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| Description of despondent (adjective: more despondent; most despondent; less despondent; least despondent) depressed Samples of despondent Sergeant Meeks was worried about his troops being so despondent.
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| Description of slender (adjective: slender; more slender; most slender; less slender; least slender) small in size or amount Samples of slender Her slender waist and striking face got her many looks from the college football team.
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| Description of barren (adjective: more barren; most barren; less barren; least barren) unfruitful Samples of barren Despite the farmer's work; he could not grow anything on the barren soil.
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| Description of spiritual (adjective: spiritual; more spiritual; most spiritual; less spiritual; least spiritual) referring to the soul; having no body, form, or substance Samples of spiritual The pastor was there for spiritual matters, he tried to help with other things but was not adept at it.
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| Description of solemn (adjective: solemn; more solemn; most solemn; less solemn; least solemn) grave; mournful Samples of solemn The solemn funeral left no one with dry eyes. He hesitated before her a moment, and then he took her hands and bent his head, and gave her the solemn kiss of kinship; and before she could draw breath and touch her astonished fingers to her lips, he was out of the paddock and away across the clearing into the trees.
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| Description of prior (adjective: prior; more prior; most prior; less prior; least prior) previous; before Samples of prior She couldn't make the date because she remembered that she had a prior engagement. Prior to the nineteenth century children were dressed as miniature adults, complete with all the external manifestations of masculinity and femininity; exposed to the social aspects of adult sexuality earlier than modern children, they probably had much less difficulty in coping with their own biological changes.
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| Description of literal (adjective: more literal; most literal; less literal; least literal) following the exact words or intended meaning of the original (e.g. translation) Samples of literal Stenographers take literal recordings of court trials.
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| Description of hostile (adjective: more hostile; most hostile; less hostile; least hostile) unfriendly (e.g. unwelcome) Samples of hostile The tribe was hostile to all intruders. Many of the animals are hostile to humans: for example, poisonous snakes and fierce mountain cats.
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| Description of sinister (adjective: sinister; more sinister; most sinister; less sinister; least sinister) threatening and referring to evil and darkness Samples of sinister The best horror movies include an actor that actually looks sinister. We, the democracies, will still be faced by totalitarianism, in a form less clumsy but no less aggressive, and even more sinister in its ruthless unexhausted might.
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| Description of singular (adjective: singular; more singular; most singular; less singular; least singular) hard to believe; strange; remarkable Samples of singular His singular take on the issue left no room for discussion. In his social criticism Eliot assumes an idea of England which never existed and proposes an England which could not exist: in the same way, his own vision of the world was too singular for him to be able to invest his social dramas with the emblematic or representative significance to which he aspired.
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