| abandoned | (adjective) forsaken by owner or inhabitants | Synonyms: derelict, deserted |
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| (adjective) unrestrained and uninhibited | - |
| abashed | (adjective) feeling or caused to feel ill at ease or self-conscious or ashamed | Synonyms: chagrined, embarrassed |
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| abbreviated | (adjective) (of clothing) very short | Synonyms: brief |
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| (adjective) cut short in duration | Synonyms: shortened, truncated |
| abecedarian | (adjective) alphabetically arranged (as for beginning readers) | - |
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| (noun) a novice learning the rudiments of some subject | - |
| abecedarius | (noun) a poem having lines beginning with letters of the alphabet in regular order | - |
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| abed | (adverb) in bed | - |
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| ablated | (adjective) made smaller or less by melting or erosion or vaporization | - |
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| abridged | (adjective) (used of texts) shortened by condensing or rewriting | - |
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| abscessed | (adjective) infected and filled with pus | - |
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| absentminded | (adjective) lost in thought; showing preoccupation | Synonyms: absent, abstracted, scatty |
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| absentmindedly | (adverb) in an absentminded or preoccupied manner | Synonyms: absently, abstractedly, inattentively |
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| absentmindedness | (noun) preoccupation so great that the ordinary demands on attention are ignored | - |
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| absolved | (adjective) freed from any question of guilt | Synonyms: clear, cleared, exculpated, exonerated, vindicated |
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| absorbed | (adjective) giving or marked by complete attention to | Synonyms: captive, engrossed, enwrapped, intent, rapt, wrapped |
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| (adjective) retained without reflection | - |
| abstracted | (adjective) lost in thought; showing preoccupation | Synonyms: absent, absentminded, scatty |
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| abstractedly | (adverb) in an absentminded or preoccupied manner | Synonyms: absently, absentmindedly, inattentively |
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| abstractedness | (noun) preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else | Synonyms: abstraction |
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| abused | (adjective) subjected to cruel treatment | Synonyms: ill-treated, maltreated, mistreated |
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| (adjective) used improperly or excessively especially drugs | - |
| accede | (verb) yield to another's wish or opinion | Synonyms: bow, defer, give in, submit |
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| (verb) to agree or express agreement | Synonyms: acquiesce, assent |
| (verb) take on duties or office | Synonyms: enter |
| accelerated | (adjective) speeded up, as of an academic course | - |
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| accented | (adjective) bearing a stress or accent | Synonyms: stressed |
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| (adjective) (used of syllables) bearing the principle stress, usually accompanied by a change in pitch | Synonyms: tonic |
| accepted | (adjective) generally approved or compelling recognition | Synonyms: recognised, recognized |
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| accompanied | (adjective) having companions or an escort | - |
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| (adjective) playing or singing with instrumental or vocal accompaniment | Synonyms: attended |
| accomplished | (adjective) successfully completed or brought to an end | Synonyms: completed, realised, realized |
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| (adjective) settled securely and unconditionally | Synonyms: effected, established |
| (adjective) highly skilled | Synonyms: complete |
| accoutered | (adjective) provided with necessary articles of equipment for a specialized purpose (especially military) | Synonyms: accoutred |
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| accoutred | (adjective) provided with necessary articles of equipment for a specialized purpose (especially military) | Synonyms: accoutered |
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| accredit | (verb) ascribe an achievement to | Synonyms: credit |
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| (verb) grant credentials to | Synonyms: recognise, recognize |
| (verb) provide or send (envoys or ambassadors) with official credentials | - |
| accreditation | (noun) the act of granting credit or recognition (especially with respect to an educational institution that maintains suitable standards) | - |
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| accredited | (adjective) given official approval to act | Synonyms: commissioned, licenced, licensed |
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| accrued | (adjective) periodically accumulated over time | Synonyms: accumulated |
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| accumulated | (adjective) periodically accumulated over time | Synonyms: accrued |
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| accursed | (adjective) under a curse | Synonyms: accurst, maledict |
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| accused | (noun) a defendant in a criminal proceeding | - |
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| accustomed | (adjective) commonly used or practiced; usual | Synonyms: customary, habitual, wonted |
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| acedia | (noun) apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: laziness, sloth |
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| acknowledge | (verb) accept as legally binding and valid | - |
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| (verb) accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority | Synonyms: know, recognise, recognize |
| (verb) declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of | Synonyms: admit |
| (verb) express obligation, thanks, or gratitude for | Synonyms: recognise, recognize |
| (verb) report the receipt of | Synonyms: receipt |
| (verb) express recognition of the presence or existence of, or acquaintance with | Synonyms: notice |
| acknowledgeable | (adjective) capable of being acknowledged | - |
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| acknowledged | (adjective) recognized or made known or admitted | - |
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| (adjective) generally accepted | - |
| acknowledgement | (noun) a statement acknowledging something or someone | Synonyms: acknowledgment |
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| (noun) the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged | Synonyms: acknowledgment, recognition |
| acknowledgment | (noun) a statement acknowledging something or someone | Synonyms: acknowledgement |
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| (noun) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | Synonyms: citation, cite, credit, mention, quotation, reference |
| (noun) the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged | Synonyms: acknowledgement, recognition |
| acned | (adjective) (of complexion) blemished by imperfections of the skin | Synonyms: pimpled, pimply, pustulate |
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| acquainted | (adjective) having fair knowledge of | - |
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| acquired | (adjective) gotten through environmental forces | - |
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| acquitted | (adjective) declared not guilty of a specific offense or crime; legally blameless | Synonyms: not guilty |
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| activated | (adjective) rendered active; e.g. rendered radioactive or luminescent or photosensitive or conductive | - |
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| (adjective) (military) set up and placed on active assignment | - |
| (adjective) (of e.g. a molecule) made reactive or more reactive | Synonyms: excited |
| (adjective) (of sewage) treated with aeration and bacteria to aid decomposition | - |
| actuated | (adjective) moved to action | - |
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| aculeated | (adjective) having or resembling a stinger or barb | Synonyms: aculeate |
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| adapted | (adjective) changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose | Synonyms: altered |
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| addicted | (adjective) compulsively or physiologically dependent on something habit-forming | - |
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| addlebrained | (adjective) stupid and confused | Synonyms: addlepated, muddleheaded, puddingheaded |
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| addled | (adjective) confused and vague; used especially of thinking | Synonyms: befuddled, muddled, muzzy, woolly-headed, woolly, wooly-minded, wooly |
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| (adjective) (of eggs) no longer edible | - |
| addlepated | (adjective) stupid and confused | Synonyms: addlebrained, muddleheaded, puddingheaded |
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| addressed | (adjective) (of mail) marked with a destination | - |
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| adjusted | (adjective) altered to accommodate to certain requirements or bring into a proper relation | - |
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| (adjective) adjusted to demands of daily living; showing emotional stability | - |
| (adjective) (especially of garments) having the fit or style adjusted | - |
| (adjective) having achieved a comfortable relation with your environment | Synonyms: familiarised, familiarized |
| admired | (adjective) regarded with admiration | - |
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| admittedly | (adverb) as acknowledged | Synonyms: avowedly, confessedly, true |
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| adopted | (adjective) acquired as your own by free choice | Synonyms: adoptive |
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| adored | (adjective) regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god) | Synonyms: idolised, idolized, worshipped |
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| adorned | (adjective) provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction | Synonyms: decorated |
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| adpressed | (adjective) pressed close to or lying flat against something | Synonyms: appressed |
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| adscripted | (adjective) (used of persons) bound to a tract of land; hence their service is transferable from owner to owner | Synonyms: adscript |
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| adulterated | (adjective) mixed with impurities | Synonyms: adulterate, debased |
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| advanced | (adjective) (of societies) highly developed especially in technology or industry | - |
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| (adjective) situated ahead or going before | Synonyms: advance, in advance |
| (adjective) ahead in development; complex or intricate | Synonyms: sophisticated |
| (adjective) far along in time | Synonyms: ripe |
| (adjective) comparatively late in a course of development | - |
| (adjective) farther along in physical or mental development | - |
| (adjective) ahead of the times | Synonyms: forward-looking, innovative, modern |
| (adjective) at a higher level in training or knowledge or skill | - |
| advertised | (adjective) called to public attention | - |
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| advised | (adjective) having the benefit of careful prior consideration or counsel | Synonyms: well-advised |
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| (adjective) having received information | - |
| advisedly | (adverb) with intention; in an intentional manner | Synonyms: by choice, by design, deliberately, designedly, intentionally, on purpose, purposely |
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| aerated | (adjective) supplied with carbon dioxide | Synonyms: charged |
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| (adjective) (of a liquid) treated by having air passed or bubbled through it for purification | - |
| aeromedical | (adjective) of or relating to aviation medicine | - |
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| aeromedicine | (noun) the study and treatment of disorders associated with flight (especially with space flight) | Synonyms: aerospace medicine, aviation medicine |
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| aerosolised | (adjective) in the form of ultramicroscopic solid or liquid particles dispersed or suspended in air or gas | Synonyms: aerosolized |
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| aerosolized | (adjective) in the form of ultramicroscopic solid or liquid particles dispersed or suspended in air or gas | Synonyms: aerosolised |
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| afeared | (adjective) a pronunciation of afraid | Synonyms: afeard |
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| affected | (adjective) acted upon; influenced | - |
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| (adjective) speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression | Synonyms: unnatural |
| (adjective) being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion | Synonyms: moved, stirred, touched |
| affectedly | (adverb) in an affected manner | - |
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| affectedness | (noun) a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display | Synonyms: affectation, mannerism, pose |
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| (noun) the quality of being false or artificial (as to impress others) | - |
| affiliated | (adjective) being joined in close association | Synonyms: attached, connected |
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| affined | (adjective) closely related | - |
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| affixed | (adjective) firmly attached | - |
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| afflicted | (adjective) grievously affected especially by disease | Synonyms: stricken |
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| (adjective) mentally or physically unfit | Synonyms: impaired |
| aforementioned | (adjective) being the one previously mentioned or spoken of | Synonyms: aforesaid, said |
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| aftershafted | (adjective) having an aftershaft (a small feather at the base of some feathers) | - |
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| aged | (adjective) (used of tobacco) aging as a preservative process | Synonyms: cured |
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| (adjective) of wines, fruit, cheeses; having reached a desired or final condition; (`aged' pronounced as one syllable) | Synonyms: ripened |
| (adjective) at an advanced stage of erosion (pronounced as one syllable) | - |
| (adjective) advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables) | Synonyms: elderly, older, senior |
| (adjective) having attained a specific age; (`aged' is pronounced as one syllable) | Synonyms: of age |
| (noun) people who are old collectively | Synonyms: elderly |
| agedness | (noun) the property characteristic of old age | Synonyms: senescence |
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| agglomerated | (adjective) clustered together but not coherent | Synonyms: agglomerate, agglomerative, clustered |
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| aggravated | (adjective) incited, especially deliberately, to anger | Synonyms: provoked |
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| (adjective) made more severe or intense especially in law | - |
| aggregated | (adjective) formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole | Synonyms: aggregate, aggregative, mass |
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| agitated | (adjective) troubled emotionally and usually deeply | - |
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| (adjective) physically disturbed or set in motion | - |
| agonised | (adjective) expressing pain or agony | Synonyms: agonized |
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| agonized | (adjective) expressing pain or agony | Synonyms: agonised |
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| agreed | (adjective) united by being of the same opinion | Synonyms: in agreement |
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| agueweed | (noun) gentian of eastern North America having clusters of bristly blue flowers | Synonyms: ague weed, five-flowered gentian, Gentiana quinquefolia, Gentianella quinquefolia, stiff gentian |
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| (noun) perennial herb of southeastern United States having white-rayed flower heads; formerly used as in folk medicine | Synonyms: boneset, Eupatorium perfoliatum, thoroughwort |
| aided | (adjective) having help; often used as a combining form | Synonyms: assisted |
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| aired | (adjective) open to or abounding in fresh air | Synonyms: airy |
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| airheaded | (adjective) lacking seriousness; given to frivolity | Synonyms: dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, light-headed, lightheaded, silly |
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| airspeed | (noun) the speed of an aircraft relative to the air in which it is flying | - |
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| alarmed | (adjective) experiencing a sudden sense of danger | - |
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| alated | (adjective) (of seeds or insects) having winglike extensions | Synonyms: alate |
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| albedo | (noun) the ratio of reflected to incident light | Synonyms: reflective power |
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| alienated | (adjective) caused to be unloved | Synonyms: estranged |
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| (adjective) socially disoriented | Synonyms: anomic, disoriented |
| aligned | (adjective) brought into agreement or cooperation on the side of a faction, party, or cause | - |
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| (adjective) in a straight line | - |