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Full List of Adjectives That Start with S
Let’s begin with a full list of adjectives that start with S. As you can guess, this will be a super long list.
| Sabahan | Siberian | Standoffish |
| Sabbatarian | Sibilant | Standpat |
| Sabbatic | Sibyllic | Stannic |
| Sabbatical | Sibylline | Stannous |
| Sabertoothed | Sicilian | Staphylococcal |
| Sabine | Sick | Staple |
| Sable | Sickened | Star |
| Saccadic | Sickening | Starboard |
| Saccharine | Sickish | Starched |
| Sacculate | Sickly | Starchless |
| Sacculated | Side | Starchlike |
| Sacerdotal | Sidearm | Starchy |
| Saclike | Sidelong | Staring |
| Sacral | Sidereal | Stark |
| Sacramental | Sidesplitting | Starkers |
| Sacred | Sideways | Starless |
| Sacrificeable | Sightless | Starlike |
| Sacrificial | Sightly | Starlit |
| Sacrilegious | Sigmoid | Starred |
| Sacrosanct | Sigmoidal | Starring |
| Sad | Sign | Starry |
| Saddened | Signal | Starting |
| Sadducean | Signed | Startled |
| Sadistic | Significant | Startling |
| Safe | Significative | Starving |
| Sagacious | Sikh | Statant |
| Sage | Silent | Stated |
| Sagittal | Siliceous | Stateless |
| Sagittate | Silicious | Stately |
| Sagittiform | Silken | Statesmanlike |
| Saharan | Silklike | Statesmanly |
| Sainted | Silky | Statewide |
| Saintlike | Silly | Static |
| Saintly | Silvan | Stationary |
| Salable | Silver | Statistical |
| Salacious | Silverish | Stative |
| Salaried | Silvern | Statuary |
| Saleable | Silvery | Statuesque |
| Salient | Simian | Status |
| Salientian | Similar | Statute |
| Saliferous | Similiar | Statutory |
| Saline | Simple | Staunch |
| Salivary | Simpleminded | Steadfast |
| Sallow | Simplex | Steadied |
| Salmon | Simplified | Steady |
| Saltish | Simplistic | Steadying |
| Saltlike | Simulated | Stealth |
| Salty | Simultaneous | Stealthy |
| Salubrious | Sincere | Steamed |
| Salutary | Sinewy | Steaming |
| Salvadoran | Sinful | Steamy |
| Salvadorean | Singable | Stearic |
| Salvageable | Singaporean | Steel |
| Salvaged | Singhalese | Steely |
| Salverform | Singing | Steep |
| Salvific | Single | Steepish |
| Same | Singsong | Steerable |
| Samoan | Singular | Stellar |
| Sanative | Sinhala | Stellate |
| Sanctimonious | Sinhalese | Stemless |
| Sanctionative | Sinister | Stemmatic |
| Sandaled | Sinistral | Stenosed |
| Sandalled | Sinistrorsal | Stenotic |
| Sandlike | Sinistrorse | Stentorian |
| Sandpapery | Sinitic | Stepwise |
| Sandy | Sinkable | Stereo |
| Sane | Sinless | Stereoscopic |
| Sanguinary | Sintered | Stereotypic |
| Sanguine | Sinuate | Sterile |
| Sanguineous | Sinuous | Sterilised |
| Sanious | Sinusoidal | Sterling |
| Sanitary | Siouan | Stern |
| Sanitised | Sissified | Sternal |
| Sanitized | Sissy | Sternutative |
| Sapid | Sissyish | Sternutatory |
| Sapiens | Sisterlike | Steroidal |
| Sapient | Sisterly | Stertorous |
| Sapiential | Sisyphean | Sticky |
| Sapless | Sitting | Stiff |
| Saponaceous | Situated | Stifled |
| Saponified | Sixfold | Stifling |
| Saporous | Sixpenny | Stigmatic |
| Sapphic | Sizable | Still |
| Sapphire | Sizeable | Stillborn |
| Sapphirine | Sizzling | Stilled |
| Sappy | Skanky | Stilly |
| Saprobic | Skeletal | Stilted |
| Saprophagous | Skeptical | Stimulant |
| Saprophytic | Sketchy | Stimulating |
| Saprozoic | Skewed | Stimulative |
| Sarawakian | Skilful | Stinging |
| Sarcastic | Skilled | Stingless |
| Sarcoid | Skillful | Stingy |
| Sarcolemmal | Skimmed | Stinking |
| Sarcolemmic | Skimpy | Stinky |
| Sarcolemnous | Skinless | Stinting |
| Sarcosomal | Skinnerian | Stipendiary |
| Sardinian | Skinny | Stippled |
| Sardonic | Skint | Stipulatory |
| Sartorial | Skintight | Stirring |
| Sassy | Skittish | Stochastic |
| Satanic | Skyward | Stock |
| Satellite | Slack | Stocked |
| Satiable | Slanderous | Stockinged |
| Satiate | Slanted | Stocky |
| Satiated | Slanting | Stodgy |
| Satin | Slapdash | Stoic |
| Satiny | Slaphappy | Stoical |
| Satiric | Slapstick | Stoichiometric |
| Satirical | Slatey | Stolid |
| Satisfactory | Slatternly | Stoloniferous |
| Satisfiable | Slaty | Stomachal |
| Satisfied | Slaughterous | Stomachic |
| Satisfying | Slav | Stomatal |
| Saturated | Slaveholding | Stomatous |
| Saturnine | Slaveless | Stone |
| Satyric | Slavelike | Stoned |
| Satyrical | Slavic | Stoneless |
| Saucy | Slavish | Stonelike |
| Saudi | Slavonic | Stony |
| Saurian | Sleazy | Stonyhearted |
| Saute | Sleek | Stoppable |
| Sauteed | Sleeping | Stoppered |
| Savage | Sleepless | Storeyed |
| Saved | Sleepy | Storied |
| Saving | Sleepyheaded | Stormbound |
| Savorless | Sleeved | Stormproof |
| Savory | Sleeveless | Stormy |
| Savourless | Slender | Stout |
| Savoury | Slick | Stouthearted |
| Savvy | Slicked | Stovepiped |
| Saxatile | Sliding | Straggling |
| Saxicoline | Slight | Straggly |
| Saxicolous | Slighted | Straight |
| Saxon | Slighting | Straightarrow |
| Scabby | Slim | Straightaway |
| Scabrous | Slimed | Straightforward |
| Scalable | Slimy | Straightlaced |
| Scalar | Slippered | Strained |
| Scalding | Slippery | Strait |
| Scaleless | Slippy | Straitlaced |
| Scalelike | Slipshod | Stranded |
| Scalene | Slithery | Strange |
| Scaley | Slivery | Strapless |
| Scalic | Sloped | Straplike |
| Scalloped | Sloping | Strategic |
| Scaly | Slopped | Strategical |
| Scandalous | Sloppy | Stratified |
| Scandent | Sloshed | Stravinskian |
| Scandinavian | Slothful | Stravinskyan |
| Scant | Slouchy | Straw |
| Scanty | Sloughy | Stray |
| Scaphoid | Slovakian | Straying |
| Scapose | Slovenian | Streaked |
| Scapular | Slovenly | Streaky |
| Scarce | Slow | Streamlined |
| Scarecrowish | Slowgoing | Street |
| Scared | Slubbed | Streetwise |
| Scarlet | Sluggish | Strenuous |
| Scarred | Slumberous | Strep |
| Scary | Slumbery | Streptococcal |
| Scathing | Slumbrous | Streptococcic |
| Scatological | Slummy | Stressed |
| Scattered | Slushy | Stressful |
| Scattershot | Sly | Stretch |
| Scatty | Small | Stretchable |
| Scenic | Smallish | Stretched |
| Scented | Smarmy | Stretchy |
| Scentless | Smart | Striate |
| Sceptered | Smashing | Strict |
| Sceptical | Smeared | Strident |
| Sceptred | Smelly | Strikebound |
| Scheduled | Smiling | Striking |
| Schematic | Smitten | Stringent |
| Schismatic | Smoggy | Stringy |
| Schismatical | Smoked | Striped |
| Schizoid | Smokeless | Stripy |
| Schizophrenic | Smoking | Strong |
| Schmaltzy | Smoky | Stroppy |
| Schmalzy | Smoldering | Structural |
| Scholarly | Smooth | Struggling |
| Scholastic | Smoothbore | Strung |
| Schoolboyish | Smoothed | Stubbled |
| Schoolgirlish | Smoothened | Stubbly |
| Schoolwide | Smothering | Stubborn |
| Sciatic | Smudged | Stubby |
| Scientific | Smudgy | Stuck |
| Scintillant | Smug | Studded |
| Scintillating | Smutty | Studied |
| Sciolistic | Snafu | Studious |
| Sclerosed | Snakelike | Stuffed |
| Sclerotic | Snaky | Stuffy |
| Scopal | Snapping | Stumbling |
| Scorbutic | Snappish | Stumpy |
| Scorching | Snappy | Stunned |
| Scoreless | Snarling | Stunning |
| Scornful | Snarly | Stunted |
| Scotch | Snazzy | Stupendous |
| Scotomatous | Sneak | Stupid |
| Scots | Sneaking | Stuporous |
| Scottish | Sneaky | Sturdy |
| Scoundrelly | Sneering | Stuttering |
| Scrabbled | Sneezy | Stygian |
| Scrabbly | Snide | Styleless |
| Scraggly | Sniffly | Stylised |
| Scraggy | Sniffy | Stylish |
| Scrappy | Snippy | Stylistic |
| Scratched | Snobbish | Stylized |
| Scratchy | Snobby | Styptic |
| Scrawny | Snoopy | Suasible |
| Screaky | Snooty | Suave |
| Screaming | Snoring | Subacid |
| Screeching | Snorty | Subacute |
| Screechy | Snotty | Subalpine |
| Screwball | Snowbound | Subaltern |
| Screwy | Snowy | Subaquatic |
| Scribbled | Snub | Subaqueous |
| Scrimpy | Snuff | Subarctic |
| Scrimy | Snuffling | Subartesian |
| Scriptural | Snuffly | Subatomic |
| Scrivened | Snug | Subclavian |
| Scrofulous | Snugly | Subclinical |
| Scrotal | Soaked | Subconscious |
| Scrub | Soaking | Subcortical |
| Scrubbed | SoakingWet | Subcutaneous |
| Scrubby | Soapy | Subduable |
| Scruffy | Soaring | Subdued |
| Scrumptious | Sobering | Subdural |
| Scrupulous | Sobersided | Subfusc |
| Sculpted | Sociable | Subgross |
| Sculptural | Social | Subhuman |
| Sculpturesque | Socialised | Subjacent |
| Scummy | Socialist | Subject |
| Scurfy | Socialistic | Subjective |
| Scurrilous | Societal | Subjugable |
| Scurvy | Sociological | Subjunctive |
| Scythian | Sociopathic | Sublimate |
| Sea | Socratic | Sublimated |
| Seaborne | Sodden | Sublime |
| Seafaring | Sodding | Sublimed |
| Seagirt | Soft | Subliminal |
| Seagoing | Softheaded | Sublingual |
| Sealed | Softhearted | Subliterary |
| Seamanlike | Softish | Sublittoral |
| Seamanly | Soggy | Sublunar |
| Seamed | Soigne | Sublunary |
| Seamless | Soignee | Submarine |
| Seamy | Solanaceous | Submergible |
| Sear | Solar | Submersed |
| Searching | Soldierlike | Submersible |
| Seared | Soldierly | Submissive |
| Searing | Sole | Subnormal |
| Seasick | Soled | Subocean |
| Seasonable | Soleless | Suboceanic |
| Seasonal | Solemn | Subocular |
| Seasoned | Solicitous | Suborbital |
| Seaward | Solid | Subordinate |
| Seaworthy | Solitary | Subordinated |
| Sebaceous | Solo | Subordinating |
| Secluded | Solomonic | Subordinative |
| Second | Soluble | Subscript |
| Secondary | Solvable | Subsequent |
| Secondhand | Solvent | Subservient |
| Secret | Somali | Subsidiary |
| Secretarial | Somalian | Subsidised |
| Secretive | Somatic | Subsonic |
| Secretory | Somatogenetic | Substandard |
| Sectarian | Somatogenic | Substantial |
| Sectional | Somatosensory | Substantiated |
| Sectorial | Sombre | Substantiative |
| Secular | Some | Substantival |
| Secure | Sometime | Substantive |
| Secured | Somniferous | Substitutable |
| Sedate | Somnific | Substitute |
| Sedative | Somnolent | Subsurface |
| Sedentary | Sonant | Subterminal |
| Sedgelike | Songful | Subterranean |
| Sedgy | Songlike | Subterraneous |
| Sedimentary | Sonic | Subtitled |
| Seditious | Sonly | Subtle |
| Seductive | Sonorous | Subtractive |
| Sedulous | Sonsie | Subtropic |
| Seeable | Sonsy | Subtropical |
| Seedless | Soothed | Suburban |
| Seedy | Soothing | Suburbanised |
| Seeing | Sophistic | Suburbanized |
| Seeming | Sophistical | Subversive |
| Seemly | Sophisticated | Successful |
| Seething | Sophomore | Successive |
| Segmental | Soporiferous | Succinct |
| Seismal | Soporific | Succinic |
| Seismic | Soppy | Succulent |
| Seismologic | Sopranino | Such |
| Seismological | Soprano | Suchlike |
| Select | Sorbed | Suctorial |
| Selected | Sorbefacient | Sudanese |
| Selective | Sordid | Sudden |
| Selfish | Sore | Sudorific |
| Selfless | Sororal | Sudsy |
| Selfsame | Sorrel | Suety |
| Seljuk | Sorrowful | Sufferable |
| Sellable | Sorrowing | Suffering |
| Semantic | Sorry | Sufficient |
| Semestral | Soteriological | Suffocative |
| Semestrial | Sotho | Suffrutescent |
| Semiabstract | Sottish | Suffusive |
| Semiannual | Soughing | Sufi |
| Semiaquatic | Soulful | Sugarless |
| Semiarid | Soulless | Sugary |
| Semiautomatic | Sound | Suggestible |
| Semicentenary | Soundable | Suggestive |
| Semicentennial | Sounding | Suicidal |
| Semicomatose | Soundless | Suitable |
| Semiconducting | Soundproof | Sulcate |
| Semiconductive | Soupy | Sulfuretted |
| Semidark | Sour | Sulfuric |
| Semidetached | Soured | Sulfurized |
| Semiempirical | Sourish | Sulfurous |
| Semiformal | Soused | Sulky |
| Semihard | South | Sullen |
| Semiliquid | Southbound | Sulphuretted |
| Semiliterate | Southeast | Sulphuric |
| Semilunar | Southeastern | Sulphurous |
| Semimonthly | Southeastward | Sultry |
| Seminal | Southerly | Sumatran |
| Seminiferous | Southern | Sumerian |
| Seminude | Southernmost | Summary |
| Semiopaque | Southmost | Summational |
| Semiotic | Southward | Summative |
| Semiotical | Southwest | Summery |
| Semiparasitic | Southwesterly | Sumptuary |
| Semipermanent | Southwestern | Sumptuous |
| Semipermeable | Southwestward | Sunbaked |
| Semipolitical | Sovereign | Sunburned |
| Semiprivate | Soviet | Sunburnt |
| Semipublic | Sown | Sundried |
| Semirigid | Sozzled | Sundry |
| Semiskilled | Spacey | Sunken |
| Semisoft | Spacial | Sunless |
| Semisolid | Spaciotemporal | Sunny |
| Semisweet | Spacious | Sunrise |
| Semisynthetic | Spacy | Sunset |
| Semite | Spangled | Sunstruck |
| Semiterrestrial | Spangly | Suntanned |
| Semitic | Spanish | Super |
| Semitransparent | Spare | Superable |
| Semitropic | Sparing | Superabundant |
| Semitropical | Sparkling | Superannuated |
| Semiweekly | Sparkly | Superb |
| Sempiternal | Sparse | Supercharged |
| Senecan | Spartan | Supercilious |
| Senegalese | Spasmodic | Supercritical |
| Senescent | Spastic | Supererogatory |
| Senile | Spatial | Superfatted |
| Senior | Spatiotemporal | Superficial |
| Sensate | Spattered | Superfine |
| Sensational | Spatulate | Superfluous |
| Sensationalistic | Spavined | Superhuman |
| Senseless | Spayed | Superincumbent |
| Sensible | Speakable | Superior |
| Sensitised | Speaking | Superjacent |
| Sensitising | Special | Superlative |
| Sensitive | Specialised | Superlunar |
| Sensorial | Specialist | Superlunary |
| Sensorimotor | Specialistic | Supernal |
| Sensorineural | Specialized | Supernatant |
| Sensory | Specifiable | Supernatural |
| Sensual | Specific | Supernaturalist |
| Sensuous | Specious | Supernaturalistic |
| Sentential | Specked | Supernormal |
| Sententious | Speckled | Supernumerary |
| Sentient | Speckless | Superordinate |
| Sentimental | Spectacled | Superpatriotic |
| Sepaline | Spectacular | Superposable |
| Sepaloid | Spectral | Supersaturated |
| Separable | Spectrographic | Superscript |
| Separate | Spectrometric | Supersensitised |
| Separated | Specular | Supersensitive |
| Separatist | Speculative | Supersensitized |
| Separative | Speechless | Supersonic |
| Septal | Speedy | Superstitious |
| Septate | Spellbinding | Supervisory |
| Septic | Spellbound | Supine |
| Septicemic | Spendable | Supperless |
| Septrional | Spendthrift | Supple |
| Septuple | Spent | Supplemental |
| Sepulchral | Spermatic | Supplementary |
| Sequent | Spermicidal | Suppliant |
| Sequential | Spermous | Supplicant |
| Sequined | Spheric | Supplicatory |
| Seraphic | Spherical | Supportable |
| Seraphical | Sphingine | Supporting |
| Serbian | Spic | Supportive |
| Sere | Spicate | Supposable |
| Serene | Spick | Supposed |
| Serflike | Spicy | Suppositional |
| Serial | Spiderlike | Suppositious |
| Sericeous | Spiderly | Supposititious |
| Sericultural | Spidery | Suppressive |
| Seriocomic | Spiffing | Suppurative |
| Seriocomical | Spiffy | Supranational |
| Serious | Spikelike | Supranormal |
| Serologic | Spiky | Supraocular |
| Serological | Spinal | Supraorbital |
| Serous | Spindly | Suprasegmental |
| Serpentine | Spineless | Supreme |
| Serrate | Spinnable | Surd |
| Serrated | Spinnbar | Sure |
| Serried | Spinose | Surefooted |
| Serrulate | Spinous | Surface |
| Serviceable | Spiny | Surficial |
| Servile | Spiral | Surgical |
| Servo | Spiraled | Surly |
| Servomechanical | Spiraling | Surmisable |
| Sesquipedalian | Spirant | Surmountable |
| Sessile | Spirited | Surpassing |
| Set | Spiritless | Surpliced |
| Setaceous | Spiritous | Surplus |
| Setose | Spiritual | Surprised |
| Settled | Spiritualist | Surprising |
| Seven | Spiritualistic | Surreal |
| Sevenfold | Spirituous | Surrealistic |
| Seventeen | Spiteful | Surreptitious |
| Seventeenth | Splanchnic | Surrogate |
| Seventh | Splashing | Surrounded |
| Seventieth | Splashy | Surrounding |
| Seventy | Splattered | Survivable |
| Severable | Splay | Susceptible |
| Several | Splayfoot | Suspect |
| Severe | Splayfooted | Suspected |
| Sexagenarian | Splendid | Suspensive |
| Sexagesimal | Splendiferous | Suspicious |
| Sexist | Splenetic | Sustainable |
| Sexless | Splenic | Sustained |
| Sextuple | Splintered | Sustentacular |
| Sexual | Splinterless | Susurrant |
| Sexy | Splinterproof | Susurrous |
| Seychellois | Splintery | Svelte |
| Shabby | Split | Swaggering |
| Shaded | Splitting | Swampy |
| Shadowed | Splotched | Swank |
| Shadowy | Spoilable | Swanky |
| Shady | Spoiled | Swart |
| Shagged | Spoken | Swarthy |
| Shaggy | Spondaic | Swashbuckling |
| Shakable | Spongelike | Swayback |
| Shakeable | Spongy | Swaybacked |
| Shakedown | Spontaneous | Swaying |
| Shaky | Spooky | Swazi |
| Shallow | Sporadic | Sweaty |
| Sham | Sporogenous | Swedish |
| Shamanist | Sporting | Sweeping |
| Shamanistic | Sportive | Sweet |
| Shambolic | Sportsmanlike | Sweetheart |
| Shameful | Sporty | Sweetish |
| Shameless | Spotless | Swell |
| Shaped | Spotted | Swelled |
| Shapeless | Spotty | Sweltering |
| Shapely | Spousal | Sweltry |
| Sharp | Sprawling | Sweptback |
| Sharpened | Sprawly | Sweptwing |
| Shattered | Spread | Swift |
| Shattering | Sprigged | Swimming |
| Shaven | Sprightly | Swingeing |
| Shavian | Springless | Swinging |
| Shed | Springlike | Swingy |
| Sheepish | Springy | Swinish |
| Sheeplike | Sprite | Swish |
| Sheer | Spruce | Swishing |
| Sheetlike | Spry | Swishy |
| Shelflike | Spumy | Swiss |
| Shelfy | Spurious | Swollen |
| Shellproof | Squab | Swooning |
| Sheltered | Squabby | Swooping |
| Shelvy | Squalid | Swordlike |
| Shifting | Squally | Sybaritic |
| Shiftless | Squamulose | Sycophantic |
| Shifty | Squandered | Syllabic |
| Shimmering | Square | Syllabled |
| Shimmery | Squared | Syllogistic |
| Shingly | Squarish | Sylvan |
| Shining | Squashed | Symbiotic |
| Shinto | Squashy | Symbolic |
| Shintoist | Squat | Symbolical |
| Shintoistic | Squatting | Symmetric |
| Shiny | Squatty | Symmetrical |
| Shipboard | Squawking | Sympathetic |
| Shipshape | Squawky | Sympatric |
| Shirty | Squeaking | Sympetalous |
| Shivering | Squeaky | Symphonic |
| Shivery | Squealing | Symphonious |
| Shoaly | Squeamish | Symptomatic |
| Shockable | Squeezable | Symptomless |
| Shocked | Squiffy | Synaesthetic |
| Shocking | Squiggly | Synaptic |
| Shod | Squinched | Syncarpous |
| Shodden | Squint | Synchronal |
| Shoddy | Squinting | Synchronic |
| Shoed | Squinty | Synchronous |
| Shoeless | Squirming | Synclinal |
| Shona | Squirrelly | Syncopated |
| Shopsoiled | Squishy | Syncretic |
| Shopworn | Stabilised | Syncretical |
| Shoreward | Stabilising | Syncretistic |
| Short | Stable | Syndetic |
| Shorthand | Staccato | Synecdochic |
| Shortish | Stackable | Synergetic |
| Shortsighted | Stacked | Synergistic |
| Shot | Stagey | Synesthetic |
| Showery | Stagflationary | Synoecious |
| Showy | Staggering | Synoicous |
| Shredded | Stagnant | Synonymous |
| Shrewd | Stagy | Synoptic |
| Shrewish | Staid | Synoptical |
| Shrieking | Stainable | Synovial |
| Shrill | Stained | Synsemantic |
| Shrimpy | Stainless | Syntactic |
| Shrinkable | Stale | Syntactical |
| Shriveled | Stalemated | Syntagmatic |
| Shrubby | Stalinist | Synthetic |
| Shrunken | Stalkless | Synthetical |
| Shuddery | Stalwart | Syrian |
| Shuha | Staminate | Syrupy |
| Shut | Stanch | Systematic |
| Shuttered | Standard | Systemic |
| Shy | Standby | Systolic |
| Siamese | Standing |
Positive Adjectives That Start with S
To inspire or encourage people around you, it is always a good idea to use positive adjectives that start with S when describing someone or something.
| Saccharine | Showy | Staid |
| Sacred | Significant | Standard |
| Safe | Simplified | Standing |
| Saintly | Sincere | Stately |
| Salaried | Sisterly | Steadfast |
| Salvageable | Sizable | Stimulating |
| Salvaged | Skilled | Straight |
| Sanctified | Skillful | Strategic |
| Sane | Skinny | Stunning |
| Sanitary | Slender | Sturdy |
| Sapient | Smart | Stylish |
| Satisfactory | Smarter | Suave |
| Savable | Smartest | Sublime |
| Savant | Smiling | Substantiated |
| Scenic | Smokeless | Successful |
| Scented | Snappy | Sufficient |
| Scheduled | Soaring | Suitable |
| Schematic | Social | Super |
| Scholarly | Socratic | Superb |
| Scientific | Soft | Superior |
| Scintillating | Softening | Supple |
| Scrumptious | Soothed | Supreme |
| Seamless | Soothing | Sure |
| Secure | Spacious | Survivable |
| Select | Sparkling | Sustainable |
| Selected | Special | Swanky |
| Senior | Specialist | Sweet |
| Sensational | Specific | Swift |
| Serious | Spectacular | Symmetrical |
| Sharp | Speedy | Sympathetic |
| Sharpened | Spirited | Systematic |
| Sheer | Spiritual | Shiny |
| Shining | Splendid | Stable |
Negative Adjectives That Start with S
The section below contains a list of negative adjectives starting with S. We hope you will find it beneficial in your journey to improve your vocabulary.
| Sad | Shallow | Spasmodic |
| Saddened | Sham | Spastic |
| Salty | Shameful | Spattered |
| Sanctimonious | Sheepish | Spineless |
| Sarcastic | Showy | Spiteful |
| Sardonic | Shrieking | Splattered |
| Sassy | Shrill | Splintered |
| Savage | Sick | Spoiled |
| Scalding | Sickened | Squirrelly |
| Scaly | Sickening | Stagnant |
| Scamp | Sickly | Stale |
| Scandalous | Sidelined | Stark |
| Scant | Sinister | Stereotyped |
| Scanty | Skeptical | Stern |
| Scared | Sketchy | Stiff |
| Scarred | Skittish | Stilted |
| Scary | Slimy | Stinging |
| Scathing | Sloppy | Stingy |
| Scorching | Slow | Straggly |
| Scornful | Sluggish | Stranded |
| Scraggly | Smelly | Stressful |
| Scratched | Smoggy | Strict |
| Scratchy | Smudged | Stubby |
| Scrawny | Snarling | Stumbling |
| Screaming | Sneaky | Stunned |
| Scruffy | Snide | Stuttering |
| Scummy | Snobbish | Subdued |
| Seditious | Snooty | Submissive |
| Seedy | Snoring | Subordinate |
| Selfish | Soggy | Subservient |
| Senseless | Sole | Subversive |
| Shabbier | Sore | Sullen |
| Shabbiest | Sorry | Sparse |
| Shabby |
Descriptive Adjectives That Start with S
Descriptive words that start with S are used commonly in daily life. They help us communicate more freely and fluently. That’s why we have gathered some of them for you below.
| Sabbatical | Seaside | Serving |
| Sacred | Seasoned | Sessional |
| Saddled | Seated | Set |
| Sage | Seatless | Seven |
| Sallowish | Seaworthy | Seventh |
| Salmon | Secret | Sexual |
| Samaritan | Secretarial | Shady |
| Samoan | Secretory | Sheepish |
| Sanded | Sedative | Shelled |
| Sandy | Sedentary | Shifty |
| Sapphire | Seedy | Shocking |
| Sappy | Seemly | Shooting |
| Satellite | Segmented | Shrill |
| Satin | Segregated | Shuttered |
| Satire | Seldom | Shy |
| Savage | Select | Sided |
| Savant | Self-evident | Sighted |
| Savory | Senile | Signatory |
| Scented | Senior | Significant |
| Scotch | Senseful | Silly |
| Scrubbed | Sensual | Silver |
| Seabound | Sentient | Single |
| Seagoing | Septic | Sinless |
| Seared | Sequestered | Sizable |
| Seasick | Serious | Smirking |
Adjectives That Start with S to Describe a Person
Whether you’re describing yourself or someone else, using some of these adjectives that start with S to describe a person can be a big help. Let’s stroll down.
| Same | Sickening | Sparse |
| Sardinian | Sickly | Spent |
| Satanic | Silent | Splendid |
| Scarce | Simple | Spotless |
| Scarred | Sinful | Spry |
| Scary | Sinless | Stable |
| Scholarly | Sitting | Startled |
| Scotch | Six | Stately |
| Scottish | Sixty | Statuesque |
| Scratched | Sizable | Still |
| Scratchy | Skanky | Stirring |
| Screaming | Skinny | Stocky |
| Scruffy | Slender | Stout |
| Sculptured | Slight | Straight |
| Seated | Slim | Strong |
| Secular | Sloppy | Stung |
| Sedate | Slothful | Stunned |
| Seedy | Slovakian | Stupid |
| Senegalese | Slovenly | Sturdy |
| Senile | Slow | Substantial |
| Senior | Small | Superior |
| Sensational | Smart | Supple |
| Sentient | Smiling | Sure |
| Separated | Smooth | Surly |
| Serbian | Snug | Surprising |
| Serviceable | Sober | Swazi |
| Shaky | Soft | Swedish |
| Shapely | Soldierly | Sweet |
| Sheltered | Solid | Swiss |
| Shocking | Somalian | Swollen |
| Short | Sophisticated | Sympathetic |
| Shuddering | Sore | Syrian |
| Sicilian | Sorry | Sparse |
| Sick | Spanish | Spent |
Adjectives That Start with S – Definitions and Examples
To have a thorough understanding of those adjectives starting with S, please review their definitions and examples below as well.
Sabahan: of or pertaining to Sabah or its people.
Sabbatarian: pertaining to the Sabbath and its observance.
– Looking back, though, he now thinks the Sabbatarian part of Sunday was dinner.
Sabbatic: of or relating to the Sabbath; sabbatical.
– There must have been a sabbatic air of comfort about the dining-room which was soothing.
Sabbatical: of or relating to the Sabbath; sabbatic.
– There was no pork served in the dining room, and from Friday sundown to Saturday sundown, the devout observed a sabbatical decorum.
Sabertoothed: having teeth that resemble sabers; toothed; saber-toothed.
– The researchers suggest other sabertoothed cats must have shared their kills with their injured companion.
Sabine: of or relating to or characteristic of the Sabines.
– Color smudges streak across it and display Princess Sabine’s chosen skin, hair, and eye color palette, and bodily proportions.
Sable: of a dark somewhat brownish black; natural; achromatic.
– Similarly, the gene for sable color was linked with the gene that specified the shape of a wing.
Saccadic: of or related to the rapid movement of the eyes between points of fixation.
– Called smooth pursuit, this eye motion is different from saccadic motion, in which we rapidly shift our eyes to, say, skim lines of text or scan a crowd.
Saccharine: overly sweet; colying; syrupy.
– At once the hasira leaf’s saccharine scent filled the space between them.
Sacculate: formed with or having saclike expansions; sccaulated.
– This consists in a bulging forward of the cornea at a given point by the sacculate yielding and distention of its coats, and it may be either transparent or opaque and vascular.
Sacculated: formed with or having saclike expansions; sacculate.
– On viewing such an artery held to the light, the sacculated spots are seen to be much thinner than the contiguous normal artery.
Sacerdotal: associated with the priesthood or priests; hieratic; priestly.
– That sacerdotal view has altered in recent years.
Saclike: shaped like a pouch; bursiform; concave.
– The stomach is a saclike organ that secretes gastric digestive juices.
Sacral: of or relating to sacred rites; sacred.
– Flocks of scarlet-orange flamingos blazing like sacral pyrotechnics rise from the lagoons.
Sacramental: of or relating to or involving a sacrament.
– He made his act of contrition and listened as Father Mulrooney gave his sacramental absolution.
Sacred: made, declared, or believed to be holy; devoted to a deity or some religious ceremony or use; holy; sanctified.
– It was not pleasant, but I could feel its sacred power
Sacrificeable: may be deliberately sacrificed to achieve an objective; expendable.
– In Chile, Balcázar said, certain territories and natural environments have always been “sacrificeable” in the name of progress.
Sacrificial: used in or connected with a sacrifice.
– The ‘pure’ blood of Christ, the Holy Grail containing it, and the sacrificial significance of Good Friday are all presented as both real and miraculous.
Sacrilegious: grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred; profane; irreverent.
– grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred
Sacrosanct: must be kept sacred; inviolate; sacred.
– Fugacious, tourbillion, moiety, repugn, sacrosanct, censure, morass, El Dorado, and turpitude.
Sad: experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness; bittersweet; doleful.
– She conducted her house like a cathedral dedicated to a sad but erect Priapus.
Sadducean: of or relating to the Sadducees.
– On the other hand, Sadducean control was notoriously and infamously corrupt.
Sadistic: deriving pleasure from inflicting pain on another.
– Some kapos were insane, some were sadistic, and some were not so bad.
Safe: free from danger or the risk of harm; harmless; faol-safe.
– I felt strangely safe, isolated, alone in the stillness of dusk turning to night.
Sagacious: skillful in statecraft or management; politic.
– I have found that the elderly can be either deranged or sagacious.
Sage: of the gray-green color of sage leaves; sage-green; chromatic.
– It could only be a horrible thing that would cause the Council to revoke a sage’s status.
Sagittal: located in a plane that is parallel to the central plane of the sagittal suture; mesial.
– That day in the cave, she slid her finger beneath the dirt and felt a large sagittal crest on the top of the skull.
Sagittate: (of a leaf shape) like an arrow head without flaring base lobes; simple; arrow-shaped.
– Leaves more or less sagittate; spathe green Arrow Arum, Peltandra virginica.
Sagittiform: (of a leaf shape) like an arrow head without flaring base lobes; unsubdivied; Sagittate.
Saharan: of or relating to or located in the Sahara Desert.
– In that period, Saharans began to tend cattle and make pottery, then to keep sheep and goats, and they may also have been starting to domesticate sorghum and millet.
Sainted: marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint; beatific; good.
– I don’t want to hear her sainted name cross your decadent lips.
Saintlike: marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint; good; angelic.
– Indeed, Ms. Day often reacted negatively when people praised her as saintlike.
Saintly: marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint; beatific; sainted.
– Nailer waited, hoping for some mention of the saintly Captain Sung.
Salable: capable of being sold; fit for sale; seeable; marketable.
– Her work seemed more popular — and salable — outside the New York art world.
Salacious: characterized by lust; lustful; sexy.
– The pictures morph into a dozen lurid scenes, and capture the salacious rumors circulating the kingdom this week.
Salaried: for which money is paid; paying; paid.
– Seaborg had accepted an appointment at Berkeley as a full professor, with the authority to hire four assistant and associate professors and twelve salaried graduate fellows.
Saleable: capable of being sold; fit for sale; sabale; sellable.
– It would have been a highly saleable version of preaching to the converted.
Salient: having a quality that thrusts itself into attention; outstanding; prominent.
– In the offices around him, official readers go through thick reports, boiling the information down to the salient paragraph.
Salientian: relating to frogs and toads; anuran; batrachian.
– Unfortunately, this aspect of salientian population ecology has received no intensive study.
Saliferous: containing or yielding salt; Salty.
– He was the owner of extensive salt mines on the further side of the mountain, which contains an illimitable deposit of the saliferous substance.
Saline: containing salt; salty.
– The injection was probably liquid ammonia or saline.
Salivary: of or relating to saliva.
– A salivary gland in front of Garfield’s right ear swelled.
Sallow: unhealthy looking; sickey; unhealthy.
– In one of the windows he caught a glimpse of a sallow face with sly, slanting eyes; but it vanished at once.
Saltish: somewhat salty; salty.
– Tea made with saltish water, and salt sheep’s milk, have been the only drawbacks of the six days’ march.
Saltlike: resembling a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal; alkalic; alkaline.
– There are sea foam green swirls, chalky gray dust and cubed, saltlike deposits.
Salty: containing or filled with salt; briny; saline.
– He rubbed salty cabbage soup into the wounds as a disinfectant.
Salubrious: promoting health; healthful; good for you; healthy.
– A fine mist of pulverized concrete seems to cover everything, and the once salubrious climate is overwhelmed by smog.
Salutary: tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health; good; healthful.
– All of this is a salutary lesson in the way tottering edifices of theology can be built on a small textual misunderstanding.
Salvadoran: of or relating to or characteristic of El Salvador or its people; salvadoran.
– In October, two Salvadoran youths on top of a train were electrocuted by a high-tension wire.
Salvadorean: of or relating to or characteristic of El Salvador or its people; salvadoran.
– The menu is organized well enough, but the abundance of choices will paralyze indecisive eaters who want to try everything under the Salvadorean sun.
Salvageable: capable of being saved from ruin.; saved.
– Thomas asked, surprised at hearing his voice for the first time in his salvageable memory.
Salverform: of or concerning a gamopetalous that has a slender tube and an abruptly expanded tip; peted; petalled.
– Calyx 5-parted; corolla salverform, its 5 lobes spreading; 5 stamens; 1 pistil.
Salvific: pertaining to the power of salvation or redemption.
– Running for office while at the intersection of many identities is not salvific.
Samoan: of or relating to Samoa or its people or language or culture.
– He looked like one of the new Samoan kids.
Sanative: tending to cure or restore to health; alterative; healing.
– We look upon them as simple acts of the constitution—sanative in their nature.
Sanctimonious: excessively or hypocritically pious; pharisaic; pietistic.
– He could picture the fiery and malicious exhilaration with which they had made their wreckage, and their sanctimonious, ruthless sense of right and dedication.
Sanctionative: implying sanction or serving to sanction; sanctioning; enabling.
Sandaled: shod with sandals; sandalled; shod.
– She watched one of Diko’s yellow eyes flick in her direction before he suddenly lunged, jaws snapping at Bi Mutunga’s sandaled feet.
Sandalled: shod with sandals; sandaled; shod.
– I could see their sandalled feet, the hems of their clothes
Sandlike: resembling or containing or abounding in sand; or growing in sandy areas; sandy; arenaceous.
– It was filled with some kind of heavy, sandlike stuff which yielded wherever you touched it.
Sandpapery: having the abrasive texture of sandpaper; rough; unsmoot.
– The roof floor was not the typical concrete, sandpapery surface that covered most roofs in New York City.
Sandy: resembling or containing or abounding in sand; or growing in sandy areas; sandlike.
– A pity he s the prince, and not the one with the wide shoulders and the sandy hair
Sane: mentally healthy; free from mental disorder; rotational; lucid.
– He made plans to keep himself sane, built castles of hope in the dark.
Sanguinary: accompanied by bloodshed; butcherly; gory.
– However, I got dressed, darkly wiping my sanguinary face at intervals, and I said, “Can I help you?” and he said “No thankee,” and I said “Good afternoon,” and he said “Same to you.
Sanguine: confidently optimistic and cheerful; optimistic.
– Durham whites were, as a group, far less sanguine about King and his impending North Carolina tour.
Sanguineous: accompanied by bloodshed; gory; bloody.
– Which is why when he pauses after unloading his guns, his pale face floating in the sanguineous dark, it looks as if he were emerging from a kind of womb: his metamorphosis is complete.
Sanious: of or resembling or characterized by ichor or sanies; ichorous.
– The skin assumes a macerated appearance, and is kept moist by the presence of a sanious discharge from the ulcerated surface.
Sanitary: free from filth and pathogens; healthful; hygienenic.
– Hollingsworth billed it as an overall guide to helping modern young housewives create a peaceful, optimistic, and sanitary household.
Sanitary: free from filth and pathogens; healthful; hygienenic.
– Most blacks did not have the resources to get away to more sanitary conditions.
Sanitized: made sanitary; sanitised.
– The network, horrified at Pollard, wrote up a sanitized transcript of the interview.
Sapid: full of flavor; flavourful; tasty.
– His meat is more sapid, and his skin more deliciously crispy, than any whole hog I’ve ever eaten.
Sapiens: of or relating to or characteristic of Homo sapiens.
– It’s relatively easy to agree that only Homo sapiens can speak about things that don’t really exist, and believe six impossible things before breakfast.
Sapient: acutely insightful and wise; wise; sagacious.
– Perhaps some mistake that all sapient races make
Sapiential: characterized by wisdom, especially the wisdom of God; wise.
Sapless: lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality; debile; frail.
– He appears a sapless, withered, wasted old creature
Saponaceous: resembling or having the qualities of soap; soapy
– Some of the stranger words that surfaced: “furbelow,” “phobotactic” and “saponaceous.
Saponified: converted into soap.
– It is saponified by alkalies, with reproduction of soluble gum.
Saporous: full of flavor; sapid; tasty.
Sapphic: a meter used by Sappho and named after her; rhythmic; rhythemical.
– The verse is written in an informal Sapphic quatrain, its stanzas sometimes impressionistic ‘scenes’ or vivid jottings.
Sapphire: of something having the color of a blue sapphire; chromatic.
– He had astonishingly blue eyes, like pale sapphires.
Sapphirine: made of or resembling sapphire.
– Ghosts—ghosts—the sapphirine air Teems with them even to the gleaming ends of the wild day-spring.
Sappy: effusively or insincerely emotional; bathetic; emotional.
– We talked idly, contentedly, maybe a little sappily.
Saprobic: living in or being an environment rich in organic matter but lacking oxygen.
Saprophagous: (of certain animals) feeding on dead or decaying animal matter; saprozoic; herbivorous.
Saprophytic: (of some plants or fungi) feeding on dead or decaying organic matter; herbivorous.
– The much more rapid spread of the hyphae up into the parts thus killed sufficiently indicates the fundamentally saprophytic character of such fungi.
Saprozoic: (of certain animals) feeding on dead or decaying animal matter; saprophagous; herbivorous.
Sarawakian: of or relating to Sarawak or its people.
– Delicious Sarawakian and Chinese dishes start at about 4 ringgit.
Sarcastic: expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds; critical; barbed.
– She was developing what Mom called a bit of a sarcastic streak.
Sarcoid: of or relating to or resembling flesh; fleshy.
Sarcolemmal: of or relating to the sarcolemma.
Sarcolemmic: of or relating to sarcolemma; sarcolemnous.
Sarcolemnous: of or relating to sarcolemma; sarcolemmic.
Sarcosomal: of or relating to sarcosomes.
Sardinian: of or relating to or characteristic of Sardinia or its people or its language.
– Then there was the classic Sardinian suckling pig, which had been roasting on a spit.
Sardonic: disdainfully or ironically humorous; scornful and mocking; sarcastic.
– Annoyance flashed across Artemis’s features, only to be replaced by his customary sardonic grin
Sartorial: of or relating to a tailor or to tailoring.
– My little sartorially challenged slip of a girl, we are ateliers. We dress the world itself. I embroider the earth with ice and frost, the most delicate silk in the world.
Sassy: improperly forward or bold; fresh; forward.
– They all knew what was meant if somebody said let’s camp at them cold sassy trees.
Satanic: of or relating to Satan.
– On one visit, he’ll ask for the Christian Bible; on others, the Satanic Bible.
Satellite: surrounding and dominated by a central authority or power; outer.
– They sent that four and a half minutes ago,” Martinez continued, “while looking at satellite data from nine minutes ago.
Satiable: capable of being sated; satisfiable; Satiate.
– In general, however, commodities which minister to easily satiable wants are ill-adapted for money.
Satiate: supplied (especially fed) to satisfaction; satisfied; jaded.
– Her belly button protruded from her satiated satin stomach like a domed monument on a hill.
Satiated: supplied (especially fed) to satisfaction; jaded; satiate.
– Her belly button protruded from her satiated satin stomach like a domed monument on a hill.
Satin: a smooth fabric of silk or rayon; has a glossy face and a dull back.
– He swung back his white satin Inverness cape to get some money.
Satiny: having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; silken; bright.
– She’s wearing high heels, new ones, and a green satiny dress that clutches her hips and dips down to show the top of her breasts.
Satiric: exposing human folly to ridicule; satirical; sartscic.
– He said he was mostly interested in the satiric rather than the arty side of painting.
Satirical: exposing human folly to ridicule; satric; sarcastic.
– They closed the door behind them with exaggerated, perhaps even satirical, care, and at the moment they released the handle Emily picked up her spoon and the company followed her.
Satisfactory: giving satisfaction; acceptable; equal.
– The rest of Harry’s Christmas presents were far more satisfactory.
Satisfiable: capable of being sated; satiable; satiate.
– With the understanding of a sphere of atoms, however, we perceive, at once, a satisfiable tendency to union.
Satisfied: allayed; slaked; mitigated.
– She took a cautious step or two and seemed more or less satisfied.
Satisfying: providing abundant nourishment; solid; square.
– It’s very tedious and overwhelming, but satisfying at the same time
Saturated: (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black; pure; vivid.
– Staring at the brown water stain on the ceiling, I counted the droplets plunking from the saturated plaster.
Saturnine: showing a brooding ill humor; dark; sullen.
– Sour and saturnine, with a maimed hand, Hungerford had been company paymaster for a time, until the Tattered Prince had caught him stealing from the coffers and removed three of his fingers.
Satyric: of or relating to or having the characteristics of a satyr; satyrical.
– The Cyclops of Euripides is the only extant specimen of a satyric drama.
Satyrical: exposing human folly to ridicule; satric.
– Hence the 2004 headline in the satirical newspaper The Onion on the passing of postmodernism’s leading light: Jacques Derrida “Dies.
Saucy: improperly forward or bold; forward; wise.
– Some women wear slightly saucier evening gowns, with bare shoulders here and there, but long kid-leather gloves ensure they don’t have more than a few inches of epidermis exposed.
Saudi: of or relating to Saudi Arabia or its people; Saudi-Arbian.
– With my mother’s blessings for his journey, my father set out to visit Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Nasser of Egypt, Prince Faisal of Saudi Arabia, and more.
Saurian: of or relating to lizards; lacertillan.
– Some of its thousand bellowing saurians got used to moseying around the Mission Road neighborhood when floodwaters rose high enough to float them free.
Saute: fried quickly in a little fat; sauteed; cooked.
– He learned how to saute a fish so that it looked like a work of art.
Sauteed: fried quickly in a little fat; saute; cooked.
– He had declined the sauteed new greens, the tender and expensive leaves of bean plants plucked before the sprouts turn into beans.
Savage: without civilizing influences; barbarian; noncivilised.
– It was ever my lord husband’s wish to grant sanctuary to these savage peoples. So long as they keep the king’s peace and the king’s laws, they are welcome in our realm.
Saved: rescued; especially from the power and consequences of sin; blest; blessed.
– For all his selfishness and cruelty, Kaz was still the boy who had saved her.
Saving: characterized by thriftiness; thrifty.
– This business of saving souls had no ethics; every human relationship was shamelessly exploited.
Savorless: lacking taste or flavor or tang; blad; flat.
– But to Stewart the single cigar he had kept for himself seemed strangely savorless.
Savory: pleasing to the sense of taste; savory; tasty.
– You must know,” said my sister, rising, “it’s a pie; a savory pork pie.
Savourless: lacking taste or flavor or tang; bland; vapid.
– True, generous feeling is made small account of by some, but here were two natures rendered, the one intolerably acrid, the other despicably savourless for the want of it.
Savoury: pleasing to the sense of taste; savory; appetizing.
– They were savoury and delicate to the palate, neither too sweet nor too salty.
Savvy: marked by practical hardheaded intelligence; smart; shrewd.
– The old man’s backwoods savvy, his affinity for the wilderness, left a deep impression on the boy.
Saxatile: growing on or living among rocks; saxicoline; saxicolous.
– Alyssum saxatile, with its sheet of gold, and the dear forget-me-nots, both grow well beneath the tulips.
Saxicoline: growing on or living among rocks; saxatile; saxicolous.
Saxicolous: growing on or living among rocks; saxatile; saxicolous.
– Saxicolous, growing on rock A rock climber, known only as Nicholas, Fell and landed on something saxicolous.
Saxon: of or relating to or characteristic of the early Saxons or Anglo-Saxons and their descendents (especially the English or Lowland Scots) and their language.
– The theory of the Anglo Saxon home became so warped that it never quite recovered.
Scabby: covered with scabs; rough; unsmooth.
– They had hair the color of cardboard in splotches over parts of their bodies, but mostly they were just yellow and scabby skinned.
Scabrous: rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf; scaly; scurfy.
– A man with scabrous lesions spanning his cheeks stepped forward.
Scalable: capable of being scaled; possible to scale; ascendable; claimable.
– He kept them in a Converse shoe box under his bed along with a list of scalable targets around Stokum that we planned to hit once one of us had a license and some wheels.
Scalar: of or relating to a musical scale.
– You can hear in it some scalar patterns familiar from tracks like “The Golden Fang.
Scaleless: destitute of scales; unarmoured.
– Salamanders are scaleless, but some secrete a toxic, sticky substance from glands in their tails to ward off predators.
Scalelike: reduced to a small appressed thing that resembles a scale; close.
– In the opening section breathless, ascending, scalelike motifs keep being cut short, only to start over.
Scalene: of a triangle having three sides of different lengths.
– Finally, the scalenes include the anterior scalene, middle scalene, and posterior scalene.
Scaley: having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles; scaly; armored.
– Some are meant to be creepy, but even the cute ones read a little scaley, and not just because they’re reptiles.
Scalic: of or related to a musical scale.
Scalloped: having a margin with rounded scallops; creanate; rough.
– The TV and the telephone were covered by pieces of yellow fabric with scalloped edges.
Scaly: having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles; scaley; scaley.
– She rolled up her denim sleeves, revealing that the skin of her arms was scaly and green.
Scandalous: giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation; shameful; immoral.
– It’s just his mom. And yeah, it will be supervised. I’m not that scandalous.
Scandent: used especially of plants; having a tendency to climb; ascending.
– Botanical Description.—A vigorous plant with scandent stem 2–4 meters long, the more recent growth woolly.
Scandinavian: of or relating to Scandinavia or its peoples or cultures; norse.
– Her parents were leaving on a seventeen-day Scandinavian cruise with all the aunts and uncles on her mother’s side.
Scant: barely sufficient or adequate; little; little or no.
– Companies with scant regard for the safety of future generations.
Scanty: small or insufficient in quantity or amount; meager; minimal.
– They paid whatever they could out of their scanty wages to their families.
Scaphoid: shaped like a boat; navicular; formed.
– Tatis underwent surgery to repair the scaphoid bone in his left wrist on March 16.
Scapose: resembling or consisting of a scape; having a bare leafless stalk growing directly from the ground; leafless.
– Petals yellow, with nectariferous pit and scale; carpels thin-walled, striated, in an oblong head; scapose, spread by runners.
Scapular: relating to or near the shoulder blade.
– I tore open my shirt and showed them the stringed scapular
Scarce: deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand; rare; tight.
– All summer prices climbed higher and higher and food got scarcer and scarcer.
Scarecrowish: resembling a scarecrow in being thin and ragged; lean; thin.
Scared: made afraid; frightened; afraid.
– I feel as scared and vulnerable as a plucked bird.
Scarlet: of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies; blood-red; chromatic.
– My bout with scarlet fever came the summer when I was eight, and I had all but forgotten it.
Scarred: blemished by injury or rough wear; marred; blemished.
– He handed the scarred man a packet of meat.
Scary: provoking fear or terror; chilling; alarming.
– There was something scary about watching an adult sleep.
Scathing: marked by harshly abusive criticism; scalding; critical.
– There were three more interviews after Taylor’s, each one just as bitter and scathing and gossip-filled.
Scatological: dealing pruriently with excrement and excretory functions; dirty.
– It turns out airports are a ripe ground for scatological tales of woe.
Scattered: lacking orderly continuity; confused; garbled.
– The black metal dissolved into a flock of birds—ravens, which scattered into the night.
Scattershot: covering a wide range in a haphazard way; undiscriminating; undiscriminating.
– His eyes are full of scattershot anger, his posture one of defensive bravado.
Scatty: lacking sense or discretion; foolish; rattlepated.
– I was expecting Andy, because of his fame, to be pretentious, but he was actually quite funny and scatty.
Scenic: of or relating to the stage or stage scenery; beautiful.
– The high point of each meeting was the day-long excursion to some scenic house or temple.
Scented: filled or impregnated with perfume; perfumed; fragrant.
– The house smelled like cigarettes and scented candles, a mixture that almost immediately made Toby want to puke again.
Scentless: emitting or holding no odor; inodorus; orderless.
– She shouldn’t emerge until dawn, especially since I spiked her tea with kheb leaf—a scentless, tasteless herb Pop used to help patients rest.
Sceptered: invested with legal power or official authority especially as symbolized by having a scepter; empowered; authorized.
– A queen of a sceptered isle that consisted only of a bird-filled bedroom.
Sceptical: marked by or given to doubt; doubting; distrustful.
– He seemed genuinely skeptical, perhaps because I wasn’t making more fuss.
Sceptred: invested with legal power or official authority especially as symbolized by having a scepter; secpceted; Sceptered.
– Even without Lithgow’s Churchill, The Crown looks set to ruffle feathers across this sceptred isle.
Scheduled: planned or scheduled for some certain time or times; regular.
– Although he was nervous, he had been convinced that he was going home back in February, when the first trial was scheduled.
Schematic: represented in simplified or symbolic form; conventional; formal.
– A number of studies support this schematic strategy.
Schismatic: of or relating to or involved in or characteristic of schism; schismatical.
– A small Trotskyist sect formed her, and she has remained schismatic ever since.
Schismatical: of or relating to or involved in or characteristic of schism; schismatic.
– The speaker then referred to the amicable relations sustained between the Holy See and schismatics of Protestant nations.
Schizoid: marked by withdrawal and inability to form close relationships; neurotic; psychoneurotic.
– Carla, in fact, says it’s a borderline schizoid response to traumatic cultural displacement.
Schizophrenic: suffering from some form of schizophrenia; insane.
– To some, such a regimen might seem simplistic or maddening, even schizophrenic.
Schmaltzy: effusively or insincerely emotional; emotional; soupy.
– He hated schmaltzy stuff like that, hated omens.
Schmalzy: effusively or insincerely emotional; bathetic; emotional.
– No schmaltzy music, no fog machines, none of that
Scholarly: characteristic of scholars or scholarship; critical; profound.
– On and off, he continued his efforts to attract scholarly interest.
Schoolboyish: befitting or characteristic of a young boy; boyish; young.
– That’s not because he’s some kind of debauched playboy, more that he’s got a cheeky schoolboyish attitude.
Schoolgirlish: befitting or characteristic of a young girl; girlish; young.
– James has in recent months been downright schoolgirlish in his public declarations of ardor.
Schoolwide: occurring or extending throughout a school; comprehensive; overarching.
– He is the subject of schoolwide speculation, and slight scandal, having once been married to Ms. Sagan, who teaches French.
Sciatic: of or relating to the ischium (or the part of the hipbone containing it).
– He used an electric current to stimulate an amphibian’s calf, then employed the galvanometer to measure how long it took the electrical current to run along the sciatic nerve.
Scientific: conforming with the principles or methods used in science; technolocal.
– We put our heads together and pondered, down in the underworld of the great scientific institute.
Scintillant: having brief brilliant points or flashes of light; fulgid; glinting.
– The twin yellow streams, scintillant, intersected, soaking me.
Scintillating: having brief brilliant points or flashes of light; bright; fulgid.
– A few stars shone, and their reflections shook and broke up, silver scintillating in the black water.
Sciolistic: showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish; dilettante; superficial.
– The Press, the Pulpit, and the Lyceum, with rare and brave exceptions, met the formidable array of Facts with which the work bristled, by sciolistic criticisms, bigoted denunciations, or timid, faint praise.
Sclerosed: relating to or having sclerosis; hardened; sclerotic.
– It is exceedingly difficult at times to affirm that an artery, the radial for example, is actually sclerosed.
Sclerotic: relating to or having sclerosis; hardened; sclerosed.
– There’s a popular sentiment that it’s just another sclerotic bureaucracy, a high-profile quango.
Scopal: of or relating to scope.
Scorbutic: of or relating to or having or resembling scurvy.
– The men thus treated died fast:98 some became dropsical, and others scorbutic.
Scorching: hot and dry enough to burn or parch a surface; hot.
– An involuntary shiver racked my body as I recalled the burning shul, the smoke scorching my lungs.
Scoreless: having no points scores; goalless; hitless.
– They had won nine games without me, and they had played to one scoreless tie.
Scornful: expressing extreme contempt; disdainful; disrespectful.
– With a scornful laugh Gebu lowered his fist to his side, leaving the boy limp and covered with cold sweat.
Scotch: avoiding waste; thrifty; stinting.
– We chased the scotch with Tusker beers and played a round of poker.
Scotomatous: relating to scotoma.
Scots: of or relating to or characteristic of Scotland or its people or culture or its English dialect or Gaelic language; scotch; scottish.
– The Ulster Scots became the core group of frontier settlers in North America.
Scottish: of or relating to or characteristic of Scotland or its people or culture or its English dialect or Gaelic language; scotch; scots.
– A pack of Scottish soccer louts sounds about right.
Scoundrelly: lacking principles or scruples; black gradually; rascally.
– The reader will, of course, infer that each of these pictures was a hit at some scoundrelly exploit of the day, the public knowledge of which gave effect to the caricature.
Scrabbly: sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush; scabby; wodded.
– The ground was scrabbly dirt, and in the center of the rope enclosure, about twenty feet away, was a hole.
Scraggly: lacking neatness or order; untidy.
– On top of the beast, with a scraggly tuft of the creature’s fur coiled around each fist, was Mr. Flux.
Scraggy: having a sharply uneven surface or outline; jagged; jaggy.
– Here it is overgrown with bruja-haired trees and scraggy deep grass up to the shoulders.
Scrappy: full of fighting spirit; aggressive.
– Much of the land was scrappy dirt, too uneven and rocky to farm.
Scratchy: lacking consistency; spotty; uneven.
– The rushes were scratchy under the soles of his bare feet.
Scrawny: being very thin; boney; thin.
– I arrived at the house on a sparkling winter morning in a wagon drawn by a scrawny horse.
Screaky: having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge; screechy; high.
– Miss Susie had somehow managed to keep the advantage, and the two white women watched the departing figure shuffle down the walk, out through the sagging, screaky gate.
Screaming: resembling a scream in effect; sensational.
– I know I was screaming, but no one came.
Screechy: having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge; screaky; high.
– She stared at the barren stone floor and let out a soft scratchy noise.
Screwball: foolish; totally unsound; crazy; half-baked.
– He’d used the word screwball, but I knew what he really meant.
Screwy: not behaving normally; screw-loose; insane.
– My mom started counting Nat’s age this screwy way a long time ago.
Scrimpy: deficient in amount or quality or extent; meager; stingy.
– He was thinking how his pittance of pay would support, in a scrimpy way, his poor mother and sister, who looked unto him as their only hope and refuge.
Scrimy: petty or reluctant in giving or spending; stingy; grudging.
Scriptural: written or relating to writing.
– It was something that was both scriptural and meaningful,” he said, “and sort of a covenant.
Scrivened: copied in handwriting; written.
Scrofulous: afflicted with scrofula;ill; sick.
– In any case they don’t get in his way, which is a mercy, since Mr. Walken’s Carmichael is a scrofulous wonder to behold.
Scrotal: relating to or having or lying within a scrotum.
– I got the DTR because one of my biggest problems with the restoration process is that my scrotal skin has more hair on it, and it was causing some pain.
Scrub: (of domestic animals) not selectively bred; unimproved.
– He would have to spend all tomorrow scrubbing his armor.
Scrubbed: made clean by scrubbing; clean.
– The robot scrubbed and scraped at the resin, and soon her fingers were completely coated in the sticky stuff.
Scrubby: sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush; scrabbly; wooded.
– They are arranged in a semicircle around a scrubby grass expanse where the youths play softball, touch football, soccer.
Scruffy: shabby and untidy; seedy; worn.
– The little terrier had a look of pure bliss on his scruffy whiskered face.
Scrumptious: extremely pleasing to the sense of taste; toothsome; luscious.
– It sat there until the steam stopped rising, until the normally scrumptious smell of it disappeared.
Scrupulous: characterized by extreme care and great effort; painstaking; careful.
– The scientist must be slow, scrupulous, severe, rigorous.
Sculpted: cut into a desired shape; graven; carven.
– I sculpted my Mr Whippy with my tongue.
Sculptural: resembling sculpture; molded; shapely.
– Another night of Stew Beef making dynamic subtleties with his drum and living, sculptural, grotesques in the dance.
Sculpturesque: resembling sculpture; shapely; sculptured.
– It was chiefly of white velvet, whose trailing heaviness blent with purple lengths of the same lustreless and sculpturesque fabric.
Scummy: covered with scum; dirty; soiled.
– At the bottom of the boat, a plastic bag and two empty Coke cans floated in several inches of scummy water.
Scurfy: rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf; lepidolite; scaly.
– Priscilla smiled at the General as he emerged from the hands of Jane, “red and scurfy,” just as he had said.
Scurrilous: expressing offensive reproach; abusive; offensive.
– He’s a scurrilous dog, that man,” she muttered.
Scurvy: of the most contemptible kind; low.
– First my uncle died of scurvy and we got his pigs.
Scythian: of or relating to the ancient Scythians or their culture or language; It also enabled the development of continent-sized empires such as the Scythians 2,500 years ago in what is now Iran.
Seaborne: conveyed by sea; mobile.
– Federal courts, not state courts, would enforce any future federal laws respecting the seaborne slave trade.
Seafaring: used on the high seas; marine; seagoing.
– The image of a new species popped into my head: the rare seafaring green orangutan.
Seagirt: surrounded or enclosed by the sea; bordered.
– The pigs and poultry, with whom we chiefly consorted, could instruct us little concerning the peace that lapped in these latter days our seagirt realm.
Seagoing: used on the high seas; marine; seafaring.
– In addition, the image of a seagoing people fits into a general rethinking of paleo-Indian fife.
Sealed: closed or secured with or as if with a seal; closed; unopened.
– A roll of crisp white parchment sealed with golden wax, a few short words and a smear of blood.
Seamanlike: characteristic of or befitting a seaman; indicating competent seamanship; sea manly.
– The cook kept a right seamen like humor, even in the most critical moments.
Seamanly: characteristic of or befitting a seaman; indicating competent seamanship; seamlike.
– On the after deck, he raved like a madman, but his commands were sea manly.
Seamed: having or joined by a seam or seams; seamy; sewn.
– The old man glanced up at me from a lean, seamed face devoid of all expression.
Seamless: not having or joined by a seam or seams; broadloom; unseamed.
– She could never manage the seamless grace with which Kabuli women smoked.
Seamy: morally degraded; seedy; sordid.
– But at night things got a little seamy at last, and from 9 p.m. to three in the morning the men streamed into Sixty-Niners.
Sear: (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture; dry; sere.
– A searing pain shot up into my body.
Searching: exploring thoroughly; explorative; exploratory.
– With a sinking heart, I circled the full lot looking for a space, while also searching for the silver Volvo that was clearly not there.
Seared: having the surface burned quickly with intense heat; cooked.
– I scrambled back onto the float, still seared by what he had said.
Searing: extremely hot; scalding; fervent.
– He knew immediately that he was alive, because of the searing pain permeating every cubic centimeter of his body.
Seasick: experiencing motion sickness; ill; sick.
– She got seasick so easily, it was more like sea plague.
Seasonable: done or happening at the appropriate or proper time; timely; well-timed.
– The girls told her not to break her neck—that it was seasonable work and they’d all be laid off when the fall orders had been made up.
Seasonal: occurring at or dependent on a particular season.
– They are due to windblown dust, the patterns varying with the seasonal winds.
Seasoned: rendered competent through trial and experience; veteran; experienced.
– They are men, Robb, seasoned in battle. You were fighting with wooden swords less than a year past.
Seaward: directed or situated away from inland regions and toward the sea or coast; costal.
– They circled overhead a half-dozen times in arcs that took in the entire breadth of the docks, then settled on the swells to seaward.
Seaworthy: fit for a sea voyage; tight.
– It was the smallest, and the least seaworthy.
Sebaceous: containing an unusual amount of grease or oil; greasy; fat.
– It helped to have allies in the fight on our sebaceous glands.
Secluded: providing privacy or seclusion; private; reclusive.
– So I get my lunch and sit down at a secluded cafeteria table with the most popular boy in the seventh grade.
Second: coming next after the first in position in space or time or degree or magnitude; 2nd; ordinal.
– In fact, failing the first task only made him more determined to win the second.
Secondary: depending on or incidental to what is original or primary; incident; incidental.
– Poverty and the breakdown of family life have secondary effects.
Secondhand: previously used or owned by another; used; old.
– She often wore baggy secondhand clothes and a big hat that made her feel safe in this strange, alien environment.
Secret: not openly made known; unavowed; unacknowledged.
– As I sift through this stuff, a realization hits: I no longer have to keep the box a secret from my parents.
Secretarial: of or relating to a secretary or to a secretary’s work.
– There was no longer a doctor on staff, or secretarial help.
Secretive: inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information; close; closelipped.
– He had a troubled, secretive expression, and after a few moments he looked up.
Secretory: of or relating to or producing a secretio.
– The researchers then used X-ray imaging and electron microscopy to study one of these cell types, which they called secretory neuroid cells.
Sectarian: belonging to or characteristic of a sect; denominational; narrow-minded.
– The sectarian churches came in swinging, cocky and loud and confident.
Sectional: related or limited to a distinct region or subdivision of a territory or community or group of people; territorial.
– I take my lucky spot in the den in front of the sectional.
Sectorial: relating to or resembling a sector.
– Speaking to reporters in New York, Josep Borrell said the 27 states had made the political decision to apply new sectorial and individual measures.
Secular: characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world; worldly; earthy.
– With them I normally will observe the politesse of secular society concerning religion—say nothing about it.
Secure: free from danger or risk; protected; safe.
– Zeitoun set out to finish securing the rest of his job sites.
Secured: free from danger or risk; protected; safe.
Sedate: dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises; graver; sober.
– They had to keep you sedated for a while, honey — you’ve got a lot of injuries.
Sedative: tending to soothe or tranquilize; depressant; atarax.
– He worked a sedative effect on the whole barn.
Sedentary: requiring sitting or little activity; inactive.
– The weight gain comes not only as a result of the sedentary nature of television watching, or even chiefly because of it.
Sedgelike: resembling rush or sedge; rushlike; grassy.
Sedgy: covered with sedges (grasslike marsh plants); grassy.
– Arrived at the sedgy ocean line he halted, and turned upon her.
Sedimentary: produced by the action of water; aqueous.
– Your noble experiment in sedimentary cuisine,” he said.
Seditious: in opposition to a civil authority or government; insurgent; disloyal.
– I was, to hear him tell it, anti-American, un-American, seditious, subversive, and probably Communist.
Seductive: tending to entice into a desired action or state; attractive; alluring.
– There is a seductive, hallucinogenic quality to much Debussy, though, in contrast to the forceful physicality and ritualistic hypnosis of Stravinsky.
Sedulous: (of a person or action) showing dedication and diligence; diligent; meticulous.
– He watched himself with the most sedulous care.
Seeable: capable of being seen; or open to easy view; visible perceptible.
Seedless: lacking seeds; seeded; stoneless.
– These guavas are large and juicy, almost seedless, their roundness enticing you to have one more, just one more, because next year the rains may not come.
Seedy: shabby and untidy; scrufty; worn.
– The day before Myron brought her here, my mother had gone out late to a seedy bar to get a fix.
Seeing: having vision, not blind; sighted.
– Indeed, its very survival depended on not knowing, not seeing—and, certainly, not saying anything at all about what it was really like.
Seeming: appearing as such but not necessarily so; apparent; superficial.
– Ekon studied her for a moment before seeming to come to an idea.
Seemly: according to custom or propriety; becoming; comely.
– The old librarian expressed this wish more often than was seemly, undaunted that the answer was always no.
Seething: in constant agitation; agitated.
– The owner of the rooming house—which was one of those seething places that often reeked of sex and moonshine—supported Joe and Rose’s claims.
Segmental: divided or organized into speech segments or isolable speech sounds; divided.
– As a preschooler, Cadence was diagnosed with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, or scars in her kidneys’ filters.
Seismal: subject to or caused by an earthquake or earth vibration; seismic; unstable.
– But that center of social action is taken for the site of Sodom—hence the site of the destruction of Sodom and the starting point of the earthquake are the same.
Seismic: subject to or caused by an earthquake or earth vibration; seismal; unstable.
– The Peruvian littoral is an agronomical no-go zone: barren, cloudy, almost devoid of rain, seismically and climatically unstable.
Seismologic: of or concerned with seismology; seismological.
– It proves Mars is seismologically active, and marks NASA’s return to planetary seismology after more than 4 decades.
Seismological: of or concerned with seismology; seismologic.
– Nepal’s seismological centre set the earthquake at a magnitude of 6.6.
Select: of superior grade; superior; prime.
– She stood before it a minute, selecting a box of doughnuts at half price.
Selected: chosen in preference to another; elect; elite.
– The next morning, the five of us selected to give our tonsils for motion study assembled in the parlor.
Selective: characterized by very careful or fastidious selection; exclusive.
– We went around again, this time trying to be more intelligently selective, but we still ended up with clearly too much.
Selfish: concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others; egoistic; stingy.
– Call me selfish, but if I found her, I wanted it to be alone.
Selfless: showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others; altruistic; unselfish.
– Libby’s on a real kick about karma these days, so I decide to be extremely selfless.
Selfsame: being the exact same one; not any other: very; same.
– The land in the scopes’ view was all a blur of vegetation and selfsame coast.
Seljuk: of or relating to the Seljuks.
– Although of Turkish stock, the Seljuks totally identified with the world of Iran.
Sellable: fit to be offered for sale; marketable; sabale.
– It makes digital artworks unique, and therefore, sellable.
Semantic: of or relating to meaning or the study of meaning.
– Alas, words can acquire their own semantic momentum through history.
Semestral: occurring every six months or during every period of six months; semestrial; periodic.
– The full number of Srâddhas necessary for the Sapindana is sometimes given as sixteen, viz., the first, then one in each of the twelve months, then two semestral ones, and lastly the Sapindana.
Semestrial: occurring every six months or during every period of six months; semestral; periodic.
Semiabstract: characterized by stylized but recognizable subject matter; nonerepresentational.
– It also incorporated one of his most distinctive conceptual innovations, a lexicon of some two dozen semiabstract designs meant to symbolize negative emotions.
Semiannual: occurring or payable twice each year; periodic; periodical.
– Tusk leather goods will be discounted at its semiannual sample sale from Friday through Oct.
Semiaquatic: partially aquatic; living or growing partly on land and partly in water; aqatic; subatomic.
– That man offers none, leaving our industrious semiaquatic rodent to slowly drown.
Semiarid: somewhat arid; dry.
– That struck me as odd at the time, but these forests really did resemble open orchards, not manicured but semiarid.
Semiautomatic: partially automatic; automatic; autoloading.
– There was a semiautomatic machine gun next to him and he seemed lost in thought.
Semicentenary: of or relating to or marking the 50th anniversary; Semicentennial.
Semicentennial: of or relating to or marking the 50th anniversary.
– This season, Wolf Trap in Vienna, Va., returns to the scene to celebrate the semicentennial of the Filene Center.
Semicomatose: in a state of partial coma; unconscious.
– Fox, who didn’t yet have a driver’s license, is semicomatose and still in critical condition.
Semiconducting: having characteristics of a semiconductor; that is having electrical conductivity greater than insulators but less than good conductors; semiconductive; conductive.
– The moment of separation comes when excitons move and encounter an interface between two semiconducting components, called donor and acceptor materials.
Semiconductive: having characteristics of a semiconductor; that is having electrical conductivity greater than insulators but less than good conductors; semiconducting; conductive.
– Apparently, it also gets charges moving in certain semiconductive materials.
Semidark: partially devoid of light or brightness; dark.
– In the semidark I stare up at the blind plaster eye in the middle of the ceiling, which stares back down at me, even though it can’t see.
Semidetached: attached on one side only; detached.
– She is a poet of steel shavings, of semidetached feeling, of unexpected links and impieties and unpropitious implications.
Semiempirical: relying to some extent on observation or experiment; empiric; empirical.
Semiformal: moderately formal; requiring a dinner jacket; black-tie; formal.
– The dance was billed as semiformal, and we weren’t exactly sure what that meant.
Semihard: somewhat hard; hard.
– Serve it with grilled seafood or semihard cheeses.
Semiliquid: somewhat liquid; liquid.
– Clay, mixed with enough water to be semiliquid: the potters called it “slip.”
Semiliterate: barely able to read and write; illiterate.
– Watching him read this time, I realized he was only semiliterate.
Semilunar: resembling the new moon in shape; rounded; linate.
– The pulmonary valve is located at the base of the pulmonary trunk, and the left semilunar valve is located at the base of the aorta.
Semimonthly: occurring twice a month; bimonthly; periodic.
– The Niskanen Center hosts a semimonthly invitation-only gathering of Trump critics called the Meeting of the Concerned, which attendees are asked to keep confidential.
Seminal: containing seeds of later development; germinal; original.
– This distinction also marks a seminal transition in the story of the gene.
Seminiferous: bearing or producing seed or semen.
– Coiled in each wedge are seminiferous tubules that produce sperm.
Seminude: partially clothed; unclothed.
– There is seminude onstage coupling and a naked male dance.
Semiopaque: partially opaque; opaque.
– One taken laterally, low down on the neck but clear of the shoulder, will often show a bone or other semiopaque object invisible in the anteroposterior exposure.
Semiotic: of or relating to semiotics; semiotical.
– A degree in semiotics was not required to see that I was in the presence of an ironist.
Semiotical: of or relating to semiotics; of or realting to semiotics.
Semiparasitic: of or relating to plants that are semiparasites.
– The Cyclostomes are remarkable among vertebrates in that they are semiparasitic in habit.
Semipermanent: relating to or extending over a relatively long time; long run; long.
– In the last few days before the fight, my eyebrows settle into a semipermanent question mark.
Semipermeable: (of a membrane) selectively permeable; permeable.
– I am glad to have a semipermeable memory after getting into this.
Semipolitical: political in some (but not all) aspects; polical.
– Curtis won’t offer more details, but he’s certainly referring to the next semipolitical resurrection of “Love, Actually.”
Semiprivate: confined to a small number of; privet.
– He was rushed by ambulance to the Brooklyn Memorial Hospital and put into a semiprivate room one floor below the eye ward.
Semipublic: having some of the features of public institution; public.
– To many people, William was the NSA—or at least the closest the agency had to a semipublic face.
Semirigid: having a form maintained by a rigid internal structure as well as by internal gas pressure; rigid.
– Use semirigid or rigid metal ducting, which is smoother inside and less likely to catch lint.
Semiskilled: possessing or requiring limited skills; unskilled.
– Many are those who you might call — not pejoratively — semiskilled.
Semisoft: somewhat soft; softish; soft.
– Enjoy this with roasted or braised poultry, or semisoft cheeses.
Semisolid: partly solid; having a rigidity and viscosity intermediate between a solid and a liquid; solid.
– The entire process takes about 4 to 8 seconds for solid or semisolid food, and about 1 second for very soft food and liquids.
Semisweet: having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness; bittersweet; tasty.
– Were you to kick her in the stomach, the most you could expect would be a demotion to “semisweet.
Semisynthetic: not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially; man-made; unreal.
– A semisynthetic organism engineered for the stable expansion of the genetic alphabet.
Semite: of or relating to people who speak Semitic languages, especially Hebrew and Arabic; semitic.
– Along with the North African origins of Semites and the origins of Madagascar’s Asians, that’s another conclusion that we couldn’t have reached without linguistic evidence.
Semiterrestrial: chiefly but not exclusively terrestrial.
– The researchers found 902 genes in 22 gene families that the two semiterrestrial algae and land plants shared but that other algae lacked.
Semitic: of or relating to people who speak Semitic languages, especially Hebrew and Arabic.
– Alphabets apparently arose only once in human history: among speakers of Semitic languages, in the area from modern Syria to the Sinai, during the second millennium B.C.
Semitransparent: allowing light to pass through diffusely; translucent; clear.
– Finally they bought a waterproof cape that enveloped her completely, made of semitransparent seal intestine.
Semitropic: of or relating to or characteristic of conditions in the subtropics; semitropical; subtropic.
– Morning dawned, aflare with light and color, as only a June morning in that semitropic wilderness could glow.
Semitropical: of or relating to or characteristic of conditions in the subtropics; semitropic; subtropic.
– The man was my husband and the semitropical air was weighted with expectation.
Semiweekly: occurring twice a week; biweekly; periodical.
– Monthly, weekly, semiweekly, the drains in our house clogged.
Sempiternal: having no known beginning and presumably no end; datelless; infinite.
– At church, at the altar, there were vestments of gold and the climbing voices of a Mozart mass, tossing rings sempiternal.
Senecan: of or relating to or like or in the manner of the Roman Seneca.
– The Senecan drama and the Aristotelian precepts were the sources of Sidney’s theory of tragedy.
Senegalese: of or relating to or characteristic of Senegal or its people.
– The Senegalese are a handsome people and I enjoyed the brief time that Oliver and I spent in their country.
Senescent: growing old; ageing; old.
– In one thin arm, threaded with veins in a kind of senescent bas-relief, was a basket.
Senile: mentally or physically infirm with age; gaga; old.
– At the same time I was promoted from being a senile old peasant to being a revered elder.
Senior: advanced in years; (`aged’ is pronounced as two syllables); aged; older.
– Instead of using textbooks, he subscribed to the Atlantic Monthly, Harpers, and the Sunday Edition of the New York Times for his seniors.
Sensate: having physical sensation; animate; sentient.
– The set designs take on a sensate intelligence of their own that makes them as “real” as any character in the drama.
Sensational: relating to or concerned in sensation; sensory; sensuous.
– The more sensational aspects of my rapid climb cannot obscure the facts.
Sensationalistic: typical of tabloids; yellow; sensational.
– It’s rare that very brainy sci-fi packs a genuinely emotional, or even just sensationalistic, wallop.
Senseless: not marked by the use of reason; mindless; reasonless.
– In a senseless frenzy Tree-ear threw leaves and sticks and clods of dirt—whatever he could get his hands on.
Sensible: able to feel or perceive; senstive; aware.
– To do this he does not need to be an expert himself, he just needs to take sensible advice.
Sensitised: having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor); allegeric; susceptible.
– On the other hand, Amis will already be sensitised to her excoriating feedback.
Sensitising: making susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli; sensitising.
– We are developing vocal exercises to liberate your voice, sensitizing you to listening to your voice, and feeling it through your body.
Sensitive: responsive to physical stimuli; responsive; sensible.
– Being from America made me intensely sensitive to matters of color.
Sensorial: involving or derived from the senses; sensory.
– The sensorially dispossessed have a rallying cry as modest as it is hopeful.
Sensorimotor: of or relating to the sensory and motor coordination of an organism or to the controlling nerves.
– Chang implanted a grid of electrodes on the sensorimotor cortex of the patient’s brain, which controls the production of speech.
Sensorineural: of or relating to the neural process of sensation.
– Hearing specialists divide hearing loss into two main categories: conductive and sensorineural hearing loss.
Sensory: of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system; afferent; receptive.
– of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system
Sensual: sexually exciting or gratifying; sultry; hot.
– He had silver-gray hair, slightly myopic eyes and thin, overhanging, sensual lips.
Sensuous: relating to or concerned in sensation; sensational; sensory.
– Its expression was confident, as if assured of its devotees, the unyielding lips sensuous and full.
Sentential: of or relating to a sentence.
– That sequentially it must be done by the Pastor or Governor of that particular Church, which the person is to be admitted into, or cast out of.
Sententious: concise and full of meaning; pithy; concise.
– And the endless iteration of the sententious “we tell ourselves stories in order to live” seems to be a testament to that.
Sentient: endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; animate; sensate.
– Every sentient being straining and pushing at the shell of identity and distinctness.
Sentimental: given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality; tender.
– This doesn’t mean there was anything sneaky about his way of watching, or anything sentimental either.
Sepaline: resembling or characteristic of a sepal; sepaloid.
– It is probable that in many of these cases the so-called inferior ovary is partly axial, partly foliar, i.e., sepaline, and partly carpellary in its nature.
Sepaloid: resembling or characteristic of a sepal; sapaline.
– In some cases the petals have the appearance of sepals, then they are sepaloid, as in Juncaceae.
Separable: capable of being divided or dissociated; divisible; severable.
– Nor are they so easily separable, as they’ve seemed to me for most of my life.
Separate: standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything; freestanding; detached.
– They had “stolen” much more, and Jiichan separated the grain from the straw.
Separated: being or feeling set or kept apart from others; separate; isolated.
– Families were separated and left behind everything they had worked for their whole lives.
Separatist: having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude; breakaway; independent.
– Too obvious. I’m a Spaniard. A refugee. My parents were murdered by Basque separatists.
Separative: serving to separate or divide into parts; partitive; distributive.
– As a matter of course, this separative system precludes all unification of artistic principles and is, therefore, very harmful to the present generation of students.
Septal: of or relating to a septum; saute.
– It may also cause an atrial septal defect, which opens a hole between the left and right upper chambers.
Septate: of or relating to a septum; sapate.
– The nucleus is always lodged in the endoplasm, and, in the septate forms, in the deutomeritic half of the body.
Septic: containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms; infected; unhealthful.
– The toilet wasn’t hooked up to any sewer or septic system.
Septicemic: characteristic of septicemia; infected; septic.
– Plague is a serious bacterial infection that’s separated into three main types: bubonic, septicemic and pneumonic.
Septrional: of northern regions; from the seven stars (or seven plowing oxen) of Ursa Major; northern.
Septuple: having seven units or components; seven fold; multiple.
– He went from 3 under to 4 over, producing a septuple bogey — scoring a 10 on the hole.
Sepulchral: gruesomely indicative of death or the dead; charnel; ghastly.
– Darkness, the sepulchral silence down below, and the groan of hooves and steam-powered machinery from the levels far above.
Sequent: in regular succession without gaps; consecutive; ordered.
– The most damage caused by the threat of malpractice suits is the consequent practice of defensive medicine.
Sequential: in regular succession without gaps; serial; successive.
– When I told Quentin about it, he called it a “sequential approach” to problems and admired it.
Sequined: covered with beads or jewels or sequins; badey; gummed.
– I always imagine her in spangly, sequined evening gowns with stiletto heels that make her look two meters tall.
Seraphic: having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub; angelic; loveable.
– His eyes were closed, his jaw slackened, as if he were listening to seraphic voices.
Seraphical: of or relating to an angel of the first order; seraphic.
– The title in 1648 omits the words ‘the seraphical saint,’ and the text there lacks the last twenty-four lines.
Serbian: of or relating to the people or language or culture of the region of Serbia.
– The Serbian army holed up in Kacanik, but two weeks later, on April 9, a swarm of KLA militia attacked the Serbian soldiers there.
Sere: (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture; dried up; sear.
– The margins of the spring’s small lively pool were frozen, and the sere moss among the rocks was traced with flowers of frost.
Serene: not agitated; without losing self-possession; claim; tranquil.
– She was a remarkable young woman. Very self-possessed and serene. Intelligent, eager to learn
Serflike: like someone in servitude; unfree.
Serial: of or relating to the sequential performance of multiple operations; in series; no parallel.
– Its serial number was DV-5-2, but that was not very useful
Sericeous: covered with fine soft hairs or down; downy; haired.
– Abdomen smooth and shining; the apical margins of the intermediate segments slightly depressed, with the sides sericeous.
Sericultural: of or relating to sericulture.
– The young men become teachers of sericulture, advisers in mills and experts of co-operative sericultural societies.
Seriocomic: mixing the serious with the comic with comic predominating; serio comical; humorous.
– In reality, this seriocomic romp merely has its moments, but more often feels heavy-handed, sappy and overlong.
Seriocomical: mixing the serious with the comic with comic predominating; seriocomic; humorous.
Serious: concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities; earnst; solemn.
– Dylan has some serious pep in his step as we rush to the coffee shop.
Serologic: of or relating to serology; serological.
– The traveler, identified by the surname Lin, underwent a 14-day quarantine and nine nucleic acid and serologic tests, all of which were negative, the Global Times said.
Serological: of or relating to serology; serologic.
– Right now, we have no evidence that the use of a serological test can show that an individual has immunity or is protected from reinfection.
Serous: of or producing or containing serum.
– Park then offers central serous choroidopathy, which causes fluid to build up under the retina.
Serpentine: resembling a serpent in form; snakelike; shaky.
– The river wound into the dark forest, cutting its serpentine route into the unknown.
Serrate: notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex; notched; rough.
– Robin invited us to touch her serrated teeth and examine her snout before Ray removed the jaws.
Serrated: notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex; serrate; notched.
– Robin invited us to touch her serrated teeth and examine her snout before Ray removed the jaws.
Serried: (especially of rows as of troops or mountains) pressed together; compact.
– The countless dark windows serried close together like ranks of soldiers.
Serrulate: minutely serrated; rough.
Serviceable: ready for service or able to give long service; funcational; practical.
– Clumps of weedy grass poked through the surface here and there, but it still looked like a serviceable road.
Servile: submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior; bootlicking; fawning.
– The fat friar bowed in a servile manner as he answered the hare.
Servo: of or involving servomechanisms; servomechanical.
– Finally, I made it to Balranald and pulled in at a servo on the edge of town.
Servomechanical: of or involving servomechanisms; servo.
Sesquipedalian: (of words) long and ponderous; having many syllables; polysyllabic; long.
– Wilbur performed his silly antics; Templeton raced around to gather sesquipedalian words; the geese clucked around and were generally a nuisance.
Sessile: permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about.
– Leaves that do not have a petiole and are directly attached to the plant stem are called sessile leaves.
Setaceous: having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc; barbed; prickly.
– Nostrils basal, oval, open, covered externally with incumbent setaceous feathers.
Setose: having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc; burry; bristled.
– Legs short, rather slender; fore femora somewhat setose beneath.
Settled: established in a desired position or place; not moving about; based; buildup.
– The Baker girls and their mother settled on the bench next to our court.
Seven: being one more than six; 7; vii.
– She got seven months out with her ma and her pa on the little ship that crashed.
Sevenfold: having seven units or components; multiple; sevenfold.
– In other words, Lillard said, the state and its workers got an almost sevenfold return on the investment
Seventeenth: coming next after the sixteenth in position; 17th; ordinal.
– I was eleven when we moved into our home on Pinewood Drive, and we would move out on my seventeenth birthday.
Seventh: coming next after the sixth and just before the eighth in position; 7th; ordinal.
– School opened and I began the seventh grade.
Seventieth: the ordinal number of seventy in counting order; 70th; ordinal.
– Their seventieth day since the wreck, and he was going to die.
Seventy: being ten more than sixty; 70; Ixx.
– Somehow my dad’s seventies sideburns and bushy ‘stache didn’t deter my mom from wanting to reproduce with him.
Severable: capable of being divided or dissociated; dissociable; severable.
– Even the administration concedes that the individual mandate is not severable from the prohibition on considering pre-existing conditions.
Several: considered individually; respective; various.
– Instead he gave an almighty belch and several slugs dribbled out of his mouth onto his lap.
Severe: causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm; grave; critical.
– For several months now, the perpetual severe scowl had cleared from her brow.
Sexagenarian: being from 60 to 69 years old; old.
– All these moribund sexagenarians had the appearance of childish girls.
Sexagesimal: of or relating to or reckoning in sixtieths.
– For one thing the system is sexagesimal—based on the number 60.
Sexist: discriminatory on the basis of sex (usually said of men’s attitude toward women); discriminatory; prejudiced.
– My sister made some remark about how cheerleading is stupid and sexist, and my brother told her to shut up.
Sexless: having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs; neuter; nonsexual.
– Very old faces go muppety and sexless and their skin goes see-through.
Sextuple: having six units or components; sixfold; multiple.
– The project was delayed again when, taking his doctors’ advice, he underwent sextuple heart bypass surgery in 1995.
Sexual: involved in a sexual relationship; intimate; sexy.
– Girls of fearless sexual appetite, who needed to run wild under the moon.
Sexy: exciting sexual desire; aphrodisiac; aphrodisiac.
– Every inch of her is sexy beyond belief.
Seychellois: of the Seychelles or their people.
– In spite of the positive messages in his inaugural address, there is no doubting the divisions within Seychellois society.
Shabby: mean and unworthy and despicable; dishonorable.
– Dumbledore stepped into a hallway tiled in black and white; the whole place was shabby but spotlessly clean.
Shaded: (of pictures or drawings) drawn or painted with degrees or gradations of shadow; crosshatched; hatched.
– Stones had been arranged on the mound, and some low trees still shaded it and made an arch above the path.
Shadowed: filled with shade; shaded; shadowy.
– The cellar was large, full of nooks and shadowed alcoves where a man could be alone.
Shadowy: lacking in substance; wraithhike; unreal.
– TimeStar left his hiding place in the shadowy basement doorway and heaved a disappointed breath.
Shady: (of businesses and businessmen) unscrupulous; fly by night; unstry.
– The entrance leads to a shady enclosed cemetery.
Shagged: having a very rough nap or covered with hanging shags; shaggy; rough.
– They shagged a mattress through the fire door and settled down.
Shaggy: having a very rough nap or covered with hanging shags; shagged; rough.
– He looked the same as when she’d last seen him, except that his hair was shaggier.
Shakable: capable of being weakened; shakeable; contestable.
– The shakable soil goes down 95 feet in some places before it hits bedrock.
Shakeable: capable of being weakened; shakeable; contestable.
– I am afraid my hand is not shakeable
Shakedown: intended to test a new system under operating conditions and to familiarize the operators with the system.
– The shakedown of her Winnebago didn’t turn up anything other than the $42,520 Scoob saw in the space behind the TV.
Shaky: not secure; beset with difficulties; unsafe; precarious.
– Finally when Mama did talk, she took a deep, shaky breath first.
Shallow: lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center; ankle-deep; knee-deep.
– Tara kneels at the shallow edge, giving her little sister last-minute instructions.
Sham: adopted in order to deceive; assumed; fictive.
– There was shampoo, soap, razors for shaving, a bathtub, and towels that smelled like lemon.
Shamanist: of or relating to shamanism; shamanistic.
– Researchers believe the cave was never permanently inhabited by humans “but was instead of a sacred character” and “used for shamanist ritual practice”.
Shamanistic: of or relating to shamanism; shamaist.
– I think she’s one of those shamanistic writers, in the way Harold Pinter was
Shambolic: (British slang) disorderly or chaotic.
– Central among her visions is a shambolic dwarf with flippers and a bent sense of humor known as the Thalidomide Kid.
Shameful: (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; disgraceful; dishonorable.
– I have to admit a sad, shameful fact.
Shameless: feeling no shame; unblushing; unashamed.
– Dylan is dragging Samantha into his shameless world and taking Milton’s room.
Shaped: shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a pliable mass (as by work or effort); molded; wrought.
– She wore a red and gold pin shaped like a tree.
Shapeless: lacking symmetry or attractive form; unshapply.
– Odim Street itself was shapeless and tangled, with both sides knotted in thick bush.
Shapely: having a well-proportioned and pleasing shape; bosomy; busy.
– The third woman was tall, small boned, thin, but shapely.
Sharp: having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing; carnassial; dagger-like.
– The hair stood up along his back and he showed his sharp, fierce teeth to the wolves.
Sharpened: having the point made sharp; pointed.
– She sharpened the knife on a convenient stone and began hacking at the gardenias, scratching herself on the thorns.
Shattered: ruined or disrupted; destroyed.
– The shattered pieces of my heart went cold.
Shattering: seemingly loud enough to break something; violently rattling or clattering; loud.
– Priceless artifacts tumbled off their pedestals, shattering on the marble floor.
Shaven: having the beard or hair cut off close to the skin; shaved; clean-shaven.
– He passed his hand over his shaven brow and over his cheeks.
Shavian: of or relating to George Bernard Shaw or his works.
– We are being presented with a circus of Shavian lovesickness.
Shed: shed at an early stage of development; caducous; deciduous.
– In the back of the shed Lee held Doxology while Sam mounted.
Sheepish: showing a sense of shame; ashamed; shamefaced.
– Brew had a sheepish grin on his face.
Sheeplike: like or suggestive of a sheep in docility or stupidity or meekness or timidity; sheepish; docile.
– The black man in North America was mentally sick in his cooperative, sheeplike acceptance of the white man’s culture.
Sheer: so thin as to transmit light; thin; filmy.
– The hem of her dress drips; her shoes squelch out water; to both sides rise sheer walls.
Sheetlike: resembling a sheet; bedded; stratified.
– In this case, researchers first form tiny two-dimensional sheetlike crystals of multiple copies of a protein wedged in a membrane.
Shelflike: resembling a shelf (or considered to resemble a shelf).
– About the size of carpenter’s plane, it consists of a shelflike unit holding a length of square pipe.
Shelfy: full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals; reefy; shallow.
– She ceased, and bounding from the shelfy shore, Round the descending nymph the waves resounding roar.
Shellproof: able to resist the explosive force of bombs and shells; bombproof; invulnerable.
Sheltered: protected from danger or bad weather; invulnerable.
– These shellfish inhabit the bottoms of bays and sounds and tidal rivers from New England to Texas and sheltered areas of the Pacific Coast.
Shelvy: full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals; reefy; shallow.
– The dry channel between shelvy banks of gravel showed white in the unclouded yet dull starlight.
Shifting: changing position or direction; shifty; unsteady.
– I’m pretty sure she keeps shifting her notebook away from me.
Shiftless: lacking or characterized by lack of ambition or initiative; lazy; ambitiousless; umbilicus.
– While lots of white folks would buy moonshine from Norris, you could tell that at the same time everyone thought he was shiftless and no account.
Shifty: characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive; devious; untrusty.
– A few paces behind him, Lamar and Sam Houston hung about looking shifty.
Shining: marked by exceptional merit; superior.
– I turned the metal so they could all see my name, engraved in the blade, shining yellow in the setting sun.
Shinto: relating to or characteristic of Shintoism; shintoist; shintoist.
– One panel lists all the beliefs that will lead to downfall, and liberalism and Fascism sit right next to Shinto and Hinduism.
Shintoist: relating to or characteristic of Shintoism; sinto; shintoistic.
– Whether they’re Shintoists or rightists, if parents want that, it’s not our place to object.
Shintoistic: relating to or characteristic of Shintoism; shinto; shintoist.
– It was Motori himself who first studied ancient Japan, not only from the Shintoistic point of view, but also philologically and historically.
Shiny: reflecting light; bright; sheeny.
– Over it hangs a glossy painting called Three Oaks with three trees floating in the air against a yellow backdrop.
Shipboard: casual or ephemeral as if taking place on board a ship; impediment; temporary.
– Actually, I even liked going to bed on shipboard.
Shipshape: of places; characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder; trim; tidy.
– It was said the able seamen insisted on keeping the ward shipshape themselves and had taken over the sweeping and the heavy bumper.
Shirty: (British informal) ill-tempered or annoyed; snorty; ill-naturaled.
– There’s no need to get shirty with me.
Shivering: vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze; shaky; trembling.
– We sat on the bank, shivering, my abdomen seizing.
Shivery: provoking fear terror; chilling; scary.
– It was a shocking feeling—exhilarating, shivery, true
Shoaly: full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals; shallow; shelvy.
– Then the only way we could get off was down over a rough, shoaly slough, where she went like a bucking broncho.
Shockable: capable of being shocked; narrow-minded.
– Waller-Bridge is a fascinating mix of the restrained and volatile, the shocking and shockable, the tough and soppy.
Shocked: struck with fear, dread, or consternation; agast; afraid.
– I discerned he was now neither angry nor shocked at my audacity.
Shocking: giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation; disgraceful; shameful.
– It was shocking on her tongue, and when she looked up she saw a barren landscape around her.
Shod: wearing footgear; booted; shodden.
– It was stockinged and shod at all times and in all weather.
Shodden: wearing footgear; shod; shode.
– Black fellow,” I said to myself; but no, those were shodden feet that swept along so wearily.
Shoddy: of inferior workmanship and materials; jerry-built; waek.
– Everything in his house seemed shoddy and cheap.
Shoed: wearing footgear; booted; Shoeless; roughshod.
– Shined shoes, shoed shines,” it rang in my head.
Shoeless: without shoes; barefoot; unshood.
Shona: of or relating to or characteristic of the culture of the Shonas.
– It was the man in the General’s book: Monomatapa, founder of the Shona Empire.
Shopsoiled: worn or faded from being on display in a store; shopworn; worn.
– Or a straightforward revulsion with the old politics and its shopsoiled politicians.
Shopworn: worn or faded from being on display in a store; shopsoiled; worn.
– He was fat and looked shopworn around the nose and mouth as though he had hayfever.
Shoreward: (of winds) coming from the sea toward the land; inshore; onshore.
– He got his wife and children in the dinghy and rowed shoreward.
Short: (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length; close; curtal.
– Even as he thought it, he knew it wasn’t the same thing, but it was the best he could do on short notice.
Shorthand: written in abbreviated or symbolic form; written.
– Wish I’d taken that typist’s course now—could do with knowing shorthand.
Shortish: somewhat short; short.
– So I started listening to the marvelous recording by Bernard Mayes and I’m about to finish it after three years of shortish sessions on the elliptical machine.
Shortsighted: unable to see distant objects clearly; myopic; nearsighted.
– Rhinos are very shortsighted, and he knew something was wrong.
Shot: varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles; colorful; chatoyent.
– He ordered a Coca-Cola for me and another shot of whiskey for himself.
Showery: (of weather) wet by periods of rain; rainy; wet.
– One day in The Irish Times: “A cloudy start with some heavy rain which will become more showery in the afternoon.
Showy: (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display; flasy; gaudy.
– He looked awful, really chewed out, a shadow of his showy self.
Shredded: prepared by cutting; chopped; sliced.
– The rescue workers wander, stare, peel off their shredded gloves.
Shrewd: marked by practical hardheaded intelligence; smart; sharp.
– He had a shrewd head, like the captain’s own.
Shrewish: continually complaining or faultfinding; nagging; ill-natured.
– If only my shrewish, cackling wife and my dumb, ugly children weren’t here to ruin everything.
Shrimpy: used especially of persons) of inferior size; punny; runty.
– Jupiter’s moons range in size from shrimpy satellites to whopping space hulks.
Shrinkable: capable of being shrunk.
– This is due to the fact that they contain more shrinkable substance.
Shriveled: used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture; dried-up; dry.
– His skin gets all shriveled up and his whole face just kind of melts.
Shrubby: of or relating to or resembling a shrub; fruticose; fruticulose.
– Tall poplars had gone a buttery yellow while the shrubby sumac encroach- ing on the road was tinged a violent red.
Shrunken: lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; shriveled; thin.
– I remembered him as a strange, shrunken man, his shoulders hunched as though burdened by a terrible weight.
Shuddery: provoking fear terror; chilling; scary.
– I spun and slid to a shuddery stop by the edge of the lake.
Shuha: of or pertaining to any Shinto sect other than Kokka Shinto.
Shut: not open; closed; unopen.
– Two tubes and seventeen Popsicle sticks later, Miles’s locker was well and truly glued shut.
Shuttered: provided with shutters or shutters as specified; often used in combination; closed.
– No one was about; businesses were closed and houses shuttered.
Shy: lacking self-confidence; diffident; timid.
– You can ask him anything you want. Don’t be shy. You can ask anything.
Siamese: of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand or its people; tai; thai.
– A soft, deep growl rumbled from the shadows, but instead of the lion I was expecting, out came a Siamese.
Siberian: of or relating to or characteristic of Siberia or the Siberians.
– In contrast, the first settlers of the Americas arrived in Alaska with equipment appropriate to the Siberian Arctic tundra.
Sibilant: of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f’, `s’, `z’, or `th’ in both `thin’ and `then’); soft; spirant.
– All the air of the fourteenth floor was sibilant with the categorical imperative.
Sibyllic: resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy; divinatory; mantic.
Sibylline: resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy; mantic; vatic.
– I was underwhelmed by Colin Matthews’s “A Voice to Wake,” with its vocal line that felt somehow both sibylline and mechanical.
Sicilian: of or relating to or characteristic of Sicily or the people of Sicily.
– Then the Sicilian hopped, clung to the Turk’s neck.
Sick: affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function; ill; unfit.
– Feeling sick, Alex backed away to the door and staggered out into the corridor.
Sickening: causing or able to cause nausea; vile; noisome.
– I feel the sickening impact of the skull against my shoe.
Sickish: feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit; sick; ill.
– On some of the streets the stench — sweet and sickish from dead bodies — is overwhelming,” he wrote.
Sickly: somewhat ill or prone to illness; alling; poorly.
– Mist curled around our feet, turning the snow a sickly shade of green.
Side: located on a side; broadside; lateral.
– Hush up,” Jay said from the side of his mouth.
Sidearm: (of pitches) made with the arm moving parallel to the ground.
– Two officers approached their car, both with their hands on their sidearms.
Sidelong: inclining or directed to one side; inclined.
– He keeps up a steady flow of sidelong glances.
Sidereal: (of divisions of time) determined by daily motion of the stars.
– That’s where Mercer’s triumph manifests itself, there at the end of the great sidereal cycle.
Sidesplitting: very funny; killing; humorous.
– He made me belly laugh and fall to my knees in sidesplitting pain.
Sideways: (of movement) at an angle; crabwise; oblique.
– Her knife clattered off the bark and landed sideways in the mulch.
Sightless: lacking sight; eyeless; blind.
– They went on in the perfect blackness, sightless as the blind.
Sightly: very pleasing to the eye; bonny; fair.
– Viwe was a sightly but shy girl who stayed close to her mother’s hip as she gave me a quick hug.
Sigmoid: of or relating to the sigmoid flexure in the large intestine; sigmoidal.
– In July 2021, surgeons removed half of his colon due to a narrowing of the sigmoid portion of his large intestine.
Sigmoidal: of or relating to the sigmoid flexure in the large intestine; sigmoid.
– However, the sigmoidal fit suggests that the asymptotic performance of time-lapse decoders would be around 90% in cases with more than 120 cells.
Sign: used of the language of the deaf; gestural; signed.
– He was sitting under the graffiti sign and his eyebrows were close together.
Signal: notably out of the ordinary; impressive.
– Liam hesitated half a second before flipping his turn signal on.
Signed: having a handwritten signature; autographed; subscribed.
– He wore his new oversize Flush sweatshirt and hat, and he held a rolled-up poster signed by all the band members.
Significant: rich in significance or implication; meaning; meaningful.
– Despite his lame-duck status, Strauss opposed Dulles’s proposal with his customary ferocity, reiterating that testing did not present a significant health hazard.
Significative: (usually followed by `of’) pointing out or revealing clearly; indicative; indicatory.
– The second class may be termed significant, being imposed to distinguish their bearers from others by some quality.
Sikh: of or relating to the Sikhs or their religious beliefs and customs.
– Some thought it was P. Singh and that I was a Sikh, and they wondered why I wasn’t wearing a turban.
Silent: marked by absence of sound; quite; still.
– She had been so silent, I had forgotten she was there, too.
Siliceous: relating to or containing or resembling silica; siliceous.
– Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color.
Silicious: relating to or containing or resembling silica; siliceous.
– As grass contains silicious, glassy particles, the higher crowns enable tooth wear to be less severe.
Silken: having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; satiny; bright.
– Inside the box was something that looked like a long silken ribbon, smooth and soft to the touch.
Silklike: having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; satiny; silky.
– The medical examiner’s office has confirmed she died of acute peritonitis, an often-painful inflammation of the silklike membrane that lines the abdominal wall and organs.
Silky: having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; stainy; slik.
– The tops were fitted with a bronze rod that held silky white curtains.
Silly: lacking seriousness; given to frivolity; dizzy; giddy.
– Then he told himself that he was being silly and dramatic.
Silvan: relating to or characteristic of wooded regions; svlan; wooded.
– I cannot let the tiny angel perish in the silvan gloom.
Silver: of lustrous gray; covered with or tinged with the color of silver; argent; silvery.
– The light glinted off his war-scape of a mouth; half his teeth were missing, the rest broken or capped in silver.
Silverish: of lustrous gray; covered with or tinged with the color of silver; argent; silver.
– He could see the silverish disc described by the spinning propeller, but the aircraft seemed to be standing still.
Silvern: resembling or reminiscent of silver; silvery; euphonos.
– It was even visible in the sky already, giving faint white promise of silvern glory to come.
Silvery: of lustrous gray; covered with or tinged with the color of silver; argent; silver.
– The twinkling stars bathed the entire desert in a glowing silvery sheen.
Simian: relating to or resembling an ape or a monkey.
– She looked like a simian Christ on the Cross.
Similar: having the same or similar characteristics; alike; like.
– Then a Navajo song, similar to those Nali sang in the cornfield, came on.
Simple: having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved; easy; plain.
– After supper I explained to my mother and father how simple it was.
Simplex: having only one part or element; simple.
– The drug is a weakened form of the cold sore virus – herpes simplex – that has been modified to kill tumors.
Simplified: made easy or uncomplicated; easy.
– But his move certainly simplified the logistics of spending time with him.
Simplistic: characterized by extreme and often misleading simplicity; simple.
– The movement was defined—by blacks and whites alike—using the narrow and simplistic language of race.
Simulated: reproduced or made to resemble; imitative in character; imitative.
– The Mercury broadcast simulated news bulletins, which radio listeners trusted.
Simultaneous: occurring or operating at the same time; coincident; coinciding.
– But all of these terms refer to two or more independent, simultaneous melodies.
Sincere: open and genuine; not deceitful; etch; genuine.
– Our wish is that you will take our remarks—which are given with sincere enthusiasm—as a basis for another draft.
Sinewy: consisting of tendons or resembling a tendon; tendinous.
– The spot where Courtney’s hand cups my waist feels like it’s on fire, and his sinewy forearm against my lower back makes me want to melt into him, as ridiculous as that sounds.
Sinful: characterized by iniquity; wicked because it is believed to be a sin; wicked; ungodly.
– The holy blood itself is seen as purifying: purging the evil, the weak and the sinful.
Singable: suitable for singing; musical.
– The interest in “Knoxville” is in how Barber longingly and discreetly handles a not obviously singable prose text.
Singaporean: of or relating to the city of Singapore.
– Two new artworks by the Singaporean artist Ming Wong are showing here.
Singhalese: of or relating to the Sinhalese languages; sinhala; sinhalese
– The Singhalese population, really Hindoo colonists, are effeminate and cowardly.
Singing: smooth and flowing; cantabile; melodic.
– Outside her oldest sister was singing the same tune.
Single: existing alone or consisting of one entity or part or aspect or individual; azygos; azygous.
– At the family table, this mischievous older sister handed me a plate that contained a single chicken wing.
Singsong: uttered in a monotonous cadence or rhythm as in chanting; chantlike; intoned.
– She nodded and thanked them, and they prayed and prayed in their singsong voices as I drooled over the food.
Singular: being a single and separate person or thing; individual; single.
– With singular things, always use there is or there’s.
Sinhala: of or relating to the Sinhalese languages; singhalese; sinhelase.
– This book tells the sobering tale of two families, one Sinhala, one Tamil, on opposing sides of Sri Lanka’s civil conflict, and also weaves in detailed descriptions of the island.
Sinhalese: of or relating to the Sinhalese people; singhalese.
– The attack was an early salvo in what became a 26-year-long civil war between Sri Lanka’s ethnic Tamil minority and Sinhalese majority.
Sinister: stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; dark; evil.
– Smiled, despite it all, despite the sinister sound of what he’d just announced.
Sinistral: of or on the left; anticlockwise; sinister.
– The same, mutatis mutandis, may occur in sinistral shells.
Sinistrorsal: spiraling upward from right to left; seniores; sinister.
– Though the bean always insists on a sinistrorsal growth, as B, the hop prefers to climb in a dextrorsal manner, as A. Why, is one of the mysteries that Nature has not yet unfolded.
Sinistrorse: spiraling upward from right to left.
Sinitic: of or relating to the Chinese people or their language or culture.
– Bill, was my outstanding informal teacher on poetry, plus both Western and Sinitic calligraphy, and traditional Asian manners for many years.
Sinkable: capable of being sunk.
– He found a bunker on No. 2, missed a sinkable putt on No. 3, then another on No. 11.
Sinless: free from sin; impecent; vitreous.
– George was a sinless boy and grew to be a sinless man.
Sintered: formed into a mass by heat and pressure.
– The powdered slurry becomes a strong, opalescent material called sintered glass.
Sinuate: curved or curving in and out; sanious, wiggly.
– Gills adnate or sinuate; spores brownish purple, sometimes intense purple, almost black.
Sinuous: curved or curving in and out; sinuate; wiggly.
– It became imperative that he take hold of the bottom rung of the sinuous ladder, which he did.
Sinusoidal: having a succession of waves or curves; curved; curving.
– Figure 23.22 shows a graph of emf as a function of time, and it now seems reasonable that AC voltage is sinusoidal.
Siouan: of or relating to the Sioux people or their language and culture.
– On September 14, 1869, Siouan warriors attempted another foray into Wind River Valley but were repulsed by troops.
Sissified: having unsuitable feminine qualities; cissy; sissy.
– She still read bedtime stories to him, and he knew Matthew and Mark thought that was sissified.
Sissy: having unsuitable feminine qualities; cissy; unmanly.
– I’m planning on having Mom arrested for being a yellow sissy britch.
Sissyish: having unsuitable feminine qualities; cissy; sissy.
– But at least two of the other portraits seem positively sissyish.
Sisterlike: like or characteristic of or befitting a sister; sisterly; sororal.
– The bond between Obama and Jarvis, forged over thousands of hours of car and plane travel, is described by some colleagues as a sisterlike relationship, by others as a mother-daughter dynamic.
Sisterly: like or characteristic of or befitting a sister; sisterlike.
– I was gladdened by this, but I never felt sisterly around Zora.
Sisyphean: both extremely effortful and futile; effortful.
– Making himself useful as always, he took upon himself the Sisyphean task of keeping all those Modernist surfaces sparkling.
Sitting: not moving and therefore easy to attack; nonmoving; unmoving.
– He was sitting behind the desk with the Stormbreaker file open in his hands.
Situated: situated in a particular spot or position; located; set.
– The town square is situated forty feet from the road and consists of nothing more than a dried up piece of land and a few trees.
Sixfold: having six units or components; multiple; six-fold.
– They now owe about $750 billion in revolving debt, according to the Federal Reserve, a sixfold increase from two decades ago.
Sixpenny: of trifling worth; threepenny; tuppeny.
– His pieces are, he says, an attempt to produce 21st-century equivalents of these Victorian numbers, which may or may not incorporate ideas from the original sixpenny editions.
Sizable: fairly large; ample; big.
– Anyway, it was just to be known as a client of West Indian Archie’s, because he handled only sizable bettors.
Sizeable: fairly large; big; large.
– The thing was, Tommy must have been sitting on the ground earlier, because there was a sizable chunk of mud stuck on his rugby shirt near the small of his back.
Sizzling: characterized by intense emotion or interest or excitement; red-hot; hot.
– The burger lands, sizzling against the griddle, and he begins to whistle again.
Skanky: highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; disgraceful; offensive.
– Just Fang, hunched up alone in his skanky basement.
Skeletal: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; bony; lean.
– The skeletal soldiers all took one step forward, making their weapons ready.
Skeptical: marked by or given to doubt; doubting; distrustful.
– When I looked at the list, I was skeptical.
Sketchy: giving only major points; lacking completeness; skeletal; incomplete table.
– We heard sketchy reports that a great sea of people had been waiting there since morning.
Skewed: having an oblique or slanting direction or position; skew; inclined.
– His hair has been combed hard to one side, and his loose cotton shirt has bunched up behind his shoulders so that his collar is skewed.
Skilful: having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude; adept; skilled.
– When his actions are recognized as skilful, they strike men much more and bind them to him more strongly than does antiquity of bloodline.
Skilled: having or showing or requiring special skill; competent.
– Enrique will have to outsmart Border Patrol agents on the other side who are skilled and dogged.
Skillful: having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude; good; skilled.
– I’m not a skillful enough liar to hide my feelings from her.
Skimmed: use of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed; skim; fat-free.
– Through my dream gurgles the fateful brook where I swam as a child and where the willow boughs skimmed the water’s surface.
Skimpy: containing little excess; lean; deficient.
– The meals were skimpy and there were only two of them.
Skinless: having no skin.
– Once fair hair dangled from its skinless skull.
Skinnerian: of or relating to B. F. Skinner or his behaviorist psychology.
– It’s this vicious Skinnerian cycle that conscious computing seeks to break.
Skinny: being very thin; boney; scraggy.
– She wished she could take off her clothes and swim, gliding through the warm water like a skinny pink otter.
Skint: lacking funds; broke; bust.
– The cost to me was nothing, and I was grateful because I was skint, having just started back in the civilian working world.
Skintight: so tight as to cling to the skin; skin-tight; tight.
– Char stands there in her skintight striped pants suit with her finger in her mouth like a two-year-old.
Skittish: unpredictably excitable (especially of horses); flighty; excitable.
– Not long after his boy had rescued him, when he was still a skittish kit, a stranger had come to the door.
Skyward: directed toward heaven or the sky; up; heavenward.
– Multiple streaks of fire climbed skyward like burning fingers.
Slack: not tense or taut; loose; lax.
– The horses felt the reins go slack and went crazy, riding straight for the crowd.
Slanderous: (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign; harmful; libelous.
– The constable was not amused, and the gentleman was fined for slanderous action against a lady of the town.
Slanted: having an oblique or slanted direction; inclined.
– Marguerite follows me into the room and takes a seat at a slanted lectern near the window.
Slanting: having an oblique or slanted direction; aslant; inclined.
– The workbook was called The Palmer Method, but the title was not printed; it was handwritten in big, oversized, sober-looking letters, slanting to the right.
Slapdash: marked by great carelessness; slipshod; careless.
– They were slow, they were thorough; none of the slapdash arrogance and sudden deviousness that marked Karhidish officialdom.
Slaphappy: dazed from or as if from repeated blows; silly; confused.
– Given a choice, we’d probably prefer to be slap happy all the time, and there are advantages to that pleasurable state.
Slapstick: characterized by horseplay and physical action; humorous.
– She snapped a needle from a cactus and with the slapstick pantomime of a circus clown pretended to pick her teeth with it.
Slatey: of the color of slate or granite; slate-gray; neutral.
– He has a prominent nose, slatey grey eyes and a certain heaviness about the mouth.
Slatternly: characteristic of or befitting a slattern; used especially of women; blowsy; blowsy; stullish.
Slaty: of the color of slate or granite; achromatic; natural.
– The rock also has a strong slaty foliation, which is horizontal in this view, and has developed because the rock was being squeezed during metamorphism.
Slaughterous: accompanied by bloodshed; bloody; gory.
– They are braver than the silly roach, and not quite so slaughterous as the pike are.
Slav: speaking a Slavic language.
– They were on the north side of town anyway, Little Africa, where blacks, Mexicans, and Indians lived; and the only white people over there were Slav storekeepers.
Slaveholding: allowing slavery.
– In the South, members of the slaveholding class were disturbed.
Slaveless: where slavery was prohibited; free-soil; free.
Slavelike: suitable for a slave or servant; servile.
– I took this to mean that she worked under slavelike conditions.
Slavic: of or relating to Slavic languages; savlonic.
– Out on the platform a street musician played a teary Slavic melody on an accordion.
Slavish: abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant; servile; submissive.
– According to the swimmer Iris Cummings, slavish nationalism was a joke to the Americans, but not to the Germans.
Slavonic: of or relating to Slavic languages; salvic.
– I am changing nothing in his programme, except that we will play a Dvorák Slavonic Dance in his memory, instead of one of the Strauss waltzes.
Sleazy: morally degraded; seamy; seedy.
– There had been the bar—Irish whiskeys and a pinball game with Bram, Sophie’s face blue in the sleazy neon light.
Sleek: having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; satiny; bright.
– We walk down a series of sleek corridors.
Sleeping: lying with head on paws as if sleeping; dormant; unerect.
– His eyes fell on old Bob sleeping on the porch.
Sleepless: always watchful; alert; idleness.
– They’d spent many sleepless nights tending to me after the fire.
Sleepy: ready to fall asleep; asleep; sleepy-eyed.
– It was a place where she went and laid down when she was sleepy and tired.
Sleepyheaded: ready to fall asleep; sleepy; asleep.
Sleeved: made with sleeves or sleeves especially as specified; often used in.
– I have on new jeans and a long- sleeved shirt with flowers embroidered on the sleeves that I borrowed from Julia
Sleeveless: unproductive of success; bootless; futile.
– She solidified into a young woman in a dark sleeveless gown.
Slender: having little width in proportion to the length or height; thin.
– Its three spindly fingers became five slender ones with jeweled rings on each.
Slick: made slick by e.g. ice or grease; slippery; slipy.
– His black hair was slicked back, his face whitened with a cosmetic, and he carried a cocktail shaker.
Slicked: (of hair) made smooth by applying a sticky or glossy substance; plastered; groomed.
– He looks as tidy as ever, with his perfectly slicked hair and perfectly ironed uniform.
Sliding: being a smooth continuous motion; slippery; lubricious.
– I stared down the tunnel of my hands and on through the cold glass of Delaney’s sliding door.
Slight: (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a’) at least some; little; small.
– Sometimes I twitch the slightest bit or shiver.
Slighting: tending to diminish or disparage; belitting; deprecating.
– By slighting death, by acting, we pretended it was not the terrible thing it was.
Slim: being of delicate or slender build; thin; lean.
– Cabin two was more graceful somehow, with slimmer columns garlanded with pomegranates and flowers.
Slimed: covered with or resembling slime; slimy; slippy.
– The plop slimed down my hair, over my ear, and then along my neck and into the collar of my T-shirt, and still I didn’t move.
Slimy: covered with or resembling slime; slimed; slipy.
– He made a loud, scary whimper, then dropped the ball, now slimy and bitten nearly in half, at Annabeth’s feet.
Slippered: shod with slippers; shodden; shoed.
– She tucks her slippered feet under our arms, clenching her muscles in pain.
Slippery: causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide; slipy; lubricious.
– His skin is slippery with water and he smells like sweat and my shirt sticks to his arms when he slides them around me.
Slippy: causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide; slippery; nonstik.
– For snowy, slippy days, add a traction device like Yaktrax to your shoes.
Slipshod: marked by great carelessness; carelless; slapdash.
– When driven with his mates to the new owners’ camp, Buck saw a slipshod and slovenly affair, tent half stretched, dishes unwashed, everything in disorder; also, he saw a woman.
Slithery: having a slippery surface or quality; slippery; slippy.
– It was slithery, too, he had to watch his footing.
Slivery: resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points; splintery.
– Readers who come to this book first, however, will get only a slivery glimpse of this writer’s talent.
Sloped: having an oblique or slanted direction; aslant; inclined.
– Before them the turf, dotted with white flowers sloped down to the brow of a cliff.
Sloping: having an oblique or slanted direction; aslant; inclined.
– The road was just like he said, sloping downhill.
Slopped: very drunk; drunk; sozzled.
Sloppy: marked by great carelessness; carelless; slipshod.
– She slouched through our front door, dragging her sloppy trash bags behind her.
Sloshed: very drunk; soused; drunk.
Slothful: disinclined to work or exertion; idle; otise.
– Digital comics are clearly the format of choice for the slothful.
Slouchy: lacking stiffness in form or posture; untidy.
– He was thin and slouchy, with the easy boastfulness that came with his inherited wealth, his famous surname.
Sloughy: (of soil) soft and watery; boggy; marshy.
– He had fallen into this love as one falls into a sloughy hole
Slovakian: of or relating to or characteristic of Slovakia or its people or language.
– Certain first impressions I drew from the Slovakian riesling that Rolo’s delivered were unwarranted.
Slovenian: of or relating to or characteristic of Slovenia or its people or language.
– A particularly ancient find was a flute made of bear bone, discovered in a Slovenian cave in 1995, which was dated at roughly 41,000 bc.
Slovenly: negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt; frowsy; unity.
– The slovenly, wide-hipped lady who always wore a black bonnet and muttered to herself.
Slow: not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time; bumper; pokey.
– The growing had slowed, but it had not stopped.
Slowgoing: not inclined to be entbrprising; unenergetic; unenterprising.
– With some states breaking records in terms of mail-in ballots, vote counting was slowgoing in many states.
Slubbed: of textiles; having a rough surface; rough; unsmooth.
– Don’t carry ’em up there, where they’re liable to get slubbed.
Sluggish: moving slowly; sulky; slow.
– Percy writhed in the net, but his movements were getting sluggish.
Slumberous: inclined to or marked by drowsiness; slubery; asleep.
– A slumberous cloud partially shrouded its dark heights
Slumbery: inclined to or marked by drowsiness; asleep; somnolent.
– My dreams about Jim hadn’t been specific — no clear directions or visions — just a repeated slumbery tap on the shoulder.
Slumbrous: inclined to or marked by drowsiness; asleep; slumbery.
– The sun is low, the air all gold, Warm lies the slumbrous land and still.
Slummy: (of housing or residential areas) indicative of poverty; poor.
– He had a girl here, on one of these slummy streets.
Slushy: being or resembling melting snow.
– Fang and his bag crashed in the back of Faith’s red Sunbird, parked a couple slushy football fields from the Palace.
Sly: marked by skill in deception; crafty; tricky.
– He wasn’t going to let that sly Okie get the better of him.
Small: limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; little; automatic.
– We’re having the meeting at a small church not too far away from my house.
Smallish: rather small; little; small.
– When they reached the corner, they saw the man in the blue sweater walking up the stairs to the third floor, carrying a smallish rectangular package.
Smarmy: unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; buttery; oily.
– Charles knew being smarmy was the best way to get adults to do exactly what you wanted them to do.
Smart: characterized by quickness and ease in learning; bright; intelligent.
– What for you get so smart?” asks the driver, like he doesn’t want to hear my answer.
Smashing: very good; bully; corking.
– The filial son, smashing apart the rock mountain prison.
Smelly: offensively malodorous; fetid; foul.
– To neutralize the poisons, military hospitals sprayed the chemicals in the air and on smelly body waste.
Smiling: smiling with happiness or optimism; beamish.
– He nudges his chin toward the stage, smiling, so I take a few steps forward.
Smitten: (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming; stiken; affected.
– How Poseidon, enraged, caused Minos’s wife Pasiphae to be smitten with love for a bull.
Smoggy: clouded with a mixture of smoke and fog; cloudy.
– Now, on hot, smoggy summer days, visibility can be as little as two miles and never more than thirty.
Smoked: (used especially of meats and fish) dried and cured by hanging in wood smoke; smoke-cured; smoke-dried.
– I was so far gone by now that I smoked it almost by the ounce.
Smokeless: emitting or containing little or no smoke; smoke-free.
– Just another slacker, taking a smokeless smoke break.
Smoking: emitting smoke in great volume; smoky.
– The lamp was smoking; the black smoke went close up inside the chimney.
Smoky: marked by or emitting or filled with smoke; blackened; smoking.
– Alone in his smoky, dirty London house, Charles thought about love and romance and what went with it.
Smoldering: showing scarcely suppressed anger; smoldering; angry.
– Standing all alone on the shore, Cole felt his anger smoldering.
Smooth: having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities; even; ironed.
– Each bed is eighty inches wide, smooth and flat as a tabletop.
Smoothbore: of a firearm; not having rifling or internal spiral grooves inside the barrel; unrifled.
– They’re the largest smoothbore guns ever recovered from an archaeological site,” said Farrell, an archaeological conservator.
Smoothed: made smooth by ironing; smoothed; ironed.
– He smoothed the paper bag flat and placed the sandwich on top.
Smoothened: made smooth by ironing; smoothed; ironed.
– The friendly rope and claw had done good service, and had smoothened all the difficulties.
Smothering: causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat; suffocating; dyspneic.
– Steam hissed up through the smothering mound of snow.
Smudgy: smeared with something that soils or stains; these words are often used in combination; dirty; soiled.
– Jinny felt herself cutting across the beach alone, carrying her limp bundle beneath the smudgy sky.
Smug: marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction; content; contented.
– Then Scythe Curie moved on to Rowan, who seemed so smug, Citra just wanted to hit him.
Smutty: characterized by obscenity; cruddy; dirty.
– In its smutty absurdity the situation was irresistibly comical
Snafu: snarled or stalled in complete confusion.
Snakelike: resembling a serpent in form; snaky; curving.
– Always, as they fed, one of their number was on guard, its head erect and snakelike.
Snaky: resembling a serpent in form; curving; curved.
– The only trouble was, this heifer Spot, as we called her, had been snaky wild from the day she was born.
Snappish: apt to speak irritably; snappy; ill-natured.
– Over the course of dinner I notice that she can be snappish and short-tempered, and she likes to be the boss.
Snappy: quick and energetic; alert; energetic.
– I tried to invent or imagine such a stout, snappy phrase.
Snarly: tangled in knots or snarls; tangled; knotty.
– It was a relief to see a friendly face after so many snarly ones.
Snazzy: flashily stylish; stylish; fashionable.
– Lonna had pilfered the stone from Leon Leep’s sock drawer and had gotten it made into a snazzy toe ring for herself.
Sneak: marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; furtive; concealed.
– We sneak out the door and into the parking lot.
Sneaking: not openly expressed; unavowed; concealed.
– I try to get back to simply holding my sign, but I can’t help sneaking looks at him.
Sneaky: marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; concealed; sneak.
– Liyana felt sneaky, but relieved to have a few moments alone.
Sneering: expressive of contempt; snide.
– She also decided she didn’t like this young man with the dark eyebrows, the sneering smile, and the repulsive need to spit so often
Sneezy: inclined to sneeze; ill; sick.
– We’ve all been a little sleepy the past couple of years, along with wheezy, sneezy, achy and anxious.
Snide: expressive of contempt; sneering; supercilious.
– Wintergreen was a snide little punk who enjoyed working at cross-purposes.
Sniffly: liable to sniffle; snuffling; tearful.
– Several Palomas–tequila and Squirt–later, I decided to take my swollen toes and sniffly nose home.
Sniffy: having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; lofty; proud.
– But they often had a tone of sniffy superiority to reality shows and those of us presumed knuckle-draggers who liked them.
Snippy: consisting of small disconnected parts; fractional; fragmentary.
– Cecile’s not a mama,” I told him, but not angry or snippy
Snobbish: befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior; clannish; clubby.
– Soweto was seen as the snobbish township and Alexandra was seen as the gritty and dirty township.
Snobby: befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior; elitist; privet.
– Too snobby to pay attention to the likes of me, I reckon.
Snooty: (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant; proud; big-headed.
– He read directly from the speech without looking up, but he read with the confident, airy tone of a slightly snooty academic.
Snorty: (British informal) ill-tempered or annoyed; shirty; ill-natured.
– Then I flinch back too, a bit shocked by her snorty response.
Snotty: (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant; dirty; soiled.
– She was too charming and all to be snotty.
Snowbound: confined or shut in by heavy snow; confined.
– The snowbound newspaperman had found several items in the files.
Snowy: covered with snow; snow-clad.
– When the rice was done, the pot was overflowing with snowy white rice.
Snub: unusually short; short.
– The tarpaulin was not as securely fixed going over the stem—which had a very short prow, what in a face would be called a snub nose—as it was elsewhere around the boat.
Snuff: snuff colored; of a greyish to yellowish brown; chromatic; mummy-brown.
– Part of her wanted to run, but she was afraid of snuffing out her can-dle.
Snuffling: liable to sniffle; tearful; snuffly.
– Down below among the roots there was the sound of creatures crawling and snuffling.
Snuffly: liable to sniffle; sniffly; tearful
– He is somewhat relieved she’s gone: her voiceless, colorless weeping, snuffly and monotonous, was beginning to get to him.
Snug: enjoying or affording comforting warmth and shelter especially in a small space; cosy; cozy.
– Deydey was proud of its snug construction, with thick logs fitted together as closely as possible.
Soaked: very drunk; stiff; tight.
– Each plate had a pile of soaked and stewed honey locust beans—mixed with hickory nuts.
Soaking: extremely wet; wet through; drenched; soaked.
– His jacket was soaking.
Soapy: unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; buttery; oily
– Globs of spent toothpaste were stuck to the side of the sink, and the shower was covered with a soapy film.
Soaring: of imposing height; especially standing out above others; high; touring.
– It sent a 1,000-pound anchor soaring two miles through the air.
Sobering: tending to make sober or more serious; serious.
– Today my elation over Obama’s election is tempered by a far more sobering awareness.
Sobersided: completely lacking in humor or lightness of touch; humorous; humorous.
– But they coexist uneasily with the more sobersided stuff
Sociable: inclined to or conducive to companionship with others; friendly.
– I worked on a small portion to be sociable, for I was not especially hungry.
Social: living together or enjoying life in communities or organized groups; friendly; cultural.
– By 1918 Marian was singing regularly at church, school, and social events.
Socialised: under group or government control; socialized; liberal.
– We are all socialized to respond to the vulnerability of white women first.
Socialist: advocating or following the socialist principles; socialist; collective
– But educated Indians have been held back so many years by both poverty and a socialist bureaucracy that many of them seem more than ready to put up with the hours.
Socialistic: advocating or following the socialist principles; socialist; collective.
– Whatever socialistic sympathies may have driven Endfield into exile, it’s the spectacle of unchecked individualism that seems to fascinate him, red in tooth and claw.
Societal: relating to human society and its members; social.
– But on a societal level, the research was nothing short of profound.
Sociological: of or relating to or determined by sociology.
– New York white youth were killing victims; that was a “sociological” problem.
Sociopathic: of or relating to a sociopathic personality disorder.
– It’s hard to think of another painting that so vividly captures the sociopathic ferocity of Nazism.
Socratic: of or relating to Socrates or to his method of teaching.
– Nigro was a professional teacher and was quite formal in his instructional technique, while Collins, as talented and caring as he was, employed a Socratic approach.
Sodden: wet through and through; thoroughly wet; soppy; wait.
– Using a pair of surgical tongs, she began carefully pulling away the sodden, congealed lengths of ribbon gauze from the cavity in the side of his face.
Sodding: without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; arrant; gross.
– Despite the rain he jolted around the grounds to direct planting and sodding and every morning at dawn attended Burnham’s mandatory muster of key men.
Soft: yielding readily to pressure or weight; brushed; napped.
– The suit has a clear, soft plastic bubble for a helmet.
Softheaded: foolish; totally unsound; crazy; impractical.
– Sounds softheaded to me. Could be snakes up there.
Softhearted: easily moved to pity or sorrow; soft-boiled.
– I could not believe how gentle and softhearted he could be.
Softish: somewhat soft; semisoft; soft.
– These job gains weren’t too hot or too cold. They’re hitting that softish landing we want to see.
Soggy: (of soil) soft and watery; wet; miry.
– The top half of him lay beneath a white heap of soggy cotton.
Soigne: polished and well-groomed; showing sophisticated elegance; soignee; elegant.
– His premise was a mashup of the styles of Coco Chanel and Janis Joplin, the former of Parisienne soigne and the latter of her penchant for trousers.
Soignee: polished and well-groomed; showing sophisticated elegance; soigne; elegant.
– She would look a little more picturesque than most girls of her age, and she was certainly a good deal more soignee than many, and she had the Frenchwoman’s knack of putting on her clothes.
Solanaceous: of or relating to plants of the family Solanaceae (the potato family).
– Potatoes are solanaceous crops, like tomatoes and eggplant, and should be rotated accordingly.
Solar: relating to or derived from the sun or utilizing the energies of the sun.
– It’s been in the nice, warm environment of the Hab all night, with plenty of light on its sparkling clean solar cells.
Soldierlike: (of persons) befitting a warrior; military; material.
– As they become more soldiers like and less peace officer–like, they become distanced from the community.
Soldierly: (of persons) befitting a warrior; military; material.
– I force myself to take calm, soldierly steps to join them, instead of jumping up and down.
Sole: not divided or shared with others; exclusive; unshared.
– Nihil sub sole novum, I thought as I walked back down the hall to my room.
Soled: having a sole or soles especially as specified; used in combination.
– The robot rose erect smoothly and his thickly sponge-rubber soled feet made no noise as he followed Powell.
Soleless: having no sole.
– Footmarks—the imprint of boots—very ragged, half soleless boots—the footprints of one man.
Solemn: dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises; grave; serious.
– Doge looked stiff and solemn at this, but Auntie Muriel drained her goblet and clicked her bony fingers at a passing waiter for a replacement.
Solicitous: full of anxiety and concern; concentrate.
– Pantalaimon pulled free of the monkey’s solicitous paws and stumbled to Lyra’s arms.
Solid: not soft or yielding to pressure; firm; heard.
– A solid shelf of winter clouds stops just short of the horizon.
Solitary: of plants and animals; not growing or living in groups or colonies; lonely; nonsocial.
– I pondered this paradox as I lay at night upon my narrow, solitary bed.
Solo: composed or performed by a single voice or instrument; unaccompanied.
– Soojin sighs as if my entire middle school future depends on performing a solo in Ms. Holly’s Blast from the Past production.
Solomonic: exhibiting or requiring the wisdom of Solomon in making difficult decisions.
– The radical, ultimately unwelcome, spitball of a beleaguered executive was actually a Solomonic response to a disorienting new reality.
Soluble: (of a substance) capable of being dissolved in some solvent (usually water); water soluble; fat-soluble.
– This is because these chemicals are soluble in fat.
Solvable: capable of being solved; resolvable; soluble.
– This number plays the role of “practical infinity” for computer problems which are solvable but only theoretically.
Solvent: capable of meeting financial obligations.
– Perhaps elsewhere some solvent other than water is used.
Somali: of or relating to the African republic of Somalia or its people or their language and culture; somalian.
– It was clear that Somali Bantu slated for resettlement in the United States would need a great deal of help.
Somalian: of or relating to the African republic of Somalia or its people or their language and culture; somali.
– Two weeks ago, a gang of thugs tried to pull off our Somalian friend’s head scarf.
Somatic: affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit; bodily; physical.
– The technical name for this was somatic cell fusion, but some researchers called it “cell sex.
Somatogenetic: of or arising from physiological causes rather than being psychogenic in origin; Somatogenic; physical.
– This much, I say, seems undeniable; and therefore it goes a long way to prove that the non-clastogenic character of the changes has been due to their originally somatic This much, I say, seems undeniable; and therefore it goes a long way to prove that the non-clastogenic character of the changes has been due to their originally somatogenic character.genetic character.
Somatogenic: of or arising from physiological causes rather than being psychogenic in origin; somatogenic; physical.
– The theory of the heredity of somatogenic modifications is not in opposition to the mutation theory.
Somatosensory: of or relating to the somatosenses.
– They attribute this to the musicians’ higher levels of “somatosensory nerve activity,” which “beneficially modulates the autonomic nervous system.
Sombre: grave or even gloomy in character; cheerless; somber.
– I drew them large; I shaped them well: the eyelashes I traced were long and sombre; the irids lustrous and large.
Some: quantifier; used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity; many.
– I know it will take some time for her too.
Sometime: belonging to some prior time; former; past.
– I know that sometime very soon I will follow the terrible, tempting voice and The Beast will take me away—or kill me.
Somniferous: sleep inducing; somnic; depressant.
– There is a bristly-bearded tailor too, very berry, having his last pint, who utters a similar somniferous intention.
Somnific: sleep inducing; hypnagonc; soporific.
Somnolent: inclined to or marked by drowsiness; slumbery; asleep.
– There are three Smart Aids in Englewood, the small, somnolent beach town where I live.
Sonant: produced with vibration of the vocal cords; soft; voiced.
– His rich, dulcet tones made him a star of Princeton’s sonant circuit.
Songful: richly melodious; melodic; musical.
– In the opening andante, a tender, songful melody is spun over a rippling accompaniment.
Songlike: having a melody (as distinguished from recitative); ariose;
– A stormier episode became folksily songlike, even funky.
Sonic: (of speed) having or caused by speed approximately equal to that of sound in air at sea level; transonic.
– There’s a loud sound, a sonic boom as my world cracks.
Sonly: relating to audible sound; audible; hearable.
– There’s a loud sound, a sonic boom as my world cracks.
Sonorous: full and loud and deep; full; heavy.
– Ekon opened his mouth to argue, but his words were cut off by a long, sonorous toll.
Sonsie: (of a woman’s body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves; bosomy; shapely.
– When I heard him safely round the ‘sherp’ turn on the staircase I looked at the sonsie, kindly face of my old nurse.
Sonsy: (of a woman’s body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves; curvy; shapely.
– Sarah was delighted, so was the nurse—a young sonsy Scotch lass brought to the station on purpose to attend to the baby.
Soothing: freeing from fear and anxiety; assuasive; reasunning.
– The vet adds something in a soothing voice, but I can’t make out her words.
Sophistic: plausible but misleading; sophistical; invalid.
– Ever so polite, flattering and sophisticated, Grange exists to bend people to his will.
Sophistical: plausible but misleading; sophestic; invalid.
– Supreme Court, which accepted New London’s sophistical argument that virtually erased the Constitution’s circumscription of government’s eminent- domain power.
Sophisticated: having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire; elegant.
– Now, too late, they’ll attempt to promote liver spots as the season’s most sophisticated accessory.
Sophomore: used for the second year in United States high school or college; second-year; intermediate.
– Sean flipped the bird to some sophomores gawking from their seats.
Soporiferous: sleep inducing; soporific; depressant.
– At last the soporiferous fume of the wine lulled him into a gentle repose.
Soporific: sleep inducing; hypnagogic; somnific.
– She is soothing, but not soporific; intoxicating without inebriation.
Soppy: effusively or insincerely emotional; emotional; soupy.
– Apparently you got soppy drunk and let something slip to a wagoneer,” Chronicler said.
Sopranino: higher in range than soprano; high-pitched; high.
– Mr. Braxton, playing alto, soprano, sopranino and baritone saxophones, brings his usual incorrigible insight.
Soprano: having or denoting a high range; trebel; high.
– Later on they would sing together, Violet taking the alto line, the girl a honeyed soprano.
Sorbed: (of a substance) taken into and retained in another substance; occluded; combined.
– Moreover, because both arsenate and DNA are negatively charged molecules, there should be little As sorbed to the DNA pellet after the purification process.
Sorbefacient: inducing or promoting absorption; absorbefacient; absorbent.
Sordid: foul and run-down and repulsive; flyblown; squalid.
– This sordid, vulturous, diabolical old man reminded Nately of his father because the two were nothing at all alike.
Sore: causing misery or pain or distress; painful; afflictive.
– Everything he said, he sounded sore about something.
Sororal: like or characteristic of or befitting a sister; sisterlike; sisterly.
– The depiction of upper-middle-class malaise and sororal suffering earned eight Emmys and four Golden Globes, and status as one of the last monocultural phenomena in an increasingly fragmented, niche entertainment landscape.
Sorrel: of a light brownish color; brownish-orange; chromatic.
– Actually Goblin’s gaits were so smooth he seemed easier than the sorrel.
Sorrowful: experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss; unhappy; tortured.
– Serafina was silent, because she agreed with them, and she felt sorrowful.
Sorrowing: sorrowful through loss or deprivation; bereft; sorrowful.
– While sorrowing they weep into the stream forever.
Sorry: feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone; bad; regretful.
– It’s dysentery—which could be contagious, so we shouldn’t eat anything you’ve touched. I’m sorry.
Soteriological: of or relating to soteriology.
– In which case, it can’t possibly matter whether demented diabetics eat cupcakes or not, because from a purely soteriological standpoint, they’re already dead.
Sotho: of or relating to any of the group of Sotho languages.
– The lord of suet was already dying from whatever hideous disease he had brought back from Sotho- ryos, it seemed to Tyrion.
Sottish: given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol; drunk; druken.
– To make sottish; to make dull or stupid; to stupefy; to infatuate.
Soughing: characterized by soft sounds; soft; rustling.
– There was only the soughing wind and his and Calvin’s footsteps.
Soulful: full of or expressing deep emotion; emotions.
– Lev’s deep timbre echoed through the room, his voice as soulful and resonant as when he led prayers as the chazzan in shul.
Soulless: lacking sensitivity or the capacity for deep feeling; insensitive.
– There is no place more hollow, more soulless, than a school at night.
Sound: in good condition; free from defect or damage or decay; solid; strong.
– There was no sound at all, except the occasional distant barking of a dog or a lowing of a cow.
Soundable: (of depth) capable of being sounded or measured for depth; Plumbable; fathmabel.
Sounding: appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms; looking; superficial.
– Mr. Galanter said, his voice sounding suddenly a lot less excited.
Soundless: marked by absence of sound; still; silent.
– All night she had slept on this silent river, like a boat upon a soundless tide.
Soundproof: impervious to, or not penetrable by, sound; imperviable; impervious.
– My head seems insulated with felt, like a soundproof room.
Soupy: effusively or insincerely emotional; bathetic; slushy.
– I waved him over, plucked a can from the soupy ice, and handed it to the skinny girl.
Sour: having a sharp biting taste; dirty; acid.
– She doesn’t even acknowledge my family, just gives me a sour look.
Soured: having turned bad; sour; off.
– My heart wanted to leap toward my father but my stomach soured.
Sourish: tasting sour like a lemon; lemonlike; sour.
– They have not a balsamic, but mostly a sweetish or sourish flavor.
Soused: very drunk; tight; weight.
Southbound: moving toward the south; southward; south.
– He had missed his chance to hitch a ride on the southbound cargo barge.
Southeastern: situated in or oriented toward the southeast; south; southeast.
– By 1945, five out of ten people in southeastern Virginia worked for Uncle Sam, directly or indirectly.
Southeastward: toward the southeast; south.
– Exceptionally cold and windy air will be drawn southeastward from Canada by this potent storm.
Southerly: situated in or oriented toward the south; southern; south.
– A biting southerly gale intensified the cold at the same time that the blubber supply ran alarmingly low.
Southern: situated in or oriented toward the south; southerly; south.
– The highways in southern Georgia were famous for how dark they were, no light anywhere—no farm lights or streetlights or town lights.
Southernmost: situated farthest south; sothmost; south.
Southmost: situated farthest south; southermost; south.
– Sandy went to the door and knocked, and in a little while one answered at the southmost of the windows.
Southward: moving toward the south; southbound; south.
– The routes along those waterways led to others that followed rivers from the Southeast and connected with roads that turned southward toward the Valley of Mexico.
Southwesterly: coming from the southwest; southwest; south.
– High strata cloud, fresh southwesterly, but air pressure falling.
Southwestward: toward the southwest; south.
– The sun, risen behind the copse, threw long shadows from the trees southwestward across the field.
Sovereign: (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces; free; self-governing.
– One feels the need to bow to unquestioned sovereigns.
Soviet: of or relating to or characteristic of the former Soviet Union or its people.
– He did not feel defeated by the end of the Soviet Union; he felt emboldened by it.
Sown: sprinkled with seed; seeded; planned.
– Westerners are shocked and confused by that, but really it’s a case of the West reaping what it has sown.
Sozzled: filled with bewilderment; as a loss; perplexed.
– They stare at me with puzzled expressions, but aid in the destruction.
Spacey: stupefied by (or as if by) some narcotic drug; spacy; spaced-out.
– For a minute, it seems like Miss Saunders is getting all spacey on us.
Spacial: pertaining to or involving or having the nature of space; spatial.
– Over time, these actions served to dull the vibrancy of color and flatten the spacial appearance.
Spaciotemporal: existing in both space and time; having both spatial extension and temporal duration; spatiotemporal; comprehensive.
Spacious: (of buildings and rooms) having ample space; roomy; convenient.
– He swept through the spacious, echoing lobby of the building in a temper of scalding and vindictive resentment.
Spacy: stupefied by (or as if by) some narcotic drug; spacy; unconventional.
– She has spacy eyes, as all people recently from Asia have.
Spangled: covered with beads or jewels or sequins; adorned; decorated.
– Above him, the wide sweep of sky is spangled with stars.
Spangly: covered with beads or jewels or sequins; beady; spangled.
– I always imagine her in spangly, sequined evening gowns with stiletto heels that make her look two meters tall.
Spanish: of or relating to or characteristic of Spain or the people of Spain.
– Like the in-mates, they were startled to find that I spoke Spanish.
Spare: more than is needed, desired, or required; excess; extra.
– This is just a little knickknack I made in my spare time. If you don’t want it, just throw it away
Sparing: avoiding waste; economical; thrifty.
– Even with all Grandpa had said in the kitchen, I half expected him to thank God for sparing me, but he didn’t.
Sparkling: shining with brilliant points of light like stars; starry.
– The grass was wet with dew and a million dewdrops were sparkling and twinkling like diamonds around his feet.
Sparkly: having brief brilliant points or flashes of light; agillter; glittery.
– Her face was plastered on all her campaign materials, along with lots of sparkly stickers and glitter.
Sparse: not dense; thin; distributed.
– The dead were laid out in rows on the sparse grass.
Spartan: of or relating to or characteristic of Sparta or its people.
– The finale was supposed to be a couple of hundred-foot-tall Spartan warriors who would crackle to life above the ocean, fight a batde, then explode into a million colors.
Spasmodic: occurring in spells and often abruptly; fitful; sporadic.
– I wave as lightly as I can, so people think maybe I have a spasmodic twitch.
Spastic: occurring in spells and often abruptly; fitful; sporadic.
– She sits and her cane flexes against the gravel and the boy clicks his buttons in spasmodic flurries.
Spatial: pertaining to or involving or having the nature of space; special.
– The second test had to do with spatial relationships and left me with a headache that would last for the next twenty-four hours.
Spatiotemporal: existing in both space and time; having both spatial extension and temporal duration; spatiotemporal; comprehensive.
– The final result was the first spatiotemporal cell atlas of the embryonic human heart between 6.5 and 7 weeks of development.
Spattered: covered with bright patches (often used in combination); dabbled; converted.
– His long golden beak sank out of sight and a sudden shower of dark blood spattered the floor.
Spatulate: (of a leaf shape) having a broad rounded apex and a narrow base; simple; unsubdivied.
– He was a sad, birdlike man with the spatulate face and scrubbed, tapering features of a well-groomed rat.
Spavined: (of horses) afflicted with a swelling of the hock-joint; unfit.
– I was already feeling like a spavined, misshapen old gnome.
Spayed: (of a female animal) having the ovaries removed; casterted; unsexed.
– An altered female dog or cat is spayed.
Speakable: capable of being uttered in words or sentences; uttreable; expressive.
– For me it’s about those areas that are less speakable in a way.
Speaking: capable of or involving speech or speaking; tongued.
– By the time she is done staring, blinking, wiping away tears, all without speaking English, our entire family has a sponsor to Alabama.
Special: adapted to or reserved for a particular purpose; speciallized.
– There was a splendid supper for everyone; for everyone, that is, except those invited to the special family dinner-party.
Specialised: developed or designed for a special activity or function; spectific; special.
Specialistic: showing focused training; specialized.
– The subject-matter of the volumes often gives rise to specialistic collections.
Specialized: developed or designed for a special activity or function; specific; specialistic.
– The crew Shin joined specialized in digging up daikon.
Specifiable: capable of being specified; identifiable.
– Just as the words black and wrong have no specifiable empirical content, the word right has none, either.
Specific: stated explicitly or in detail; specified.
– He balances the entire design on that one specific word Mr. Barris used.
Specious: plausible but false; false; superious.
– Thus as I sipped my smoking sour beer I thought that at table Estraven’s performance had been womanly, all charm and tact and lack of substance, specious and adroit.
Specked: having a pattern of dots; dotted; stippled.
– Through the fly- specked screen-door, I could see that the arms of Momma’s apron jiggled from the vibrations of her humming.
Speckled: having a pattern of dots; dotted; flecked.
– Last night I went over some scenarios and got almost giddy—a strange sort of giddy that was speckled with big drops of fear.
Speckless: completely neat and clean; clean; spotless.
– He is a tall man—six feet two,—and although he is barely fifty his hair is specklessly white.
Speckless: completely neat and clean; spic; clean.
– He is a tall man—six feet two,—and although he is barely fifty his hair is specklessly white.
Spectacled: wearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an eyeglass; decorated; adorned.
– Another face—pale, spectacled, with a small straw-coloured mustache.
Spectacular: sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect; dramatic; impressive.
– One of the most spectacular fish kills of recent years occurred in the Colorado River below Austin, Texas, in 1961.
Spectral: resembling or characteristic of a phantom; spiritual; ghostly.
– Closing his ears to the horrifying sounds and preferring to think of them as draughts of air rather than spectral voices, Taran quickened his pace.
Spectrographic: relating to or employing a spectrograph.
– Through spectrographic technology, we were able to examine erasures in Emily’s letters.
Spectrometric: of or relating to or involving spectrometry.
– However, mass spectrometric measurements reveal that the mass of an atom is 4.0026 amu, less than the combined masses of its six constituent subatomic particles.
Specular: capable of reflecting light like a mirror; mirrorlike; reflective.
– It is difficult to imagine popular music without his stark, and specular, existential insight.
Speculative: not based on fact or investigation; notional; theoretic.
– I watched him repress the anger, watched as his eyes grew speculative.
Speechless: temporarily incapable of speaking; dumb; unanticipated.
– They were speechless at the sight of this traveling circus.
Speedy: characterized by speed; moving with or capable of moving with high speed; rapid; fast.
– Father had named him Red Rabbit after the speedy horse of the god of war.
Spellbinding: attracting and holding interest as if by a spell; hypnotic; attractive.
– So spellbinding were the broadcasts of this station, that each time something interesting came on, I would abandon whatever I was doing to listen.
Spellbound: having your attention fixated as though by a spell; enhanced; hypnotized.
– He seemed literary, to the extent we knew what that was, but not spellbound by his own voice.
Spendable: (use of funds) remaining after taxes; expandable; disposable.
– He had told me once that “all knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market.
Spendthrift: recklessly wasteful; wasteful; prodigal.
– At the same time he was more of a carouser and spendthrift than ever.
Spent: drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted; worn out; tried.
– When I wasn’t watching television or receiving guests, I spent time packing, preparing for the journey back to Pátzcuaro.
Spermatic: consisting of or resembling spermatozoa; spremous.
– Some break the spermatic cord without tearing it; they twist it, and then pull it gently and finally until it gives way.
Spermicidal: destructive to spermatozoa.
– These spermicidal pessaries could be found at the Mother’s Clinic in London starting in the 1920s.
Spermous: consisting of or resembling spermatozoa; spermatic.
Spheric: having the shape of a sphere or ball; circular; round.
– When thrilling from His hand along Its lustrous path with spheric song The earth was deathless, sorrowless.
Spherical: having the shape of a sphere or ball; globose; round.
– The heart of the citadel, that great spherical chamber where only Minya could still go, had served, all this time, as a…a vault.
Sphingine: resembling a sphinx.
Spic: completely neat and clean; spotless; clean.
Spicate: having or relating to spikes.
– The yellow flowers are produced on spicate racemes, while the leaves are alternate, smooth and spear-shaped
Spick: competely neat and clean; clean; spotless.
Spicy: having an agreeably pungent taste; tasty; zesty.
– Approaching the Eagle Mountains, Taran felt his burden lighten, as he inhaled the dry, spicy scent of pine.
Spiderlike: relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida; spiderly; spidery.
– A spider like creature made of clockwork and gears scuttled by.
Spiderly: relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida; arachnoid; spiderlike.
Spidery: relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida; spiderlike; spiderly.
– It was tall and spidery, horned and fanged and furred.
Spiffing: excellent or splendid; superior.
– Scotland is also busy spiffing up its sights.
Spiffy: marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; dapper; stylish.
– While he dusted off his hat, Miss Love said, “You’d really look spiffy in a new cut of suit, Mr. Blakeslee.
Spikelike: resembling a spike; pointed.
– Coronaviruses get their name from the crown of spikelike proteins that surround them.
Spiky: having or as if having especially high-pitched spots; peaky; high.
– There’s a plastic spiky yellow thing hanging from her neck.
Spindly: long and lean; lank; thin.
– Under those sturdy towers of legs are spindly shanks, thin and not too straight; with his chest ruff removed one can see the sagging stomach of the middle-aged.
Spineless: weak in willpower, courage or vitality; gutless; weak.
Spinnable: capable or susceptible to being influenced by biased information; impressible; waxy.
– Accessed through Burberry’s main mobile website, it includes a spinnable 3D model of the watch, which shows the time and weather for the visitor’s current location.
Spinnbar: capable of being spun into fibers; spinnable; flexible.
Spinose: having spines; rough.
– Leaves mostly rigid and more or less spinose.
Spinous: shaped like a spine or thorn; pointed; spiny.
– The transverse and spinous processes serve as important muscle attachment sites.
Spiny: having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; barbed; armed.
– A rabbit jumped up and ran toward a thicket of spiny hawthorn trees.
Spiral: in the shape of a coil; colling; coiled.
– Lower and lower the dragon flew, in great spiraling circles, honing in, it seemed, upon one of the smaller lakes.
Spiraled: in the shape of a coil; coiled; helical.
Spiraling: in the shape of a coil; colling; spiral.
– And the girl sent the bullet spiraling back into the man’s chest.
Spirant: of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f’, `s’, `z’, or `th’ in both `thin’ and `then’); soft; sibilant.
– G is the soft spirant, not used in English
Spirited: displaying animation, vigor, or liveliness; lively; energetic.
– Only a fool rushes first impressions with a spirited young Khershaen.
Spiritless: lacking ardor or vigor or energy; dull; bloodless.
– He was a blonde, spiritless man, anemic, and faintly handsome.
Spiritous: containing or of the nature of alcohol; alcoholic; spirituous.
– Dad has drunk a good deal of spirituous and malt liquor in his time, but I don’t think he ever indulged much in champagne at three or four dollars a bottle at home.
Spiritual: lacking material body or form or substance; immaterial; incorporeal.
– He was a silk-haired senior, with his cope and crosier, alb and ring —urbane, ecclesiastical, knowing the spiritual power.
Spiritualist: of or relating to or connected with spiritualism; spiritualistic.
– He followed her in 1868 when she and her younger sister, Tennessee Claflin, moved to New York City to work as spiritualist healers.
Spiritualistic: of or relating to or connected with spiritualism; spiritualistic.
– From these figures are evolved all kinds of theories on moral, social, and spiritualistic questions.
Spirituous: containing or of the nature of alcohol; spirituous; alcoholic.
– They contained perhaps an undue proportion of spirituous liquor.
Spiteful: showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite; malicious; vindictive.
– In small and spiteful ways, the authorities did their best to make Winnie’s journeys as unpleasant as possible.
Splanchnic: relating to or affecting the viscera; visceral.
– Most of them are banished by frequent hearty laughter which, with its exercise of the diaphragm, tends to stimulate splanchnic blood vessels and nerves.
Splashy: marked by ostentation but often tasteless; showy; flamboyant.
– We think the shirts are a little too splashy,” said Grace.
Splattered: covered with bright patches (often used in combination); dabbled; spattered.
Splay: turned outward in an ungainly manner; splayfoot; splayfooted.
– When she saw me splayed out on the floor and the mess in the tub, she ran for the phone and called the team doctor.
Splayfoot: having feet that turn outward; flat-footed; splay.
Splayfooted: having feet that turn outward; splayfoot; splay.
– We splash forward, following the innkeeper’s lurching, splayfooted stride.
Splendid: characterized by grandeur; brilliant; impressive.
– Asgard will be gone, but Idavoll will stand where Asgard once stood, splendid and continual.
Splendiferous: having great beauty and splendor; glorious; splendid.
– Hearty and splendiferous congratulations to you all,” he said without any of his usual zip.
Splenetic: of or relating to the spleen; lineal; splenic.
– On the other hand, it’s splenetically funny enough that such concerns are usually forgotten.
Splenic: of or relating to the spleen; lineal; splenetic.
– When he finally died, the catalyst was a rupturing of his splenic artery and a heart attack.
Splinterless: resistant to shattering or splintering; unbreakable; splinterproof.
– Recycled plastics have come a long way in appearance, and you can find weatherproof, splinterless Adirondack chairs in a candy jar of colors for a fun pop.
Splinterproof: resistant to shattering or splintering; unbreakable; shatterproof.
Splintery: resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points; silvery.
– The splintery fence-top sawed my bum and palms as I inched along it.
Splitting: resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree; rending; ripping.
– Even though Kat’s voice was like a supersonic boom splitting my eardrum, I was glad.
Splotched: marked with irregularly shaped spots or blots; blotched; blotchy.
– He was young, for he wore the splotched plumage of the juvenile and still had a trace of baby-yellow around his beak.
Spoilable: liable to decay or spoil or become putrid; perishable; putrescible.
– Parasite is a story full of spoilable surprises.
Spoiled: having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or oversolicitous attention; spoiled; ill-natured.
– You are spoiled girls, she twinkled, as if rebuking a kitten.
Spoken: uttered through the medium of speech or characterized by speech; sometimes used in combination; arcuated.
– A slowly, hesitantly spoken “Yeah” was my general verbal reaction to almost everything I heard.
Spondaic: of or consisting of spondees.
– There is in its slow spondaic movement an eternity of tears.
Spongelike: easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility; soft; sqasy.
– She’s at an age at which she has a sponge-like relationship with information, and some of that new information concerns the city where she has lived all her life.
Spongy: easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility; soft; sqisy.
– The interior of the cloud felt spongy and chilly, real and insubstantial at once.
Spontaneous: said or done without having been planned or written in advance; ab-lid; unwritten.
– Thus one might think that the possibility of spontaneous proton decay could not be tested experimentally.
Spooky: inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening; eery; strange.
– The front porch of the spooky house is sagging, the windows have no panes.
Sporadic: recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances; fitful; intermittent.
– The staff members were always on guard to control these sporadic outbursts.
Sporogenous: producing spores or reproducing by means of spores.
– The cells which will produce the sporogenous tissue are shaded.
Sporting: exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play; clean; sportly.
– They—the kings with the tank-like knights of their nobility —were prepared to take a sporting risk.
Sportive: given to merry frolicking; cotlish; playful.
– The path there is a sportive mash-up of fact and fiction.
Sportsmanlike: exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play; clean; fair.
– Now, gentlemen, this hunt must be carried out in a sportsmanlike way.
Sporty: exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play; just; fair.
– This is definitely a first for me. The sportiest thing I’ve ever done is run after the bus,” Juanga says as he ties his shoelace.
Spotless: completely neat and clean; clean; spic.
– Dad dusted off his hands gingerly with a spotless handkerchief.
Spotted: having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture); patched; spotty.
– Hours later, Russell and Piper spotted him three blocks off.
Spotty: lacking consistency; scratch; uneven.
– I look around me, coughing away, the world spotty and wavy.
Spousal: relating to a spouse; bridal; nuptical.
– They told the authorities that their son had moved out and that he had been charged with only false imprisonment and spousal battery.
Sprawling: spreading out in different directions; untidy; straggly.
– Another erupted to Nina’s right, sending her sprawling.
Sprawly: spread out irregularly; extended.
– They had started off up Orchard Avenue in a sprawly column when Marshall suddenly stopped and tugged at Melanie’s arm.
Spread: prepared or arranged for a meal; especially having food set out; prepared.
– When the midnight office was said in the church, the whole household trooped back to the Hall, where tables were spread for the feast.
Sprigged: decorated with designs of sprigs; patterned.
– Aunt Docia’s dress was a sprigged print, dark blue, with sprigs of red flowers and green leaves thick upon it.
Sprightly: full of spirit and vitality; spiritted.
– Little Hamlet is a sprightly child with his father’s dark hair and Gertrude’s gray eyes.
Springless: lacking in elasticity or vitality; inelastic.
– These conveyances are springless, and about 9 feet long by 4 feet wide.
Springlike: resembling a spring or the action of a spring; elastic.
– Without language, the energy that is uncoiled, springlike, inside information can only be used once.
Springy: elastic; rebounds readily; bouncy; elastic.
– Sometimes when I saw him at a distance—fists in pockets, whistling, bobbing along with his springy old walk—I would have a strong pang of affection mixed with regret.
Spruce: marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; dapper; stylish.
– He looked round at his bedraggled, shivering comrades and then at Kehaar, spruce and brisk on the stern.
Spry: moving quickly and lightly; active; quick.
– Art remembered when he had been more spry, remembered him pitching horseshoes at the Strawberry Festival.
Spumy: emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation; bubbling; fourthly.
– The savior of the world appears in this painting as a soft, spumy cipher.
Spurious: plausible but false; spacious; false.
– Once more he was that self he had long since taught himself to wear in the world’s eye, pompous, spurious, not quite gross.
Squab: short and fat; little; short.
– He had cooked squab in soy sauce so that the skin and meat were a deep, deep brown all the way to the bone.
Squabby: short and fat; little; short.
– The Empire brought in squat and squabby shapes, comfortable enough no doubt, but entirely destitute of inspiration.
Squalid: foul and run-down and repulsive; flyblown; sordid.
– And never was he happier than when he had someone cornered and at his mercy; it seemed that the deepest meaning of his squalid life was in him at such times.
Squally: characterized by short periods of noisy commotion; sqalling; unquiet.
– All the long, lonely way to the Cape, all the treacherous, squally weeks in the Indian Ocean—he was responsible.
Squamulose: covered with tiny scales; rough; unsmooth.
– The stem is white, squamulose, bulb rugulose, ring superior and entire.
Squandered: not used to good advantag; lost; wasted.
– His uniform barely fit, and his locker forever smelled like the rotting food he squandered.
Square: having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle; quadrate; squard.
– There was four hundred square miles of forest, so they said, and enough for all.
Squared: having been made square; square.
– She squared her shoulders as Cain strode straight toward her, his thick lips parting in a grin.
Squarish: somewhat square in appearance or form; square.
– When she dares look outside, the people are paintings, outlined in black, their faces crushed and squarish.
Squashed: that has been violently compressed.
– Candles were broken and vegetables squashed across the walls.
Squashy: easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility; soft; spongy.
– The bags she filled grew soggy with juice, the tomatoes soft and squashy.
Squat: short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature; chunky; little.
– Calvin slammed his squat, square, heavy body into the seat and stared hard at Alex.
Squatty: short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature; short; little.
– It was just the opposite, rather low and squatty.
Squawky: like the cackles or squawks a hen makes especially after laying an egg; cackly; cacophonic.
– He instructed his secretary through the squawky intercom that she clear the rest of his afternoon.
Squeaking: having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge; high; squealing.
– As they pushed forward the squeaking increased till it became a frenzy.
Squeaky: having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge; high-pitched; high.
– She launched into some high, squeaky melody and Stick and I glanced at each other.
Squealing: having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge; high-pitched; high.
– When she progressed to squealing and shrieking, many of the men turned away, unable to take any more.
Squeamish: excessively fastidious and easily disgusted; dainty; nice
– It was the creepers that made him squeamish.
Squeezable: capable of being easily compressed; comprehensibel.
– Jabari was next to him, and passed me the squeezable French’s mustard bottle.
Squiffy: very drunk; stiff; tight.
Squiggly: wavy and twisting; crooked.
– There are signs everywhere with squiggly names scrawled on them.
Squinched: having eyes half closed in order to see better; shut; clost.
– He noticed that when I talked to people I squinched my lazy eye kind of shut or that I’d put my hand on my face to cover it.
Squint: (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy; indrect; askane.
– He squinted and put his hand up to his forehead like an army salute, to block the sun.
Squinting: having eyes half closed in order to see better; closed; shut.
– Lucas looked up toward them as we went, squinting, blinking, trying to see.
Squinty: (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy; sqint; indirect.
– He had gaps between his front teeth, and the squinty eyes of someone who had spent most of his life outdoors.
Squishy: easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility; soft; sqasy.
– It was squishy, and as soon as I smelled it I knew.
Stabilised: made stable or firm; stabilized; stable.
– In hospital she was put on a drip and given a variety of drugs, and her condition stabilised.
Stabilising: causing to become stable; stabilizing; helpful.
– It is all to do with stabilising insulin, which makes sense, especially during menopause as women often produce too much cortisol.
Stable: resistant to change of position or condition; constant; lastly.
– The bikes were hidden in her abandoned stables beneath twenty-year-old hay.
Staccato: (music) marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds; cut short crisply; abrupt; disconnected.
– It flashed again and was followed by a rapid staccato of gunfire.
Stackable: (music) marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds; cut short crisply; disconnected; abrupt.
– It flashed again and was followed by a rapid staccato of gunfire.
Stacked: (of a woman’s body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves; shapely; curvy.
– A co-ed sat at a graceful table stacked with magazines.
Stagey: having characteristics of the stage especially an artificial and mannered quality; stagy; theatrical.
– He waved his hat aloft and bowed graciously to either side, with a fixed, stagey smile on his face.
Stagflationary: characteristic of or promoting stagflation.
– A shift now even to a 3 percent target, let alone a higher one, would set the stage for a stagflationary decade.
Staggering: so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm; astonishing; superfying.
– The Apache grabbed him, and they started pushing at each other, in a staggering circle on the dance floor.
Stagnant: not growing or changing; without force or vitality; moribund; undynamic.
– Sadly, no one had considered the hazards that might result from stagnant water in the pipes.
Stagy: having characteristics of the stage especially an artificial and mannered quality; stagey; theatrical.
– Now he pauses outside the bathroom door, clears his throat, a stagy ahem.
Staid: characterized by dignity and propriety; sedate; decorous.
– He wasn’t wearing staid mercher black any longer, but garish striped trousers and a maroon paisley vest.
Stainable: capable of being stained (especially of cells and cell parts).
– For the first step, use a stainable filler such as Quikwood Epoxy Putty Stick or Mohawk Wood Epoxy Putty Stick.
Stained: having a coating of stain or varnish; vanished; painted.
– May your hands always be stained with blood.
Stainless: (of reputation) free from blemishes; unmarried; unsullied.
– Then a door which opened by means of a large wheel; a hiss of air, and a brilliantly lit chamber with dazzling white tiles and stainless steel.
Stale: lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age; addled; cold.
– He ate the stale grey bread hungrily, but not the meat.
Stalemated: at a complete standstill because of opposition of two unrelenting forces or factions; deadlocked;
obstructed.
– A decade later, the last vestiges of its many failures continue to play out in a stalemated war in Afghanistan against a rag-tag minority insurgency that can’t be beaten.
Stalinist: of or relating to Joseph Stalin or his times.
– Earlier in her life, Wanda was a player—“the Red Wanda,” a Stalinist state prosecutor who sent “enemies of the people” to their death for the good of the revolution.
Stalkless: attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk; sessile.
– If a flower is stalkless, i. e. sits directly in the axil or other support, it is said to be sessile.
Stalwart: having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships; heardy; stout.
– So important was this day that an old man came to see, riding on the stalwart shoulders of his nephew.
Staminate: capable of fertilizing female organs; antheral; male.
– The flowers, which are of two kinds, are borne in racemes in the leaf-axils; the staminate flowers in larger numbers.
Standby: ready for emergency use; secondary.
– The “red dots,” specially designated officers on standby for an emergency, would then run there to offer aid.
Standing: having a supporting base; ere t; upright.
– He was standing next to her and purposely bumping his backpack into her shoulder.
Standoffish: lacking cordiality; unfriendly; offish; unapproachable.
– The people weren’t mean up there, but some had a kind of standoffish nature.
Standpat: old-fashioned and out of date; fusty; nonprogessive.
– It was all as simple as beating a standpat Congressman.
Stannic: of or relating to or containing tin; stannous.
– White enamel is made by the addition of stannic and arsenious acids to the flux.
Stannous: of or relating to or containing tin; stannic.
– For example, you may see the words stannous fluoride on a tube of toothpaste.
Staphylococcal: of or relating to the staphylococcus bacteria.
– Herpes of the lips, due to a mild staphylococcal infection, is common in delicate children and in the early stages of pneumonia.
Staple: necessary or important, especially regarding food or commodities; essential.
– The newcomers began to hunt the deer and gather the nuts and berries that were the Neanderthals’ traditional staples.
Star: indicating the most important performer or role; leading; major.
– The star whose light she was now seeing could have gone out years ago.
Starboard: located on the right side of a ship or aircraft; right.
– I turned to face the waves off the starboard side of the boat.
Starchless: lacking starch.
– Even in a state of complete inertia, a shirt-collar will fall starchless in five minutes.
Starchlike: resembling starch; amylaceous; starchy.
– The rash is thought to be a toxic reaction to a starchlike component of the shiitake mushroom.
Starchy: consisting of or containing starch; starchlike; amyloid.
– Rue contributes a big handful of some sort of starchy root to the meal.
Staring: (used of eyes) open and fixed as if in fear or wonder; agaze; open.
– In the far corner the television was on, and Mrs. Salinger was staring at it, with her back to the classroom.
Stark: severely simple; stern; plain.
– Or maybe it’s an effect of the stark white light, illuminating just her face.
Starkers: (British informal) stark naked; unclothed.
– One man stands starkers on his friend’s shoulders in order to tackle-flash the overhead camera.
Starless: not starry; having no stars or starlike objects.
– Instead, I stared at the small shadows and big emptiness of the starless ceiling.
Starlike: resembling a star; starry.
– Because they are starlike in appearance, they were naturally thought to be stars within our own galaxy.
Starlit: lighted only by stars; starry.
– Dessie looked out her window at the starlit night and she was glad.
Starred: marked with an asterisk; asterisk.
Starring: indicating the most important performer or role; major; leading.
– Isabelle told Hugo about other movies she loved: comedies and cartoons and cowboy movies starring someone named Tom Mix.
Starry: abounding with or resembling stars; comet-like; sparkling.
– No feel of space, of size, a great starry roof overhead, a great wind blowing.
Starting: appropriate to the beginning or start of an event; opening.
– Conor could feel himself slowly starting to get very, very angry.
Startled: excited by sudden surprise or alarm and making a quick involuntary movement; surprised.
– I can see his face now, his startled innocent blue eyes
Startling: so remarkably different or sudden as to cause momentary shock or alarm; surprising.
– I’m not sure that what I am about to describe really rates as a startling coincidence.
Starving: suffering from lack of food; starved; malnourished.
– But some watch us, the way starving foxes might watch a lion—hungry for what we have.
Statant: standing on four feet; erect; vertical.
– The English crest is a crown surmounted by a lion statant guardant crowned, or.
Stated: declared as fact; explicitly stated; declared; explicit.
– He was in France last summer, for your information,” Lane stated.
Stateless: without nationality or citizenship; homeless; unsettled.
– We had always been stateless—not citizens of Congo, not citizens of Rwanda.
Stately: impressive in appearance; baroneal; noble.
– We have to be dignified,” she would whisper then, stepping down the stairs in an especially stately way.
Statesmanlike: marked by the qualities of or befitting a statesman; statesmanly.
– He looked from one to another of his listeners, grave and statesmanlike.
Statesmanly: marked by the qualities of or befitting a statesman.
– Obama’s statesmanly grace was, in fact, needless acquiescence.
Statewide: occurring or extending throughout a state; comprehensive.
– Tyler won a statewide contest with that lens.
Static: not in physical motion; inactive; still.
– But another burst of static, longer this time, quiets her in midsentence.
Stationary: not capable of being moved; fixed
– Mental,” Ron sighed, shaking his head at the completely stationary soccer players.
Statistical: of or relating to statistics.
– In 1914, as war broke out in Europe, he began working as a statistical analyst in the City of London.
Stative: ( used of verbs (e.g. `be’ or `own’) and most participial adjectives) expressing existence or a state rather than an action.
Statuary: of or relating to or suitable for statues.
– I scrambled away and hid in the statuary while Grover swooped down for another pass.
Statuesque: of size and dignity suggestive of a statue; stately; tail.
– She was thin and statuesque, and white men said she looked as though she was Indian or Hawaiian.
Statute: enacted by a legislative body; codified; written.
– As a matter of fact this might violate a federal statute; he tried to remember the relevant law, found he could not.
Statutory: prescribed or authorized by or punishable under a statute; legal.
– Local jury commissions used statutory requirements that jurors be “intelligent and upright” to exclude African Americans and women.
Staunch: firm and dependable especially in loyalty; steadfast; constant.
– Buckthorn, perhaps the most sensible and staunch of them all.
Steadfast: marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable; firm; steady.
– Despite congressional apathy and obstruction, the suffragists remained steadfast.
Steadied: made steady or constant; steady.
– He steadied himself, clenching his fists, jaw tight as a cornerstone.
Steady: securely in position; not shaky; secure.
– So, taking a deep breath to steady himself, he grasped the twin handles.
Steadying: causing to become steady; helpful.
– Her left hand clamps the banister, in pain maybe but holding on, steadying her.
Stealthy: marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; furtive; concealed.
– This blank, stealthy dream was of a different nature.
Steamed: aroused to impatience or anger; annoyed; miffed.
– For this buttoned-up age, for Burnham, it was a letter that could have steamed itself open.
Steaming: filled with steam or emitting moisture in the form of vapor or mist; steamy; wet.
– Even as he spoke, he shot across the room and dumped the steaming contents of the pot down the drain.
Steamy: hot or warm and humid; muggy;sticky.
– She looks calm and peaceful, like she could doze off right here in the middle of this steamy, scary jungle.
Stearic: of or relating to or composed of fat.
– Palmitic and stearic acids are saturated acids that contain no double or triple bonds.
Steely: resembling steel in hardness; hard.
– He opened his eyes and gave the Elders a steely gaze.
Steep: having a sharp inclination; bluff; bold.
– After a time the steep swells smooth out
Steepish: somewhat steep; steep.
– The track ended, and there was a steepish drop, down between two banks, covered in bracken and fern that came waist high.
Steerable: capable of being steered or directed; dirigible; manageable.
– The secluded town is home to the world’s largest steerable telescope, legally protected since 1958.
Stellar: distinguished from others in excellence; outstanding; superior.
– What a surprise. Service is so stellar, I thought the place would be packed.
Stellate: arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common center; radial; symmetric.
Stemless: (of plants) having no apparent stem above ground; acaulesent.
– I’m not a fan of stemless bowls, but if you like them, treat them as you would stems.
Stemmatic: of or relating to a textual stemma.
Stenosed: abnormally constricted body canal or passage; stenoic; constricted.
– Pathologic vascular remodeling often results in stenosed or occluded conduit grafts.
Stentorian: (used of the voice) very loud or booming; booming; full.
– It was there, hanging in open air—stentorian and petrifying in its effects.
Stepwise: one thing at a time; gradual; piecemeal.
– From the precursors of food production already practiced by hunter-gatherers, it developed stepwise.
Stereo: designating sound transmission from two sources through two channels; binaural; binaural.
– He even put a decent stereo in it.
Stereoscopic: of or relating to stereoscopy.
– Ooh! ooh! the stereoscopic blonde and aah! the more than real blackamoor.
Stereotypic: lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality; conventional; stereotyped.
– The book is ambitious in scope, but the more you read the less its mysteries deepen and the more its stereotypic protagonists stay put in their shallows.
Sterile: incapable of reproducing; barren; unfertile.
– There are a few syringes sealed in sterile plastic on a table near Beetee’s bed.
Sterilised: made infertile; sterellized; sterile.
– Store in a sterilised sealed jar in the fridge for up to 3 weeks.
Sterling: highest in quality; greatest; superior.
– Among his other sterling qualities are cheap tickets to the Yucatan.
Sternal: of or relating to or near the sternum.
– She also suffered a “sternal fracture due to blunt trauma” as a result of her car crash.
Sternutative: causing sneezing; sternutatory; causative.
Sternutatory: causing sneezing; casuative.
– Its effects as a sternutatory, i. e. as exciting to sneeze, are known to all.
Steroidal: of or relating to steroid hormones or their effects.
– Busting up gangsters’ steroidal S.U.V.’s is one thing, violating the privacy of a working stiff quite another.
Stertorous: of breathing having a heavy snoring sound; noisy.
– Orr was breathing rhythmically with a noise that was stertorous and repulsive.
Sticky: having the sticky properties of an adhesive; gluey; gummy.
Stiff: not moving or operating freely; immobile.
– His prison uniform felt the same—stiff against my cheek, familiar as daylight.
Stifled: held in check with difficulty; smoothed; inhibited.
– Jimmy, two tables away, notices my stifled laughter, smiles at me, and laughs himself.
Stifling: characterized by oppressive heat and humidity; hot; sultry.
– Small, stifling, and quiet, it made quite a change from the Elmuthaleth.
Stigmatic: pertaining to or resembling or having stigmata.
– Ovary 3-celled; styles 3, thick, awl-shaped, recurved, stigmatic down their whole length inside.
Still: not in physical motion; inactive; static.
– The terrier was still utterly exhausted, and in addition had lost a lot of blood from the gashes suffered at the cub’s claws the day before.
Stillborn: failing to accomplish an intended result; abortive; unfruitful.
– The first nun to break with Ebola was a midwife who had delivered a stillborn child.
Stilled: not in physical motion; inactive; static.
Stilly: ludicrous, foolish; zany; foolish.
– She looked so genuinely concerned that Petra and Calder began to wonder if they had jumped to silly conclusions the day before.
Stilted: (of speech or writing) artificially formal or stiff; artificial; unnatural.
– We drove through the darkened streets to his home, talking in a strangely stilted manner.
Stimulant: that stimulates; stimulating; excitent.
– It gave me a curious satisfaction, it acted upon me like a stimulant.
Stimulating: that stimulates; stimulant; stimulatiive.
– He reminisced about the stimulating conversations that took place in rustic pubs over warm beer.
Stimulative: capable of arousing or accelerating physiological or psychological activity or response by a chemical agent; stimulating; analiptic.
– Many Republican lawmakers, however, have expressed skepticism about its stimulative impact on the economy.
Stinging: (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character; cutting; unkind.
– His stinging tail was straight out behind him, but he could whip it up in a flash of time.
Stingless: without a sting.
– Inside was the hive where the stingless bees stored their honey.
Stingy: unwilling to spend; ungenerous; cheap.
– Elizabeth longed for her father’s approval, but he was stingy with his praise.
Stinking: offensively malodorous; fetid; foul.
– One afternoon, we cross the wooden planks laid over the stinking green ooze.
Stinky: having an unpleasant smell; bilgy; smelly.
– She’s the one who does the laundry for the whole family and is always complaining about my stinky stuff
Stinting: avoiding waste; frugal; thrifty.
– I narrated its events, not stinting Pro Bono’s actions therein.
Stipendiary: receiving or eligible for; paid; salarid.
– Later in the course of the inquiry the trainer and the stipendiary stewards were talking in Hindi and I couldn’t understand what they were saying.
Stippled: having a pattern of dots; patterend; dotted.
– White throats and cheek patches shimmered above pale breast feathers stippled with black flecks.
Stipulatory: constituted or contracted by stipulation or agreement; agrred-upone; non-conventional.
Stirring: exciting strong but not unpleasant emotions; moving.
– The buffalo-headed man reached a hand into the fire, stirring the embers and the broken branches into a blaze.
Stochastic: being or having a random variable; random.
– The opening sentence of Iyer’s liner notes to his latest release, “Mutations,” informs you that genetic variations are “stochastic.
Stock: repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; banal; unoriginal.
– They read and reread their small stock of books.
Stocked: furnished with more than enough; stoked-with; furnished.
– The rest of the hold was stocked with crates, barrels, burlap sacks.
Stockinged: wearing stockings; unshod; unshoed.
– I know you worried that they would be too big, but they are a perfect fit after I’ve wrapped my stockinged feet in newspapers.
Stocky: having a short and solid form or stature; compact; short.
– Mr. Sen, a short, stocky man with slightly protuberant eyes and glasses with black rectangular frames, had been there, too.
Stodgy: excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull; stuffy; conventional.
– The installation brings a similar breath of fresh air to the stodgy period-room concept.
Stoic: pertaining to Stoicism or its followers.
– But Ricky, as the Stoics taught, did not enter that race.
Stoical: seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive; stoic; unemotional.
– Among some, accustomed to this practice by long usage in Africa, there is stoical assent; but the most are struck with horror.
Stoichiometric: of or relating to stoichiometry.
– The laser generates a specific wavelength of light that is absorbed in a stoichiometric fashion by glucose molecules – the more glucose molecules; the more photons are absorbed.
Stolid: having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited; impassive; unemotional.
– He was Lady Whent’s man, stiff-necked and stolid, and the first to rise to aid Catelyn Stark back at the inn.
Stoloniferous: producing stolons.
– This is an erect perennial grass with creeping, stoloniferous root-stocks, with aerial stems varying from 6 inches to 3 feet.
Stomachal: relating to or involving the stomach; gastric.
– Margins of foot well developed; eyes superficial; three chitinous stomachal plates; shell external, with reduced spire.
Stomachic: relating to or involving the stomach; stomachal; gastric.
– It is highly fragrant, and is used as a stomachic and expectorant.
Stomatal: relating to or constituting plant stomata; stomatous.
– The opening and closing of stomata are controlled by specialized guard cells that surround the stomatal pore.
Stomatous: relating to or of the nature of or having a mouth or mouthlike opening; stomatal.
Stoned: under the influence of narcotics; drunk; inebriated.
– Even with him stoned out of his mind, I could see how people might confuse us for brothers.
Stoneless: (of fruits having stones) having the stone removed; seedless.
– It is also working on a stoneless cherry
Stonelike: (of bone especially the temporal bone) resembling stone in hardness; perrous; hard.
– The piles of feces in the bathtub were dried, obscene stonelike lumps.
Stony: abounding in rocks or stones; rough; unsmooth.
– He snivels and squints into the distance, searching the stony brown hills.
Stonyhearted: devoid of feeling for others; unfeeling.
– Still Mr Rubb sat in silence, and she thought that he must be stonyhearted.
Stoppable: capable of being stopped; abatable.
– If she was stoppable, then Angela, Cherry, and I were going to have to stop her.
Stoppered: (of a container) having a stopper in the opening; closed.
– He stoppered the chloroform, found a fresh cloth, and walked down the hall to Pearl’s room.
Storeyed: having stories as indicated; storied; high-rise.
– Its cottages were but one storeyed for the most part, and contained some three thousand inhabitants.
Storied: having an illustrious past; celebrated; historied.
– I have never spoken this many words in a row to Margo in our long and storied relationship, but here it is, my last play for her.
Stormbound: delayed or confined or cut off by a storm; confined.
– Before the game was played out one was dead by murder and another by suicide at Royal’s stormbound country place.
Stormproof: protected against or able to withstand storms; protected.
– People in the area rushed to stock up essentials and worked to stormproof their properties Friday.
Stormy: (especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion; angry; raging.
– Hazel’s eyes were stormy and distant, the way they’d been in the House of Hades – like she was peering into a different layer of reality.
Stout: having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships; hardy; sturdy.
– Tipping the scale at well over two hundred pounds, he was stout.
Stouthearted: possessing or displaying courage; doughty.
– The sight of the stouthearted old warrior, and the cap hardly seeming enough to protect his bald head, filled Taran suddenly with sadness.
Stovepiped: of or relating to data stored in separate databases.
– Instead, they “stovepiped” only the intelligence that would back up their desired goal to invade Iraq.
Straggling: spreading out in different directions; rambling; untidy.
– Soon, the crowd of gnomes in the field started walking away in a straggling line, their little shoulders hunched.
Straggly: growing or spreading sparsely or irregularly; distributive.
– It was piling in heaps on sidewalks, on roofs, gathering in patches on the bark of straggly trees
Straight: having no deviations; ditect; perpendicular.
– I’m glad Mrs. V is always straight up with me.
Straightarrow: conventionally moral and upright; sqare; straight.
Straightaway: performed with little or no delay; fast; quick.
– The hare smiled and said that he would set to work straightaway.
Straightforward: uncomplicated and easy to do or understand; uncomplicated; simple.
– In a straightforward case no fees will be charged.
Straightlaced: exaggeratedly proper; priggish; victorian.
– When you read that on the page, it seems so straightlaced
Strained: lacking natural ease; labored; stilted.
– Something hardened in his eyes, something strained the muscles in his jaw.
Strait: lacking natural ease; labored; awkward.
Straitlaced: exaggeratedly proper; prim; proper.
– Piper knew what her friends whispered about Jason—he was too perfect, too straitlaced.
Stranded: cut off or left behind; isolated; marooned.
– Trying to rescue Peeta from the shadowy world the hijacking has stranded him in.
Strange: being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird; unusual; antic.
– being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird.
Strapless: having no straps; unsupported.
– A pale pink strapless dress brushes my shoes.
Straplike: long and narrow like a strap; narrow.
– Technically, however, “daffodil” refers to large-flowered kinds with flat, straplike leaves.
Strategic: relating to or concerned with strategy; statistical.
– The fort there was one of the biggest, most strategic in the country.
Strategical: relating to or concerned with strategy; streagic.
– For all his show of force and arrogance, he had made a strategic error.
Stratified: deposited or arranged in horizontal layers; bedded; layers.
– The two men drank whiskey from bottles and filled the room with a stratified lake of cigarette smoke in the flame-white light of night.
Stravinskian: of or relating to or like or in the manner of stravinsky.
– Orchestra Variations is a mesh of Stravinskian high bassoons, Reichian pulsations, tangled trumpet fanfares.
Stravinskyan: of or relating to or like or in the manner of Stravinsky.
– A bass clarinet’s startling emergence from a Stravinskyan orchestral thicket was yet another of her sonic sleights of hand.
Straw: of a pale yellow color like straw; straw-colored; chromatic.
– So under the shadow of my straw hat, 1 just looked over at him.
Stray: (of an animal) having no home or having wandered away from home; lost.
– But that did not keep me from hearing gunshots as bullets entered the bodies of the strays.
Straying: unable to find your way; lost.
– His thoughts kept straying away from Admiral Drake.
Streaked: marked with or as if with stripes or linear discolorations; streaky; patterned.
– Her blonde hair is streaked with gray, and tied back in a thick, cinnamon-roll-shaped bun.
Streaky: marked with or as if with stripes or linear discolorations; streaked; patterned.
– The peregrines in the cliffs sat stoically, their mutton-chop-whiskers made streaky by the rain and the wet feathers standing upright on their heads.
Streamlined: made efficient by stripping off nonessentials.
– His graceful, streamlined body throughout blazing highlights as he loped with easy speed across the broken ground.
Streetwise: having the shrewd resourcefulness needed to survive in an urban environment; street; smart.
– Goldman was from Queens, a streetwise, muscled Air Force veteran in his forties, and I considered him a stalwart.
Strenuous: taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance; arduous; effortful.
– He shut his eyes, he shook his head in strenuous denial of these memories.
Strep: of or relating to or caused by streptococci; streptococcal; streptococcic.
– I came back to Buck’s Peak when I was sure the strep was gone.
Streptococcal: of or relating to or caused by streptococci; strep; streptococcic.
– The most likely explanation for his death is that Mozart caught the streptococcal infection that’s going around at his Masonic lodge.
Streptococcic: of or relating to or caused by streptococci; strep.
– If the form of sepsis is not determinable, streptococcal or staphylococcal vaccines might be administered.
Stressed: suffering severe physical strain or distress; distressed; troubled.
– She was exhausted, stressed, and dealing with the headaches.
Stressful: extremely irritating to the nerves; nerve-racking; disagreeable.
– I could see how that could be stressful, so Jazz and I do the best we can to not add to it.
Stretchable: capable of being easily stretched and resuming former size or shape; strechy; elastic.
– I am picturing a container that is stretchable.
Stretched: (of muscles) relieved of stiffness by stretching; flexible; flexile.
– She rolled over and stretched, blinking up at the blue sky
Stretchy: capable of being easily stretched and resuming former size or shape; stretchable; elastic.
– She has a flying saucer thing that can keep a salad chilled and a set of stretchy bands that give you rock-hard abs.
Striate: marked with stria or striations.
– Gazing ahead at the dark blue sky striated with clouds, Molly reaches up and touches the charms around her neck.
Strict: rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard; rigorous; exact.
– May this letter be in the strictest of your confidences, Father.
Strident: unpleasantly loud and harsh; raucous; blatant.
– So the weekends, destined to disappoint, are strident, sullen, sprinkled with bruises and dots of blood.
Strikebound: closed or immobilized by a strike; inactive.
– Homeless people hawked the strikebound paper as management struggled to keep it on the streets.
Striking: having a quality that thrusts itself into attention; outstanding; salient.
– I snapped four quick photos of Harris and Boukreev striking summit poses, then turned and headed down.
Stringent: demanding strict attention to rules and procedures; tight; demanding.
– Yet she decided that she would not permit this new and stringent law to interfere with her plan to keep guiding slaves out of Dorchester County.
Stringy: consisting of or containing string or strings; unreal; unsustainable.
– One was skinny and stringy and the other was all thick muscles and solid bones.
Striped: marked or decorated with stripes; strippy;patterned.
– There was one couch, and one fat chair covered in fuzzy striped material, and one big table, only Mrs. Murdo’s table wasn’t wobbly like theirs.
Stripy: marked or decorated with stripes; striped; patterned.
– This stripy sad cat is maybe how he feels.
Strong: having strength or power greater than average or expected; rugged; powerful.
– Each morning, she arrived early by bus and streetcar from her nearby village to brew the coffee, filling the apartment with its strong aroma.
Stroppy: obstreperous.
– Good news for those who admired Morgan Saylor’s performance as the sulky teen with typically stroppy attitude issues – she more than deserves the screen time.
Structural: relating to or having or characterized by structure.
Strung: that is on a string.
– They’re just big bulbs in different colors, strung along the eaves above the front porch.
Stubbled: having a short growth of beard; bestubleed; unshaven.
– Now a close shot of a prisoner, with a stubbled and dirty face, flanked by two Angels in their neat black uniforms.
Stubbly: having a short growth of beard; unshaven; stubbled.
– Hesitantly, he came over to the table, rubbing his stubbly chin.
Stubborn: tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield; obstinate; sturdy.
– Felicia could be very stubborn, too, but she had a gift that offset her stubbornness, a gift I admired very much.
Stubby: short and blunt; short.
– I glanced back just as the mysterious pirate was hurling Luno’s stubby gun into the basin.
Stuck: baffled; perplexed.
– When I thought I was stuck, I found a little ledge and shined up to it.
Studded: dotted or adorned with or as with studs or nailheads; usually used in combination; adorned; decorated.
– The spraying is not only improperly planned but studded with abuses such as these.
Studied: produced or marked by conscious design or premeditation; affected; unnatural.
– Dicey opened her eyes and studied the darkness of her knees.
Studious: characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading; bookish; scholarly.
– Patrice is just the opposite: studious, sober, and an exact physical copy of his father.
Stuffed: filled with something; full.
– We ran out of the kitchen, slammed the door, and stuffed rags in the gap beneath it.
Stuffy: filled with something; full.
– The house was stuffy from being closed up all winter.
Stumpy: short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature; chunky; dumpy.
– It entered a cluster of gray sage that must have seemed like a tall forest to the stumpy little thing.
Stunned: knocked unconscious by a heavy blow; knocked out; unconscious.
– I was stunned, but I knew better than to make it weird.
Stunning: causing great astonishment and consternation; surprising.
– Suddenly, in the dark grove, for no reason at all, Armistead looked at the dark face, the broad back, felt a bolt of almost stunning affection.
Stunted: inferior in size or quality; scrubby; inferior.
– A stunted, smoke-blackened tree at the corner had put out new leaves of a bilious green.
Stupendous: so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe; large; big.
– He was fiercely racial in spite of his stupendous hatred of his race and he had a theory that marriage between two of alien races would result in mongrel children.
Stupid: lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity; dope; dopy.
– As Matt listened to Ton-Ton, he realized the boy wasn’t stupid.
Stuporous: stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or exhaustion); dazed; fogy.
– Exhaustion finally dragged him into a stuporous sleep.
Sturdy: having rugged physical strength; injured to fatigue or hardships; heardy; stout.
– He measured Tree-ear’s feet carefully and plaited several layers of straw for the thick, sturdy soles.
Stygian: dark and dismal as of the river Styx in Hades; dark.
– In my pocket, the Stygian ice dog whistle started to grow colder, freezing against the side of my leg.
Styleless: lacking in style or elegance; dowdy; unstylish.
– The result had a messy urgency, a “styleless style”, if I could put it that way.
Stylised: using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous; artificial; unreal.
– Designed with the help of a computer, the structure is based on that of a stylised tree cut from an imaginary cube.
Stylish: having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress; fashionable; chic.
– That night, I remember, she wore a new red cap, which seemed to me very stylish and sophisticated, very unusual.
Stylistic: of or relating to style (especially in the use of language); rhetorical.
– I couldn’t copy her essays, and I lacked the factual and stylistic know-how to compose my own.
Stylized: using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous; artificial; unreal.
– The fence has an entrance with a gigantic, stylized statue of a woman with huge earrings.
Styptic: tending to check bleeding by contracting the tissues or blood vessels; hemostatic; astringent.
– Like Simon Cowell, he is clearly a man who can compute profit margins within the space of a single styptic blink.
Suasible: being susceptible to persuasion; convincible; susceptible.
Suave: having a sophisticated charm; refined; debonair.
– Another, a woman, gloated, “This really suave old lady is teaching me how to make tortillas.
Subacid: slightly sour to the taste; sour.
– Numberless are the jokes made about the Legion of Honour, yet none contain such subacid irony as this one.
Subacute: less than acute; relating to a disease present in a person with no symptoms of it; acute.
– That area consists of 16 subacute beds where people typically spend two to four days.
Subalpine: growing at high altitudes; highland; upland.
– In this otherworldly place of subalpine scrubland, black, orange, red and silver lava flows form the walls.
Subaltern: inferior in rank or status; junior; lowly.
– We were interrupted by a subaltern, who scolded us and told us to leave the body lie.
Subaquatic: growing or remaining under water; aqatic; underwater.
– And the aerial acrobatics about to unfold in this “underwater grotto” have a rippling, subaquatic shimmy to them.
Subaqueous: growing or remaining under water; aqatic; submersed.
– The same subaqueous effect is at play in a Peretti portrait of another young girl, aptly titled “Under Water.
Subarctic: of or relating to latitudes just south of the Arctic Circle.
– This is the stuff of hyperbolic nightmare: America’s largest, northernmost state, with a subarctic climate, its forests in flames.
Subartesian: (of water) rising naturally in a well to a height appreciably above that of the surrounding water table but not flowing out of the well.
Subatomic: of or relating to constituents of the atom or forces within the atom; little; small.
– When a subatomic particle travels very fast, it survives longer than expected before it decays, because its clock is slow.
Subclavian: situated beneath the clavicle.
– Chylomicrons enter the lymphatic vessels, and then enter the blood in the subclavian vein.
Subclinical: relating to the stage in the development of a disease before the symptoms are observed.
– Or this sort of subclinical despair about no longer having a flat stomach.
Subconscious: just below the level of consciousness; unconscious.
– I’d thought the wormhole connecting my subconscious to the deadly nether regions was shutting down.
Subcortical: of or relating to or being or involving nerve centers below the cerebral cortex.
– All agreed in the end that such subcortical structure alone could not have handled the intense neural calculations required for such a richly interactive experiential tapestry.
Subcutaneous: relating to or located below the epidermis; hypodermic.
– Virtually no subcutaneous fat remained on the body, and the muscles had withered significantly in the days or weeks prior to death.
Subduable: susceptible to being subjugated; subduable; conquerable.
– Thus far one of its votaries: and all that he vaunts to have acquired by this mysterious faculty of enthusiasm is the having rendered it “at length perfectly subduable.
Subdued: restrained in style or quality; low-key; lowered.
– Everyone was subdued by what had occurred, but by afternoon the work of the harvest raised our spirits.
Subdural: below the dura mater but above the arachnoid membrane of the meninges.
– Three days later, he suffered a subdural hematoma, after which he entered a coma.
Subfusc: devoid of brightness or appeal.
– unattractive.
Subgross: too small to be visible to the naked eye; seeable; visible.
Subhuman: less than human or not worthy of a human being; infrahuman.
– Either that or I was like Cap’s pet ferret—a subhuman companion, undeserving of attention.
Subjacent: lying nearby but lower; underlying.
– It was not formed by the disintegration of the subjacent rocks, but by aqueous transport.
Subject: likely to be affected by something; affected.
– She must feel very lonely without her son,” said Edna, desiring to change the subject.
Subjective: taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias; personal; unverifiable.
– The pendulum clock provided an objective measure of a subjective experience—the passage of time.
Subjugable: susceptible to being subjugated; subduable; conquerable.
– Thus, the ordinary buffalo of Asia, though a dull brute, is very subjugable, even in the literal sense, for he makes a tolerable beast for the plough and bears the yoke with due patience.
Subjunctive: relating to a mood of verbs.
– I went downstairs again, and back to the subjunctive verbs.
Sublimate: made pure; pure.
– Actually, by now it’s full of slowly sublimating ice.
Sublimated: passing or having passed from the solid to the gaseous state (or vice versa) without becoming liquid; sublimade.
– While fathers played sublimated sexual games with their nubile teenaged daughters, Poothana suckled young Krishna at her poisoned breast.
Sublime: of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style; nonle; lofty.
– The emotions of terror & wonder so often concomitant with sublime.
Sublimed: passing or having passed from the solid to the gaseous state (or vice versa) without becoming liquid; sublimade.
– Collect the sublimed matter, put it again into the sand-bath, and sublime a second time; this process must be repeated five times.
Subliminal: below the threshold of conscious perception; imperceptible; unpreceviable.
– I mean, she thinks she can get away with her subliminal twists by calling them omens, but she doesn’t fool me.
Sublingual: beneath the tongue.
– There are three major glands that secrete saliva—the parotid, the submandibular, and the sublingual.
Subliterary: not written as or intended to be literature; informal.
– Philip Roth, in “Reading Myself and Others,” called the unsent letter “a flourishing subliterary genre with a long and moving history.
Sublittoral: of or relating to the region of the continental shelf (between the seashore and the edge of the continental shelf) or the marine organisms situated there.
– These remarks apply chiefly to littoral and sublittoral deposits.
Sublunar: situated between the earth and the moon; cislunar; saunary.
– If the text is cautious, the accompanying illustration is not: it shows only three sublunar spheres, of earth, air and fire.
Sublunary: situated between the earth and the moon.
– According to Aristotle, the sublunary elements were naturally at rest, while the supralunary spheres rotated in endless circles.
Submarine: beneath the surface of the sea; underesa; subsurface.
– He worked, after graduating from college, for Westinghouse, building nuclear submarines.
Submergible: capable of being immersed in water or functioning while submerged; submersible.
– Electric kettles had been experimented with since the 1890s, but the first kettle with a submergible immersion heater inside it was manufactured by the Swan Company in 1922.
Submersed: beneath the surface of the water; underwater; subsurface.
– In the same spirit, he wondered what treasures might be submersed in Bitcoin’s data lake.
Submersible: capable of being immersed in water or functioning while submerged; submergible.
– There’s an octopus on the screen with giant ears, translucent, flapping through the water in the cold light of a submersible.
Submissive: inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination; unassertive; abject.
– I had been submissive, willing to mimic my teachers, willing to reform myself in order to become ‘educated
Subnormal: below normal or average; abnormal; unnatural.
– Of course here as everywhere we must allow for the defective, the imperfect, the subnormals and the children of the very poor.
Subocean: formed or situated or occurring beneath the ocean or the ocean bed; suboceanic; marine.
Suboceanic: formed or situated or occurring beneath the ocean or the ocean bed; suboceanic; marine.
Subocular: situated on or below the floor of the eye socket; suborbital.
– A cream subocular spot was evident, and the venter was creamy white.
Suborbital: having or involving a trajectory of less than one orbit.
– The planned suborbital flights presented a controlled set of challenges.
Subordinate: lower in rank or importance; low-level; adjunct.
– Pap was also used to having women as subordinates in his life, and Mama was a woman.
Subordinated: lower in rank or importance; adjuct; assistant.
Subordinative: serving to connect a subordinate clause to a main clause; subordating.
– The common relations between sentences indicated by conjunctions are coördinative, subordinative, adversative, concessive, and illative.
Subscript: written or printed below and to one side of another character; inferior.
– Later, for no special reason, the fashion became to render the number as subscript: H2O.
Subsequent: following in time or order; attendent; sequent.
– Indeed, his determined support for Muggle rights gained him many enemies in subsequent years.
Subservient: abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant; slavish; servile.
– She refused to be subservient to Abel at home, but she did want him to succeed as a man.
Subsidiary: functioning in a supporting capacity; axillary; secondary.
– But in an emergency, all six subsidiaries must be mobilized immediately and simultaneously.
Subsidized: having partial financial support from public funds; subsidised.
– Ulbrickson figured they, like the German boys, had likely been subsidized by the fascist government that had sent them to the games.
Subsonic: (of speed) less than that of sound in a designated medium.
– The horse didn’t seem happy about it, but he slowed to subsonic as they zipped through the city streets.
Substandard: falling short of some prescribed norm; deficient; inferior.
– Those who brag about Baltimore often ignore these substandard areas.
Substantial: having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary; real; material.
– Even after the most substantial meal, he can look you calmly in the eye and claim he could have eaten twice as much.
Substantiative: serving to support or corroborate; colloratel; verifying.
– By far the most substantiative are the four optional commentary tracks.
Substantival: of or relating to or having the nature or function of a substantive (i.e. a noun or noun equivalent).
– In a substantival form, the term is used in physical geography for a level tract.
Substantive: having a firm basis in reality and being therefore important, meaningful, or considerable; substantial; essential.
– But Bobby approached with dedication the daunting task of learning many of the substantive ones.
Substitutable: capable of being exchanged for another or for something else that is equivalent; commutable; exchangeable.
– At the same time, a lot of these goods are hopefully substitutable by other things.
Substitute: serving or used in place of another; alternate; alternative.
– Both of them drink tea, or tea substitute, out of chipped cups.
Subsurface: beneath the surface; submarine; underground.
– The melting surface and subsurface ice would be transported by a great canal network.
Subterminal: near but not precisely at an end; intermediate.
– All the cover hairs are gray basally; some have a buffy band terminally and others have a buffy subterminal band with a terminal black tip.
Subterranean: being or operating under the surface of the earth; subterraneous; subsurface.
– From these special points, then, human voices would carry, echoing and ricocheting, throughout the whole subterranean system.
Subterraneous: being or operating under the surface of the earth; subterranean; subsurface.
– These men had contrived to make the cave as comfortable a berth as a subterraneous place could be.
Subtle: difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze; elusive; impalable.
– His almond cakes are subtle and the cherry puree on top is joyous, bold, even a little wanton.
Subtractive: constituting or involving subtraction; ablative; reductive.
– It is a subtractive process that starts with a solid block, usually stone, which is highly resistant to the sculptor’s chisel.
Subtropic: of or relating to or characteristic of conditions in the subtropics; semitropic; semitropical.
– In the meantime, a succession of additional atmospheric rivers is marching eastward out of the Pacific subtropics and straight toward California.
Subtropical: of or relating to or characteristic of conditions in the subtropics; semitropic;
– I live in a subtropical area where even the inactive can expect to be moist nine months out of the year.
Suburban: relating to or characteristic of or situated in suburbs.
Suburbanised: surrounded by many suburbs; subranbarized; decentralized.
– The cardigan-wearing Jimmy Carter, who used to go from room to room turning off lights to save energy, suburbanised the White House.
Suburbanized: surrounded by many suburbs; subranbarized; decentralized.
– The South has been urbanized, suburbanized, strip-malled, and land-formed to a point that at times I hardly recognize it anymore,” she writes.
Subversive: in opposition to a civil authority or government; disloyal; seditious.
– She didn’t really know Lio was a communist, a subversive, all the other awful things the editorial had called him.
Successful: having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome; undefeated; fortunate.
– It would certainly require all our eyes and brains to be successful.
Successive: in regular succession without gaps; consecutive; ordered.
– Zach’s next scene does not go off without a hitch, and what occurs will repeat itself in each successive performance.
Succinct: briefly giving the gist of something; compact; concise.
– It has all the qualities we admire in language: it’s handy, succinct, and economical, and everybody knows what it means.
Succinic: of or relating to or obtained from amber.
– This allowed researchers to extract four organic compounds present in the potsherds: citric acid, malic acid, succinic acid and tartaric acid.
Succulent: full of juice; lush; juicy.
– Their single succulent spathes ranged from shades of mottled black to blood red and glistening orange.
Such: of so extreme a degree or extent; much.
– I’m not making any fuss over it. But it’s just such seeming trifles that we’ve got to take seriously; such things count.
Suchlike: of the same kind; like; similar.
– We get to live here, and the electricity, phone, and suchlike paid for as part of Biddy’s earnings.
Suctorial: adapted for sucking or clinging by suction.
– Biting mandibles; second maxillae incompletely or completely fused; often forming a suctorial proboscis.
Sudanese: of or relating to or characteristic of the African Republic of the Sudan or its people.
– State Department decided to allow certain refugees from the Sudanese civil war into the United States.
Sudden: happening without warning or in a short space of time; fast.
– My sudden shaking derails my mom’s questioning and sends her into doctor mode.
Sudorific: inducing perspiration; diaphoretic.
Sudsy: resembling lather or covered with lather; latterly.
– Mia touched a knuckle to her brow, as if she’d forgotten the scar existed, and a drop of warm sudsy water ran down her temple.
Suety: like or full of suet; fat; fatty.
– The fat besides being white should be firm, and suey, and never moist.
Sufferable: capable of being borne though unpleasant; bearable; tolerable.
– Religion helps make suffering sufferable, but so does science.
Suffering: troubled by pain or loss; troubled; unhappy.
– I hadn’t told them anything about my suffering.
Sufficient: of a quantity that can fulfill a need or requirement but without being abundant; ample: decent.
– There weren’t even sufficient remains for an inquest, though the rival undertaker found enough to claim the fee for a burial.
Suffocative: causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat; smothering; suffocating.
– Sudden suffocative symptoms, with open air-passages, suggest embolism of the larger branches of the pulmonary artery.
Suffrutescent: of a plant; having a woody base that does not die down each year; woody.
Suffusive: spreading through; distributive.
Sufi: of or relating to the Sufis or to Sufism.
– But there’s a Sufi story that challenges the notion that people believe only because they need an opiate.
Sugarless: not containing sugar; non sweet; unsugared.
– It’s very important to drink as much as possible, use sugarless candy or gum and rinse with fluoride.
Sugary: containing sugar; candied; syrupy.
– For birthdays his mother orders a cake on which his name is piped across the white frosted surface in a bright blue sugary script.
Suggestible: susceptible or responsive to suggestion; susceptible.
– The wizard had made her suggestible, she knew this.
Suggestive: tending to suggest or imply; implicative; connotative.
– For Bones, I draw a squiggle that turns into a vaguely suggestive porcupine.
Suicidal: dangerous to yourself or your interests; self-destructive; unsafe.
– It was precisely against suicidal impulses of this kind that he had hoped to guard himself by opening the diary.
Suitable: meant or adapted for an occasion or use; fit; swatted.
– Only now I’m about to go on a date with a guy who is actually available, infinitely more suitable, and definitely interested.
Sulcate: having deep narrow furrows or grooves.
– Sporangium cylindric; the calyculus small, granulose, ribbed and sulcate.
Sulfuretted: treated or impregnated with sulfur; sulfurized; Sulphuretted.
Sulfuric: of or relating to or containing sulfur; sulphuric.
– The clouds of Venus turn out to be chiefly a concentrated solution of sulfuric acid.
Sulfurized: treated or impregnated with sulfur; sulphuretted; sulphuretted.
Sulfurous: of or related to or containing sulfur or derived from sulfur; sulfurous.
– When Mom got home, she wrinkled her nose at the sulfurous odor, then went into the basement and looked at the ruined hot-water heater.
Sulky: sullen or moody; huffish; ill-natured.
– For the rest of the day he’d spoken in an anxious, sulky voice.
Sullen: showing a brooding ill humor; dark; dour.
– The Pervert was off by himself in a corner, sullen and dejected.
Sulphuretted: treated or impregnated with sulfur; sulphuretted; sulfurized.
– These nearly always contain chlorine for their electro-negative element, and scarcely show, and that not until later, sulphuretted and carbonic vapors.
Sulphuric: of or relating to or containing sulfur; sulfuric..
Sulphurous: characterized by oppressive heat and humidity; sultry; hot.
– Sun, seeping through the blinds, filled the bedroom with a sulfurous light.
Sultry: exciting in a sensual way; attractive and suggesting hidden passion; sensual; hot.
– Cordelia with a cigarette in the corner of her mouth, her eyelids half closed, trying for sultry.
Sumatran: of or relating to the island of Sumatra or its inhabitants.
– Sumatran tigers are native to Indonesia and are considered critically endangered, according to World Wildlife Fund for Nature.
Sumerian: of or relating to ancient Sumer or its inhabitants.
– Sumerian scribes had progressed to inscribing on clay tablets with sharpened reeds.
Summary: briefly giving the gist of something; compact; concise.
– Write a summary of the passage, one hundred and fifty words.
Summational: of or relating to a summation or produced by summation; addictive.
– He also developed the theory of differential and of summational tones.
Summative: of or relating to a summation or produced by summation; summational; addictive.
– Faculty would grade only summative assessments, mostly a fancy word for tests.
Summery: belonging to or characteristic of or occurring in summer; estival; aestival.
– Perhaps two hundred yards across the small valley, Antelope Peak and Cabresto Mountain were still brightly lit and summery.
Sumptuary: regulating or controlling expenditure or personal behavior; restrive.
– It’s like there’s a sumptuary law against introspection.
Sumptuous: rich and superior in quality; deluxe; gilded.
– Inside, the rooms were sumptuous, as befitted the first foreign delegation ever welcomed beyond the Cusp.
Sunbaked: dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; adjust; backed.
– He sank down on the sunbaked lip of the fountain where a moment before, his future had been perched.
Sunburned: suffering from overexposure to direct sunlight; suburnt; unhealthy.
– Shay’s eyes widened as she took in Tally’s scratched and sunburned face, the blisters on her hands, and her patchy, scorched hair.
Sunburnt: suffering from overexposure to direct sunlight; sunburned; unhealthy.
– Most of the children were sick and sunburnt and fretful
Sundried: dried naturally by the sun; sun-dried; preserved.
– For balance, I reach for some of the chef’s harissa, red peppers and garlic slick with olive oil, and tempered with sundried tomatoes.
Sundry: consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds; assorted; mixed mostly.
– They brought word of ships waylaid for smuggling by Customs men, goods that could no longer be imported, and sundry losses.
Sunken: having a sunken area; deep-set; hollow.
– The round face was thin, the eyes sunken.
Sunless: filled or abounding with clouds; clody; overcast.
– He’s talked about this before, these lonely, drifting, sunless planets.
Sunny: bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer; cheery; gay.
– Light flowed in from all the stained glass windows, making the room sunny and warm.
Sunrise: of an industry or technology; new and developing; new.
– The West Side of Chattana was also lit up bright as a sunrise, but with a difference.
Sunset: providing for termination; last.
– We rode the boar until sunset, which was about as much as my back end could take.
Sunstruck: lighted by sunlight; sunlit; light.
– She now plays Bets, a seemingly demure housewife on Showtime’s “On Becoming a God in Central Florida,” a dark, sunstruck dramedy.
Suntanned: lighted by sunlight; sunlit; light.
– There was no escaping the army, especially not for Sarai, since her room gave onto the sunstruck silver-blue palm of the seraph.
Super: of the highest quality; crack; fast-rate.
– At the machine, she puts her face super close to the glass
Superable: capable of being surmounted or excelled; conquerable; surmountable.
– Whatever inertia may be, it is superable or destructible only by the force or motion of matter itself,—matter being incapable of rest.
Superabundant: most excessively abundant; abundant.
– most excessively abundant
Superannuated: too old to be useful; old; overged.
– At about one o’clock we came at last to old 64, a lonesome, superannuated two-lane road through the mountains.
Superb: of surpassing excellence; brilliant; superior.
– Those beautiful marks gave her much of her superb dignity.
Supercharged: (of e.g. an engine) having the power increased by fitting with a supercharger; powered.
– Then the contact was supercharged and for a fraction of a second the push became a pull that shot through me like a couple hundred volts.
Supercilious: having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; disdainful; haughty.
– He was even more thrilled with the reception the cyclotron was receiving on the skeptical and supercilious East Coast.
Supercritical: (especially of fissionable material) able to sustain a chain reaction in such a manner that the rate of reaction increases; critical.
– They were magical things to me, a bit like supercritical helium held with your bare hands.
Supererogatory: more than is needed, desired, or required; excess; extra.
– He’s an ineffective, chronically ruminative man who thinks of himself as a “supererogatory weirdo.
Superfatted: (of soap) containing extra unsaponified fat; fatty; fat.
– An olive oil soap is usually considered to be a very neutral soap and may readily be superfatted.
Superficial: of, affecting, or being on or near the surface.
– The professor told Princesse that she thought I had become distracted by superficial things, such as makeup and clothes.
Superfine: (used especially of merchandise) very fine in quality; best.
– Go for the … Time-tested knitwear staples cut from superfine fabrics.
Superfluous: more than is needed, desired, or required; excess; extra.
– Thus, many items had become superfluous, and these were not really things one could sell or things people wanted to throw out.
Superhuman: above or beyond the human or demanding more than human power or endurance; divine; like.liked
Superincumbent:
– I know, I know, you’re probably thinking that my new superhuman drum schedule must have been cutting into my homework time.
Superjacent: lying immediately above or on something else; incumbent; overlying.
– Village streets threaded around the hillside, eternally watched over by the superjacent castle.
Superlative: highest in quality; greatest; sterling..
– They are full of superlatives and exclamation marks.
Superlunar: situated beyond the moon or its orbit around the earth; superlunar; transllunar.
– But long before this the Aristotelian demarcation between superlunary and sublunary had been shattered by Brahe
Superlunary: situated beyond the moon or its orbit around the earth; supralunar; translunar.
– Other ambition than of crowns in air, And superlunary felicities, Thy bosom warm.
Supernal: of heaven or the spirit; ethereal; heavenly.
– Thomas Cooley, a tenor, sang with supernal sweetness in the Sanctus, his voice soaring from on high in the dress circle.
Supernatant: of a liquid; floating on the surface above a sediment or precipitate supported.
– The supernatant containing the genomic DNA was transferred to a new collection tube.
Supernatural: not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material; ghostlike; ghostly.
– The place was part of the real world, then, and not a supernatural realm.
Supernaturalist: of or relating to supernaturalism; Supernaturalists; supernaturalist.
– Prof. James seems to have discovered a way by which one can be a scientist and a supernaturalist at the same time.
Supernaturalistic: of or relating to supernaturalism; supernaturalis.
– This inaccuracy of speech is the result of centuries of supernaturalistic bias.
Supernormal: exceeding the normal or average; abnormal; Unnatural.
– There are some supernormal objects on its shelves, but show stoppingly flamboyant ones too.
Supernumerary: more than is needed, desired, or required; excess; extra.
– But thank heavens for the red curtain hung clothesline-style facilitating the legerdemain and the use of caps and helmets allowing major characters to serve as supernumeraries.
Superordinate: of higher rank or status or value; superior.
– Character is really what we focus on here, and it’s superior to the other pillars.
Superpatriotic: fanatically patriotic; flag waving; patriotic.
– Murray will run in the persona of his best known comic character, a super patriotic bartender called The Pub Landlord.
Superposable: coinciding exactly when superimposed; identical; congruent.
– In other cases the similar parts are disposed symmetrically on either side of a median line or plane, giving a series of homologous parts which are not superposable.
Supersaturated: being more concentrated than normally possible and therefore not in equilibrium; concentrated
– The smoldering ground extended to the lake’s shore and made the supersaturated blues of the water pop even more.
Superscript: written or printed above and to one side of another character; superior.
– The little superscript number signifies the number of zeroes following the larger principal number.
Supersensitised: having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor); allergic; sensitized.
Supersensitive: having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor); allergic; hypersensitive.
– But I’m not super sensitive about what I do.
Supersonic: of or involving frequencies above those of audible sound; ultrasonic; inaudible.
– More than anything, I wanted to fly the sleek, swept-wing supersonic F-86, and I was delighted when I got my chance.
Superstitious: showing ignorance of the laws of nature and faith in magic or chance; irrational.
– To a drunk superstitious man, it could have seemed like the beginning of the end of the world.
Supervisory: of or limited to or involving supervision.
– Seamstresses not cleaning the superintendent’s room were fair game for the chief foreman and other prisoners with supervisory jobs in the factory.
Supine: lying face upward; resulpine; unerect.
– Then, on a sudden but apparently pressing impulse, he stretched out supine on the carpet.
Supperless: without supper; hungry.
– Weary, sore and still supperless, he fell at once into exhausted sleep.
Supple: moving and bending with ease; graceful; lissom.
– The scabbard was soft gray leather, supple as sin
Supplemental: functioning in a supporting capacity; axillary; secondary.
– He seldom read the required texts or supplemental books for any course.
Supplementary: functioning in a supporting capacity; secondary; subsidiary.
– Have the students who failed the exam take the supplementary exam.
Supplicant: humbly entreating; supleant.
Supplicatory: humbly entreating; supplant; pleading.
– And yet while Dylan’s lyrical gift is wild, copious, and immoderate, Cohen’s is precise, supplicatory and cloistral.
Supportable: capable of being borne though unpleasant; sufferable; endurable.
– The very premise of Big Science may not be sustainable nor supportable, regardless of scientific merit.
Supporting: capable of bearing a structural load; load bearing; bearing.
– Sam, supporting and guiding his stumbling master, followed after him as quickly as he could.
Supportive: furnishing support or assistance; positive; accessory.
– The community was always attentive and supportive; each adult had been through this experience and knew how important it was.
Supposable: capable of being inferred on slight grounds; thinkable; surmisable.
– You said the science elective is supposably really hard. I heard you.
Supposed: required or under orders; obligated.
– I think it’s supposed to be an old-fashioned beehive
Suppositional: based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence; divinatory; theoretical.
– Those witnesses supporting Rehnquist were purely suppositional in character, and hence provided no true evidence at all.
Suppositious: based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence; circumstantial; conjectural.
– His partner had somehow offended Evelyn, and though she was now disposed to forgive him, the recollection of his suppositious iniquity might afterwards rankle in her mind.
Supposititious: based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence; hypothetical; theoretic.
– This penalty of being jiggered was a favorite supposititious case of his.
Suppressive: tending to suppress; restrictive.
– This reality has a suppressive effect that not many people are that interested in considering.
Suppurative: relating to or characterized by suppuration.
– According to Hoffmann,66 16 cases of suppurative parotitis were found at Basle among about 1600 typhoid fever patients, 7 of the 16 ending fatally.
Supranational: transcending established national boundaries or spheres of interest; international.
– The two young girls dub their unique acoustic sound “supranational intelligent punk” and they scream and shout according to temper.
Supranormal: beyond the range of the normal or scientifically explainable; supernormal; paranormal.
– She gave frequent evidence of supranormal intelligence regarding events transpiring in the neighborhood.
Supraocular: located or occurring above the eye socket; supraorbital.
– All have dorsal scales in 15 rows, 1 postocular, no anterior temporal, and a relatively small triangular supraocular.
Supraorbital: located or occurring above the eye socket; suplacular.
– Located at the superior margin of the orbit is the supraorbital foramen, and below the orbit is the infraorbital foramen.
Suprasegmental: pertaining to a feature of speech that extends over more than a single speech sound; united.
Supreme: greatest in status or authority or power; sovereign; dominant.
– The Titans, often called the Elder Gods, were for untold ages supreme in the universe.
Surd: produced without vibration of the vocal cords; heard; unvoiced.
– During our conversation he used the words “slippage” and “surd,” the last of which sent me to the dictionary.
Sure: having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty; confident and assured; certain; confident.
– Mark and Alec met each other’s gaze, not sure what was going on.
Surefooted: not liable to stumble or fall; steady; sure-footed.
– She ran over the crossties barefooted, surefooted, light footed like her name.
Surface: on the surface; grade constructed; opencast.
– I film Phil as he swims, capturing his grace, how his smooth strokes barely ripple the surface.
Surficial: pertaining to or occurring on or near the earth’s surface.
– Deep and intense weathering of soils and mineral deposits exposed at the surface can result in the formation of surficial deposits.
Surgical: relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine; operative; preoperative.
– Leo must have programmed the weapons with surgical precision.
Surly: inclined anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace; ugly; ill-natured.
– She’d have to account for the broken glass in any case; but Rita would get surly if she had to cook a second breakfast.
Surmisable: capable of being inferred on slight grounds; thinkable; Supposable.
– Out of the tail of his eye, just before he and Sonntag came to grips, he had caught a glimpse of this surmisable third party.
Surmountable: capable of being surmounted or overcome; conquerable; superable.
– It’s also not so easily surmountable that you can get over it with a gift, or a hug, or a heart-to-heart over dinner.
Surpassing: exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence; transcendent; superior.
– This has been the pattern of his life: ludicrous dreams followed by hours and days and years of work and then a reality surpassing his wildest hopes and expectations
Surpliced: wearing a surplice; clad; clothed.
– It has stained-glass windows, a baptistry, and maintains a surplice choir.
Surplus: more than is needed, desired, or required; excess; extra.
– He wanted to make more crops so as to use his surplus for trade with the white men on the coast.
Surprised: taken unawares or suddenly and feeling wonder or astonishment; amazed; astronoid.
– She put her arms around me, and I tried to find the warmth in her hug that had surprised me in Ella’s earlier.
Surreal: characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions; unrealistic; phantamargonic.
– Sometimes, when there’s been an accident and reality is too sudden and strange to comprehend, the surreal will take over.
Surrealistic: characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions; unrealistic; surreal.
– The tops of the sheer buildings slanted in a weird, surrealistic perspective, and the street seemed tilted.
Surreptitious: marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; sneak; sneaky.
– With a surreptitious glance at the king, she jabbed Yishan sharply with her elbow.
Surrogate: providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties; foster; adoptive.
– Each assemblage is poised in the flow of solar energy, tapping off energy from metabolic surrogates of the sun.
Surrounded: confined on all sides; encircled; enclosed.
– It was only two stories high, surrounded by trees.
Surrounding: closely encircling; close; encompassing.
– We crowded into that room with the aroma of the food still surrounding us, some people still munching on their drumsticks.
Susceptible: (often followed by `of’ or `to’) yielding readily to or capable of; unprotected; sensitive.
– Some editorial writers pointed out that gullible Americans were susceptible to propaganda such as the kind used in Germany.
Suspect: not as expected; fishy; funny.
– Just as she suspected, most of those missed calls were from her mother.
Suspected: believed likely.
– Though Daniel Ellsberg did not know what was happening in New York, he suspected he may soon need legal representation.
Suspensive: (of a situation) characterized by or causing suspense; tense; suspenseful.
– As the following quotation shows, it is interesting as detailing a few of the steps by which Darwin reached that suspensive stage.
Suspicious: openly distrustful and unwilling to confide; leery; wary.
– If Lissa and her father see anything suspicious, he wants them to call right away.
Sustainable: using methods that do not cause long-term harm to the environment.
– It’s based on small family farms like Salatin’s, which practice true sustainable farming.
Sustained: maintained at length without interruption or weakening; continues; uninterrupted.
– There are various ways of increasing your body’s endurance, and they all involve putting a steady and sustained load on the heart muscle.
Sustentacular: serving to sustain or support.
– These include supporting cells called sustentacular cells, as well as five types of developing sperm cells called germ cells.
Susurrant: making a low continuous indistinct sound; soft; whispering.
– Also, there lacked the persistent susurrant sound of the ventilation pumps.
Susurrous: characterized by soft sounds; soft; shouting.
– Up from the sea came the susurrous voice of the reef whispering its eternal questions.
Svelte: being of delicate or slender build; lean; thin.
– The other lady of the ensemble, a svelte twilight soubrette, objects to my having, so to speak, photographed her in her old housecoat.
Swaggering: having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; proud; haughty.
– Those swaggering boys belong to the Jungvolk, the Hitler Youth group for boys ten to fourteen.
Swampy: (of soil) soft and watery; boggy; marshy.
– The bushes thinned and the sounding bracken grew rarely in the swampy earth, so that they could move three times as fast.
Swank: imposingly fashionable and elegant; swanky; fashionable.
– She was still swank, and still did weird swank things, but she also showed a determination to carry her weight that Nailer was forced to respect.
Swanky: imposingly fashionable and elegant; swank; fashionable.
– Matt knew that swanky meant something only an evil, rotten, spoiled aristocrat would do.
Swart: naturally having skin of a dark color; brunet; dusky.
– Its purpose is the same: separation from what Afrikaners call the swart gevaar or “black threat.
Swarthy: naturally having skin of a dark color; brunet; swart.
– He knew Lem Harvey—a huge fellow with hulking shoulders and a sullen, swarthy face.
Swashbuckling: flamboyantly adventurous; swaggering; adventurous.
– I recall one of the first ones was The Mark of Zorro, with the swashbuckling Douglas Fairbanks, a movie that was made in 1920.
Swayback: having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses); unfit; lordotic.
– In grade school, she’d ride her pony – a swayback named Ribbon – and hitch it outside the front door.
Swaybacked: having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses); diped; unfit.
– Short and swaybacked, with little triangular eyes in a fat, flat face, he was an odd match with Yeezy, all delicacy and bone.
Swazi: of or relating to or characteristic of Swaziland or its people or their language.
– I took offense at this and I said, “No, she is not a Shangaan, she is a Swazi.
Swedish: of or relating to or characteristic of Sweden or its people or culture or language.
– It sounded like a fairly regular rap song, except the words were in Swedish.
Sweeping: taking in or moving over (or as if over) a wide area; often used in combination; broad; wide.
– The dirt on the ground kicked about, sweeping and stirring.
Sweetheart: privileged treatment of a favored person or corporation (sometimes unethically); privileged.
– As well as the windows where sweethearts, free and illegal, tell each other things.
Sweetish: somewhat sweet; sweet.
– From somewhere came a sweetish smell which reminded him of something painful.
Swell: very good; bang-up; bully.
– I wondered if Erik would walk through the kitchen door with his eyes swollen and black.
Swelled: feeling self-importance; proud; big.
– My tongue had swelled up to twice its usual size behind my clenched teeth.
Sweltering: excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and faintness; sweltry; hot.
– On the night before the race, Louie lay sleepless in his sweltering hotel room.
Sweltry: excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and faintness; sweltering; hot.
– At last they came out of the sweltry dining-halls into the fresh evening of Lilar, into the open air and freedom.
Sweptback: (especially of aircraft wings) angled rearward from the point of attachment ;swept.
– Simon Harrold was a tweedy Englishman in his mid-40s, with a neat, white beard and thinning, sweptback hair, longer in the back.
Sweptwing: (of an aircraft) having swept back wings; swept.
Swimming: applied to a fish depicted horizontally; naint; horizontal.
– When I rose to the surface, all of them had stopped swimming but remained in the water.
Swingeing: severe; punishingly bad; bad.
Swinging: characterized by a buoyant rhythm; lilting; swingy.
– A swipe of his claw was like a heavyweight fighter swinging a chain saw.
Swingy: characterized by a buoyant rhythm; tripping; swinging.
Swinish: resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy; hoggish; piggish.
– It was their confidence, maybe—their blissful, swinish ignorance, their bumptious self-satisfaction, and, worst of all, their hope.
Swish: elegant and fashionable; clasy; pose.
– Dimarion tipped the wine into his mouth and swished it between his cheeks before swallowing.
Swishy: resembling a sustained `sh’ or soft whistle; noisy.
– I never saw Chip in swishy shorts outside of gym class, which I assumed was for the same reason I avoided them.
Swiss: of or relating to Switzerland or its people or culture.
– They were no Swiss clocks, but the lions could be counted upon to roar their heads off between five- thirty and six every morning.
Swollen: characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance; proud; vain.
– On January 6, 1884, Mendel died of kidney failure in Brno, his feet swollen with fluids.
Swooning: weak and likely to lose consciousness; light; ill.
– He’ll sit up and make a joke about eating too much pasta or swooning too hard over Anderson Cooper, and ask if I want to go get a late-night milkshake with him.
Swordlike: shaped like a sword blade; bladelike; enesiform.
– The hummingbird on her Hawaiian shift plunged its swordlike beak between the mounds of her bottom.
Sybaritic: displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses; luxurant; indulgent.
– Its restaurant is considered better than most in Joburg and its sybaritic spa is booked solid by Nirox fans on weekends.
Sycophantic: attempting to win favor by flattery; servile.
– That sounds good, sir,” said Ernie sycophantically, rubbing his hands together.
Syllabic: of or relating to syllables; disyllabic; monosyllabic.
– He initially devised 200 syllabic signs and gradually reduced them to 85, most of them for combinations of one consonant and one vowel.
Syllabled: pronounced in syllables; syllabic.
– It might as well have been syllabled to the winds
Syllogistic: of or relating to or consisting of syllogism.
– On October 22, 1962, the syllogistic nature of this sentence seemed to impress me as much as the possibility it discussed.
Sylvan: relating to or characteristic of wooded regions; silvan; wooded.
– It was inhabited by people and dwarfs, by gnomes and sylvans and other, even queerer, folk.
Symbiotic: used of organisms (especially of different species) living together but not necessarily in a relation beneficial to each; depent.
– The crab and anemone recognize each other as partners by molecular configurations, as do the anemones and their symbiotic damsel fish.
Symbolic: relating to or using or proceeding by means of symbols.
– Yet he understood that as mayor he was the symbolic head of the town.
Symbolical: relating to or using or proceeding by means of symbols; symbolic.
– He added that the work is also “about liberation both in its physical and symbolical form.
Symmetric: having similarity in size, shape, and relative position of corresponding parts; symmetrical; parallel.
– A snowflake is symmetric – if I draw part of one you could probably do a good job of sketching the rest.
Symmetrical: exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities; harmonious; balanced.
– Liquid water is symmetrical, the same at every point and in every direction.
Sympathetic: expressing or feeling or resulting from sympathy or compassion or friendly fellow feelings; disposed toward; compassionate; congenial.
– He flashed me a sympathetic smile and walked away
Sympatric: (of biological species or speciation) occurring in the same or overlapping geographical areas.
– The focus on neighboring dinosaurs – or what experts call sympatric species – is a critical part of the test.
Sympetalous: having a corolla composed of partially or wholly fused petals forming a corolla shaped like a tube or funnel; gamopetalous; petaled.
– The general name of polypetalous is given to corollas having separate petals, while monopetalus, gamopetalous or sympetalous is applied to those in which the petals are united.
Symphonic: harmonious in sound; symphonious; harmonious.
– Like the master score of a bewitchingly complex symphonic work, the genome contains the instructions for the development and maintenance of organisms.
Symphonious: harmonious in sound; symphonic; harmonious.
– Her symphonious song fills the void with harmonies that layer, one on top of another, as if a choir was piping a soothing concert into the tank.
Symptomatic: relating to or according to or affecting a symptom or symptoms; diagnostic; characteristic.
– But assumption was symptomatic of malevolent tendencies that transcended mere dollars and cents.
Symptomless: having no symptoms of illness or disease; well.
– In other words, at-home antigen tests are more likely to give you a false negative, particularly if you’re symptomless, than a false positive.
Synaesthetic: relating to or experiencing synesthesia; involving more than one sense.
– It’s almost synaesthetic – as if one sense swaps into the other – and it really opened my eyes.
Synaptic: (neuroscience) of or involving synapses.
– But our brains are so remarkably adept at putting unused neurons and virgin synaptic connections to other uses.
Syncarpous: (of ovaries of flowering plants) consisting of united carpels.
– Either entirely or partially separate, as the carpels of a compound pistil; Ð opposed to syncarpous.
Synchronal: occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase; coeval; coexis.
– The visions therefore of the 144000, and of the palm-bearing multitude, extend to the sounding of the seventh trumpet, and therefore are synchronal to the times of the seventh seal.
Synchronic: occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase; coeval; parallel.
– A couple bounced synchronically on a pad marked with arrows to the electronic music of a Dance Dance Revolution.
Synchronous: occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase; synchronal.
– Maybe it was what the doctor had said regarding the synchronous pregnancies.
Synclinal: sloping downward toward each other to create a trough.
– Section of anticlinal valleys and synclinal mountains 78 17.
Syncopated: stressing a normally weak beat; rhythmic; rhythmical.
– The swirl of syncopated rhythms sticks with me.
Syncretic: relating to a historical tendency for a language to reduce its use of inflections; syncretical.
Syncretical: relating to a historical tendency for a language to reduce its use of inflections; syncretic; syncretic.
– Asia Minor was then the theater of a strange movement of syncretic philosophy; all the germs of Gnosticism existed there already.
Syncretistic: relating to a historical tendency for a language to reduce its use of inflections; syncretic.
– Our conversation is sprawling, a wild syncretistic display of the RZA’s curiosities.
Syndetic: connected by a conjunction.
Synecdochic: using the name of a part for that of the whole or the whole for the part; or the special for the general or the general for the special; or the material for the thing made of it; synecdochical; figurative.
– Hysterical realism is basically synecdochic: it substitutes the finite part for the infinite whole.
Synergetic: working together; used especially of groups, as subsidiaries of a corporation, cooperating for an enhanced effect; synergistic; comparative.
– These are relatively young players and so am I. We will play as a team and there will be a synergetic effect as I join the team, among the infielders.
Synergistic: used especially of drugs or muscles that work together so the total effect is greater than the sum of the two (or more); interactive.
– We’re finding television to be amazingly synergistic in some ways with this idea.
Synesthetic: relating to or experiencing synesthesia; involving more than one sense.
– Much of his music, with its glittering instrumental palette, can certainly have a synesthetic effect on the listener.
Synoecious: having male and female reproductive organs mixed in the same gametoecium; synoicous.
Synoicous: having male and female reproductive organs mixed in the same gametoecium; monecious; monoicous.
Synonymous: (of words) meaning the same or nearly the same; similar.
– The name he shouted was that of the TV character most synonymous with the archetypical skinny, ineffectual, small-town policeman.
Synoptic: presenting or taking the same point of view; used especially with regard to the first three gospels of the New Testament; synoptical; same.
– We, and now I, tried being synoptic in our recognition of movie genres.
Synoptical: presenting or taking the same point of view; used especially with regard to the first three gospels of the New Testament; synoptic; same.
– All the historical books were reprinted in one volume in 1777, the synoptical arrangement of the Gospels having been abandoned as inconvenient.
Synovial: relating to or secreting synovia.
– Synovitis is a condition of the synovial membrane, which lines the cavities of the joints.
Synsemantic: of a word or phrase meaningful only when it occurs in the company of other words; syncategorematic.
Syntactic: of or relating to or conforming to the rules of syntax.
– It’s a syntactic version of the curse of knowledge.
Syntactical: of or relating to or conforming to the rules of syntax; syntactic.
– English today is an enormous bloom of syntactical and diction influences that cannot be restricted to either North American or English usages.
Syntagmatic: related as members of a syntagma.
Synthetic: not genuine or natural; counterfeit; imitative.
– Beneath that is the silvery white glimmer of synthetic bone and ligaments.
Synthetical: involving or of the nature of synthesis (combining separate elements to form a coherent whole) as opposed to analysis; shythetic.
– It is the analytical method in general that I wish for the exposition of mathematics, instead of the synthetical method which Euclid made use of.
Syrian: of or relating to or characteristic of Syria or its people or culture.
Syrupy: overly sweet; colying; treacly.
– In syrupy light Luce was feeding the celluloid through the sprocket wheel.
Systematic: characterized by order and planning; regular; organized.
– I was impressed by the fact that Dante could be so systematic in the way he organized everything in his room.
Systemic: affecting an entire system; general.
– What makes an insecticide a systemic is the ability to permeate all the tissues of a plant or animal and make them toxic.
Systolic: of or relating to a systole or happening during a systole.
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