clannish | (adjective) characteristic of a clan especially in being unified | - |
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(adjective) befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior | Synonyms: cliquish, clubby, snobbish, snobby |
clean | (adjective) free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits | - |
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(adjective) (of behavior or especially language) free from objectionable elements; fit for all observers | Synonyms: unobjectionable |
(adjective) not spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination | Synonyms: uncontaminating |
(adjective) ritually clean or pure | - |
(adjective) free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed | Synonyms: neat |
(adjective) free from sepsis or infection | Synonyms: uninfected |
(adjective) thorough and without qualification | - |
(adjective) without difficulties or problems | - |
(adjective) (of a surface) not written or printed on | Synonyms: blank, white |
(adjective) exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play | Synonyms: sporting, sportsmanlike, sporty |
(adjective) (of a manuscript) having few alterations or corrections | Synonyms: fair |
(adjective) morally pure | Synonyms: clean-living |
(adjective) (of a record) having no marks of discredit or offense | - |
(adjective) free from impurities | Synonyms: fresh |
(adjective) free of drugs | - |
(adjective) not carrying concealed weapons | - |
(adjective) free of restrictions or qualifications | Synonyms: clear |
(adjective) (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims | Synonyms: clear, light, unclouded |
cleanable | (adjective) capable of being cleaned | - |
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cleanly | (adjective) habitually clean | - |
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cleansing | (adjective) acting like an antiseptic | Synonyms: purifying |
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(adjective) cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of e.g. hands | Synonyms: ablutionary |
clinquant | (adjective) glittering with gold or silver | Synonyms: tinseled, tinselly |
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coetaneous | (adjective) of the same period | Synonyms: coeval, contemporaneous |
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cognisant | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception | Synonyms: aware, cognizant |
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cognizant | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception | Synonyms: aware, cognisant |
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combatant | (adjective) engaging in or ready for combat | - |
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comburant | (adjective) supporting combustion | Synonyms: comburent, combustive |
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commanding | (adjective) used of a height or viewpoint | Synonyms: dominating, overlooking |
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companionable | (adjective) suggestive of companionship | - |
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companionate | (adjective) like a companion | - |
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complaisant | (adjective) showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others | Synonyms: obliging |
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compliant | (adjective) inclined to comply | - |
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concomitant | (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, attendant, collateral, consequent, ensuant, incidental, resultant, sequent |
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concordant | (adjective) being of the same opinion | Synonyms: concurring |
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(adjective) in keeping | Synonyms: accordant, agreeable, conformable, consonant |
consanguine | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguineal, consanguineous, kin |
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consanguineal | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineous, kin |
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consanguineous | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineal, kin |
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consentaneous | (adjective) in complete agreement | Synonyms: consentient, unanimous |
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consonant | (adjective) in keeping | Synonyms: accordant, agreeable, concordant, conformable |
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(adjective) involving or characterized by harmony | Synonyms: harmonic, harmonical, harmonised, harmonized |
consonantal | (adjective) being or marked by or containing or functioning as a consonant | - |
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(adjective) relating to or having the nature of a consonant | - |
constant | (adjective) steadfast in purpose or devotion or affection | - |
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(adjective) uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing | Synonyms: ceaseless, incessant, never-ending, perpetual, unceasing, unremitting |
(adjective) unvarying in nature | Synonyms: changeless, invariant, unvarying |
consubstantial | (adjective) regarded as the same in substance or essence (as of the three persons of the Trinity) | - |
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contemporaneous | (adjective) of the same period | Synonyms: coetaneous, coeval |
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(adjective) occurring in the same period of time | Synonyms: contemporary |
continuant | (adjective) of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') | Synonyms: fricative, sibilant, spirant, strident |
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contraband | (adjective) distributed or sold illicitly | Synonyms: black-market, black, bootleg, smuggled |
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conversant | (adjective) (usually followed by `with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly | Synonyms: familiar |
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coplanar | (adjective) lying in the same plane | - |
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corinthian | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Corinth or its inhabitants | - |
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(adjective) of or pertaining to the Corinthian style of architecture | - |
corroborant | (adjective) used of a medicine that is strengthening | - |
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coruscant | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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cosmopolitan | (adjective) growing or occurring in many parts of the world | Synonyms: widely distributed |
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(adjective) composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests | - |
(adjective) of worldwide scope or applicability | Synonyms: ecumenical, general, oecumenical, universal, world-wide, worldwide |
couchant | (adjective) lying on the stomach with head raised with legs pointed forward | - |
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counterbalanced | (adjective) brought into equipoise by means of a weight or force that offsets another | Synonyms: counterpoised |
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covariant | (adjective) changing so that interrelations with another variable quantity or set of quantities remain unchanged | - |
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cranial | (adjective) of or relating to the cranium which encloses the brain | - |
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craniometric | (adjective) of or relating to craniometry | Synonyms: craniometrical |
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craniometrical | (adjective) of or relating to craniometry | Synonyms: craniometric |
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crank | (adjective) (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail | Synonyms: cranky, tender, tippy |
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cranky | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
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(adjective) (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail | Synonyms: crank, tender, tippy |
crannied | (adjective) having small chinks or crannies (especially in or between rocks or stones) | - |
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crustacean | (adjective) of or belonging to the class Crustacea | Synonyms: crustaceous |
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cryptanalytic | (adjective) of or relating to cryptanalysis | Synonyms: cryptographic, cryptographical, cryptologic, cryptological |
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cutaneal | (adjective) relating to or existing on or affecting the skin | Synonyms: cutaneous, dermal |
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cutaneous | (adjective) relating to or existing on or affecting the skin | Synonyms: cutaneal, dermal |
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cyan | (adjective) of the blue-green color that is a primary subtractive color of light | - |
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cyanobacterial | (adjective) relating to or caused by photosynthetic bacteria of the class Cyanobacteria | Synonyms: cyanophyte |
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cyanogenetic | (adjective) capable of producing cyanide | Synonyms: cyanogenic |
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cyanogenic | (adjective) capable of producing cyanide | Synonyms: cyanogenetic |
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cyanophyte | (adjective) relating to or caused by photosynthetic bacteria of the class Cyanobacteria | Synonyms: cyanobacterial |
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cyclopean | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling the Cyclops | - |
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cyprian | (adjective) resembling the ancient orgiastic worship of Aphrodite on Cyprus | - |
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danceable | (adjective) suitable for dancing | - |
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dandified | (adjective) affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner | Synonyms: dandyish, foppish |
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dandy | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
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dandyish | (adjective) affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner | Synonyms: dandified, foppish |
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dangerous | (adjective) involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm | Synonyms: unsafe |
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(adjective) causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm | Synonyms: grave, grievous, life-threatening, serious, severe |
dank | (adjective) of high quality especially of marijuana | - |
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(adjective) unpleasantly cool and humid | Synonyms: clammy |
deadpan | (adjective) deliberately impassive in manner | Synonyms: expressionless, impassive, poker-faced, unexpressive |
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defiant | (adjective) boldly resisting authority or an opposing force | Synonyms: noncompliant |
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dehumanised | (adjective) divested of human qualities or attributes | Synonyms: dehumanized, unhuman |
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dehumanized | (adjective) divested of human qualities or attributes | Synonyms: dehumanised, unhuman |
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demanding | (adjective) requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill | - |
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demeaning | (adjective) causing awareness of your shortcomings | Synonyms: humbling, humiliating, mortifying |
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dependant | (adjective) addicted to a drug | Synonyms: dependent, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out |
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(adjective) contingent on something else | Synonyms: dependent, qualified |
depressant | (adjective) capable of depressing physiological or psychological activity or response by a chemical agent | - |
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deranged | (adjective) driven insane | Synonyms: crazed, half-crazed |
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descendant | (adjective) going or coming down | Synonyms: descendent |
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(adjective) proceeding by descent from an ancestor | Synonyms: descendent |
determinant | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: deciding, determinative, determining |
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deuteranopic | (adjective) inability to see the color green or to distinguish green and purplish-red | Synonyms: green-blind |
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deviant | (adjective) markedly different from an accepted norm | Synonyms: aberrant, deviate |
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diamantine | (adjective) consisting of diamonds or resembling diamonds | - |
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dianoetic | (adjective) proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition | Synonyms: discursive |
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diaphanous | (adjective) so thin as to transmit light | Synonyms: cobwebby, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous |
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dictyopteran | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the order Dictyoptera | - |
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dilettante | (adjective) showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish | Synonyms: dilettanteish, dilettantish, sciolistic |
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dilettanteish | (adjective) showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish | Synonyms: dilettante, dilettantish, sciolistic |
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dilettantish | (adjective) showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish | Synonyms: dilettante, dilettanteish, sciolistic |
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diluvian | (adjective) of or connected with a deluge | Synonyms: diluvial |
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diocesan | (adjective) belonging to or governing a diocese | - |
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dioecian | (adjective) having male and female reproductive organs in separate plants or animals | Synonyms: dioecious |
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disadvantaged | (adjective) marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences | Synonyms: deprived |
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disadvantageous | (adjective) involving or creating circumstances detrimental to success or effectiveness | Synonyms: unfavorable, unfavourable |
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disarranged | (adjective) having the arrangement disturbed; not in order | - |
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discordant | (adjective) not in agreement or harmony | - |
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(adjective) lacking in harmony | Synonyms: disharmonious, dissonant, inharmonic |
discrepant | (adjective) not in accord | Synonyms: at variance, dissonant |
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(adjective) not in agreement | Synonyms: inconsistent |
(adjective) not compatible with other facts | Synonyms: incompatible |
disenchanted | (adjective) freed from enchantment | - |
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disenchanting | (adjective) freeing from illusion or false belief | Synonyms: disillusioning |
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disenfranchised | (adjective) deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote | Synonyms: disfranchised, voiceless, voteless |
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disentangled | (adjective) straightened out | Synonyms: loosened, unsnarled |
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disfranchised | (adjective) deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote | Synonyms: disenfranchised, voiceless, voteless |
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disinfectant | (adjective) preventing infection by inhibiting the growth or action of microorganisms | Synonyms: bactericidal, germicidal |
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dismantled | (adjective) torn down and broken up | Synonyms: demolished, razed |
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disorganised | (adjective) lacking order or methodical arrangement or function | Synonyms: disorganized |
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disorganized | (adjective) lacking order or methodical arrangement or function | Synonyms: disorganised |
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dissonant | (adjective) not in accord | Synonyms: at variance, discrepant |
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(adjective) lacking in harmony | Synonyms: discordant, disharmonious, inharmonic |
(adjective) characterized by musical dissonance; harmonically unresolved | Synonyms: unresolved |
distant | (adjective) separated in space or coming from or going to a distance | - |
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(adjective) far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship | Synonyms: remote |
(adjective) remote in manner | Synonyms: aloof, upstage |
(adjective) located far away spatially | Synonyms: remote |
(adjective) separate or apart in time | Synonyms: remote, removed |