accentual | (adjective) (of verse) having a metric system based on stress rather than syllables or quantity | - |
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(adjective) of or pertaining to accent or stress | - |
accrual | (noun) the act of accumulating | Synonyms: accruement, accumulation |
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actual | (adjective) presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible | Synonyms: existent |
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(adjective) being or existing at the present moment | - |
(adjective) taking place in reality; not pretended or imitated | - |
(adjective) being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something | Synonyms: genuine, literal, real |
(adjective) existing in act or fact | Synonyms: factual |
annual | (adjective) completing its life cycle within a year | Synonyms: one-year |
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(adjective) occurring or payable every year | Synonyms: yearly |
(noun) a reference book that is published regularly once every year | Synonyms: yearbook, yearly |
(noun) (botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year | - |
artefactual | (adjective) of or relating to artifacts | Synonyms: artifactual |
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artifactual | (adjective) of or relating to artifacts | Synonyms: artefactual |
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asexual | (adjective) not having or involving sex | Synonyms: nonsexual |
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aspectual | (adjective) of or belonging to an aspect (as an aspect of the verb) | - |
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audiovisual | (adjective) involving both hearing and seeing (usually relating to teaching aids) | - |
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(noun) materials using sight or sound to present information | Synonyms: audiovisual aid |
biannual | (adjective) occurring or payable twice each year | Synonyms: biyearly, half-yearly, semiannual |
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bilingual | (adjective) using or knowing two languages | - |
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(noun) a person who speaks two languages fluently | Synonyms: bilingualist |
bimanual | (adjective) requiring two hands or designed for two people | Synonyms: two-handed |
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bisexual | (adjective) sexually attracted to both sexes | - |
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(adjective) having an ambiguous sexual identity | Synonyms: epicene |
(noun) a person who is sexually attracted to both sexes | Synonyms: bisexual person |
casual | (adjective) hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough | Synonyms: cursory, passing, perfunctory, superficial |
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(adjective) not showing effort or strain | Synonyms: effortless |
(adjective) occurring on a temporary or irregular basis | Synonyms: occasional |
(adjective) marked by blithe unconcern | Synonyms: insouciant, nonchalant |
(adjective) appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions | Synonyms: daily, everyday |
(adjective) occurring or appearing or singled out by chance | Synonyms: chance |
(adjective) natural and unstudied | Synonyms: free-and-easy |
(adjective) characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility | Synonyms: fooling |
(adjective) without or seeming to be without plan or method; offhand | - |
coequal | (adjective) having the same standing before the law | - |
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conceptual | (adjective) being or characterized by concepts or their formation | - |
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consensual | (adjective) existing by consent | - |
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construal | (noun) an interpretation of the meaning of something; the act of construing | - |
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contextual | (adjective) relating to or determined by or in context | - |
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continual | (adjective) recurring regularly or frequently in a prolonged and closely spaced series | - |
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(adjective) having no interruptions | - |
contractual | (adjective) relating to or part of a binding legal agreement | - |
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conventual | (adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistered, cloistral, monastic, monastical |
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counterfactual | (adjective) going counter to the facts (usually as a hypothesis) | Synonyms: contrary to fact |
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diestrual | (adjective) (of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity | Synonyms: diestrous, dioestrous, dioestrual |
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dioestrual | (adjective) (of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity | Synonyms: diestrous, diestrual, dioestrous |
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dual | (adjective) consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs | Synonyms: double, duple |
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(adjective) a grammatical number category referring to two items or units as opposed to one item (singular) or more than two items (plural) | - |
(adjective) having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities | Synonyms: double, three-fold, threefold, treble, two-fold, twofold |
effectual | (adjective) producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect | Synonyms: effective, efficacious |
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(adjective) having legal efficacy or force | Synonyms: legal, sound |
equal | (adjective) having the same quantity, value, or measure as another | - |
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(adjective) having the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task | Synonyms: adequate |
(noun) a person who is of equal standing with another in a group | Synonyms: compeer, match, peer |
(verb) make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching | Synonyms: equalise, equalize, equate, match |
(verb) be identical or equivalent to | Synonyms: be |
(verb) be equal to in quality or ability | Synonyms: match, rival, touch |
eventual | (adjective) expected to follow in the indefinite future from causes already operating | - |
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factual | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by facts | - |
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(adjective) existing in act or fact | Synonyms: actual |
gradual | (adjective) proceeding in small stages | - |
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(adjective) (of a topographical gradient) not steep or abrupt | - |
(noun) (Roman Catholic Church) an antiphon (usually from the Book of Psalms) immediately after the epistle at Mass | - |
habitual | (adjective) commonly used or practiced; usual | Synonyms: accustomed, customary, wonted |
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heterosexual | (adjective) sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex | - |
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(noun) a person having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex | Synonyms: heterosexual person, straight, straight person |
homosexual | (adjective) sexually attracted to members of your own sex | - |
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(noun) someone who is sexually attracted to persons of the same sex | Synonyms: gay, homo, homophile |
individual | (adjective) being or characteristic of a single thing or person | Synonyms: single |
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(adjective) separate and distinct from others of the same kind | Synonyms: case-by-case, item-by-item |
(adjective) concerning one person exclusively | Synonyms: private |
(adjective) characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing | Synonyms: single |
(noun) a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential | Synonyms: mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul |
(noun) a single organism | - |
ineffectual | (adjective) not producing an intended effect | Synonyms: ineffective, uneffective |
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(adjective) lacking in power or forcefulness | Synonyms: ineffective, unable |
(adjective) producing no result or effect | Synonyms: futile, meaningless, otiose, unavailing |
intellectual | (adjective) appealing to or using the intellect | - |
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(adjective) involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct | Synonyms: cerebral |
(adjective) of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind | Synonyms: noetic, rational |
(noun) a person who uses the mind creatively | Synonyms: intellect |
intersexual | (adjective) having sexual characteristics intermediate between those of male and female | - |
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(adjective) existing or occurring between the sexes | - |
lingual | (adjective) consisting of or related to language | Synonyms: linguistic |
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(adjective) pertaining to or resembling or lying near the tongue | - |
(noun) a consonant that is produced with the tongue and other speech organs | - |
manual | (adjective) requiring human effort | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the hands | - |
(adjective) doing or requiring physical work | - |
(noun) (military) a prescribed drill in handling a rifle | Synonyms: manual of arms |
(noun) a small handbook | - |
menstrual | (adjective) of or relating to menstruation or the menses | Synonyms: catamenial |
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metrosexual | (adjective) a heterosexual man that is particularly interested in his appearance, being well-groomed and fashion | - |
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misconstrual | (noun) a kind of misinterpretation resulting from putting a wrong construction on words or actions (often deliberately) | Synonyms: misconstruction |
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monolingual | (adjective) using or knowing only one language | - |
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(noun) a person who knows only one language | - |
multilingual | (adjective) using or knowing more than one language | - |
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mutual | (adjective) concerning each of two or more persons or things; especially given or done in return | Synonyms: reciprocal |
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(adjective) common to or shared by two or more parties | Synonyms: common |
nonintellectual | (adjective) not intellectual | - |
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nonsexual | (adjective) not having or involving sex | Synonyms: asexual |
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nonvisual | (adjective) not resulting in vision | - |
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orbitual | (adjective) describing a circle; moving in a circle | Synonyms: circular, rotary |
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pansexual | (noun) a person who participates in (or is open to) sexual activities of many kinds | - |
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perceptual | (adjective) of or relating to the act of perceiving | - |
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perpetual | (adjective) uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing | Synonyms: ceaseless, constant, incessant, never-ending, unceasing, unremitting |
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(adjective) continuing forever or indefinitely | Synonyms: aeonian, ageless, eonian, eternal, everlasting, unceasing, unending |
premenstrual | (adjective) of or relating to or occurring during the time just before menstruation | - |
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psychosexual | (adjective) of or relating to the mental or emotional attitudes about sexuality | - |
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punctual | (adjective) acting or arriving or performed exactly at the time appointed | Synonyms: on time |
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pursual | (noun) the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture | Synonyms: chase, following, pursuit |
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residual | (adjective) relating to or indicating a remainder | Synonyms: residuary |
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(noun) (often plural) a payment that is made to a performer or writer or director of a television show or commercial that is paid for every repeat showing | - |
(noun) something left after other parts have been taken away | Synonyms: balance, remainder, residue, residuum, rest |
ritual | (adjective) of or relating to or employed in social rites or rituals | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of religious rituals | - |
(noun) any customary observance or practice | Synonyms: rite |
(noun) the prescribed procedure for conducting religious ceremonies | - |
(noun) stereotyped behavior | - |
rorqual | (noun) any of several baleen whales of the family Balaenopteridae having longitudinal grooves on the throat and a small pointed dorsal fin | Synonyms: razorback |
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semiannual | (adjective) occurring or payable twice each year | Synonyms: biannual, biyearly, half-yearly |
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sensual | (adjective) sexually exciting or gratifying | Synonyms: sultry |
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(adjective) marked by the appetites and passions of the body | Synonyms: animal, carnal, fleshly |
sexual | (adjective) having or involving sex | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to or characterized by sexuality | - |
(adjective) involved in a sexual relationship | Synonyms: intimate |
spiritual | (adjective) lacking material body or form or substance | - |
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(adjective) concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church | Synonyms: religious |
(adjective) resembling or characteristic of a phantom | Synonyms: apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral |
(adjective) concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul | Synonyms: unearthly |
(noun) a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States | Synonyms: Negro spiritual |
sublingual | (adjective) beneath the tongue | - |
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tactual | (adjective) of or relating to or proceeding from the sense of touch | Synonyms: haptic, tactile |
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(adjective) producing a sensation of touch | Synonyms: tactile |
textual | (adjective) of or relating to or based on a text | - |
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transexual | (noun) a person whose sexual identification is entirely with the opposite sex | Synonyms: transsexual |
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(noun) a person who has undergone a sex change operation | Synonyms: transgendered, transsexual |
transsexual | (adjective) identifying with the opposite gender from the one that one is born with | - |
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(noun) a person whose sexual identification is entirely with the opposite sex | Synonyms: transexual |
(noun) a person who has undergone a sex change operation | Synonyms: transexual, transgendered |
trilingual | (adjective) using or knowing three languages | - |
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unequal | (adjective) poorly balanced or matched in quantity or value or measure | - |
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(adjective) lacking the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task | Synonyms: inadequate |
ungual | (adjective) of or relating to a nail or claw or hoof | - |
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unisexual | (adjective) relating to only one sex or having only one type of sexual organ; not hermaphroditic | - |
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unpunctual | (adjective) not punctual; after the appointed time | - |
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unusual | (adjective) not usual or common or ordinary | - |
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(adjective) being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird | Synonyms: strange |
(adjective) not commonly encountered | - |
usual | (adjective) occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure | - |
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(adjective) commonly encountered | Synonyms: common |
victual | (noun) any substance that can be used as food | Synonyms: comestible, eatable, edible, pabulum, victuals |
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(verb) take in nourishment | - |
(verb) lay in provisions | - |
(verb) supply with food | - |
virtual | (adjective) existing in essence or effect though not in actual fact | - |
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(adjective) being actually such in almost every respect | Synonyms: practical |
visual | (adjective) relating to or using sight | Synonyms: ocular, optic, optical |
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(adjective) visible | Synonyms: ocular |