8827502549 | Abashed | ashamed or embarrassed; disconcerted | 0 | |
8827502550 | Abhorring | to regard with extreme repugnance or aversion; detest utterly; loathe; abominate | 1 | |
8827502551 | Absurd | ridiculous; silly | 2 | |
8827502552 | Accusatory | Expressing or implying an accusation | 3 | |
8827502553 | Acerbic | Sharp; harsh; biting | 4 | |
8827502554 | Admiring | to regard with wonder, pleasure, or approval | 5 | |
8827502555 | Admonishing | cautioning, advising, or counseling against something; reproving or scolding, especially in a mild and good-willed manner; reminding | 6 | |
8827502556 | Adoring | to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor | 7 | |
8827502557 | Affectionate | showing, indicating, or characterized by affection or love;fondly tender | 8 | |
8827502558 | Ambiguous | open to having several possible meanings or interpretations | 9 | |
8827502559 | Ambivalent | uncertainty or fluctuation, esp. when caused by the inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to say or td two opposite or conflicting things | 10 | |
8827502560 | Amused | pleasurably entertained, occupied, or diverted | 11 | |
8827502561 | Antagonistic | acting in opposition; opposing, esp. mutually hostile; unfriendly | 12 | |
8827502562 | Anxious | full of mental distress or uneasiness because of fear of danger or misfortune; greatly worried; solicitous/ earnestly desirous; eager | 13 | |
8827502563 | Apathetic | having or showing little or no emotion/ not interested or concerned; indifferent or unresponsive | 14 | |
8827502564 | Apologetic | containing an apology or excuse for a fault, failure, insult, injury | 15 | |
8827502565 | Appreciative | feeling or expressive of gratitude | 16 | |
8827502566 | Apprehensive | uneasy or fearful about something that might happen | 17 | |
8827502567 | Approving | to speak or think favorably of; pronounce or consider agreeable or good; judge favorable | 18 | |
8827502568 | Ardent | Passionate; zealous; fiery | 19 | |
8827502569 | Arrogant | making claims or pretensions to superior importance or rights; overbearingly assuming; insolently proud | 20 | |
8827502570 | Audacious | extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless | 21 | |
8827502571 | Authoritarian | having an air of authority; accustomed to exercising authority; positive; peremptory; dictatorial | 22 | |
8827502572 | Awed | Filled with reverence, dread, wonder | 23 | |
8827502573 | Baffled | to confuse, bewilder, or perplex | 24 | |
8827502574 | Bantering | Good-humored, playful conversation | 25 | |
8827502575 | Bellicose | Warlike; hostile; inclined to fight | 26 | |
8827502576 | Belligerent | Hostile; aggressive; inclined to fight | 27 | |
8827502577 | Bemused | bewildered or confused/ lost in thought; preoccupied | 28 | |
8827502578 | Benevolent | Charitable, kind, Generous | 29 | |
8827502579 | Bewildered | Completely puzzled or confused; perplexed | 30 | |
8827502580 | Biting | nipping; smarting; keen/ cutting; sarcastic | 31 | |
8827502581 | Bitter | having a harsh, disagreeably acrid taste, like that of aspirin, quinine, wormwood, or aloes/ characterized by intense antagonism or hostility/ hard to admit or accept | 32 | |
8827502582 | Blithe | joyous, merry, or gay in disposition; glad; cheerful | 33 | |
8827502583 | Blunt | abrupt in address or manner/ slow in perception or understanding; obtuse | 34 | |
8827502584 | Bold | not hesitating or fearful in the face of danger or rebuff; courageous and daring; not hesitating to break the rules of propriety; forward; impudent | 35 | |
8827502585 | Brisk | quick and active; lively/ sharp and stimulating | 36 | |
8827502586 | Brusque | abrupt in manner; blunt; rough | 37 | |
8827502587 | Burlesque | an artistic composition, esp. literary or dramatic, that, for the sake of laughter, vulgarizes lofty material or treats ordinary material with mock dignity | 38 | |
8827502588 | Callous | Hardened; unfeeling; indifferent to the suffering of others | 39 | |
8827502589 | Calm | without rough motion; still or nearly still/ free from excitement or passion; tranquil | 40 | |
8827502590 | Candid | Honest; open; straightforward | 41 | |
8827502591 | Capricious | flighty; led by whims; erratic | 42 | |
8827502592 | Casual | without definite or serious intention; careless or offhand; passing | 43 | |
8827502593 | Caustic | making biting, corrosive comments | 44 | |
8827502594 | Censorious | severely critical; faultfinding | 45 | |
8827502595 | Ceremonial | of, pertaining to, or characterized by ceremony; formal; ritual | 46 | |
8827502596 | Cheerful | characterized by or expressive of good spirits or cheerfulness | 47 | |
8827502597 | Childish | of, like, or befitting a child/puerile; weak; silly | 48 | |
8827502598 | Choleric | extremely irritable or easily angered; irascible | 49 | |
8827502599 | Clinical | concerned with or based on actual observation and treatment of disease in patients rather than experimentation or theory/ extremely objective and realistic; dispassionately analytic; unemotionally critical | 50 | |
8827502600 | Colloquial | characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal. | 51 | |
8827502601 | Comforting | To soothe in time of affliction or distress. | 52 | |
8827502602 | Comic | funny; humorous | 53 | |
8827502603 | Commanding | appreciably superior or imposing; winning; sizable | 54 | |
8827502604 | Compassionate | having or showing compassion | 55 | |
8827502605 | Complex | characterized by a very complicated or involved arrangement of parts, units, etc. | 56 | |
8827502606 | Complimentary | of the nature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering | 57 | |
8827502607 | Conceited | having an excessively favorable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc. | 58 | |
8827507754 | Conciliatory | To overcome the distrust or animosity of; appease | 59 | |
8827509156 | Condemnatory | To express strong disapproval | 60 | |
8827511143 | Condescending | showing or implying a usually patronizing descent from dignity or superiority | 61 | |
8827514249 | Confident | having strong belief or full assurance; sure/ sure of oneself; having no uncertainty about one's own abilities, correctness, successfulness, etc.; selfconfident; bold | 62 | |
8827515545 | Contemptuous | showing or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful | 63 | |
8827517747 | Conversational | The spoken exchange of thoughts, opinions, and feelings; talk | 64 | |
8827519275 | Cynical: | scornful of the motives or virtues of others; bitterly or sneeringly distrustful, contemptuous, or pessimistic | 65 | |
8827520533 | Derisive | characterized by or expressing derision; contemptuous; mocking | 66 | |
8827521968 | Despairing | To be overcome by a sense of futility or defeat/ To lose all hope | 67 | |
8827523301 | Detached | impartial or objective; disinterested; unbiased/ not involved or concerned; aloof | 68 | |
8827523304 | Didactic | intended for instruction; instructive | 69 | |
8827525409 | Diffident | lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy | 70 | |
8827527394 | Direct | proceeding in a straight line or by the shortest course; straight; undeviating; not oblique | 71 | |
8827530849 | Earnest | serious in intention, purpose, or effort; sincerely zealous | 72 | |
8827533845 | Elegiac | expressing sorrow or lamentation | 73 | |
8827533847 | Elevated | exalted or noble; lofty/ exalted or noble; lofty | 74 | |
8827536984 | Euphoric | a feeling of happiness, confidence, or well-being sometimes exaggerated in pathological states as mania | 75 | |
8827538942 | Facetious | not meant to be taken seriously or literally/ amusing; humorous | 76 | |
8827540021 | Farcical | ludicrous; absurd; mocking; humorous and highly improbable | 77 | |
8827541827 | Flippant | frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity | 78 | |
8827544564 | Frivolous | characterized by lack of seriousness or sense/ self-indulgently carefree; unconcerned about or lacking any serious purpose/ of little or no weight, worth, or importance; not worthy of serious notice | 79 | |
8827545952 | Ghoulish | strangely diabolical or cruel; monstrous; delighting in the revolting or loathsome | 80 | |
8827547629 | Grave | serious or solemn; sober/ weighty, momentous, or important/ threatening a seriously bad outcome or involving serious issues; critical | 81 | |
8827548727 | Haughty | disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious | 82 | |
8827549830 | Histrionic | Over the top dramatic | 83 | |
8827551155 | Impertinent | insolently rude; uncivil | 84 | |
8827553571 | Indignant | feeling, characterized by, or expressing strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base | 85 | |
8827553576 | Inflammatory | tending to arouse anger, hostility, passion, etc.: | 86 | |
8827557258 | Introspective | given to examining own sensory and perceptual experiences | 87 | |
8827559566 | Jovial | endowed with or characterized by a hearty, joyous humor or a spirit of good fellowship | 88 | |
8827563809 | Lugubrious | mournful, dismal, or gloomy, esp. in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner | 89 |
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