Glossary · Adjectives · S
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TermTypeDefinitionClassificationsUpdated
Surface-Assimilativeadjectivehaving capacity or tendency to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surfacecandidate
Surface-To-Airadjectiveoperating from or designed to be launched from the ground against an airborne targetcandidate
Surgicaladjectiverelating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicinecandidate
Surrogateadjectiveproviding or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal tiescandidate
Suspendedadjectivesupported or kept from sinking or falling by buoyancy and without apparent attachment, like particles in a fluidcandidate
Svelteadjectiveshowing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experiencecandidate
Swaggeringadjectivehaving or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthycandidate
Swahiliadjectiverelating to the Swahili people, their language, or that coastal region of Africa candidate
Swaziadjectiveof or relating to or characteristic of Swaziland or its people or their languagecandidate
Swedishadjectiveof or relating to or characteristic of Sweden or its people or culture or languagecandidate
Sweetheartadjectiveprivileged treatment of a favored person or corporation (sometimes unethically)candidate
Sweptbackadjective(especially of aircraft wings) angled rearward from the point of attachmentcandidate
Syllabicadjectivehaving lines based on the number of syllables rather than on rhythmical arrangement of stresses or quantitiescandidate
Symbioticadjectiveused of organisms (especially of different species) living together but not necessarily in a relation beneficial to eachcandidate