adulterous | (adjective) characterized by adultery | Synonyms: extracurricular, extramarital |
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(adjective) not faithful to a spouse or lover | Synonyms: cheating, two-timing |
adulterously | (adverb) in an adulterous manner | - |
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adulterousness | (noun) The quality of being adulterous, involving sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse. | - |
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adventurous | (adjective) willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises | Synonyms: adventuresome |
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adventurousness | (noun) the trait of being adventurous | Synonyms: venturesomeness |
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aeriferous | (adjective) conveying air; as the bronchial tubes | - |
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allomerous | (adjective) pertaining to allomerism | - |
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aluminiferous | (adjective) containing alum or aluminum | - |
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ambidextrous | (adjective) equally skillful with each hand | Synonyms: two-handed |
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(adjective) marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another | Synonyms: deceitful, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced |
ambidextrousness | (noun) the property of being equally skillful with each hand | Synonyms: ambidexterity |
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amentiferous | (adjective) (of plants) bearing or characterized by aments or catkins | Synonyms: amentaceous |
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amorous | (adjective) inclined toward or displaying love | Synonyms: amative |
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(adjective) expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance | Synonyms: amatory, romantic |
amorously | (adverb) in an amorous manner | - |
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amorousness | (noun) a feeling of love or fondness | Synonyms: enamoredness |
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(noun) the arousal of feelings of sexual desire | Synonyms: amativeness, eroticism, erotism, sexiness |
anestrous | (adjective) (of lower mammals) not in a state of estrus; not in heat | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to anestrus | Synonyms: anestric, anoestrous |
anhydrous | (adjective) without water; especially without water of crystallization | - |
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anoestrous | (adjective) of or relating to anestrus | Synonyms: anestric, anestrous |
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anurous | (adjective) not having a tail | Synonyms: tailless |
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apivorous | (adjective) feeding on bees | - |
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apterous | (adjective) (of insects) without wings | Synonyms: apteral |
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aquiferous | (adjective) of or relating to an aquifer | - |
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arborous | (adjective) of or relating to or formed by trees | Synonyms: arborary, arboreal, arborical |
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argentiferous | (adjective) containing or yielding silver | - |
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arousal | (noun) the act of arousing | Synonyms: rousing |
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(noun) mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse | Synonyms: foreplay, stimulation |
(noun) awakening from sleep | - |
(noun) a state of heightened physiological activity | - |
arouse | (verb) cause to be alert and energetic | Synonyms: brace, energise, energize, perk up, stimulate |
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(verb) cause to become awake or conscious | Synonyms: awaken, rouse, wake, wake up, waken |
(verb) stop sleeping | Synonyms: awake, awaken, come alive, wake, wake up, waken |
(verb) summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic | Synonyms: bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, evoke, invoke, put forward, raise, stir |
(verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise |
(verb) to evoke sexual feelings | Synonyms: excite, sex, turn on, wind up |
(verb) to begin moving | Synonyms: stir |
aroused | (adjective) (of persons) excessively affected by emotion | Synonyms: emotional, excited, worked up |
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(adjective) aroused to action | - |
(adjective) emotionally aroused | Synonyms: stimulated, stirred, stirred up |
(adjective) keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement | Synonyms: ablaze, aflame |
(adjective) feeling great sexual desire | Synonyms: horny, randy, ruttish, steamy, turned on |
(adjective) brought to a state of great tension | Synonyms: wound up |
arouser | (noun) someone who rouses others from sleep | Synonyms: rouser, waker |
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arthrosporous | (adjective) of or relating to arthrospores | Synonyms: arthrosporic |
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ascosporous | (adjective) of or relating to ascospores | Synonyms: ascosporic |
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auriferous | (adjective) containing gold | Synonyms: gold-bearing |
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aurous | (adjective) of or relating to or containing or derived from gold | Synonyms: auric |
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babiroussa | (noun) Indonesian wild pig with enormous curved canine teeth | Synonyms: babirusa, babirussa, Babyrousa Babyrussa |
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bacciferous | (adjective) producing or bearing berries | Synonyms: baccate, berried |
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baccivorous | (adjective) feeding on berries | - |
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barbarous | (adjective) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering | Synonyms: brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious |
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(adjective) primitive in customs and culture | - |
barbarously | (adverb) in a barbarous manner | - |
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barbarousness | (noun) the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane | Synonyms: atrociousness, atrocity, barbarity, heinousness |
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basidiosporous | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by spores produced by basidia | - |
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bibliolatrous | (adjective) given to Bible-worship | - |
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biparous | (adjective) producing two offspring at a time | Synonyms: twinning |
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blusterous | (adjective) blowing in violent and abrupt bursts | Synonyms: blustering, blustery |
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boisterous | (adjective) noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline | Synonyms: rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unruly |
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(adjective) full of rough and exuberant animal spirits | Synonyms: knockabout |
(adjective) violently agitated and turbulent | Synonyms: fierce, rough |
boisterously | (adverb) in a carefree manner | Synonyms: rollickingly |
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boisterousness | (noun) the property of being noisy and lively and unrestrained | - |
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(noun) a turbulent and stormy state of the sea | - |
brachypterous | (adjective) (especially of certain insects) having very short or rudimentary wings | Synonyms: short-winged |
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brachyurous | (adjective) of or belonging to the suborder Brachyura | - |
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cadaverous | (adjective) of or relating to a cadaver or corpse | Synonyms: cadaveric |
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(adjective) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold | Synonyms: emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted |
calciferous | (adjective) bearing or producing or containing calcium or calcium carbonate or calcite | - |
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cancerous | (adjective) like a cancer; an evil that grows and spreads | - |
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(adjective) relating to or affected with cancer | - |
cankerous | (adjective) having an ulcer or canker | Synonyms: ulcerated, ulcerous |
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canorous | (adjective) richly melodious | Synonyms: songful |
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cantankerous | (adjective) having a difficult and contrary disposition | Synonyms: crotchety, ornery |
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(adjective) stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate | Synonyms: bloody-minded |
cantankerously | (adverb) in a bad mood | - |
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carboniferous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon | Synonyms: carbonaceous, carbonic, carbonous |
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(adjective) of or relating to the Carboniferous geologic era | - |
carnivorous | (adjective) (used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animals | - |
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(adjective) relating to or characteristic of carnivores | - |
carnivorousness | (noun) The quality of being an animal that eats meat as the main part of its diet. | Synonyms: zoophagy |
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carousal | (noun) revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party | Synonyms: bender, booze-up, carouse, toot |
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carouse | (noun) revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party | Synonyms: bender, booze-up, carousal, toot |
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(verb) engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: riot, roister |
carousel | (noun) a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride on for amusement | Synonyms: carrousel, merry-go-round, roundabout, whirligig |
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(noun) a conveyer belt that carries luggage to be claimed by air travelers | Synonyms: carrousel, luggage carousel, luggage carrousel |
carouser | (noun) someone who enjoys riotous drinking | Synonyms: wassailer |
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carousing | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalian, bacchic, orgiastic |
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carposporous | (adjective) having carpospores | - |
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carrousel | (noun) a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride on for amusement | Synonyms: carousel, merry-go-round, roundabout, whirligig |
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(noun) a conveyer belt that carries luggage to be claimed by air travelers | Synonyms: carousel, luggage carousel, luggage carrousel |
cerous | (adjective) of or relating to or containing cerium with valence 3 | - |
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chancrous | (adjective) of or having chancres | - |
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chelicerous | (adjective) having chelicerae | - |
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cheliferous | (adjective) having chelae | - |
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chivalrous | (adjective) being attentive to women like an ideal knight | Synonyms: gallant, knightly |
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chivalrously | (adverb) in a gallant manner | Synonyms: gallantly |
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chyliferous | (adjective) transmitting chyle | - |
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citrous | (adjective) of or relating to or producing fruit of the plants of the genus Citrus | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to plants of the genus Citrus | - |
clamorous | (adjective) conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry | Synonyms: blatant, clamant, strident, vociferous |
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clamorously | (adverb) in manner that attracts attention | Synonyms: loudly, obstreperously |
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clangorous | (adjective) having a loud resonant metallic sound | Synonyms: clanging |
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congenerous | (adjective) belonging to the same genus | Synonyms: congeneric, congenerical |
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coniferous | (adjective) of or relating to or part of trees or shrubs bearing cones and evergreen leaves | Synonyms: cone-bearing |
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cruciferous | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Cruciferae | - |
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cumbrous | (adjective) difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight | Synonyms: cumbersome |
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cuprous | (adjective) of or containing divalent copper | Synonyms: cupric |
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dangerous | (adjective) involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm | Synonyms: unsafe |
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(adjective) causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm | Synonyms: grave, grievous, life-threatening, serious, severe |
dangerously | (adverb) in a dangerous manner | Synonyms: hazardously, perilously |
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dangerousness | (noun) the quality of not being safe | - |
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decorous | (adjective) characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste in manners and conduct | - |
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(adjective) according with custom or propriety | Synonyms: becoming, comely, comme il faut, seemly |
decorously | (adverb) in a proper and decorous manner | - |
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decorousness | (noun) propriety in manners and conduct | Synonyms: decorum |
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desirous | (adjective) having or expressing desire for something | Synonyms: wishful |
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dexterous | (adjective) skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands | Synonyms: deft, dextrous |
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dexterously | (adverb) with dexterity; in a dexterous manner | Synonyms: deftly, dextrously |
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dextrous | (adjective) skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands | Synonyms: deft, dexterous |
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dextrously | (adverb) with dexterity; in a dexterous manner | Synonyms: deftly, dexterously |
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diestrous | (adjective) (of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity | Synonyms: diestrual, dioestrous, dioestrual |
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dioestrous | (adjective) (of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity | Synonyms: diestrous, diestrual, dioestrual |
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dipterous | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the Diptera | - |
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disastrous | (adjective) (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin | Synonyms: black, calamitous, fatal, fateful |
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disastrously | (adverb) in a disastrous manner | - |
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dolorous | (adjective) showing sorrow | Synonyms: dolourous, lachrymose, tearful, weeping |
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dolourous | (adjective) showing sorrow | Synonyms: dolorous, lachrymose, tearful, weeping |
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estrous | (adjective) (of lower mammals) showing or in a state of estrus; in heat | - |
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ferrous | (adjective) of or relating to or containing iron | Synonyms: ferric |
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feverous | (adjective) having or affected by a fever | Synonyms: feverish |
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