Adjectives that start with s
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Sacred
- concerned with religion or religious purposes
- worthy of respect or dedication
- (often followed by `to') devoted exclusively to a single use or purpose or person
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Sagacious
- skillful in statecraft or management
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Salient
- (military) the part of the line of battle that projects closest to the enemy
- (of angles) pointing outward at an angle of less than 180 degrees
- represented as leaping (rampant but leaning forward)
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Salutary
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Satisfactory
- giving satisfaction
- meeting requirements
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Scenic
- used of locations; having beautiful natural scenery
- of or relating to the stage or stage scenery
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Scholarly
- characteristic of scholars or scholarship
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Scintillating
- brilliantly clever
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Scrupulous
- having scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong; principled
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Sensational
- causing intense interest, curiosity, or emotion
- relating to or concerned in sensation
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Significant
- important in effect or meaning
- fairly large
- too closely correlated to be attributed to chance and therefore indicating a systematic relation
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Spacious
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Strenuous
- characterized by or performed with much energy or force
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Strenuous
- characterized by or performed with much energy or force
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Supportive
- furnishing support or assistance
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Sane
- mentally healthy; free from mental disorder
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Sanitary
- free from filth and pathogens
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Sarcastic
- expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds
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Sardonic
- disdainfully or ironically humorous; scornful and mocking
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Scandalous
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Scary
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Scholastic
- of or relating to schools
- of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of scholasticism
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Scornful
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Scraggly
- lacking neatness or order
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Scrawny
- inferior in size or quality
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Scurrilous
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Semiarid
- somewhat arid
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Sinister
- on or starting from the wearer's left
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Smelly
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Spooky
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Stormy
- (especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion
- characterized by violent emotions or behavior
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Strange
- being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird
- not known before
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Stressful
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Surly
- inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace