obdurate | (हठी) hardened in wrongdoing or wickedness; not giving in to persuasion |
obfuscate | (अंधेरा करना) confuse; muddle; cause confusion; make needlessly complex |
oblique | (परोक्ष) having slanting or sloping direction, course, or position; inclined |
obsequious | (परमुखापेक्षी) slavishly attentive; attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery |
obstreperous | (प्रचंड) noisily aggressive; making great noise or outcry |
obtuse | (कुंठित) lacking in insight or discernment; stupid |
odious | (घिनौना) hateful; arousing strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure |
officious | (परेशान करने���ाला) marked by excessive eagerness in offering unwanted services or advice to others |
ostensible | (प्रकट) put forth or held out as real, actual, or intended; proper or intended to be shown |
palliate | (घटाना) lessen violence of disease; moderate intensity; gloss over with excuses |
pallid | (पीला) abnormally pale; lacking intensity of color or luminousness |
panacea | (रामबाण) remedy for all diseases, evils, or difficulties; a cure-all |
paragon | (प्रतिद्वंद्वी) model of excellence or perfection; peerless example |
pariah | (अछूत) social outcast; person who is rejected from society or home |
parsimony | (बचत) extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily |
pathos | (करुणा) tender sorrow; pity; quality in art or literature that produces these feelings |
paucity | (कमी) scarcity; smallness of number; fewness |
pejorative | (अपमानजनक) tending to make or become worse; disparaging or belittling |
pellucid | (पारदर्शक) transparent; limpid; easy to understand |
perfidious | (बेवफ़ा) tending to betray; disloyal; faithless |
perfunctory | (बेपरवाह) done routinely and with little interest or care; acting with indifference; showing little interest or care |
pernicious | (सांघातिक) very destructive; tending to cause death or serious injury; deadly |
pertinacious | (आग्रही) stubbornly or perversely persistent; unyielding; obstinate |
pithy | (सारगर्भित) precisely meaningful; forceful and brief |
platitude | (साधारण बात) dullness; insipidity of thought; commonplace statement; lack of originality |
plethora | (अधिकता) excess; over-fullness in any respect; superabundance |
portent | (सगुन) omen; forewarning; something that portends an event about to occur, especially unfortunate or evil event |
precocious | (असामयिक) advanced in development; appearing or developing early |
primeval | (आदिम) ancient; primitive; belonging to the first or earliest age; original or ancient |
proclivity | (प्रवृत्ति) inclination; natural tendency; readiness; facility of learning |
promulgate | (एलान) proclaim doctrine or law; make known by official publication |
propensity | (प्रवृत्ति) natural inclination; tendency or preference; predilection |
propitious | (अनुकूल) presenting favorable circumstances; fortunate; advantageous |
prosaic | (नीरस) dull and unimaginative; matter-of-fact; factual |
proscribe | (बहिष्कार करना) command against; banish; outlaw |
protean | (बहुरूपिया) versatile; able to take on many shapes; readily taking on varied shapes |
prurient | (कामी) having or causing lustful thoughts and desires; having eager desire for something |
puerile | (बाल��श) childish; belonging to childhood; immature |
pulchritude | (ख़ूबसूरती) great physical beauty and appeal; attractive moral excellence; moral beauty |
punctilious | (ज़रूरत से ज़्यादा परिशुद्ध) marked by precise accordance with details |
quagmire | (दलदल) soft wet boggy land; complex or dangerous situation from which it is difficult to free oneself |
querulous | (विलापी) habitually complaining; expressing complaint or grievance |
quixotic | (विलक्षण) idealistic without regard to practicality |
rancor | (विद्वेष) bitter, long-lasting resentment; deep-seated ill will; hatred |
rebuke | (फटकार) scold harshly; criticize severely |
recalcitrant | (अड़ियल) obstinately stubborn; determined to resist authority |
rectitude | (ईमानदारी) uprightness; moral virtue; correctness of judgment |
replete | (परिपूर्ण) filled to brim or to point of being stuffed; abundantly supplied |
reprobate | (नीच) person hardened in sin; person without moral scruples |
reprove | (निंदा करना) voice or convey disapproval of; rebuke; find fault with |
repudiate | (परित्याग करना) disown; refuse to acknowledge; reject validity or authority of |
rescind | (रद्द कर देना) cancel; make void; repeal or annul |
restive | (अशांत) impatient under restraint or opposition; resisting control; difficult to control |
ribald | (नीच) coarse or indecent; humorously vulgar or offensive |
rife | (व्याप्त) excessively abundant or numerous; in widespread existence, practice, or use |
ruse | (चाल) trick; use of artifice or trickery; deceptive maneuver, especially to avoid capture |
sacrosanct | (पवित्र) regarded as sacred and inviolable |
sagacity | (बुद्धिमत्ता) quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment; shrewdness |
salient | (मुख्य) prominent or protruding; projecting outwardly; moving by leaps or springs |
sanctimonious | (पाखंडी) excessively or hypocritically pious; possessing sanctity; sacred; holy; saintly; religious |
sanguine | (आशावादी) cheerfully confident; optimistic; of healthy reddish color; ruddy |
scurrilous | (अपमानजनक) obscene; indecent; expressing offensive reproach |
serendipity | (नसीब) gift for finding valuable or desirable things by accident; accidental good fortune or luck |
servile | (ग़ुलामी का) slavish; suitable to slave or servant; relating to servitude or forced labor |
solicitous | (पांडित्याभिमानी) worried or concerned; full of desire; expressing care or concern |
somnolent | (निद्रजनक) half asleep; inclined to drowsiness; tending to induce sleep |
spurious | (नकली) false; counterfeit; forged; illogical |
staid | (शांत) sober; serious, organized, and professional; characterized by dignity and propriety |
stolid | (आवेगहीन) dull; impassive; having or revealing little emotion or sensibility |
stupefy | (चकित) make senseless or dizzy; be mystery or bewildering to |
surfeit | (अतिभोजन) eat until excessively full; be more than full; feed someone to excess |
surmise | (शंका) guess; infer something without sufficiently conclusive evidence |
surreptitious | (छल) secret; done or made by stealth, or without proper authority; made or introduced fraudulently |
sycophant | (चापलूस) one who attempts to win favor by flattering influential people; bootlicker; yes man |
tacit | (मौन) indicated or understood without expressed directly; not speaking; silent |
taciturn | (अल्पभाषी) silent or reserved in speech; saying little; not inclined to speak or converse |
tantamount | (समान) equivalent in effect or value |
temerity | (उतावलापन) boldness; rashness; foolhardy disregard of danger |
tenuous | (कमजोर) long and thin; slender; having little substance |
timorous | (सशंक) fearful; demonstrating fear; weakly hesitant |
torpid | (बेमन) having lost motion, or the power of exertion and feeling; numb; benumbed |
tractable | (विनयशील) easily managed or controlled; governable; easily handled or worked; docile |
transient | (क्षणिक) momentary; temporary; staying for short time |
transmute | (परिणत करना) change from one form, nature, substance, or state into another; transform |
trenchant | (कटु) forceful, effective, and vigorous; sharp or keen |
truculent | (truculent) disposed to fight; belligerent; aggressively hostile |
turgid | (turgid) swollen; distended; excessively ornate or complex in style or language |
turpitude | (अधमता) depravity; corrupt, depraved, or degenerate act |
ubiquitous | (सर्वव्यापक) being or existing everywhere; omnipresent |
unctuous | (जोशीला) oily; composed of oil or fat; characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness |
upbraid | (फटकारना) severely criticize; reprimand; reprove sharply |
usurp | (हड़पना) seize and hold power or rights of another by force or without legal authority |
vacillate | (डोलना) sway unsteadily from one side to the other; oscillate |
vacuous | (असार) empty; showing lack of thought or intelligence; vacant |
vapid | (नीरस) dull and unimaginative; lacking taste or flavor |
variegated | (विचित्र) streaked, spotted, or marked with a variety of color; very colorful |
venerate | (पूजा) treat with great respect and deference; consider hallowed or be in awe of |
veracity | (सच्चाई) truthfulness; unwillingness to tell lies |
verdant | (सब्ज़) green; full of juice in vegetation |
vex | (खीझाना) annoy; disturb, especially by minor irritations; be a mystery or bewildering to |
vicarious | (vicarious) acting as substitute; done by deputy; experienced at secondhand |
vicissitude | (अन्याय) change, especially in one's life or fortunes; regular change or succession of one thing to another; alternation |
vilify | (गालियां देना) debase; degrade; spread negative information about |
viscous | (चिपचिपा) sticky; gluey; having high resistance to flow |
vitriolic | (कटु) harsh or corrosive in tone; sarcastic; bitterly scathing |
wanton | (प्रचंड) unrestrained; willfully malicious; immoral or unchaste |
winsome | (मनोहर) agreeable; gracious; charming, often in childlike or naive way |
wistful | (उदास) full of wishful yearning or longing; sadly thoughtful |
zenith | (शीर्षबिंदु) point directly overhead in sky; summit |
zephyr | (हलकी हवा) gentle breeze; west wind; any of various soft light fabrics, yarns, or garments |
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