earthy :unrefined; coarse ebullient : showing excitement; overflowing with enthusiasm ecclesiastic :pertaining to the church eerie : weird effectual :efficient effeminate : having womanly traits effete : worn out; exhausted; barren efflorescent : flowering effulgent : brilliantly radiant effusive :pouring forth; gushing egregious :gross; shocking elegiacal : like an elegy; mournful elusive : evasive; baffling; hard to grasp elusory : tending to deceive expectations; elusive emaciated :thin and wasted eminent :high; lofty enamored :in love encomiastic : praising; eulogistic ephemeral :short-lived; fleeting equable : tranquil; steady; uniform equivocal :doubtful; ambiguous errant :wandering erudite : learned; scholarly esoteric : known only to the chosen few estranged :separated ethereal :light; heavenly; fine ethnic : relating to races eulogistic : praising euphonious :pleasing in sound |