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Adjective
▲
Requiring great skill or finesse in handling or treatment
difficult
sensitive
delicate
problematic
sticky
thorny
ticklish
complicated
knotty
risky
touchy
hairy
awkward
precarious
touch-and-go
complex
involved
uncertain
catchy
convoluted
dicey
dodgy
embarrassing
nasty
prickly
problematical
spiny
tough
tricksy
vexed
gnarly
critical
fiddly
intricate
perplexing
quirky
rocky
undependable
unstable
clunky
cumbrous
cranky
impractical
clumsy
bunglesome
ungainly
ponderous
unmanageable
burdensome
lumbersome
a devil
hard to use
more ❯
“Not so fast, you have got to find a decent one first and that can be a tricky old business.”
Adjective
▲
Deceitful or crafty
crafty
cunning
scheming
devious
sly
artful
wily
foxy
guileful
slick
slippery
subtle
deceitful
deceptive
dodgy
dishonest
shifty
beguiling
cagey
cagy
cute
designing
disingenuous
duplicitous
fly
Machiavellian
shrewd
snide
carny
shonky
slim
astute
clever
deep
delusive
delusory
greasy
insidious
intelligent
keen
misleading
shady
sharp
smooth
streetwise
treacherous
witted
wry
penetrating
rational
percipient
thoughtful
practical
bright
sound
brilliant
reasonable
intuitive
enlightened
pragmatic
sensitive
knowledgeable
piercing
careful
logical
incisive
commonsensical
realistic
sane
informed
levelheaded
discreet
aware
genius
down-to-earth
sober
learned
nimble
ready
well-advised
quick on the uptake
commonsense
erudite
razor-sharp
intellectual
sophisticated
matter-of-fact
worldly-wise
good
provident
businesslike
level-headed
nimble-witted
tactical
able
apt
analytical
quick off the mark
considerate
delicate
foresighted
hard
fine
penetrative
reasoned
scholarly
rapier-like
unsentimental
agile
critical
vigilant
gifted
understanding
exceptional
well advised
cool
mature
common-sense
supersmart
ultrasmart
advisable
cultivated
wary
reflective
unidealistic
hyperintelligent
worldly
no-nonsense
cultured
whiz
analytic
well-founded
capable
tactful
objective
desirable
strategic
pragmatical
clear
grounded
gnostic
hard-headed
educated
justified
well judged
quick-thinking
well-reasoned
philosophical
tough
searching
seasoned
trenchant
solid
responsible
earthy
utilitarian
commonsensible
hardened
witty
just
unromantic
unfantastic
full of insight
real
sharp-sighted
hard-nosed
sharp as a tack
frugal
contemplative
considered
handy
well-grounded
reliable
downy
responsive
refined
expert
watchful
cerebral
well thought out
balanced
having been around
thinking
diplomatic
skilled
finely honed
well-informed
safe
visionary
competent
urbane
precocious
firm
cogent
well-thought-out
coherent
active
valid
prompt
well reasoned
unprovincial
showing great knowledge
with great knowledge
wide awake
forearmed
razor-edged
knife-like
not born yesterday
tasteful
thrifty
economical
quick on the trigger
quick on the draw
selective
prescient
open-eyed
with both feet on the ground
tough-minded
intent
cool-headed
genuine
keen-witted
judgmatical
judgmatic
chary
guarded
seemly
hard-bitten
sentient
dependable
creative
gingerly
enterprising
masterful
nimble-fingered
talented
accomplished
cosmopolitan
practisedUK
razor-like
ratiocinative
truthful
insighted
parsimonious
forethoughtful
crack
sophic
artistic
unwasteful
nippy
wizard
true
lucid
clear-thinking
ace
practicedUS
virtuoso
workmanlike
bravura
conversant
joined-up
penny-pinching
philosophic
deductive
exact
wired
proven
cheap
polite
precise
awake
conscious
thorough
prosaic
together
attentive
well-judged
not missing a trick
nobody's fool
cluey
gracious
courteous
well grounded
all there
thinking twice
playing safe
knowing how many beans make five
tuned in
with all one's wits about one
hedging one's bets
knows what's what
with one's feet on the ground
ear to the ground
self-aware
premeditating
real-life
factual
healthy
hip
inquisitive
clairvoyant
well-balanced
appropriate
concise
controlling
satisfying
dinkum
succinct
punchy
crisp
pithy
advantageous
recommended
beneficial
profitable
adult
satisfactory
exacting
detailed
complex
facetious
humorous
lively
alive
receptive
decent
estimable
enquiringUK
questioning
inquiringUS
impressive
gainful
worthwhile
lifelike
naturalistic
natural
exquisite
original
no fool
wise to
finely judged
habile
fitting
swift
PDQ
brisk
sussed
appreciative
robust
unemotional
exploitative
resolute
intractable
effective
effectual
einstein
fleet
to the point
innovative
well balanced
efficacious
qualified
sharpened
vigorous
mercurial
curt
acuminous
hep
seasonable
judicial
well
a good idea
true-life
straight
deliberate
treating with kid gloves
conciliatory
grown-up
bland
suave
genial
well-read
well read
well educated
cognizant
having know-how
smart as a whip
inspired
having good hands
with it
razor sharp
serious
abstruse
recondite
gentle
sparing
with both one's feet on the ground
tasty
peerless
master
having smarts
having fancy footwork
equipped
esoteric
weighty
arcane
respectful
sympathetic
innovational
trailblazing
fertile
originative
Promethean
elaborate
innovatory
miserly
economic
hermetic
hermetical
clued-up
tuned-in
particular
well-prepared
smart as a tack
hostile
salty
ornery
pioneering
hang tough
stand pat
locked in
tough nut
well informed
acroamatic
occult
orphic
abstemious
scrimping
economizingUS
deviceful
crackerjack
demon
forehanded
with-it
softly-softly
kid-glove
serious-minded
consequent
rathe
compleat
clean
up
fastidious
fair
stingy
deliberated
saving
prepared
tight
full of common sense
despicable
discriminative
hot tamale
trustworthy
thinking outside the box
selfish
materialistic
grasping
blasé
economisingUK
au courant
on the beam
up to speed
discriminatory
discriminational
differential
worldly-minded
avaricious
greedy
covetous
vile
in right mind
callous
self-centeredUS
self-centredUK
disenchanted
uptown
power-loving
mondain
justifiable
veridical
faultless
collected
unquestionable
certain
veracious
synthetic
credible
infallible
trustable
reasoning
cogitative
penny-wise
ignominious
aestheticUK
nice
having all one's marbles
steady-going
ungentlemanly
beggarly
squalid
rigorous
substantiated
secure
confirmed
errorless
sure
corroborated
colorable
meticulous
sincere
impeccable
inerrant
validated
verified
well versed in the ways of the world
worldly wise
been around
choosy
picky
individualisingUK
opinionated
individualizingUS
choicy
estheticUS
finical
select
eclectic
persnickety
fussy
finicky
scurvy
shabby
detestable
paltry
unpleasant
worthless
certified
defensible
maintainable
definite
defendable
calculable
explicit
supportable
tenable
sustainable
empirical
cognitive
stringent
empiric
execrable
illegitimate
abject
inequitable
wretched
sleazy
grubby
unsportsmanly
with good taste
recognizedUS
faithful
kosher
sanctioned
significant
orthodox
legit
canonical
reputable
recognisedUK
sorry
lame
lousy
deplorable
scummy
currish
scungy
reserved
measured
reticent
apprehensive
scabby
ratty
mindful
tentative
conservative
hesitant
low-minded
suspecting
scrupulous
restrained
precautious
legal
tried-and-true
not cricket
off-color
ill-gotten
out of order
against the rules
on-target
letter-perfect
clear-cut
dead-on
spot-on
keeping a weather eye on
all ears
walking on egg shells
keeping on one's toes
handling with kid gloves
on the lookout
on your guard
belt-and-braces
with reservations
watching one's step
watching out
walking on eggs
on your toes
with eyes peeled
taking it slow
on the qui vive
on guard
on the watch
with one's eyes peeled
more ❯
“The early minutes of the second half saw more great skills from Thompson and tricky runs from Sovago.”
Adjective
▲
Likely to have adverse consequences
dangerous
risky
hazardous
perilous
unsafe
high-risk
treacherous
threatening
unsound
chancy
reckless
fraught with danger
parlous
precarious
uncertain
unpredictable
insecure
vulnerable
daredevil
dicey
death-defying
exposed
breakneck
hairy
touch-and-go
dodgy
gnarly
sticky
venturesome
alarming
dangersome
hot
playing with fire
Russian roulette
shaky
ugly
unchancy
unstable
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression
misleading
false
deceptive
confusing
delusive
specious
ambiguous
evasive
spurious
deceitful
delusory
sophistical
disingenuous
casuistical
deceiving
fallacious
unstraightforward
beguiling
deluding
equivocal
mock
pseudo
bewildering
casuistic
catchy
confounding
demagogic
distorted
distracting
illusory
inaccurate
misrepresentative
mistakable
perplexing
puzzling
wrong
implied
ambagious
meandering
circumlocutionary
discursive
long-winded
backhanded
digressive
collateral
obliquitous
circular
tortuous
elliptical
implicit
deviating
non-linear
taking the long way
secretive
guarded
chary
tight-lipped
circumspect
reticent
wary
careful
cautious
discreet
winding
wandering
deviant
zigzag
serpentine
curving
divergent
rambling
long-drawn-out
sidelong
anfractuous
unforeseen
eventual
subsidiary
duplicitous
long
sinuous
snaking
complicated
understood
underhand
sinister
inferred
out-of-the-way
unplanned
twisting
sneaky
erratic
sneaking
crooked
tacit
vagrant
long way home
hinted at
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Causing difficulty or annoyance
troublesome
bothersome
upsetting
annoying
inconvenient
irritating
worrisome
worrying
demanding
difficult
irksome
taxing
tiresome
vexatious
distressing
disturbing
nagging
perturbing
vexing
exasperating
infuriating
maddening
niggling
trying
arduous
concerning
harassing
oppressive
pestiferous
pestilential
plaguy
problematic
aggravating
awkward
burdensome
discomforting
discomposing
disquieting
hard
laborious
nasty
pesky
thorny
troubling
troublous
unsettling
wearisome
importunate
pestilent
alarming
damaging
dangerous
disorderly
heavy
infestive
intractable
mean
messy
murder
painful
repressive
rough
rowdy
tough
ugly
undisciplined
ungovernable
uphill
wicked
agitating
disconcerting
boring
discommoding
bedevillingUK
unpleasing
unnerving
unamusing
punchable
uncongenial
bedevilingUS
discordant
grotesque
harsh
offensive
unsuitable
inappropriate
inharmonious
unaesthetic
insensitive
stridulous
ill suited
stridulent
dry
harsh-sounding
out of place
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Testing of one's abilities
challenging
demanding
arduous
difficult
gruelingUS
gruellingUK
tough
ambitious
hard
taxing
testing
laborious
onerous
rough
formidable
rigorous
rugged
burdensome
exigent
killer
trying
herculean
moiling
strenuous
toilsome
backbreaking
hellacious
stiff
stretching
draining
exhausting
severe
tiring
grievous
oppressive
punishing
stressful
stringent
back-breaking
effortful
uphill battle
crippling
enervating
relentless
vexatious
disagreeable
laboredUS
labouredUK
bad
austere
worrying
savage
enervative
merciless
unremitting
intense
pitiless
wretched
awful
extreme
terrible
nerve-racking
nasty
uncomfortable
bleak
serious
hostile
hectic
disturbing
unrelenting
mighty
colossal
inexorable
no picnic
tormenting
vile
wicked
spartan
weary
abominable
troubling
immoderate
tough going
excessive
ruthless
steep
punitive
rotten
dreadful
flinty
unfriendly
wild
overwhelming
grave
intemperate
inclement
dire
hefty
titanic
boring
distasteful
staggering
miserable
annoying
sour
discomforting
worrisome
tyrannical
mean
inconvenient
awkward
slavish
difficile
tense
domineering
anxious
heavy-handed
stark
inhospitable
horrid
hateful
foul
horrible
exorbitant
atrocious
slow
turbulent
comfortless
drastic
agitating
stern
embittering
detestable
appalling
racking
odious
monumental
unfair
drudging
obdurate
tumultuous
dour
disgusting
draconian
vicious
unkind
extravagant
repressive
energetic
unjust
plodding
impossible
heartbreaking
devilish
lousy
insufferable
irritating
immense
heart-rending
tragic
overweening
execrable
displeasing
gigantic
murder
prohibitive
headache
yukky
unwelcome
unpalatable
yucky
uncongenial
unlovely
unpleasing
unsavoryUS
very hard
icky
sad
great
unsavouryUK
offensive
unendurable
worksome
dismal
busy
anxiety-ridden
hurtful
afflicting
heartrending
ferocious
high-pressure
gut-wrenching
not easy
unreasonable
prostrating
searching
straitened
working-class
blue-collar
workworn
physical
dark
a nuisance
Spartan
bare-bones
barren
desolate
responsible
an imposition
stormy
tempestuous
overburdening
barbarous
mammoth
carking
strained
biting
thoroughgoing
Sisyphean
overtaxing
overpowering
unfortunate
protracted
lengthy
hardworking
dogged
unenviable
nagging
no piece of cake
violent
dismaying
regrettable
major
shocking
woeful
lamentable
poignant
inordinate
undue
rigid
tough job
rough go
gruff
disquieting
strong
unconscionable
swingeing
sharp
towering
unmerciful
exerting
dictatorial
monotonous
unhappy
chilling
crabbed
ungentle
louring
rude
steely
lowering
careful
hypercritical
by the book
thorough
precise
critical
nit-picking
torturing
raging
wrenching
autocratic
sore
remorseless
mortifying
problematic
ominous
surly
hardheaded
intractable
overextravagant
overmuch
headstrong
overdue
insane
plethoric
baroque
thankless
ghastly
provoking
calamitous
afflictive
despotic
undemocratic
uncompromising
dicey
hazardous
easier said than done
high-impact
torturesome
drudgy
unnerving
scabrous
hard-won
marathon
problem
like getting blood out of a stone
almighty
knotty
tyrannous
implacable
robust
frightful
horrendous
mundane
hard-hearted
repetitive
aggressive
bold
authoritarian
iron-fisted
humourlessUK
sedate
humorlessUS
staid
sober
sobersided
solid
adamant
rocklike
troubled
insensitive
insensate
firm
insensible
bloodless
impassible
steady
large order
heavy sledding
infernal
loathsome
overbearing
coercive
anti-democratic
daring
grandiose
frantic
chaotic
repetitious
longwinded
long-winded
unsmiling
no-nonsense
uncomic
astringent
high-handed
peremptory
industrious
active
eventful
frenzied
frenetic
lively
grotty
disheartening
gloomy
discouraging
sombreUK
dispiriting
ironhanded
depressive
somberUS
depressing
confining
numbing
mind-numbing
interminable
hard-nosed
po-faced
grand
elaborate
intrepid
damnable
pestilential
beastly
pretentious
impressive
visionary
lofty
restless
rough going
tormentous
plaguing
harrying
anguishing
chastening
magnificent
flustering
animated
madhouse
tireless
full
riotous
furious
bustling
accursed
fiendish
infamous
pernicious
perturbing
cussed
fell
heinous
confounded
from hell
rocky
large-scale
full on
unruly
spirited
rowdy
action-packed
bumpy
raucous
repulsive
cursed
revolting
gross
a bummer of a
repellent
abhorrent
repugnant
nauseating
harmful
unappealing
acute
crashing
invidious
obnoxious
grody
objectionable
injurious
sickening
destructive
fearful
rancid
pesky
off-putting
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Excessively fussy about details
pernickety
fussy
exacting
particular
fastidious
finicky
picky
dainty
finical
punctilious
choosy
demanding
persnickety
careful
carping
difficult
faddish
nice
over-fastidious
over-particular
painstaking
choosey
critical
delicate
faddy
finicking
fussbudgety
hair-splitting
nitpicking
nit-picking
old-maidish
overcritical
pass-remarkable
detailed
fiddly
fine
hairsplitting
nit-picky
overnice
overprecise
difficult to please
systematic
minute
complete
regular
efficient
comprehensive
unerring
ordered
persevering
structured
scientific
hard-working
organizedUS
businesslike
all-out
all-inclusive
logical
planned
methodic
all-embracing
neat
extensive
well organized
organisedUK
systematizedUS
earnest
sweeping
intent
persistent
coherent
rigid
unflagging
zealous
fixed
methodized
out-and-out
constant
systematisedUK
severe
discriminative
literal
profound
well ordered
skilfulUK
skillfulUS
busy
concentrated
circumstantial
unmistakable
defined
tidy
explicit
active
full-dress
disciplined
well-ordered
blow-by-blow
veridical
tireless
stringent
true
engaged
employed
bustling
well-regulated
faultless
reliable
serious
working
matter-of-fact
total
well thought out
plugging
encyclopedicUS
deep
definite
routine
on the button
all-encompassing
far-reaching
on the nose
compendious
practical
controlled
clean
universal
embracive
inclusive
cyclopedic
intense
panoramic
particularizedUS
omnibus
arranged
specific
whole-hog
clocklike
itemizedUS
from A to Z
encyclopaedicUK
systematical
together
authentic
veracious
cover-all
all-in
broad-gauge
broad-gauged
indefatigable
truthful
factual
well planned
well regulated
uncompromising
untiring
just
genuine
swotty
tied-up
hopping
occupied
deft
concrete
distinct
perfect
definitive
ultraprecise
full-scale
hard
subtle
clear-cut
steady
determined
nuanced
widespread
considered
purposeful
particularisedUK
itemisedUK
standardizedUS
dependable
heavy
hellacious
inch-perfect
global
eager beaver
standard
consistent
exquisite
slick
well-organized
finespun
radical
opinionated
analytical
coordinated
spot on
on the mark
bang on
standardisedUK
expeditious
joined-up
effective
wary
on the money
watchful
soup to nuts
all the way
royal
plenty
absolute
slam-bang
focusedUS
important
stickler
concentrating
listening
unwearied
alert
unremitting
grinding
whiz
considerable
professional
calculated
measured
focussedUK
microscopic
nonrandom
workaday
meaningful
substantial
significant
duteous
umbrella
competent
specializedUS
specialisedUK
thoroughly
extensively
sure
thoroughpaced
wall-to-wall
full-blown
catholic
practisedUK
precision
no stone unturned
the word
crossing the t's
white-glove
dotting the i's
ultra-fine
fine-drawn
dead on
incorrupted
winning
superior
nifty
pragmatic
concerted
lethal
deadly
on target
well aimed
shrewd
insightful
perspicacious
practicedUS
accomplished
enterprising
hardworking
direct
vigorous
all-absorbing
hanging in
hanging tough
playing safe
cultured
discriminational
differential
unwavering
walking on eggs
prompt
timely
artistic
aestheticUK
minding p's and q's
heart and soul into
explosive
heavy-duty
violent
vehement
excruciating
vicious
fearsome
ghastly
high-pressure
fierce
terrible
resolute
frightful
dreadful
blistering
furious
ferocious
almighty
fearful
errorless
wise
with good taste
individualisingUK
prudent
individualizingUS
estheticUS
unambiguous
flawless
certain
accelerated
fast
insistent
speeded-up
infallible
dogged
driven
tenacious
lifelike
fair
convincing
realistic
committed
steadfast
pertinacious
immediate
seasonable
on time
early
speedy
error-free
unrelenting
eager
veristic
verisimilar
recurrent
in good time
on the dot
periodic
cyclic
quick
ready
true to life
slogging
operose
persisting
plodding
telling it like it is
on the nail
fact-based
on the beam
testing
challenging
to schedule
in time
on schedule
when expected
well timed
arduous
gruellingUK
taxing
spot on time
under the wire
bang on time
onerous
toilsome
word-perfect
gruelingUS
burdensome
as it really happened
murderous
killer
back-breaking
tall
uphill
pick-and-shovel
tiring
moiling
backbreaking
killing
Augean
sweaty
punishing
formidable
effortful
rugged
herculean
exigent
leaving no stone unturned
Herculean
trying
weighty
grievous
oppressive
trim
well-kept
shipshape
in order
regulated
framed
set-up
alike
uniform
spick-and-span
rangé
all together
in apple-pie order
to rights
in shape
neat as button
neat as pin
in good shape
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Disgracefully bad or unpleasant
diabolical
dreadful
terrible
appalling
atrocious
awful
frightful
poor
shocking
deplorable
disgraceful
inferior
lamentable
mediocre
shameful
substandard
unsatisfactory
abysmal
bungling
crummy
dire
dismal
hopeless
inadequate
inept
second-rate
shoddy
third-rate
very bad
bum
God-awful
lousy
pathetic
pitiful
rotten
useless
woeful
chronic
duff
nasty
outrageous
pits
poxy
ropy
rubbish
unpleasant
vile
damnable
direful
egregious
excruciating
hellacious
a load of pants
craptacular
trifling
flimsy
no good
insignificant
gaudy
twopenny-halfpenny
unworthy
low quality
trivial
damaged
negligible
futile
unproductive
slipshod
unavailing
meretricious
unprofitable
empty
profitless
petty
inconsequential
not good enough
nugatory
unsatisfying
barren
inutile
Brummagem
measly
brummagem
incomplete
run-down
sketchy
sordid
pointless
two a penny
a dime a dozen
makeshift
dime-store
counterproductive
ignoble
scant
scanty
thrown together
dud
fruitless
lowbrow
foul
abhorrent
vain
disgusting
unfinished
godforsaken
rinky-dink
showy
bootless
unfit
broken-down
meaningless
for the birds
low cost
anticlimactic
inefficacious
marred
ramshackle
rickety
thin
inoperative
unfructuous
null
unimportant
unusable
a dead loss
bogus
nothing
sterile
waste
abandoned
unessential
harmful
unable
piffling
sick
tinpot
badly built
tasteless
vulgar
unsuccessful
catchpenny
dilapidated
dreary
minimal
nauseating
evil
noisome
fulsome
noxious
obscene
ugly
nauseous
kitsch
scroungy
short
disreputable
Mickey Mouse
exiguous
bleak
depressing
garbagy
pinchbeck
tattered
brassy
patchy
unsaleable
unrefined
scarce
of little value
nickel-and-dime
shy
puny
desolate
seedy
abortive
scruffy
dingy
no-account
needing
squalid
failing
worse
entry-level
gloomy
sombreUK
drab
dark
cheerless
of no value
malfunctioning
undistinguished
uninspired
low-down
disheartening
joyless
sullen
morose
drear
piteous
solemn
somberUS
very poor
non-successful
heartrending
injured
bottom-rung
warped
destitute
of no financial value
blemished
failed
purposeless
idle
no-good
indigent
forlorn
glum
scungy
depressive
impoverished
sepulchral
comfortless
minor-league
minor league
to no avail
otiose
fallible
small potatoes
unfruitful
forceless
withered
spineless
neutralizedUS
void
drossy
indecisive
unable to do something for toffee
powerless
to no effect
not satisfying
defeasible
neutralisedUK
innocuous
frowzy
out of sorts
off-colour
crook
off colour
ne'er-do-well
tinsel
corny
cheeseball
bad quality
slovenly
mingy
minor
down scale
dissatisfying
flashy
kitschy
desperate
throwaway
unskilful
dinky
doubtful
garish
down-market
twopenny
cheap-looking
chintzy
disturbing
disconcerting
disquieting
poopy
tragical
harrowing
distressful
stupid
unwelcome
flash
of negligible value
downscale
uncultured
low-class
unfashionable
insalubrious
unsophisticated
meritless
upsetting
niggling
picayune
chicken
minute
nominal
piddly
slight
footling
pimping
peanut
plastic
pretentious
inglorious
so-so
iffy
underwhelming
unstable
unsubstantial
without value
yucky
incapable
fair
unreliable
inproficient
unproficient
shlocky
unsightly
shlock
gruesome
gut-wrenching
run-of-the-mine
passable
medium
run-of-the-mill
run-of-mine
rough-hewn
jury-rigged
clumsy
artless
rude
jerry-rigged
rough-and-tumble
rough-and-ready
would fetch nothing
of no worth
of little worth
unfulfilling
ignominious
leaving a lot to be desired
small-time
outclassed
bog-standard
uninspiring
bathetic
uninteresting
carelessly built
unavailable
emasculate
slack-spined
no go
no way
not effective
run down
unable to do something to save one's life
de minimis
not oneself
off-form
under the weather
incorrect
frail
botched
of little financial value
degenerate
disillusioning
despisable
heinous
disdainable
ill-suited
unsuited
from hell
cowardly
discreditable
down at heel
scrappy
tainted
crippled
snide
currish
unsellable
not proper
unadvantageous
inconsistent
incompatible
inapt
skimpy
falling short
villainous
hateworthy
scratched
partial
torn
cracked
deformed
beggarly
swinish
outcast
crass
low-minded
beyond contempt
unassembled
rare
undersupplied
infrequent
unequal
underprovided
fair to middling
immature
not all it's cracked up to be
ten a penny
undeveloped
inexact
rudimentary
outta gas
found wanting
third string
not enough
second string
second fiddle
vicious
faultful
bottom-of-barrel
disfigured
not functioning
minus
not working
not make it
dumbed down
not cut out for
few bugs
in a state of disrepair
hamstrung
inexpedient
feckless
no use
senseless
hollow
null and void
invertebrate
banal
wanky
chaffy
discouraging
unpromising
funereal
morbid
filthy
absent
missing
of no benefit
dreich
lugubrious
saturnine
not acceptable
unpolished
sunless
plutonian
tenebrous
lonesome
black
tenebrific
elegiac
elegiacal
omitted
gone
unfulfilled
less
bereft
devoid
cooked
away
needed
bankrupt
deprived
Cimmerian
poverty-stricken
burned out
in default
cut off
out of gas
not worth a hill of beans
not up to expectations
too little too late
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Having the characteristic of being troublesome or unruly
problem
unruly
problematic
delinquent
difficult
badly-behaved
disobedient
disturbed
intractable
intransigent
maladjusted
recalcitrant
refractory
troublesome
uncontrollable
ungovernable
unmanageable
troubled
dark
afflicted
trouble
full of problems
beset by problems
disorderly
badly behaved
undisciplined
obstreperous
wayward
rebellious
naughty
insubordinate
errant
mischievous
disruptive
wild
defiant
wilful
contumacious
rowdy
froward
contrary
fractious
willful
turbulent
riotous
uncooperative
misbehaving
headstrong
rascally
roguish
out of control
perverse
rough
bad
ill-disciplined
rude
unrestrained
mutinous
attention-seeking
unbiddable
untoward
awkward
impish
incorrigible
exasperating
bolshie
uncompliant
self-willed
noisy
uncontrolled
lawless
non-compliant
raucous
rebel
recusant
incompliant
balky
restive
noncompliant
stubborn
erratic
sinful
wrong
ill-behaved
full of mischief
out of hand
boisterous
rollicking
loud
roisterous
rambunctious
troublemaking
uproarious
irrepressible
clamorous
rackety
robustious
violent
rumbustious
knockabout
hell-raising
insurgent
obdurate
obstinate
aberrant
truculent
incontrollable
rampageous
stroppy
playful
wicked
trying
tricksy
puckish
brattish
scampish
prankish
insolent
impudent
irksome
gallus
fiendish
wanton
unrestrainable
undisciplinable
devilish
loudmouthed
indocile
nonobservant
exuberant
anarchic
limit
misbehaved
robust
resistive
vexatious
unpredictable
fickle
impolite
annoying
swashbuckling
swaggering
cavalier
teasing
worthless
unsettling
disturbing
upsetting
bad-mannered
tough
evil
untrained
seditious
reckless
wild and woolly
unsteady
capricious
unschooled
intolerable
impossible
unbearable
undependable
distracting
mulish
divisive
immoral
cross-grained
self-indulgent
strong-willed
ornery
arbitrary
ungoverned
lacking self-control
inconsistent
treacherous
factious
disaffected
dissentious
uncomplying
out-of-order
out-of-line
causing trouble
off-base
disrupting
offending
loutish
sinning
erring
deviant
roughhouse
culpable
lawbreaking
guilty
criminal
transgressing
artful
straying
like a loose cannon
excited
strong
freaked
overwhelming
beside oneself
abandoned
indomitable
overpowering
intense
insuppressible
raunchy
ruffianly
kiddish
thoughtless
immature
childish
infantile
ill-natured
inconsiderate
sly
disrespectful
frolicsome
foxy
bothersome
unorthodox
miscreant
shifting
stray
heretic
devious
fallible
deviating
off straight and narrow
unreliable
meandering
errable
dysfunctional
pugnacious
whiny
petulant
socially impaired
belligerent
troublous
aggressive
confrontational
combative
argumentative
tiresome
bold
hot-tempered
malicious
fierce
scrappy
pesky
uncontainable
sullen
cantankerous
peevish
hostile
nasty
wearisome
demanding
bellicose
mean
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Sensitive
susceptive
acute
cognizant
conscious
delicate
easily affected
emotionable
emotional
feeling
fine
high-strung
hung up
hypersensitive
impressible
impressionable
irritable
keen
knowing
nervous
oversensitive
perceiving
perceptive
precarious
precise
psychic
reactive
receptive
responsive
seeing
sensatory
sensible
sensile
sensorial
sensory
sentient
supersensitive
tense
ticklish
touchy
touchy feely
tuned in
turned on to
umbrageous
understanding
unstable
wired
Adjective
▲
Tending to find fault or raise petty objections
captious
critical
carping
cavillingUK
fault-finding
hypercritical
censorious
deprecating
disparaging
nagging
overcritical
niggling
nit-picking
pedantic
pettifogging
quibbling
cavilingUS
criticisingUK
criticizingUS
disapproving
faultfinding
hair-splitting
judgemental
judgmental
nitpicking
rejective
pass-remarkable
pernickety
acrimonious
cantankerous
cavillous
contrary
crabby
cross
demanding
exacting
exceptive
finicky
hairsplitting
irritable
negative
nitpicky
peevish
perverse
petty
petulant
sarcastic
severe
testy
thorny
touchy
trivial
unfair
unjust
very critical
easily disgusted
uncomplimentary
denigratory
abusive
depreciative
scornful
insulting
derogative
depreciatory
detractive
disdainful
accusing
offensive
derisory
degrading
denigrative
defamatory
hostile
contumelious
damaging
scurrilous
decrying
slanderous
libellousUK
opprobrious
libelousUS
unflattering
derisive
injurious
discouraging
antagonistic
vilifying
unfriendly
adverse
rude
hurtful
nasty
deprecative
poor
maligning
bad
invective
vitriolic
spiteful
upbraiding
inimical
calumnious
catty
low
detracting
admonitory
sneering
scurril
vituperatory
truculent
scurrile
traducing
incriminatory
malicious
sharp-tongued
accusatorial
damnatory
denigrating
disrespectful
accusive
adversarial
sardonic
slating
knocking
adversary
personal
disavowing
opposing
minimizingUS
vicious
dismissive
detractory
discrediting
minimisingUK
antipathetic
jaundiced
inhospitable
prejudicial
dishonouringUK
scandalous
mud-slinging
naysaying
counter
defaming
dishonoringUS
despiteful
malevolent
humiliating
ill-disposed
malign
insolent
debasing
reviling
brusque
cruel
blameful
disappointed
proscriptive
admonishing
shrewish
cursing
familiar
intrusive
impertinent
cheeky
ambiguous
equivocal
frowning
accusative
scoffing
boot-faced
disapprobatory
jesuitical
reprehensive
unpleasant
displeased
maledictory
scandalmongering
muckraking
backbiting
contemptible
arrogant
mocking
condescending
imputative
recriminatory
diminishing
deflating
maledictive
slurring
virulent
discreditable
venomous
hateful
irreverent
disadvantageous
sniping
dyslogistic
downgrading
ironical
obloquious
castigating
calumniating
ranting
aspersive
blunt
aspersing
untoward
libelingUS
injuring
excoriating
despicable
hurting
offending
abasing
libellingUK
vile
shaming
malignant
disgracing
vulgar
unhelpful
honest
candid
attacking
undermining
disobliging
invalidating
obstructive
stark
straightforward
realistic
outspoken
vexatious
unappealing
corrosive
caustic
abrasive
destructive
troublesome
straight from the shoulder
uncharitable
warts and all
snide
epithetical
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Not brave; cowardly
yellow
cowardly
craven
lily-livered
chicken
pusillanimous
spineless
gutless
chicken-hearted
faint-hearted
fearful
pigeon-hearted
spiritless
timid
timorous
cowering
feeble
poltroon
quaking
recreant
shrinking
soft
trembling
weak
candy-assed
chickenhearted
chicken-livered
dastardly
milk-livered
sissified
sissy
unheroic
weak-kneed
wet
wimpish
wimpy
yellow-bellied
poor-spirited
deceitful
low
offensive
sneaking
treacherous
unethical
unprincipled
afraid of one's own shadow
in a cold sweat
frightened of one's own shadow
withdrawn
introverted
unconfident
sheepish
self-conscious
insecure
recessive
uncertain
embarrassed
blushing
restrained
doubtful
aw-shucks
inhibited
unforthcoming
shamefaced
unobtrusive
mild
unpretentious
hesitating
silent
lacking confidence
halting
doubting
introvert
prim
wary
constrained
lowly
unsociable
uncomfortable
cautious
uptight
prudish
reclusive
undemonstrative
disinclined
uneasy
ashamed
unwilling
suspicious
uneager
averse
abashed
ill at ease
chary
media-shy
uncommunicative
unpresuming
down-to-earth
plain
withdrawing
secretive
subdued
docile
rabbity
self-doubting
scepticalUK
private
delaying
cool
vacillatory
cold
stumbling
tense
edgy
skepticalUS
unpredictable
dawdling
slow
lazy
nice
loath
awkward
hanging back
retired
standoffish
stammering
solitary
offish
strait-laced
worried
blushful
coquettish
old-maidish
kittenish
niminy-piminy
simple
unostentatious
taciturn
silly
proper
distrustful
inward-looking
overmodest
foolish
aloof
seemly
self-contained
distant
peaceful
chaste
resigned
undecided
inconspicuous
pendulous
unpretending
guarded
iffy
dubious
compliant
unpoised
mim
remote
unambitious
troubled
vacillant
close-mouthed
detached
sedate
close
stand-offish
perturbed
thoughtful
eremitic
unresponsive
affected
moderate
lacking self-confidence
nongregarious
shilly-shally
hung up
not self-assured
soft-spoken
collected
strained
tongue-tied
low-key
serene
uncompanionable
discomfited
broken
alarmed
arch
flirtatious
declining
excited
agitated
stuttering
simpering
costive
agog
enervated
debilitated
petrified
startled
repressed
flushed
reddening
flushing
humiliated
terrified
chagrined
mortified
unsteady
evasive
genuine
unaffected
natural
flinching
blenching
apologetic
colorlessUS
colourlessUK
pale
weak-minded
frustrated
patient
turning red
red-faced
ordinary
artless
ingenuous
unaggressive
fussy
wobbly
infirm
persuasible
persuadable
impressionable
late
sluggish
low-profile
unnoticeable
drippy
long-suffering
penitent
regretful
rueful
hangdog
contrite
chastened
remorseful
nerdy
daft
forbearing
socially inhibited
tardy
passionless
feeble-minded
biddable
pernickety
niggly
finicky
formal
lacking in confidence
lacking assurance
not confident
restless
discomposed
unsettled
casual
unconcerned
aseptic
disinterested
incurious
retreated
recluse
uncurious
uninterested
indifferent
repentant
guilty
reverent
peaceable
indisposed
unboastful
discreet
unapproachable
unrelaxed
bothered
ambivalent
temperate
unconvincing
unenthusiastic
keeping a low profile
stalling
bottled up
lamblike
unnatural
overcautious
overparticular
discomforted
disquieted
seclusive
secret
self-restrained
oscillating
havering
in doubt
shilly-shallying
unsubstantial
meagerUS
fragile
introspective
hermitic
anchoritic
eremitical
acquiescent
deferential
gauche
unfriendly
dilly-dallying
cunctatory
having misgivings
having qualms
verecund
recoiling
lacking social skills
on edge
prudent
unaffable
unexpansive
stilted
stiff
mannered
artificial
ill-at-ease
flimsy
meagreUK
tenuous
pabulum
tolerant
manageable
lenient
nothing
orderly
zero
longanimous
easily embarrassed
in a quandary
humming and hawing
in two minds
in a dilemma
closemouthed
frigid
chilly
tight-lipped
laconic
dumb
unemotional
indrawn
blowing hot and cold
on the horns of a dilemma
old-womanish
decorous
not forward
Olympian
snobbish
hinky
goosey
upset
dithery
atwitter
queasy
queazy
aflutter
prissy
misanthropic
composed
placid
conventional
icy
ceremonious
noncommittal
out of countenance
unsure of yourself
like a fish out of water
contemplative
self-absorbed
self-interested
pensive
ladylike
staid
decent
sober
respectable
vague
Delphic
touchy
questioning
het up
choked
innocent
virginal
maidenly
virtuous
pure
priggish
ruminative
meditative
reflective
inner-directed
self-centredUK
straight
puritanical
goody-goody
starchy
square
self-centeredUS
earnest
serious
solemn
touch and go
hanging by thread
on thin ice
prim and proper
up in the air
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Not firmly fixed and likely to wobble or fall
unstable
unsteady
shaky
wobbly
rickety
unbalanced
insecure
precarious
rocky
tottering
teetering
tottery
unsafe
wobbling
doddery
movable
unfastened
unreliable
unsecured
unsettled
bockety
dizzy
giddy
lubricious
mobile
moving
not secure
risky
slippery
ticklish
weak
wiggly
not fixed
teetery
frail
shaking
wonky
trembly
tremulous
wabbly
trembling
quivering
decrepit
shuddering
wabbling
feeble
shuddery
atremble
aquiver
quavery
dodgy
quivery
wayward
shifting
ramshackle
dilapidated
spindly
jerry-built
fragile
fluctuant
vacillating
infirm
rattletrap
uneven
vulnerable
nonsecured
failing
exposed
doddering
rocking
swaying
wavy
wiggling
groggy
woozy
awry
vibrating
juddering
derelict
broken-down
lurching
fitful
on its last legs
imperfect
broken
tumbledown
disintegrating
ruinous
decaying
crumbling
shifty
suspect
rachitic
rumpty
geriatric
tumble-down
shacky
shambly
loose
falling to pieces
unsubstantial
slack
slackened
lax
relaxed
loosened
insubstantial
hazardous
rootless
endangered
defenselessUS
perilous
dangerous
immature
defencelessUK
at risk
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Hateful
invidious
envious
green-eyed
jealous
covetous
jaundiced
resentful
abominable
calumnious
defamatory
detestable
detracting
detractive
detractory
envying
hateful
horrible
impossible
insulting
libellousUK
libelousUS
malevolent
maligning
obnoxious
odious
repugnant
scandalous
slanderous
slighting
spiteful
vilifying
more ❯
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