abranchious | (adjective) having no gills | Synonyms: abranchial, abranchiate, gill-less |
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abstemious | (adjective) sparing in consumption of especially food and drink | - |
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(adjective) marked by temperance in indulgence | Synonyms: light |
abstentious | (adjective) self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink | Synonyms: abstinent |
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acrimonious | (adjective) marked by strong resentment or cynicism | Synonyms: bitter |
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adscititious | (adjective) added or derived from something outside; not inherent | - |
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(adjective) supplemental; not part of the real or essential nature of a thing | - |
adventitious | (adjective) associated by chance and not an integral part | - |
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ambagious | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic |
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ambitious | (adjective) having a strong desire for success or achievement | - |
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(adjective) requiring full use of your abilities or resources | Synonyms: challenging |
amphibious | (adjective) operating or living on land and in water | - |
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(adjective) relating to or characteristic of animals of the class Amphibia | Synonyms: amphibian |
antimonious | (adjective) relating to or derived from antimony | Synonyms: antimonic |
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anxious | (adjective) eagerly desirous | Synonyms: dying |
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(adjective) causing or fraught with or showing anxiety | Synonyms: nervous, queasy, uneasy, unquiet |
arsenious | (adjective) relating to compounds in which arsenic is trivalent | - |
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atrabilious | (adjective) irritable as if suffering from indigestion | Synonyms: bilious, dyspeptic, liverish |
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atrocious | (adjective) provoking horror | Synonyms: frightful, horrible, horrifying, ugly |
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(adjective) exceptionally bad or displeasing | Synonyms: abominable, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable |
(adjective) shockingly brutal or cruel | Synonyms: flagitious, grievous, monstrous |
audacious | (adjective) disposed to venture or take risks | Synonyms: daring, venturesome, venturous |
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(adjective) invulnerable to fear or intimidation | Synonyms: brave, dauntless, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing |
(adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: bald-faced, barefaced, bodacious, brassy, brazen-faced, brazen, insolent |
auspicious | (adjective) auguring favorable circumstances and good luck | - |
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autoecious | (adjective) of parasites especially rust fungi; completing the entire life cycle on a single host | Synonyms: homoecious |
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avaricious | (adjective) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth | Synonyms: covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile |
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bilious | (adjective) relating to or containing bile | Synonyms: biliary |
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(adjective) irritable as if suffering from indigestion | Synonyms: atrabilious, dyspeptic, liverish |
(adjective) suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress | Synonyms: liverish, livery |
bodacious | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, brassy, brazen-faced, brazen, insolent |
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(adjective) incorrigible | - |
bumptious | (adjective) offensively self-assertive | Synonyms: self-assertive |
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burglarious | (adjective) involving or resembling burglary | - |
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calumnious | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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capacious | (adjective) large in capacity | - |
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capricious | (adjective) determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason | Synonyms: impulsive, whimsical |
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(adjective) changeable | Synonyms: freakish |
captious | (adjective) tending to find and call attention to faults | Synonyms: faultfinding |
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carious | (adjective) (of teeth) affected with cavities or decay | - |
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cautious | (adjective) showing careful forethought | - |
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(adjective) avoiding excess | Synonyms: conservative |
(noun) people who are fearful and cautious | Synonyms: timid |
cementitious | (adjective) like or relevant to or having the properties of cement | - |
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censorious | (adjective) harshly critical or expressing censure | - |
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ceremonious | (adjective) characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display | Synonyms: pompous |
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(adjective) rigidly formal or bound by convention | Synonyms: conventional |
circumlocutious | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: ambagious, circumlocutory, periphrastic |
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commodious | (adjective) large and roomy (`convenient' is archaic in this sense) | Synonyms: convenient |
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compendious | (adjective) briefly giving the gist of something | Synonyms: compact, succinct, summary |
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conscientious | (adjective) guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right and wrong | - |
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(adjective) characterized by extreme care and great effort | Synonyms: painstaking, scrupulous |
conscious | (adjective) knowing and perceiving; having awareness of surroundings and sensations and thoughts | - |
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(adjective) (followed by `of') showing realization or recognition of something | - |
(adjective) intentionally conceived | Synonyms: witting |
contagious | (adjective) (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection | Synonyms: catching, communicable, contractable, transmissible, transmittable |
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(adjective) easily diffused or spread as from one person to another | - |
contentious | (adjective) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits | Synonyms: combative, disputatious, disputative, litigious |
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(adjective) involving or likely to cause controversy | - |
contrarious | (adjective) characterized by self-willed opposition | Synonyms: cross-grained |
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contumacious | (adjective) wilfully obstinate; stubbornly disobedient | - |
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contumelious | (adjective) arrogantly insolent | - |
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copious | (adjective) affording an abundant supply | Synonyms: ample, plenteous, plentiful, rich |
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(adjective) large in number or quantity (especially of discourse) | Synonyms: voluminous |
curious | (adjective) eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns) | - |
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(adjective) beyond or deviating from the usual or expected | Synonyms: funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular |
deleterious | (adjective) harmful to living things | Synonyms: hurtful, injurious |
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delicious | (adjective) greatly pleasing or entertaining | Synonyms: delightful |
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(adjective) extremely pleasing to the sense of taste | Synonyms: delectable, luscious, pleasant-tasting, scrumptious, toothsome, yummy |
delirious | (adjective) experiencing delirium | Synonyms: hallucinating |
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(adjective) marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion | Synonyms: excited, frantic, mad, unrestrained |
devious | (adjective) deviating from a straight course | Synonyms: circuitous, roundabout |
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(adjective) indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading | Synonyms: oblique |
(adjective) characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive | Synonyms: shifty |
dioecious | (adjective) having male and female reproductive organs in separate plants or animals | Synonyms: dioecian |
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disharmonious | (adjective) lacking in harmony | Synonyms: discordant, dissonant, inharmonic |
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disputatious | (adjective) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits | Synonyms: combative, contentious, disputative, litigious |
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dissentious | (adjective) dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion) | Synonyms: divisive, factious |
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dubious | (adjective) open to doubt or suspicion | Synonyms: doubtful, dubitable, in question |
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(adjective) fraught with uncertainty or doubt | Synonyms: doubtful |
(adjective) not convinced | - |
edacious | (adjective) devouring or craving food in great quantities | Synonyms: esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish |
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efficacious | (adjective) marked by qualities giving the power to produce an intended effect | - |
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(adjective) producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect | Synonyms: effective, effectual |
egregious | (adjective) conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible | Synonyms: crying, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank |
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envious | (adjective) showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages | Synonyms: covetous, jealous |
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euphonious | (adjective) having a pleasant sound | Synonyms: euphonous |
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(adjective) (of speech or dialect) pleasing in sound; not harsh or strident | - |
expeditious | (adjective) marked by speed and efficiency | - |
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facetious | (adjective) cleverly amusing in tone | Synonyms: bantering, tongue-in-cheek |
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factious | (adjective) dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion) | Synonyms: dissentious, divisive |
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factitious | (adjective) not produced by natural forces | - |
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fallacious | (adjective) involving deception | Synonyms: deceitful, fraudulent |
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(adjective) based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information | - |
(adjective) containing or based on a fallacy | Synonyms: unsound |
fastidious | (adjective) giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness | - |
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(adjective) having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures | Synonyms: exacting |
felonious | (adjective) involving or being or having the nature of a crime | Synonyms: criminal |
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ferocious | (adjective) marked by extreme and violent energy | Synonyms: fierce, furious, savage |
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fictitious | (adjective) adopted in order to deceive | Synonyms: assumed, false, fictive, pretended, put on, sham |
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(adjective) formed or conceived by the imagination | Synonyms: fabricated, fancied, fictional |
flagitious | (adjective) shockingly brutal or cruel | Synonyms: atrocious, grievous, monstrous |
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(adjective) extremely wicked, deeply criminal | Synonyms: heinous |
flirtatious | (adjective) like a coquette | Synonyms: coquettish |
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fractious | (adjective) unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome | - |
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(adjective) stubbornly resistant to authority or control | Synonyms: recalcitrant, refractory |
(adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
fugacious | (adjective) lasting a very short time | Synonyms: ephemeral, passing, short-lived, transient, transitory |
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furious | (adjective) marked by extreme anger | Synonyms: angered, enraged, infuriated, maddened |
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(adjective) (of the elements) as if showing violent anger | Synonyms: angry, raging, tempestuous, wild |
(adjective) marked by extreme and violent energy | Synonyms: ferocious, fierce, savage |
glorious | (adjective) having or deserving or conferring glory | - |
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(adjective) having great beauty and splendor | Synonyms: resplendent, splendid, splendiferous |
(adjective) characterized by grandeur | Synonyms: brilliant, magnificent, splendid |
gracious | (adjective) characterized by charm, good taste, and generosity of spirit | - |
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(adjective) characterized by kindness and warm courtesy especially of a king to his subjects | Synonyms: benignant |
(adjective) exhibiting courtesy and politeness | Synonyms: courteous, nice |
(adjective) disposed to bestow favors | - |
gregarious | (adjective) (of animals) tending to form a group with others of the same species | - |
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(adjective) (of plants) growing in groups that are close together | - |
(adjective) instinctively or temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others | - |
gumptious | (adjective) working hard to promote an enterprise | Synonyms: energetic, industrious, up-and-coming |
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harmonious | (adjective) musically pleasing | - |
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(adjective) exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities | Synonyms: proportionate, symmetrical |
(adjective) existing together in harmony | - |
(adjective) suitable and fitting | - |
heteroecious | (adjective) of parasites; passing through different stages of the life cycle on different host species | - |
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hilarious | (adjective) marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter | Synonyms: screaming, uproarious |
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homoecious | (adjective) of parasites especially rust fungi; completing the entire life cycle on a single host | Synonyms: autoecious |
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ignominious | (adjective) (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame | Synonyms: black, disgraceful, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful |
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illustrious | (adjective) having or conferring glory | - |
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(adjective) widely known and esteemed | Synonyms: celebrated, famed, famous, far-famed, notable, noted, renowned |
impecunious | (adjective) not having enough money to pay for necessities | Synonyms: hard up, in straitened circumstances, penniless, penurious, pinched |
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imperious | (adjective) having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy | Synonyms: disdainful, haughty, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering |
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impervious | (adjective) not admitting of passage or capable of being affected | Synonyms: imperviable |
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impious | (adjective) lacking piety or reverence for a god | - |
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(adjective) lacking due respect or dutifulness | Synonyms: undutiful |
inauspicious | (adjective) not auspicious; boding ill | Synonyms: unfortunate |
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(adjective) contrary to your interests or welfare | Synonyms: adverse, untoward |
(adjective) presaging ill fortune | Synonyms: ill, ominous |
incautious | (adjective) lacking in caution | - |
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(adjective) carelessly failing to exercise proper caution | - |
incommodious | (adjective) uncomfortably or inconveniently small | - |
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incurious | (adjective) showing absence of intellectual inquisitiveness or natural curiosity | - |
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industrious | (adjective) characterized by hard work and perseverance | Synonyms: hardworking, tireless, untiring |
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(adjective) working hard to promote an enterprise | Synonyms: energetic, gumptious, up-and-coming |
inefficacious | (adjective) lacking the power to produce a desired effect | - |
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infectious | (adjective) easily spread | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to infection | - |
(adjective) caused by infection or capable of causing infection | Synonyms: infective |
ingenious | (adjective) showing inventiveness and skill | Synonyms: clever, cunning |
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inglorious | (adjective) not bringing honor and glory | - |
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(adjective) (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame | Synonyms: black, disgraceful, ignominious, opprobrious, shameful |
inharmonious | (adjective) not in harmony | Synonyms: unharmonious |
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(adjective) lacking in harmony of parts | - |
injudicious | (adjective) lacking or showing lack of judgment or discretion; unwise | - |
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injurious | (adjective) harmful to living things | Synonyms: deleterious, hurtful |
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innoxious | (adjective) having no adverse effect | - |
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insalubrious | (adjective) detrimental to health | Synonyms: unhealthful, unhealthy |
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insidious | (adjective) intended to entrap | - |
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(adjective) working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way | Synonyms: pernicious, subtle |
(adjective) beguiling but harmful | - |