| 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 |
| aggrieve | (verb) cause to feel sorrow | Synonyms: grieve |
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| (verb) infringe on the rights of | - |
| agitative | (adjective) causing or tending to cause anger or resentment | Synonyms: agitating, provoking |
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| airwave | (noun) medium for radio and television broadcasting | Synonyms: air |
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| alcove | (noun) a small recess opening off a larger room | Synonyms: bay |
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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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| allover | (adjective) covering the entire surface | - |
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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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| alveolar | (adjective) pertaining to the tiny air sacs of the lungs | - |
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| (adjective) pertaining to the sockets of the teeth or that part of the upper jaw | - |
| (noun) a consonant articulated with the tip of the tongue near the gum ridge | Synonyms: alveolar consonant, dental, dental consonant |
| alveolate | (adjective) pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb) | Synonyms: cavitied, faveolate, honeycombed, pitted |
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| alveolitis | (noun) inflammation of the alveoli in the lungs caused by inhaling dust; with repeated exposure the condition may become chronic | - |
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| (noun) inflammation in the socket of a tooth; sometimes occurs after a tooth is extracted and a blood clot fails to form | Synonyms: dry socket |
| alveolus | (noun) a tiny sac for holding air in the lungs; formed by the terminal dilation of tiny air passageways | Synonyms: air cell, air sac |
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| (noun) a bony socket in the alveolar ridge that holds a tooth | Synonyms: tooth socket |
| 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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| animadversion | (noun) harsh criticism or disapproval | Synonyms: censure |
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| animadvert | (verb) express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation | Synonyms: opine, sound off, speak out, speak up |
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| (verb) express blame or censure or make a harshly critical remark | - |
| 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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| apojove | (noun) apoapsis in orbit around Jupiter | - |
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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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| approve | (verb) judge to be right or commendable; think well of | - |
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| (verb) give sanction to | Synonyms: O.K., okay, sanction |
| approved | (adjective) established by authority; given authoritative approval | Synonyms: sanctioned |
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| approver | (noun) an authority with power to approve | - |
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| approximative | (adjective) not quite exact or correct | Synonyms: approximate, rough |
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| arbitrative | (adjective) relating to or having the authority to arbitrate | - |
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| architrave | (noun) the lowest part of an entablature; rests immediately on the capitals of the columns | - |
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| (noun) the molding around a door or window | - |
| archive | (noun) a depository containing historical records and documents | - |
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| (verb) put into an archive | Synonyms: file away |
| archives | (noun) collection of records especially about an institution | - |
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| argumentative | (adjective) given to or characterized by argument | - |
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| argumentatively | (adverb) in a disputatious manner | Synonyms: disputatiously |
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| arrive | (verb) reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress | Synonyms: come, get |
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| (verb) succeed in a big way; get to the top | Synonyms: get in, go far, make it |
| arrivederci | (noun) a farewell remark | Synonyms: adieu, adios, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, bye, cheerio, good-by, good-bye, good day, goodby, goodbye, sayonara, so long |
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| arriver | (noun) someone who arrives (or has arrived) | Synonyms: arrival, comer |
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| arteriovenous | (adjective) connecting an artery to a vein | - |
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| articulative | (adjective) of or relating to articulation | Synonyms: articulatory |
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| ascensive | (adjective) tending or directed upward | Synonyms: ascendant, ascendent |
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| assaultive | (adjective) disposed to attack | Synonyms: attacking |
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| assertive | (adjective) aggressively self-assured | Synonyms: self-asserting, self-assertive |
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| assertively | (adverb) in an assertive manner | - |
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| assertiveness | (noun) aggressive self-assurance; given to making bold assertions | Synonyms: self-assertiveness |
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| asseverate | (verb) state categorically | Synonyms: assert, maintain |
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| asseveration | (noun) a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary) | Synonyms: assertion, averment |
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| asseverator | (noun) someone who claims to speak the truth | Synonyms: affirmer, asserter, avower, declarer |
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| assimilative | (adjective) capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution | Synonyms: assimilating, assimilatory |
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| (adjective) capable of mentally absorbing | - |
| assistive | (adjective) giving assistance | - |
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| associative | (adjective) characterized by or causing or resulting from the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination | Synonyms: associatory |
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| assuasive | (adjective) freeing from fear and anxiety | Synonyms: soothing |
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| assumptive | (adjective) accepted as real or true without proof | - |
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| (adjective) excessively forward | Synonyms: assuming, presumptuous |
| atrioventricular | (adjective) relating to or affecting the atria and ventricles of the heart | Synonyms: auriculoventricular |
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| attentive | (adjective) (often followed by `to') giving care or attention | - |
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| (adjective) taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention | Synonyms: heedful, paying attention, thoughtful |
| attentively | (adverb) with attention; in an attentive manner | - |
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| attentiveness | (noun) the trait of being considerate and thoughtful of others | - |
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| (noun) the trait of being observant and paying attention | - |
| (noun) paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people) | Synonyms: heed, paying attention, regard |
| attractive | (adjective) pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm | - |
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| (adjective) having the properties of a magnet; the ability to draw or pull | - |
| (adjective) having power to arouse interest | - |
| attractively | (adverb) in a beautiful manner | Synonyms: beautifully |
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| attractiveness | (noun) sexual allure | - |
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| (noun) the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts | Synonyms: attraction |
| attributive | (adjective) of adjectives; placed before the nouns they modify | Synonyms: prenominal |
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| attributively | (adverb) in an attributive manner | - |
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| auditive | (adjective) of or relating to the process of hearing | Synonyms: audile, auditory |
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| augmentative | (adjective) increasing or having the power to increase especially in size or amount or degree | - |
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| (adjective) intensifying by augmentation and enhancement | Synonyms: enhancive |
| auriculoventricular | (adjective) relating to or affecting the atria and ventricles of the heart | Synonyms: atrioventricular |
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| authoritative | (adjective) endowed with authority | Synonyms: authorised, authorized |
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| (adjective) having authority or ascendancy or influence | Synonyms: important |
| (adjective) of recognized authority or excellence | Synonyms: definitive |
| authoritatively | (adverb) in an authoritative and magisterial manner | Synonyms: magisterially |
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