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| weighty | (adjective) having relatively great weight; heavy | - |
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| (adjective) excessively fat | Synonyms: corpulent, obese, rotund |
| (adjective) weighing heavily on the spirit; causing anxiety or worry | - |
| (adjective) of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought | Synonyms: grave, grievous, heavy |
| (adjective) powerfully persuasive | Synonyms: cogent, telling |
| weird | (adjective) strikingly odd or unusual | - |
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| (adjective) suggesting the operation of supernatural influences | Synonyms: eldritch, uncanny, unearthly |
| welcome | (adjective) giving pleasure or satisfaction or received with pleasure or freely granted | - |
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| welcoming | (adjective) very cordial | - |
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| welfarist | (adjective) of or relating to a welfare state | Synonyms: welfare-statist |
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| well | (adjective) in good health especially after having suffered illness or injury | - |
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| (adjective) wise or advantageous and hence advisable | - |
| (adjective) resulting favorably | Synonyms: good |