Calm, peaceful, and untroubled; tranquil.
Existing or available in large quantities; plentiful.
Eager to know or learn something.
Having or showing care and conscientiousness in work or duties.
Fluent or persuasive in speaking or writing.
Sparing or economical with money or food; thrifty.
Truly what something is said to be; authentic.
Having or showing a modest or low estimate of one's importance.
Featuring new methods; advanced and original.
Cheerful and friendly; good-humored.
Having or showing eagerness or enthusiasm; sharp or highly developed.
Expressed clearly; easy to understand; mentally clear.
Showing great attention to detail or being very careful and precise.
New or unusual in an interesting way; not seen before.
Hopeful and confident about the future.
Acting with or showing care and thought for the future.
Able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions.
So delicate or precise as to be difficult to analyse or describe; not obvious.
Tending to keep a firm hold of something; persistent.
Producing powerful feelings or strong clear images in the mind; intensely bright.
Feeling or showing caution about possible dangers or problems.
Great energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or objective.
Well-meaning and kindly; giving charity.
Truthful and straightforward; frank.
The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
Lasting for a very short time; transitory.
Sweet or musical; pleasant to hear.
Mental calmness and composure, especially in difficult situations.
Optimistic or positive, especially in a difficult situation.
Reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little.
The appearance of being true or real; convincing realism.
Using very few words; brief and to the point.
Extremely idealistic and unrealistic; impractically romantic.
A change of circumstances or fortune, typically unwelcome.
To make unclear, confusing, or difficult to understand; to obscure.
The defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history.
Intended for or understood by only a small number of people with specialized knowledge.
Looking or sounding sad and dismal, often excessively so.
The final outcome or resolution of a narrative or chain of events.
Relating to a transitional or in-between state; occupying a threshold.
The partially shaded outer region of a shadow; any area of partial illumination.
Used to describe something very light, thin, and delicate.
Denoting a period of time that was idyllically happy and peaceful.
Just begun and not fully formed or developed; undeveloped.
Tending to talk a great deal; very talkative.
Imposingly deep and full; capable of producing a strong, deep, or resonant sound.
Characteristic of or resembling an angel; angelic in beauty or purity.
The pleasant, distinctive smell that accompanies rainfall on dry earth.
A deep longing for one's home or a place that may not exist; nostalgia tinged with grief.
The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as one's own.
Having a ready insight into things; shrewd and perceptive.
A person who acts obsequiously toward someone in order to gain advantage; a flatterer.
Too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words.
Not known by many people; abstruse; dealing with obscure subject matter.
The use of clever but fallacious arguments, especially to deceive.
Expressing or promoting a particular cause or point of view; biased.
Not likely to offend or arouse strong feelings; inoffensive but dull. Also: pain-relieving.
Of doubtful authenticity; widely believed but probably not true.
To cause someone to feel drained of energy or vitality; to weaken.
Translucently clear; easily understood; expressed clearly.
Tending to obstruct or harm; hostile and unfriendly.
A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole, or vice versa.
Apparently attractive but having in reality no value or integrity; falsely alluring.
Giving or indicating a good chance of success; favourable.
Eager or quick to argue or fight; aggressively defiant.
To use ambiguous language so as to conceal the truth or avoid committing oneself.
Wrongdoing, especially by a public official; misconduct.
Having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way.
Showing willingness to act dishonestly in return for money or personal gain; corrupt.
Recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources; licentious.
A grammatical mistake; a breach of good manners or etiquette.
Leadership or dominance, especially of one country or social group over others.
An image or representation of someone or something; a superficial likeness without the substance.
A person who dislikes humankind and avoids human society.
The highest point in development; the elevation of someone to divine status.
A tendency to extreme loquacity; an excessive flow of words.
The tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things.
The tendency to perceive a specific, familiar image in a random or ambiguous stimulus.
Supposedly having the power to avert evil influences or bad luck.
Winding and circuitous; having many twists and turns.
Of no value or importance; futile; having no purpose.
The separation of parts of a compound word by the insertion of another word.
Government by the worst or least qualified citizens.
The statistical study of elections and electoral trends.
A wish or inclination not strong enough to lead to action.
A whispering or rustling sound; a murmur.
Stubbornly or wilfully disobedient to authority.
Relating to or dependent on charity; charitable.
A figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence surprises the listener in a way that is comic or thought-provoking.
An epic poem; epic poetry as a genre.
Luminous at night; describing the highest clouds visible in Earth's atmosphere at twilight.
The warmth of the sun in winter.
Relating to twilight; (of animals) active during twilight.
The contemplation of one's navel as an aid to meditation; navel-gazing.
To make conflicting or evasive statements; to abandon a position or principle.
Proceeding by inquiry; denoting a method of seeking truth through questioning.
Radiant; dazzlingly bright.
Icy cold; extremely cold.
Misty, dark, and gloomy; obscure.
Beautiful, especially of a person.