Adjectives in english

• doughy — Adjective – English ～ having the consistency of dough because of insufficient leavening or improper cooking; "the cake fell; it's a doughy mess"
• dour — Adjective – English ～ harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance; "a dour, self-sacrificing life"; "a forbidding scowl"; "a grim man loving duty more than humanity"; "undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw"- J.M.Barrie
• dour — Adjective – English ～ stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"
• dour — Adjective – English ～ showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"
• dovish — Adjective – English ～ opposed to war
• dowdy — Adjective – English ～ primly out of date; "nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game"
• dowdy — Adjective – English ～ lacking in smartness or taste; "a dowdy grey outfit"; "a clean and sunny but completely dowdy room"
• dowered — Adjective – English ～ supplied with a dower or dowry
• dowerless — Adjective – English ～ lacking a dowry
• bowed down — Adjective – English ～ heavily burdened with work or cares; "bowed down with troubles"; "found himself loaded down with responsibilities"; "overburdened social workers"; "weighed down with cares"
• broken-down — Adjective – English ～ not in working order; "had to push the broken-down car"; "a broken-down tractor fit only for children to play on"
• broken-down — Adjective – English ～ in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack"
• buttoned-down — Adjective – English ～ unimaginatively conventional; "a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business"- Newsweek
• button-down — Adjective – English ～ of a shirt; having the ends of the collar fastened down by buttons; "Brooks Brothers button-down shirts"
• button-down — Adjective – English ～ unimaginatively conventional; "a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business"- Newsweek
• down — Adjective – English ～ lower than previously; "the market is depressed"; "prices are down"
• down — Adjective – English ～ shut; "the shades were down"
• down — Adjective – English ～ being or moving lower in position or less in some value; "lay face down"; "the moon is down"; "our team is down by a run"; "down by a pawn"; "the stock market is down today"
• down — Adjective – English ～ being put out by a strikeout; "two down in the bottom of the ninth"
• down — Adjective – English ～ understood perfectly; "had his algebra problems down"

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