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Adjectives commonly used to describe "fiction" — vivid descriptors for richer, more specific prose.
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(nonstandard) Used to negate or invert the meaning of the following adjective. More properly written as the prefix non-.
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A citizen or national of the United States of America.
(adj)
Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
Of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history, (particularly) as opposed to legends, myths, and fictions.
Liked by many people; generally pleasing, widely admired.
Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient.
Relating to the law or to lawyers.
Modern, of the present age (shorthand for ‘contemporary with the present’).
Of or pertaining to England.
Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.
Pertaining to an idealised form of love (originally, as might be felt by the heroes of a romance); conducive to romance; loving, affectionate.
Just, only; no more than, pure and simple, neither more nor better than might be expected.
Relating to the representation of objects, actions or conditions as they actually are or were.
Having happened a short while ago.
Relating to literature.
Arriving a time before expected; sooner than on time.
To a great extent.
Most superior; most favorable.
Afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time).
Of, from, or related to China, particularly now the People's Republic of China.
Of or relating to the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901, or that period.
Important; weighty; not insignificant.
Characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion.
Serving to reduce a difficulty, or accessible with minimum difficulty; expedient.
Of, facing, situated in, or related to the west.
The citizens or inhabitants of the United Kingdom.
Young; not fully developed.
previously; before now; sooner
Relating to poetry.
Characterized by speculation; based on guessing, unfounded opinions, or extrapolation.
Of or relating to the home.
Of or pertaining to Russia or Russians.
Having a lively or creative imagination.
Of, relating to, or derived from tradition.
Of or relating to a person's life or an account of a person's life, as told by the subject.
Of or relating to India or its people; or (formerly) of the East Indies.
Of, belonging to, or relating to Canada, its culture, or people.
Of, facing, situated in, or related to the south.
Having a practical or beneficial use.
Ideal but often impractical; visionary.
Well-mannered, civilized.
(physics, uncountable) Electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range visible to the human eye (about 400–750 nanometers): visible light.
Of or relating to the drama.
Of, relating to, derived from, or characteristic of Japan, its people, language, or culture.
Pertaining to or founded on experiment.
Of, or relating to modernism.
Of or pertaining to Africa.
Of or relating to narration.
An advocate or follower of postmodernism.
Low or reduced in price.
(sometimes postpositive) Greatest, most excellent, extreme, most superior, highest, or utmost.
Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour.
Synonym of poetic.
Relating to or tending to arouse sexual desire or excitement.
Pertaining to or originating from Ireland or the Irish people.
Wonderful; marvelous; excellent; extraordinarily good or great (used especially as an intensifier).
A person who has reached the legal age of majority.
Cooked in boiling water.
Above nature; beyond or added to nature, often so considered because it is given by a deity or some force beyond that with which humans are born.
(colloquial) A short, a short seller: one who engages in short selling.
Tending to create things, or having the ability to create; often, excellently, in a novel fashion, or any or all of these.
Provoking a reaction of interest or excitement.
(computer science) Offering or involving interaction with the user.
Used or accepted broadly rather than by small portions of population, market, scientific community, etc.
A person from the country of Australia or of Australian descent.
Exhibiting timeless quality and excellence.
Giving pleasure; pleasing in manner.