Absurd. Accessible. Accommodating. Accumulative. Acoustic. Acquiescent. Acute. Adaptable. Adequate. Adorable. Adroit. Aesthetic. Alchemic. Alright. Altruistic. Amateurish. Ambient. Ambivalent. Amenable. Amusing. Anal. Angular. Anticlimactic. Anxious. Apolitical. Apologetic. Appreciative. Approachable. Approximate. Archetypal. Articulate. Autonomous. Average. Awkward.
Balloon. Banal. Barefaced. Bashful. Basic. Beautiful. Benign. Blithe. Boring. Brusque. Burlesque.
Calculated. Camp. Candid. Careful. Casual. Catalytic. Categorical. Cathartic. Cautious. Cerebral. Characteristic. Charming. Circuitous. Circumstantial. Clean. Clichéd. Coercive. Colloquial. Commensurate. Common. Communicative. Compatible. Complex. Comprehensible. Compulsive. Conceptual. Conciliatory. Conformist. Congenial. Connective. Conscientious. Contagious. Contextual. Contradictory. Contrary. Contrite. Convivial. Cool. Crafty. Creedal. Critical. Cryptic. Cumulative. Curious.
Dandyish. Debonair. Democratic. Descriptive. Diacritical. Dialectic. Diffident. Dilettantish. Diminutive. Discreet. Documentary. Doleful. Domestic. Durational. Dysfunctional.
Earnest. Earthly. Easy. Ebullient. Eccentric. Echoic. Eclectic. Economic. Effortless. Egalitarian. Elemental. Emotional. Empathetic. Endearing. Entertaining. Episodic. Equivocal. Esoteric.
Fastidious. Fecund. Felicitous. Finicky. Forlorn. Formal. Friendly. Functional. Fundamental. Funny.
Generous. Gingerly.
Habitual. Heartfelt. Homogenous. Honest. Hopeful. Humane. Humble. Humdrum. Humorous. Hypothetical.
Iconoclastic. Idealistic. Idiomatic. Imitative. Immediate. Impecunious. Implicit. Impulsive. Inchoate. Incidental. Inclusive. Incongruous. Ingenious. Innocent. Inquisitive. Instinctive. Instructional. Insubstantial. Intentional. Interactive. Intimate. Introverted. Irreverent. Itinerate.
Jovial. Judicious.
Knowing.
Laborious. Laconic. Latent. Lateral. Lean. Less. Liberal. Liberating. Life-sized. Light. Liminal. Literal. Local. Logical. Loose. Lowly. Lucid. Lugubrious. Luminary.
Macro. Makeshift. Mannered. Marginal. Materialistic. Matter of fact. Maverick. Meditative. Melancholic. Melodic. Methodological. Micro. Middling. Mimetic. Minimal. Mischievous. Mnemonic. Moderate. Momentary. Multiple.
Neurotic. Nominal. Nondescript. No-nonsense. Normal. Nothing. Notional. Numerical.
Objective. Oblique. Obsessive. Obstinate. Odd. Off-key. Ongoing. Open-ended. Opportunistic. Orderly. Ordinary. Organic. Orthodox.
Paradoxical. Parasitic. Parenthetic. Particular. Pathetic. Pedantic. Persistent. Pessimistic. Playful. Populist. Positive. Pragmatic. Primary.
Quantitative.
Rational. Realistic. Reasonable. Recycled. Reductive. Reflexive. Regular. Repetitious. Representative. Repressed. Reserved. Rigorous. Romantic. Routine.
Sanguine. Satiric. Schematic. Seamless. Sedate. Seductive. Self-conscious. Self-deprecating. Self-effacing. Self-explanatory. Self-referential. Semantic. Seminal. Sensory. Sentimental. Sequential. Serial. Simple. Social. Something. Speculative. Standard. Stereotypical. Stoic. Structural. Subjective. Superfluous. Systematic.
Temporary. Tenacious. Theatrical. Timeless. Tolerant. Traditional. Transient. True. Typical.
Unadorned. Unaffected. Uncertain. Uncontrived. Uniform. Universal. Unlimited. Uplifting.
Variable.
Workaday.
Yielding.
Zealous.
Afterword
Whilst working on this project, I happened upon the word ‘creed’ in the Oxford Concise English Dictionary. It was defined thus:
creed/kri:d/n. a set of principles or opinions, esp. as a philosophy of life (his creed is moderation in everything).
Moderation is everything: that’s Martin Creed’s philosophy of life and the operating principle behind his art. Never can an artist have been so appositely named.
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