Adjectives That Start With W

131 words Words by letter Checked 9 Oct 2026

These adjectives that start with W come from a standard English dictionary used for word games, ranked by how often each word is used in everyday writing. There are 131 adjectives starting with W 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.

W lists 131 adjectives, and weather and feelings come through clearly. Warm, wet, wild and weak are short and simple. Wonderful, weird and wise describe people and moods.

Wooden and waterproof describe materials, which is helpful in design and science lessons. Worse and worst show comparison, and worthy, worthless and worthwhile share the same root word, worth. The compound words worldwide and widespread show how two smaller words join into one. Wise and wild are easy picks for young readers.

Adjectives starting with W: 131
Most used: white
Longest common one: widespread 10 letters

Most common adjectives that start with W

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

#	Word	Meaning	Type
1	white	being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness	adj.
2	whole	including all components without exception	adj.
3	working	actively engaged in paid work	adj.
4	wrong	not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth	adj.
5	worth	worthy of being treated in a particular way; ; (often used ironically)	adj.
6	whatever	one or some or every or all without specification	adj.
7	western	relating to or characteristic of the western parts of the world or the West as opposed to the eastern or...	adj.
8	winning	having won	adj.
9	wide	having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other	adj.
10	worst	(superlative of `bad') most wanting in quality or value or condition	adj.
11	worse	(comparative of `bad') inferior to another in quality or condition or desirability	adj.
12	walking	close enough to be walked to	adj.
13	wonderful	extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers	adj.
14	weird	suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; ; ; - John Galsworthy; ; - Henry Kingsley	adj.
15	wild	marked by extreme lack of restraint or control	adj.
16	willing	disposed or inclined toward	adj.
17	warm	having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat	adj.
18	weak	wanting in physical strength	adj.
19	wet	covered or soaked with a liquid such as water	adj.
20	worldwide	spanning or extending throughout the entire world	adj.
21	wise	having or prompted by wisdom or discernment	adj.
22	wooden	made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing wood	adj.
23	wounded	suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle	adj.
24	worthy	having worth or merit or value; being honorable or admirable	adj.
25	wealthy	having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value	adj.
26	widespread	widely circulated or diffused	adj.
27	warming	imparting heat	adj.
28	whatsoever	one or some or every or all without specification	adj.
29	wicked	morally bad in principle or practice	adj.
30	wee	(used informally) very small	adj.
31	woody	made of or containing or resembling wood	adj.
32	worthless	lacking in usefulness or value	adj.
33	wan	(of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble	adj.
34	wandering	migratory	adj.
35	warmer	having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat	adj.
36	worthwhile	sufficiently valuable to justify the investment of time or interest	adj.
37	winding	marked by repeated turns and bends	adj.
38	weary	physically and mentally fatigued	adj.
39	wary	marked by keen caution and watchful prudence	adj.
40	windy	abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes	adj.
41	witty	combining clever conception and facetious expression	adj.
42	waterproof	not permitting the passage of water	adj.
43	wholesome	conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being	adj.
44	wilder	marked by extreme lack of restraint or control	adj.
45	weeping	showing sorrow	adj.
46	wooded	covered with growing trees and bushes etc	adj.
47	wretched	of very poor quality or condition	adj.
48	worldly	characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world	adj.
49	wrongful	having no legally established claim	adj.
50	wacky	ludicrous, foolish	adj.
51	wasteful	inefficient in use of time and effort and materials	adj.
52	wavy	(of hair) having waves	adj.
53	watery	filled with water	adj.
54	wondrous	extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers	adj.
55	workable	capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are	adj.
56	wishful	having or expressing desire for something	adj.
57	whimsical	determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason	adj.
58	watchful	engaged in or accustomed to close observation	adj.
59	wayward	resistant to guidance or discipline	adj.
60	willful	done by design	adj.
61	woolly	having a fluffy character or appearance	adj.
62	westbound	moving toward the west	adj.
63	wobbly	inclined to shake as from weakness or defect	adj.
64	whitish	resembling milk in color not clear	adj.
65	wetter	covered or soaked with a liquid such as water	adj.
66	whiny	habitually complaining	adj.
67	worrisome	not reassuring; tending to cause anxiety	adj.
68	wry	humorously sarcastic or mocking	adj.
69	weighty	having relatively great weight; heavy	adj.
70	wonky	turned or twisted toward one side; - G.K.Chesterton	adj.
71	withering	wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction	adj.
72	wily	marked by skill in deception	adj.
73	watertight	not allowing water to pass in or out	adj.
74	wilful	done by design	adj.
75	wimpy	weak and ineffectual	adj.
76	winless	having no wins	adj.
77	wintry	characteristic of or occurring in winter	adj.
78	waxy	made of or covered with wax	adj.
79	wistful	showing pensive sadness	adj.
80	woeful	affected by or full of grief or woe; - George du Maurier	adj.
81	warlike	disposed to warfare or hard-line policies	adj.
82	weightless	having little or no weight or apparent gravitational pull; light	adj.
83	washable	capable of being washed without injury	adj.
84	washy	overly diluted; thin and insipid	adj.
85	waterlogged	(of soil) soft and watery	adj.
86	wordless	expressed without speech; ; ; - Emily Dickinson; ; ; - Thomas Wolfe	adj.
87	wordy	using or containing too many words	adj.
88	wrinkly	marked by wrinkles	adj.
89	wiry	lean and sinewy	adj.
90	womanly	befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman	adj.
91	worshipful	showing adoration	adj.
92	wiggly	curved or curving in and out	adj.
93	wooly	having a fluffy character or appearance	adj.
94	waterborne	transported by water	adj.
95	windswept	open to or swept by wind	adj.
96	wispy	thin and weak; - Edmund Wilson	adj.
97	weeklong	lasting through a week	adj.
98	woozy	having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling	adj.
99	winsome	charming in a childlike or naive way	adj.
100	webby	having open interstices or resembling a web	adj.

Positive adjectives that start with W

worth
winning
wonderful
willing
warm
wise
worthy
wealthy
warmer
worthwhile
witty
wholesome
wondrous
workable
warmhearted

Short adjectives that start with W

white
whole
wrong
worth
wide
worst
worse
weird
wild
warm
weak
wet
wise
wee
woody
wan
weary
wary
windy
witty
wacky
wavy
whiny
wry
wonky
wily
wimpy
waxy
washy
wordy
wiry
wooly
wispy
woozy
webby
weedy

Long adjectives that start with W

widespread
whatsoever
worthwhile
waterproof
watertight
weightless
waterlogged
worshipful
waterborne
westernmost

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Questions people ask

How many adjectives start with W?

This list has 131 adjectives starting with W, 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 W?

white, whole, working, wrong, worth, whatever, western, winning are the most used in everyday English.

What are some long adjectives that start with W?

wonderful, worldwide, widespread, whatsoever, worthless.

What are easy adjectives that start with W for kids?

white, whole, wrong, worth, wide, worst 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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