| ablative | (adjective) relating to the ablative case | - |
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| (adjective) tending to ablate; i.e. to be removed or vaporized at very high temperature | - |
| (noun) the case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb | Synonyms: ablative case |
| abortive | (adjective) failing to accomplish an intended result | Synonyms: stillborn, unsuccessful |
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| abortively | (adverb) in an unfruitful manner | - |
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| abrasive | (adjective) sharply disagreeable; rigorous | Synonyms: harsh |
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| (adjective) causing abrasion | Synonyms: scratchy |
| (noun) a substance that abrades or wears down | Synonyms: abradant, abrasive material |
| abrasiveness | (noun) the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions | Synonyms: harshness, scratchiness |
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| (noun) the quality of being sharply disagreeable | - |
| absorptive | (adjective) having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.) | Synonyms: absorbent |
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| abstractive | (adjective) of an abstracting nature or having the power of abstracting | - |
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| abusive | (adjective) characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment | - |
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| (adjective) expressing offensive reproach | Synonyms: opprobrious, scurrilous |
| abusively | (adverb) in an abusive manner | - |
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| accelerative | (adjective) tending to increase velocity | Synonyms: acceleratory |
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| acceptive | (adjective) inclined to accept rather than reject | - |
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| (adjective) accepting willingly | Synonyms: acceptant |
| accommodative | (adjective) helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation | Synonyms: accommodating |
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| (adjective) tending to reconcile or accommodate; bringing into harmony | Synonyms: reconciling |
| (adjective) willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement | Synonyms: cooperative |
| accretive | (adjective) growing by accretion | - |
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| acculturative | (adjective) of or relating to acculturation | Synonyms: acculturational |
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| accumulative | (adjective) marked by acquiring or amassing | - |
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| (adjective) increasing by successive addition | Synonyms: cumulative |
| accusative | (adjective) serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes | Synonyms: objective |
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| (adjective) containing or expressing accusation | Synonyms: accusatory, accusing, accusive |
| (noun) the case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb | Synonyms: accusative case, objective case |
| accusive | (adjective) containing or expressing accusation | Synonyms: accusative, accusatory, accusing |
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| acquisitive | (adjective) eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas | - |
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| acquisitiveness | (noun) strong desire to acquire and possess | - |
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| active | (adjective) (used of verbs (e.g. `to run') and participial adjectives (e.g. `running' in `running water')) expressing action rather than a state of being | Synonyms: dynamic |
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| (adjective) characterized by energetic activity | - |
| (adjective) tending to become more severe or wider in scope | - |
| (adjective) disposed to take action or effectuate change | - |
| (adjective) (of e.g. volcanoes) erupting or liable to erupt | - |
| (adjective) (of e.g. volcanoes) capable of erupting | - |
| (adjective) full of activity or engaged in continuous activity | - |
| (adjective) exerting influence or producing a change or effect | - |
| (adjective) engaged in full-time work | - |
| (adjective) expressing that the subject of the sentence has the semantic function of actor: | - |
| (adjective) (of the sun) characterized by an increased occurrence of sunspots and flares and radio emissions | - |
| (adjective) in operation | Synonyms: alive |
| (adjective) taking part in an activity | Synonyms: participating |
| (adjective) engaged in or ready for military or naval operations | Synonyms: combat-ready, fighting |
| (noun) a person who is a participating member of an organization | - |
| (noun) the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb | Synonyms: active voice |
| (noun) chemical agent capable of activity | Synonyms: active agent |
| actively | (adverb) in an active manner | - |
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| activeness | (noun) the trait of being active; moving or acting rapidly and energetically | Synonyms: activity |
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| (noun) the state of being active | Synonyms: action, activity |
| activewear | (noun) attire worn for sport or for casual wear | Synonyms: athletic wear, sportswear |
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| adaptative | (adjective) having a capacity for adaptation | Synonyms: adaptive |
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| adaptive | (adjective) having a capacity for adaptation | Synonyms: adaptative |
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| addictive | (adjective) causing or characterized by addiction | Synonyms: habit-forming |
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| additive | (adjective) characterized or produced by addition | - |
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| (adjective) designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the first degree | Synonyms: linear |
| (noun) something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine | - |
| adductive | (adjective) especially of muscles; bringing together or drawing toward the midline of the body or toward an adjacent part | Synonyms: adducent, adducting |
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| adhesive | (adjective) tending to adhere | - |
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| (noun) a substance that unites or bonds surfaces together | Synonyms: adhesive agent, adhesive material |
| adhesiveness | (noun) the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition | Synonyms: adherence, adhesion, bond |
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| adjective | (adjective) relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law | Synonyms: procedural |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or functioning as an adjective | Synonyms: adjectival |
| (noun) a word that expresses an attribute of something | - |
| (noun) the word class that qualifies nouns | - |
| adjectively | (adverb) as an adjective | - |
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| adjudicative | (adjective) concerned with adjudicating | Synonyms: adjudicatory |
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| adjunctive | (adjective) joining; forming an adjunct | - |
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| adjustive | (adjective) conducive to adjustment | - |
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| administrative | (adjective) of or relating to or responsible for administration | - |
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| administratively | (adverb) by or for an administrator | - |
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| admissive | (adjective) characterized by or allowing admission | - |
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| adoptive | (adjective) of parents and children; related by adoption | - |
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| (adjective) acquired as your own by free choice | Synonyms: adopted |
| adsorptive | (adjective) having capacity or tendency to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface | Synonyms: adsorbent, surface-assimilative |
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| adumbrative | (adjective) indistinctly prophetic | Synonyms: foreshadowing, prefigurative |
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| advective | (adjective) of or relating to advection | - |
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| adventive | (adjective) not native and not fully established; locally or temporarily naturalized | - |
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| adversative | (adjective) expressing antithesis or opposition | Synonyms: oppositive |
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| affective | (adjective) characterized by emotion | Synonyms: affectional, emotive |
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| affirmative | (adjective) affirming or giving assent | Synonyms: affirmatory |
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| (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: approbative, approbatory, approving, plausive |
| (adjective) expecting the best | Synonyms: optimistic |
| (noun) a reply of affirmation | - |
| affirmatively | (adverb) in an affirmative manner | - |
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| affirmativeness | (noun) the agreeable quality of one who assents | - |
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| afflictive | (adjective) causing misery or pain or distress | Synonyms: painful, sore |
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| affricative | (noun) a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy') | Synonyms: affricate, affricate consonant |
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| agglomerative | (adjective) clustered together but not coherent | Synonyms: agglomerate, agglomerated, clustered |
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| agglutinative | (adjective) united as if by glue | Synonyms: agglutinate |
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| (adjective) forming derivative or compound words by putting together constituents each of which expresses a single definite meaning | Synonyms: polysynthetic |
| aggregative | (adjective) formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole | Synonyms: aggregate, aggregated, mass |
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| aggressive | (adjective) having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight | Synonyms: belligerent |
| (adjective) tending to spread quickly | Synonyms: fast-growing, strong-growing |
| aggressively | (adverb) in an aggressive manner | Synonyms: sharply |
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| aggressiveness | (noun) the quality of being bold and enterprising | - |
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| (noun) a natural disposition to be hostile | Synonyms: belligerence, pugnacity |
| (noun) a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack | Synonyms: aggression |
| agitative | (adjective) causing or tending to cause anger or resentment | Synonyms: agitating, provoking |
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| alimentative | (adjective) related to the supply of aliment | - |
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| alive | (adjective) possessing life | Synonyms: live |
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| (adjective) having life or vigor or spirit | Synonyms: animated |
| (adjective) capable of erupting | Synonyms: live |
| (adjective) mentally perceptive and responsive | Synonyms: alert, awake |
| (adjective) in operation | Synonyms: active |
| (adjective) (often followed by `with') full of life and spirit | - |
| (adjective) (followed by `to' or `of') aware of | - |
| aliveness | (noun) the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life | Synonyms: animateness, liveness |
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| (noun) the condition of living or the state of being alive | Synonyms: animation, life, living |
| alleviative | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory, palliative |
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| alliterative | (adjective) having the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable | - |
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| alliteratively | (adverb) in an alliterative manner | - |
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| allusive | (adjective) characterized by indirect references | - |
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| allusiveness | (noun) a quality characterized by indirect reference | - |
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| almsgiver | (noun) a person who gives alms | - |
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| alterative | (adjective) tending to cure or restore to health | Synonyms: curative, healing, remedial, sanative, therapeutic |
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| alternative | (adjective) necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities | - |
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| (adjective) serving or used in place of another | Synonyms: alternate, substitute |
| (adjective) pertaining to unconventional choices | - |
| (noun) one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen | Synonyms: choice, option |
| alternatively | (adverb) in place of, or as an alternative to | Synonyms: instead, or else |
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| amalgamative | (adjective) characterized by or tending toward amalgamation | - |
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| amative | (adjective) inclined toward or displaying love | Synonyms: amorous |
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| amativeness | (noun) the arousal of feelings of sexual desire | Synonyms: amorousness, eroticism, erotism, sexiness |
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| ambiversion | (noun) (psychology) a balanced disposition intermediate between extroversion and introversion | - |
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| ambiversive | (adjective) intermediate between introversive and extroversive | - |
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| ameliorative | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorating, amelioratory, meliorative |
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| amusive | (adjective) providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining | Synonyms: amusing, diverting |
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| annihilative | (adjective) wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction | Synonyms: annihilating, devastating, withering |
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| anniversary | (noun) the date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: day of remembrance |
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| anticipative | (adjective) marked by eager anticipation | Synonyms: anticipant, expectant |
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| anticoagulative | (adjective) of or relating to an anticoagulant | - |
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| antihypertensive | (noun) a drug that reduces high blood pressure | Synonyms: antihypertensive drug |
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| antitussive | (noun) any medicine used to suppress or relieve coughing | - |
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| antivenene | (noun) an antitoxin that counteracts the effects of venom from the bite of a snake or insect or other animal | Synonyms: antivenin |
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| antivenin | (noun) an antitoxin that counteracts the effects of venom from the bite of a snake or insect or other animal | Synonyms: antivenene |
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| appellative | (adjective) pertaining to or dealing with or used as a common noun | - |
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| (adjective) inclined to or serving for the giving of names | Synonyms: naming |
| (noun) identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others | Synonyms: appellation, denomination, designation |
| apperceive | (verb) perceive in terms of a past experience | - |
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| apperceptive | (adjective) able to relate new percepts to past experience | - |
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| appetitive | (adjective) of or relating to appetite | - |
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| applicative | (adjective) readily applicable or practical | Synonyms: applicatory |
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| appointive | (adjective) subject to appointment | Synonyms: appointed |
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| (adjective) relating to the act of appointing | - |
| appositive | (adjective) relating to or being in apposition | Synonyms: appositional |
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| appositively | (adverb) in an appositive manner | Synonyms: in apposition |
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| appreciative | (adjective) having or showing appreciation or a favorable critical judgment or opinion | - |
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| (adjective) feeling or expressive of gratitude | - |
| appreciatively | (adverb) with appreciation; in a grateful manner | Synonyms: gratefully |
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| appreciativeness | (noun) warm friendly feelings of gratitude | Synonyms: gratefulness, thankfulness |
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| apprehensive | (adjective) in fear or dread of possible evil or harm | - |
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| (adjective) quick to understand | Synonyms: discerning |
| (adjective) mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc | Synonyms: worried |
| apprehensively | (adverb) with anxiety or apprehension | Synonyms: anxiously, uneasily |
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| apprehensiveness | (noun) fearful expectation or anticipation | Synonyms: apprehension, dread |
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| approbative | (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: affirmative, approbatory, approving, plausive |
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| appropriative | (adjective) of or relating to or given to the act of taking for yourself | - |
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