enigmatic :: obscure; puzzling equitable :: fair; impartial erotic :: pertaining to passionate love eugenic :: pertaining to the improvement of race ex officio :: by virtue of one"s office explicit :: definite; open febrile :: feverish fiduciary :: pertaining to a position of trust fluted :: having vertical parallel grooves (as in a pillar) fulgent :: beaming; radiant garrulous :: loquacious; wordy gauche :: clumsy; boorish generic :: characteristic of a class or species germinal :: pertaining to a germ; creative hermetically :: sealed by fusion so as to be airtight hortatory :: encouraging hyperborean :: situated in extreme north; arctic; cold idiosyncratic :: private; peculiar to an individual illusive :: deceiving impalpable :: imperceptible; intangible imperturbable :: calm; placid imponderable :: weightless importunate :: urging; demanding impotent :: weak; ineffective incongruous :: not fitting; absurd incontinent :: lacking self-restraint; licentious incredulous :: withholding belief; skeptical inductive :: pertaining to induction or proceeding from the specific to the general ineluctable :: irresistible; not to be escaped insouciant :: indifferent; without concern or care interlocutory :: conversational; intermediate, not final internecine :: mutually destructive intractable :: unruly; refractory irksome :: repetitious; tedious irrefragable :: not to be disproved; indisputable jejune :: lacking interest; barren; meager kinetic :: producing motion lachrymose :: producing tears laudable :: praiseworthy; commendable lissome :: agile; lithe ludicrous :: laughable; trifling maladroit :: clumsy; bungling manifold :: numerous; varied mawkish :: sickening; insipid militant :: combative; bellicose minatory :: threatening morganatic :: describing a marriage between a member of a royal family and a commone myopic :: nearsighted nascent :: incipient; coming into being nautical :: pertaining to ships or navigation neap :: lowest nubile :: marriageable obligatory :: binding; required obstreperous :: boisterous; noisy omnipresent :: universally present; ubiquitous optimum :: most favorable orotund :: having a round, resonant quality; inflated speech overweening :: presumptuous; arrogant parlous :: dangerous; perilous pass?:: old-fashioned; past the prime pathological :: pertaining to disease pejorative :: having a deteriorating or depreciating effect on the meaning of a word |