Adjectives

Dennis L. (United States of America)
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  1. abstemious
    marked by temperance in indulgence
  2. acrimonious
    marked by strong resentment or cynicism
  3. acuate
    ending in a sharp point
  4. adamantine
    consisting of or having the hardness of adamant
  5. aggregate
    a sum total of many heterogeneous things taken together
  6. agnostic
    a person who claims the existence of God is unknowable
  7. annoyed
    troubled persistently
  8. arduous
    characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion
  9. benignant
    pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence
  10. bespoken
    pledged to be married
  11. bounded
    having the limits or boundaries established
  12. brusque
    rudely abrupt or blunt in speech or manner
  13. cavalier
    showing a lack of concern or seriousness
  14. cheeseparing
    giving or spending with reluctance
  15. concomitant
    following or accompanying as a consequence
  16. contingent
    determined by conditions or circumstances that follow
  17. copacetic
    completely satisfactory
  18. corroborant
    used of a medicine that is strengthening
  19. corvine
    relating to or resembling a crow
  20. courtly
    refined or imposing in manner or appearance
  21. deductive
    relating to reasoning from the general to the particular
  22. denigrative
    harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign
  23. diffident
    showing modest reserve
  24. disparaging
    expressive of low opinion
  25. ecumenical
    concerned with promoting unity among churches or religions
  26. ensorcelled
    under or as if under a spell
  27. epistemic
    of or relating to epistemology
  28. extortionate
    greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation
  29. extraordinaire
    extraordinary in a particular capacity
  30. faulty
    having a defect
  31. fervent
    characterized by intense emotion
  32. fervently
    with strong emotion or zeal
  33. fusty
    stale and unclean smelling
  34. genuine
    not fake or counterfeit
  35. germane
    relevant and appropriate
  36. heuristic
    a commonsense rule to help solve some problem
  37. hieratic
    associated with the priesthood or priests
  38. ignominious
    deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
  39. inchoate
    only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
  40. incipient
    only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
  41. inductive
    influencing or causing to arise
  42. inexorable
    impossible to prevent, resist, or stop
  43. intelligent
    having the capacity for thought and reason to a high degree
  44. intransigent
    impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, or reason
  45. invidious
    containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice
  46. loutish
    ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance
  47. lurid
    glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism
  48. magnanimous
    noble and generous in spirit
  49. maudlin
    very sentimental or emotional
  50. mellifluous
    pleasing to the ear
  51. mellisonant
    pleasing to the ear
  52. mnemonic
    of or relating to the practice of aiding the memory
  53. mullioned
    of windows
  54. nonplussed
    filled with bewilderment
  55. oafish
    ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance
  56. omnifarious
    of all varieties or forms or kinds
  57. oneiric
    of or relating to or suggestive of dreams
  58. ovine
    of or pertaining to sheep
  59. Paleozoic
    relating to the era from about 541 to 252 million years ago
  60. paradigmatic
    relating to or serving as a typical example of something
  61. parvenu
    a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status
  62. perdurable
    very long lasting
  63. perfunctory
    hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
  64. perspicacious
    mentally acute or penetratingly discerning
  65. phrenetic
    excessively agitated
  66. pithy
    concise and full of meaning
  67. pleonastic
    repetition of same sense in different words
  68. pliant
    capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out
  69. poltroon
    an abject coward
  70. precatory
    expressing entreaty or supplication
  71. precedent
    an example that is used to justify similar occurrences
  72. prerequisite
    something that is needed or obligatory in advance
  73. preternatural
    existing outside of or not in accordance with nature
  74. prolix
    tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at length
  75. providential
    peculiarly fortunate or appropriate
  76. Ptolemaic
    of or relating to the geocentric Ptolemaic system
  77. pyrrhic
    relating to a victory that is offset by staggering losses
  78. redundant
    more than is needed, desired, or required
  79. refulgent
    radiating or as if radiating light
  80. rubicund
    having a healthy reddish color
  81. sagacious
    acutely insightful and wise
  82. salubrious
    promoting health
  83. sapient
    acutely insightful and wise
  84. seminal
    influential and providing a basis for later development
  85. sentient
    endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
  86. sequent
    in regular succession without gaps
  87. sesquipedalian
    a very long word (a foot and a half long)
  88. slatternly
    characteristic of or befitting an untidy, immoral woman
  89. taciturn
    habitually reserved and uncommunicative
  90. tactful
    having a sense of what is considerate in dealing with others
  91. tenable
    based on sound reasoning or evidence
  92. tractile
    capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out
  93. treacly
    overly sweet
  94. trenchant
    having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought
  95. truculent
    defiantly aggressive
  96. unguiculated
    having or resembling claws or nails
  97. usurious
    greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation
  98. uxorious
    foolishly fond of or submissive to your wife
  99. verbatim
    using exactly the same words
  100. vitriolic
    harsh, bitter, or malicious in tone
  101. voluble
    marked by a ready flow of speech
  102. vulpecular
    resembling or characteristic of a fox
  103. waning
    a gradual decrease in magnitude or extent
  104. waxing
    a gradual increase in magnitude or extent
  105. otiose
    serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
  106. grandiloquent
    lofty in style
  107. acclivitous
    sloping upward
  108. inexorable
    impossible to prevent, resist, or stop
  109. intransigent
    impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, or reason
  110. exclusive
    admitting or accepting only a particular group
  111. inclusive
    encompassing much or everything
  112. protean
    taking on different forms
  113. fatuous
    devoid of intelligence
  114. thorough
    painstakingly careful and accurate
  115. sedulous
    marked by care and persistent effort
  116. assiduous
    marked by care and persistent effort
  117. sedulity
    the quality of being constantly diligent and attentive
  118. penultimate
    next to the last
  119. pulchritudinous
    having great physical beauty
  120. finite
    bounded in magnitude or spatial or temporal extent
  121. petulant
    easily irritated or annoyed
  122. chthonic
    dwelling beneath the surface of the earth
  123. chthonian
    dwelling beneath the surface of the earth
  124. peremptory
    putting an end to all debate or action
Created on Thu Oct 18 02:07:22 EDT 2007 (updated Sat Oct 19 19:53:34 EDT 2013)

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