These words will sprinkle color on the greyest sentence, so quit being craven and start reading!
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Updated 5 months ago,November 18, 2024
Never underestimate the power of cool adjectives.
Aback: by surprise
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Abaft: at or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane
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Abashed: feeling or caused to feel uneasy and self-conscious
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Aberrant: markedly different from an accepted norm
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Abhorrent: offensive to the mind
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Abiding: unceasing
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Abject: most unfortunate or miserable
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Abortive: failing to accomplish an intended result
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Abounding: existing in abundance
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Abrasive: sharply disagreeable
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Abstracted: taken out of or separated from
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Acrid: harsh or corrosive in tone
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Adamant: unyielding; a very hard substance
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Adhoc: done for a specific purpose, without regard for larger or future issues
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Adjoining: having a common boundary or edge
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Adroit: clever, resourceful
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Aloof: remote in manner
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Amatory: sexual
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Animistic: quality of recurrence or reversion to earlier form
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Antic: clownish, frolicsome
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Arcadian: serene
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Auspicious: tending to favor or bring good luck
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Axiomatic: evident without proof or argument
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Baleful: deadly, foreboding
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Barbarous: (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
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Bellicose: quarrelsome (its synonym belligerent can also be a noun)
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Bilious: unpleasant, peevish
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Boorish: crude, insensitive
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Brash: presumptuously daring
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Cagey: characterized by great cautious and wariness
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Calamitous: disastrous
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Capricious: determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason
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Caustic: corrosive, sarcastic; a corrosive substance
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Cerulean: sky blue
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Cloistered: providing privacy or seclusion
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Comely: attractive
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Concomitant: accompanying
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Contumacious: rebellious
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Corpulent: obese
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Crapulous: immoderate in appetite
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Craven: lacking even the rudiments of courage
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Dapper: marked by smartness in dress and manners
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Debonair: gentle, courteous
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Decorous: characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste in manners and conduct
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Defamatory: maliciously misrepresenting
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Didactic: conveying information or moral instruction
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Dilatory: causing delay, tardy
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Direful: causing fear or dread or terror
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Divergent: diverging from another or from a standard
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Dowdy: shabby, old-fashioned; an unkempt woman
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Draconian: of or relating to Draco or his harsh code of laws
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Efficacious: producing a desired effect
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Effulgent: brilliantly radiant
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Egregious: conspicuous, flagrant
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Elated: exultantly proud and joyful
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Endemic: prevalent, native, peculiar to an area
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Erratic: liable to sudden unpredictable change
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Ethereal: characterized by lightness and insubstantiality
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Execrable: wretched, detestable
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Exultant: joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success
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Fallacious: containing or based on a fallacy
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Fastidious: meticulous, overly delicate
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Feckless: weak, irresponsible
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Fecund: prolific, inventive
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Friable: brittle
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Fulsome: abundant, overdone, effusive
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Furtive: marked by quiet and caution and secrecy
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Garrulous: wordy, talkative
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Guileless: naive
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Gustatory: having to do with taste or eating
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Heady: extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic
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Heuristic: learning through trial-and-error or problem solving
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Histrionic: affected, theatrical
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Hubristic: proud, excessively self-confident
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Incandescent: emitting light as a result of being heated
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Incendiary: inflammatory, spontaneously combustible, hot
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Innate: not established by conditioning or learning
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Insidious: subtle, seductive, treacherous
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Insolent: impudent, contemptuous
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Intransigent: uncompromising
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Inveterate: habitual, persistent
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Invidious: resentful, envious, obnoxious
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Irate: angry; enraged
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Irksome: annoying
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Jejune: dull, puerile
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Jocular: jesting, playful
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Judicious: discreet
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Lachrymose: tearful
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Languid: lacking spirit or liveliness
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Limpid: simple, transparent, serene
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Loquacious: talkative
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Luminous: clear, shining
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Macabre: shockingly repellent
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Mannered: artificial, stilted
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Mendacious: deceptive
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Meretricious: whorish, superficially appealing, pretentious
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Minatory: menacing
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Mordant: biting, incisive, pungent
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Munificent: lavish, generous
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Nebulous: lacking definition or definite content
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Nefarious: wicked
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Nondescript: lacking distinct or individual characteristics
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Noxious: harmful, corrupting
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Obsequious: attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner
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Obtuse: blunt, stupid
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Onerous: not easily borne
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Overwrought: deeply agitated especially from emotion
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Parsimonious: excessively unwilling to spend
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Pendulous: suspended, indecisive
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Penitent: feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds
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Pernicious: injurious, deadly
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Pervasive: widespread
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Petulant: rude, ill humored
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Picayune: (informal terms) small and of little importance
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Piquant: stimulating to the taste or mind; spicy, pungent; appealingly provocative
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Placid: pleasantly calm or peaceful
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Plucky: showing courage in the face of danger
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Precipitate: steep, speedy
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Propitious: auspicious, advantageous, benevolent
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Puckish: impish
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Querulous: cranky, whining
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Quiescent: inactive, untroublesome
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Rebarbative: irritating, repellent
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Recalcitrant: resistant, obstinate
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Recondite: difficult to penetrate
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Redolent: aromatic, evocative
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Rhadamanthine: harshly strict
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Risible: laughable
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Ruminative: contemplative
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Sagacious: wise, discerning
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Salubrious: healthful
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Sartorial: relating to attire, especially tailored fashions
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Sclerotic: hardening
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Serpentine: snake-like, winding, tempting or wily
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Sordid: morally ignoble or base; vile
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Spasmodic: having to do with or resembling a spasm, excitable, intermittent
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Spurious: not genuine, authentic, or true
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Squalid: morally degraded
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Strident: harsh, discordant; obtrusively loud
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Succinct: briefly giving the gist of something
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Taciturn: closemouthed, reticent
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Tawdry: cheap and shoddy
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Tenacious: persistent, cohesive,
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Tenuous: having little substance or significance
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Torpid: slow and apathetic
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Tremulous: nervous, trembling, timid, sensitive
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Trenchant: sharp, penetrating, distinct
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Truculent: defiantly aggressive
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Turbulent: restless, tempestuous
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Turgid: swollen, pompous
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Ubiquitous: being present everywhere at once
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Uxorious: inordinately affectionate or compliant with a wife
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Vacuous: devoid of significance or point; complacently or inanely foolish
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Verdant: green with vegetation; covered with growing plants or grass
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Vivacious: vigorous and active
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Voluble: glib, given to speaking
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Voracious: excessively greedy and grasping
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Waggish: witty or joking
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Wheedling: flattering
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Wistful: showing pensive sadness; full of longing or unfulfilled desire
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Withering: devastating
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Zealous: eager, devoted
