Words ending in -ious
-ious means characterised by. It comes from Latin.
tenacious — characterised by holding fast
24 words on this site end with -ious
- Acrimonious
marked by strong resentment or cynicism
- Auspicious
auguring favorable circumstances and good luck
- Capricious
determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason
- Commodious
large and roomy (`convenient' is archaic in this sense)
- Contentious
inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits
- Efficacious
marked by qualities giving the power to produce an intended effect; -Aldous Huxley
- Facetious
cleverly amusing in tone
- Fallacious
based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information
- Fractious
unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome
- Ignominious
(used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; - Rachel Carson
- Insidious
working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way
- Malicious
having the nature of or resulting from malice; ; - Rudyard Kipling
- Obsequious
attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
- Officious
intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner
- Parsimonious
excessively unwilling to spend
- Penurious
not having enough money to pay for necessities
- Perfidious
tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans
- Prodigious
of momentous or ominous significance; - Herman Melville
- Sanctimonious
excessively or hypocritically pious
- Specious
based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
- Spurious
born out of wedlock; - E.A.Freeman
- Tenacious
stubbornly unyielding; ; ; ; - T.S.Eliot
- Vicarious
occurring in an abnormal part of the body instead of the usual site involved in that function
- Vivacious
vigorous and animated
Other words with -ious
Not part of our word list, but they carry the same suffix — useful for recognising it in the wild.
specious · spurious · facetious · fractious · insidious · malicious · officious · penurious · tenacious · vicarious · vivacious · auspicious · capricious · commodious · fallacious · obsequious · perfidious · prodigious · acrimonious · contentious · efficacious · ignominious · parsimonious · sanctimonious