Adjectives That Start With S

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These adjectives that start with S come from a standard English dictionary used for word games, ranked by how often each word is used in everyday writing. There are 661 adjectives starting with S on this page. The 100 most common come first, each with a short meaning, followed by shorter, longer and easier picks and a filter for any ending or length.

S gives 661 adjectives, one of the biggest lists on the site. Number words like six, seven and second appear early, along with everyday choices such as small, short, strong, safe and simple.

Feelings are well covered, with sorry, serious and secret. Specific, significant and successful are good words for reports. The blend ST opens many entries, including strong, straight and standing. Super and special are easy for kids, while sensitive and scientific stretch older readers. There is plenty here for every writing level.

Adjectives starting with S: 661
Most used: some
Longest common one: straightforward 15 letters

Most common adjectives that start with S

Ranked by how often the word appears in English text. "Type" is the word's main part of speech.

#	Word	Meaning	Type
1	some	quantifier; used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity	adj.
2	same	same in identity	adj.
3	sure	having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty; confident and assured	adj.
4	second	coming next after the first in position in space or time or degree or magnitude	adj.
5	small	limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent	adj.
6	social	relating to human society and its members	adj.
7	single	being or characteristic of a single thing or person	adj.
8	several	considered individually	adj.
9	special	unique or specific to a person or thing or category	adj.
10	short	primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration	adj.
11	six	denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units	adj.
12	strong	having strength or power greater than average or expected	adj.
13	similar	marked by correspondence or resemblance	adj.
14	sorry	feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone	adj.
15	serious	concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities	adj.
16	seven	being one more than six	adj.
17	simple	having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved	adj.
18	super	of the highest quality	adj.
19	safe	free from danger or the risk of harm	adj.
20	straight	successive (without a break)	adj.
21	specific	(sometimes followed by `to') applying to or characterized by or distinguishing something particular or...	adj.
22	significant	important in effect or meaning	adj.
23	stupid	lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity	adj.
24	successful	having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome	adj.
25	secret	not open or public; kept private or not revealed	adj.
26	senior	older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service	adj.
27	sweet	having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar	adj.
28	sick	affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function	adj.
29	standing	having a supporting base	adj.
30	slow	not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time	adj.
31	sad	experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness; ; - Christina Rossetti	adj.
32	southern	in or characteristic of a region of the United States south of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line	adj.
33	smart	showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness	adj.
34	silver	made from or largely consisting of silver	adj.
35	smaller	small or little relative to something else	adj.
36	solid	characterized by good substantial quality	adj.
37	supporting	furnishing support and encouragement	adj.
38	supreme	final or last in your life or progress	adj.
39	soft	yielding readily to pressure or weight	adj.
40	scientific	of or relating to the practice of science	adj.
41	strange	being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird	adj.
42	severe	intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality	adj.
43	soviet	of or relating to or characteristic of the former Soviet Union or its people	adj.
44	secondary	being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate	adj.
45	solar	relating to or derived from the sun or utilizing the energies of the sun	adj.
46	sharp	(of something seen or heard) clearly defined	adj.
47	stable	resistant to change of position or condition	adj.
48	sensitive	responsive to physical stimuli	adj.
49	superior	of high or superior quality or performance	adj.
50	silent	marked by absence of sound	adj.
51	strategic	relating to or concerned with strategy	adj.
52	smooth	having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities	adj.
53	spiritual	concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul	adj.
54	sudden	happening without warning or in a short space of time	adj.
55	silly	ludicrous, foolish	adj.
56	subsequent	following in time or order	adj.
57	sixth	coming next after the fifth and just before the seventh in position	adj.
58	suitable	meant or adapted for an occasion or use	adj.
59	scary	provoking fear terror	adj.
60	screaming	so extremely intense as to evoke screams	adj.
61	substantial	fairly large	adj.
62	sufficient	of a quantity that can fulfill a need or requirement but without being abundant	adj.
63	steady	not subject to change or variation especially in behavior	adj.
64	seventh	coming next after the sixth and just before the eighth in position	adj.
65	sacred	concerned with religion or religious purposes	adj.
66	serial	in regular succession without gaps	adj.
67	strict	rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard	adj.
68	streaming	exuding a bodily fluid in profuse amounts	adj.
69	striking	sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect	adj.
70	sandy	of hair color; pale yellowish to yellowish brown	adj.
71	sustainable	capable of being sustained	adj.
72	structural	relating to or caused by structure, especially political or economic structure	adj.
73	smiling	smiling with happiness or optimism; - Lewis Carroll	adj.
74	swift	moving very fast	adj.
75	statistical	of or relating to statistics	adj.
76	skilled	having or showing or requiring special skill	adj.
77	sterling	highest in quality	adj.
78	selfish	concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others; - Maria Weston Chapman	adj.
79	suspicious	openly distrustful and unwilling to confide	adj.
80	subtle	difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze	adj.
81	sunny	bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer	adj.
82	spectacular	sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect	adj.
83	savage	(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering	adj.
84	slim	being of delicate or slender build; - Frank Norris	adj.
85	static	not in physical motion	adj.
86	supportive	furnishing support or assistance	adj.
87	surgical	of or relating to or involving or used in surgery	adj.
88	shallow	lacking physical depth	adj.
89	sheer	complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers	adj.
90	stark	devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment	adj.
91	skinny	being very thin	adj.
92	sore	hurting	adj.
93	steep	having a sharp inclination	adj.
94	seasonal	occurring at or dependent on a particular season	adj.
95	sensible	showing reason or sound judgment	adj.
96	shifting	continuously varying	adj.
97	shining	marked by exceptional merit	adj.
98	superb	of surpassing excellence	adj.
99	secular	of or relating to the doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations	adj.
100	sixteen	being one more than fifteen	adj.

Positive adjectives that start with S

strong
super
safe
significant
successful
sweet
smart
solid
supporting
supreme
soft
sharp
stable
sensitive
superior
silent
smooth
spiritual
suitable
sufficient
steady
striking
sustainable
smiling
swift
skilled
spectacular
supportive
sensible
superb
selective
shiny
sincere
straightforward
sweeping
stellar
splendid
spontaneous
stylish
sane

Short adjectives that start with S

some
same
sure
small
short
six
sorry
seven
super
safe
sweet
sick
slow
sad
smart
solid
soft
solar
sharp
silly
sixth
scary
sandy
swift
sunny
slim
sheer
stark
sore
steep
sober
sixty
sonic
stern
stiff
shiny

Long adjectives that start with S

significant
successful
supporting
scientific
subsequent
substantial
sufficient
sustainable
structural
statistical
suspicious
spectacular
supportive
supernatural
systematic
successive
straightforward
sympathetic
subjective
spontaneous
susceptible
southeastern
southwestern
stationary
satisfactory
superficial
sentimental
simultaneous
sensational
speculative

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Questions people ask

How many adjectives start with S?

This list has 661 adjectives starting with S, taken from a standard word-game dictionary and limited to words that appear in real English text.

What are the most common adjectives that start with S?

some, same, sure, second, small, social, single, several are the most used in everyday English.

What are some long adjectives that start with S?

significant, successful, supporting, scientific, secondary.

What are easy adjectives that start with S for kids?

some, same, sure, second, small, social are short, everyday examples.

Source: the ENABLE word list (a public-domain dictionary used for word games), ranked by how often each word appears in English text (the open wordfreq project), with short meanings from Princeton WordNet. Offensive words are left out.

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