6 Letter Words That Start With A

ardent

Adjective : Full of ardor; expressing passion, spirit, or enthusiasm.

Adjective : (literary) Providing light or heat.

acedia

Noun : Spiritual or mental sloth.

Noun : Apathy; a lack of care or interest; indifference.

Noun : Boredom; a melancholy leading to desperation.

accede

Verb : (archaic, intransitive) To approach; to arrive, to come forward.

Verb : (intransitive, now rare) To give one's adhesion; to join up with (a group, etc.); to become part of.

Verb : (intransitive) To agree or assent to a proposal or a view; to give way.

aspect

Noun : Any specific feature, part, or element of something.

Noun : The way something appears when viewed from a certain direction or perspective.

Noun : The way something appears when considered from a certain point of view.

apathy

Noun : Lack of emotion or motivation; lack of interest or enthusiasm towards something; disinterest (in something).

alcove

Noun : (architecture) A small recessed area set off from a larger room.

Noun : A shady retreat.

Noun : (countable) The geographical and geological term for a steep-sided hollow in the side of an exposed rock face or cliff of a homogeneous rock type, that was water eroded.

aghast

Adjective : Terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror.

assert

Verb : To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.

Verb : To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.

Verb : To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to.

astute

Adjective : Quickly and critically discerning.

Adjective : Shrewd or crafty.

artful

Adjective : Characterized by, or performed with, cleverness or contrivance; clever, ingenious.

Adjective : Not naturally produced; artificial; imitative.

Adjective : Exhibiting or using much art or skill; dexterous; skilful.

ambled

Noun : An unhurried leisurely walk or stroll.

Noun : An easy gait, especially that of a horse.

Noun : (computing) That which follows the preamble, by analogy.

affirm

Verb : To agree, verify or concur; to answer positively.

Verb : To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true.

Verb : To support or encourage.

animus

Noun : The basic impulses and instincts which govern one's actions.

Noun : A feeling of enmity, animosity or ill will.

Noun : (law) intention, motivation (of a legal person)

adroit

Adjective : deft, dexterous, or skillful

abject

Adjective : Existing in or sunk to a low condition, position, or state; contemptible, despicable, miserable.

Adjective : (by extension)

Adjective : (chiefly with a negative connotation) Complete; downright; utter.

appall

Verb : (transitive) To fill with horror or indignation; to dismay.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To make pale; to blanch.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To weaken; to reduce in strength

accord

Noun : Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.

Noun : A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord.

Noun : Agreement or harmony of things in general.

acumen

Noun : Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination; acuity of mind.

Noun : (botany) A sharp, tapering point extending from a plant.

Noun : (anatomy) A bony, often sharp, protuberance, especially that of the ischium.

arrant

Adjective : (chiefly with a negative connotation, dated) Complete; downright; utter.

Adjective : (by extension, dated) Very bad; despicable.

Noun : A surname.

august

Adjective : Awe-inspiring, majestic, noble, venerable.

Adjective : Of noble birth.

Verb : (obsolete, rare) To make ripe; ripen.

assure

Verb : (transitive) To make sure and secure; ensure.

Verb : (transitive, followed by that or of) To give (someone) confidence in the trustworthiness of (something).

Verb : (obsolete) To guarantee, promise (to do something).

acuity

Noun : Sharpness or acuteness, as of a needle, wit, etc.

Noun : (figurative) The ability to think, see, or hear clearly.

attain

Verb : (transitive) To gain (an object or desired result).

Verb : (transitive) To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at (a place, time, state, etc.).

Verb : (intransitive) To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.

allure

Noun : The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.

Verb : (transitive) To entice; to attract.

Noun : (dated) Gait; bearing.

affray

Verb : (archaic, transitive) To startle from quiet; to alarm.

Verb : (archaic, transitive) To frighten; to scare; to frighten away.

Noun : The act of suddenly disturbing anyone; an assault or attack.

archon

Noun : A chief magistrate of ancient Athens.

Noun : A person who claims the right to rule, or to exercise power or sovereign authority over other human beings.

Noun : A ruler, head of state or other leader.

assess

Verb : (transitive) To determine, estimate or judge the value of; to evaluate; to estimate.

Verb : (transitive) To impose or charge, especially as punishment for an infraction.

Verb : (transitive) To calculate and demand (the tax money due) from a person or entity.

assail

Verb : (transitive) To attack with harsh words or violent force (also figuratively).

anchor

Noun : (nautical) A tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement.

Noun : (nautical) An iron device so shaped as to grip the bottom and hold a vessel at her berth by the chain or rope attached. (FM 55-501).

Noun : (nautical) The combined anchoring gear (anchor, rode, bill/peak and fittings such as bitts, cat, and windlass.)

affect

Verb : (transitive) To influence or alter.

Verb : (transitive) To move to emotion.

Verb : (transitive, pathology) Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).

action

Noun : The effort of performing or doing something.

Noun : Something done, often so as to accomplish a purpose.

Noun : A way of motion or functioning.

assist

Verb : To help.

Verb : (sports) To make a pass that leads directly towards scoring.

Verb : (medicine) To help compensate for what is missing with the help of a medical technique or therapy.

affair

Noun : (often in the plural) Something which is done or is to be done; business of any kind, commercial, professional, or public.

Noun : Any proceeding or action which it is wished to refer to or characterize vaguely.

Noun : (military) An action or engagement not of sufficient magnitude to be called a battle.

assent

Verb : (intransitive) To agree to a proposal.

Noun : agreement; act of agreeing

Noun : (countable, property law) A legal instrument that conveys real estate to an heir under the terms of a will.

arouse

Verb : (transitive) To stimulate or induce (feelings).

Verb : (transitive) To sexually stimulate.

Verb : (transitive, euphemistic) To cause an erection of the penis or other physical signs of sexual arousal, such as fluid secretion.

acuate

Adjective : Sharpened; sharp-pointed.

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) To sharpen; to make pungent; to quicken.

absurd

Adjective : Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and flatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; silly.

Adjective : (obsolete) Inharmonious; dissonant.

Adjective : Having no rational or orderly relationship to people's lives; meaningless; lacking order or value.

ablaze

Adjective : Burning fiercely; in a blaze; on fire.

Adjective : Radiant with bright light and color.

Adjective : In a state of glowing excitement, ardent desire, or other strong emotion.

assage

Noun : (slang, humorous) Ass, in the sense of buttocks, and in related idioms.

adjure

Verb : (transitive, often law) To issue a formal command.

Verb : (transitive) To earnestly appeal to or advise; to charge solemnly.

addled

Adjective : (of eggs) Bad, rotten; inviable, containing a dead embryo.

Adjective : Confused; mixed up.

Adjective : (obsolete) Morbid, corrupt, putrid, or barren.

amidst

active

Adjective : Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting;—opposed to passive, that receives.

Adjective : Quick in physical movement; of an agile and vigorous body; nimble.

Adjective : In action; actually proceeding; working; in force

agency

Noun : The capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power.

Noun : (sociology, philosophy, psychology) The capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices.

Noun : A medium through which power is exerted or an end is achieved.

attend

Verb : Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.

Verb : (transitive) To care for (someone requiring attention); specifically, of a doctor, nurse, etc.: to provide professional care to (someone).

Verb : (transitive) To wait on (someone or their instructions) as an attendant, servant, etc.; also (specifically of a gentleman-in-waiting or lady-in-waiting to a member of royalty), to accompany (someone) in order to assist or wait upon them; to escort.

allude

Verb : (intransitive) To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to invoke it by implication rather than mention.

albeit

ardour

Noun : British, Canada, and Australia spelling of ardor

atrium

Noun : (architecture) A central room or space in ancient Roman homes, open to the sky in the middle; a similar space in other buildings.

Noun : (architecture) A square hall lit by daylight from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels.

Noun : (anatomy) A cavity, entrance, or passage.

abjure

Verb : (transitive)

Verb : To solemnly reject (someone or something); to abandon (someone or something) forever; to disavow, to disclaim, to repudiate.

Verb : (historical) To renounce (something) upon oath; to forswear; specifically, to recant or retract (a heresy or some other opinion); to withdraw.

argent

Noun : (archaic) The metal silver.

Noun : (heraldry) The white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.

Noun : (archaic or poetic) Whiteness; anything that is white.

augury

Noun : A divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals.

Noun : (by extension) An omen or prediction; a foreboding; a prophecy.

Noun : An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come.

anomic

Adjective : (neurology) Characterized by or pertaining to anomia (the inability to remember names).

Adjective : (sociology) Socially disorganized, disoriented or alienated.

accite

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To summon.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To cite, quote.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To excite, to induce.

ad hoc

Adjective : For a particular purpose.

Adjective : Created on the spur of the moment; impromptu.

Adjective : (sciences, of a hypothesis) Postulated solely to save a theory from being falsified, without making any new predictions.

advise

Verb : (transitive) To give advice to; to offer an opinion to, as worthy or expedient to be followed.

Verb : (transitive) To recommend; to offer as advice.

Verb : (transitive) To give information or notice to; to inform or counsel. [with of ‘what is communicated’]

aweary

Adjective : (poetic) Weary, tired.

argute

Adjective : (literary) Sharp; perceptive; shrewd.

Adjective : (literary) Shrill in sound.

arrest

Noun : A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.

Noun : The condition of being stopped, standstill.

Noun : (law) The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.

abrade

Verb : (transitive) To rub or wear off; erode.

Verb : (transitive) To wear down or exhaust, as a person; irritate.

Verb : (transitive) To irritate by rubbing; chafe.

adhere

Verb : (intransitive) To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united.

Verb : (intransitive, figurative) To be attached or devoted by personal union, in belief, on principle, etc.

Verb : (intransitive, figurative) To be consistent or coherent; to be in accordance; to agree.

arcane

Adjective : Understood by only a few.

Adjective : (by extension) Obscure, mysterious.

Adjective : Requiring secret or mysterious knowledge to understand.

amoral

Adjective : (of acts) Done without consideration for morality or immorality.

Adjective : (of people) Not believing in or caring for morality and immorality.

agnize

Verb : (transitive, archaic) To recognise; to acknowledge.

appeal

Noun : (law)

Noun : An application to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.

Noun : The legal document or form by which such an application is made; also, the court case in which the application is argued.

apogee

Noun : (astronomy) The point, in an orbit about the Earth, that is farthest from the Earth: the apoapsis of an Earth orbiter.

Noun : (astronomy, more generally) The point, in an orbit about any planet, that is farthest from the planet: the apoapsis of any satellite.

Noun : (possibly archaic outside astrology) The point, in any trajectory of an object in space, where it is farthest from the Earth.

absorb

Verb : (transitive) To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To engulf, as in water; to swallow up.

Verb : (transitive) To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically take in.

allege

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) To state under oath, to plead.

Verb : (archaic) To cite or quote an author or his work for or against.

Verb : (transitive) To adduce (something) as a reason, excuse, support etc.

alight

Verb : (transitive, also figuratively, obsolete) To make less heavy; to lighten; to alleviate, to relieve.

Verb : (intransitive)

Verb : Often followed by from or off: to get off an animal which one has been riding; to dismount; to descend or exit from a vehicle; hence, to complete one's journey; to stop.

analog

Adjective : (of a device or system) In which the value of a data item (such as time) is represented by a continuous(ly) variable physical quantity that can be measured (such as the shadow of a sundial).

Adjective : Not relating to, or pre-dating, digital technology such as computers and the Internet; relating to real life.

Noun : (countable) Something that bears an analogy to something else.

answer

Noun : A response or reply; something said or done in reaction to a statement or question.

Noun : A solution to a problem.

Noun : (after a possessive, with to) Someone or something that fills a similar role or position.

accept

Verb : (transitive) To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.

Verb : (transitive) To admit to a place or a group.

Verb : (transitive) To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.

aurora

Noun : An atmospheric phenomenon created by charged particles from the sun striking the upper atmosphere, creating coloured lights in the sky. It is usually named australis or borealis based on whether it is in the Southern or Northern Hemisphere respectively.

Noun : (Roman mythology) Roman goddess of the dawn; equivalent of the Greek Eos. Sister of Luna and Sol.

Noun : A female given name from Latin, in regular use since the 19th century.

accent

Noun : (linguistics) A higher-pitched or stronger (louder or longer) articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in order to distinguish it from the others or to emphasize it.

Noun : (figuratively) Emphasis or importance in general.

Noun : (orthography) A mark or character used in writing, in order to indicate the place of the spoken accent, or to indicate the nature or quality of the vowel marked.

astral

Adjective : Relating to or resembling the stars; starry.

Adjective : (biology) Relating to an aster.

Adjective : (parapsychology, theosophy, fantasy) Composed of ethereal material or non-physical (sometimes supersensible), and capable of sometimes separating from the physical body (as an astral body) to travel to other places or to other realms of existence (in or via the astral plane).

abrupt

Adjective : (obsolete, rare) Broken away (from restraint).

Adjective : Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious.

Adjective : Curt in manner.

aplomb

Noun : Self-confidence; poise; composure.

Noun : (ballet) The apparent elegance and precision exhibited by a confident, accomplished dancer.

Noun : The perpendicular; perpendicularity.

aether

Noun : (Greek mythology) One of the Greek primordial deities who was the personification of light, brother-husband of Hemera and grandson of Chaos.

Noun : Alternative spelling of ether [(uncountable, literary or poetic) The substance formerly supposed to fill the upper regions of the atmosphere above the clouds, in particular as a medium breathed by deities.]

aflame

Adjective : In flames, on fire, flaming, with flames coming from it.

Adjective : Showing anger or contempt.

Adjective : Having the colour of flames.

attest

Verb : (transitive) To affirm to be correct, true, or genuine.

Verb : (transitive) To certify by signature or oath.

Verb : (transitive) To certify in an official capacity.

absent

Adjective : (not comparable) Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; existing but not present; (sometimes) missing.

Adjective : (not comparable) Not existing.

Adjective : (comparable) Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied.

advert

Noun : (British, informal) An advertisement, an ad.

Verb : (intransitive) To take notice, to pay attention (to).

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) To turn attention to, to take notice of (something).

agnate

Noun : A relative whose relation is traced only through male members of the family.

Noun : Any paternal male relative.

Noun : (linguistics) A statement having a similar meaning to another, but a different structure.

ailing

Noun : An ailment.

Adjective : Sickly; sick; ill; unwell.

avidly

Verb : In an avid manner; greedily; eagerly.

aidant

Adjective : (obsolete) helpful, assisting

Noun : (rare) One who or that which aids; a helper.

aponia

Noun : (philosophy) The absence of pain considered as a state of spiritual serenity

avatar

Noun : (Hinduism) An incarnation of a deity, particularly Vishnu.

Noun : The embodiment of an idea or concept; an instantiation, especially a personification or incarnation.

Noun : (Internet, video games) A complex and dynamic digital representation of a person or being in the form of a digital model, used online as a simulation or emulation of a person, or as a person's online alter ego, in a virtual world, virtual chat room, or metaverse.

animal

Noun : (sciences) Any eukaryote of the clade Animalia; a multicellular organism that is usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing it from plants and fungi) and which derives energy solely from the consumption of other organisms(distinguishing it from plants).

Noun : (loosely) Any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human.

Noun : (loosely) A higher animal; an animal related to humans.

advent

Noun : Arrival; onset; a time when something first comes or appears.

Verb : To arrive or begin, especially at the first coming or appearance of something.

Noun : (Christianity) The first or the expected second coming of Christ.

adjust

Verb : (transitive) To modify.

Verb : (transitive) To improve or rectify.

Verb : (transitive) To settle an insurance claim.

appear

Verb : (intransitive) To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.

Verb : (intransitive) To come before the public.

Verb : (intransitive) To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, etc.; to present oneself as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried.

acquit

Verb : (transitive) To declare or find innocent or not guilty.

Verb : (transitive) To discharge (for example, a claim or debt); to clear off, to pay off; to fulfil.

Verb : (transitive) to discharge, release, or set free from a burden, duty, liability, or obligation, or from an accusation or charge. [with of or (formerly) from]

afraid

Adjective : Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear.

Adjective : Regretful, sorry; expressing a reluctance to face an unpleasant situation. [with that (+ clause) or clause; or with so or not]

Adjective : Worried about, feeling concern for, fearing for (someone or something). [with for]

awning

Noun : A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind.

Noun : (nautical) That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond the bulkhead of the cabin.

accost

Verb : (transitive) To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To join side to side; to border.

Verb : (by extension, transitive, obsolete) To sail along the coast or side of.

awaken

Verb : (transitive) To cause to become awake.

Verb : (intransitive) To stop sleeping; awake.

Verb : (transitive, figurative) To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate.

adytum

Noun : (Ancient Greece, religion) The innermost sanctuary or shrine in a temple, from where oracles were given.

Noun : (by extension) A private chamber; a sanctum.

attack

Noun : An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of an opponent or enemy.

Noun : (gaming) Any of several specific maneuvers, skills, or special abilities that a character can use to inflict damage against opponents.

Noun : An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical, verbal, emotional, or other assault.

advice

Noun : (uncountable) An opinion offered to guide behavior in an effort to be helpful.

Noun : (uncountable, obsolete) Deliberate consideration; knowledge.

Noun : (archaic, commonly in plural) Information or news given; intelligence

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