Index of English words, starting with "ad"

(1) - Adolescent (n.) A youth.
(2) - Adolescent (a.) Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.

(1) - Adonic (n.) An Adonic verse.
(2) - Adonic (a.) Relating to Adonis, famed for his beauty.

(1) - Adonis (n.) A genus of plants of the family Ranunculaceae, containing the pheasant's eye (Adonis autumnalis); -- named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower.
(2) - Adonis (n.) A preeminently beautiful young man; a dandy.
(3) - Adonis (n.) A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar.

(1) - Adonize (v. t.) To beautify; to dandify.