| canary | (adjective) having the color of a canary; of a light to moderate yellow | Synonyms: canary-yellow |
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| canicular | (adjective) relating to or especially immediately preceding or following the heliacal rising of Canicula (the Dog Star) | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the dog days of summer | - |
| cannular | (adjective) constituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids) | Synonyms: tube-shaped, tubelike, tubular, vasiform |
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| caparisoned | (adjective) clothed in finery (especially a horse in ornamental trappings) | - |
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| capillary | (adjective) of or relating to hair | - |
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| (adjective) long and slender with a very small internal diameter | Synonyms: hairlike |
| capitular | (adjective) of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter | Synonyms: capitulary |
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| capitulary | (adjective) of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter | Synonyms: capitular |
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| capsular | (adjective) of or relating to a capsule | - |
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| (adjective) resembling a capsule | - |
| caramel | (adjective) having the color of caramel; of a moderate yellow-brown | Synonyms: caramel brown |
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| carangid | (adjective) of or relating to fish of the family Carangidae | - |
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| carbocyclic | (adjective) having or relating to or characterized by a ring composed of carbon atoms | - |
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| carbolated | (adjective) containing or treated with carbolic acid | - |
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| carbonaceous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon | Synonyms: carbonic, carboniferous, carbonous |
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| carbonated | (adjective) having carbonation (especially artificially carbonated) | - |
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| carbonic | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon | Synonyms: carbonaceous, carboniferous, carbonous |
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| carboniferous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon | Synonyms: carbonaceous, carbonic, carbonous |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the Carboniferous geologic era | - |
| carbonous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon | Synonyms: carbonaceous, carbonic, carboniferous |
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| carbonyl | (adjective) relating to or containing the carbonyl group | Synonyms: carbonylic |
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| carbonylic | (adjective) relating to or containing the carbonyl group | Synonyms: carbonyl |
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| carboxyl | (adjective) relating to or containing the carboxyl group or carboxyl radical | Synonyms: carboxylic |
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| carboxylic | (adjective) relating to or containing the carboxyl group or carboxyl radical | Synonyms: carboxyl |
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| carbuncled | (adjective) set with carbuncles | - |
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| (adjective) afflicted with or resembling a carbuncle | Synonyms: carbuncular |
| carbuncular | (adjective) afflicted with or resembling a carbuncle | Synonyms: carbuncled |
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| carcinogenic | (adjective) causing or tending to cause cancer | - |
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| carcinomatous | (adjective) being or relating to carcinoma | - |
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| cardboard | (adjective) without substance | Synonyms: unlifelike |
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| cardiac | (adjective) of or relating to the heart | - |
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| cardinal | (adjective) being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order | - |
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| (adjective) serving as an essential component | Synonyms: central, fundamental, key, primal |
| cardiographic | (adjective) of or relating to a cardiograph | - |
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| cardiologic | (adjective) of or relating to or used in or practicing cardiology | - |
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| cardiopulmonary | (adjective) of or pertaining to or affecting both the heart and the lungs and their functions | Synonyms: cardiorespiratory |
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| cardiorespiratory | (adjective) of or pertaining to or affecting both the heart and the lungs and their functions | Synonyms: cardiopulmonary |
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| cardiovascular | (adjective) of or pertaining to or involving the heart and blood vessels | - |
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| carefree | (adjective) cheerfully irresponsible | Synonyms: devil-may-care, freewheeling, happy-go-lucky, harum-scarum, slaphappy |
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| (adjective) free of trouble and worry and care | Synonyms: unworried |
| careful | (adjective) exercising caution or showing care or attention | - |
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| (adjective) cautiously attentive | Synonyms: heedful |
| (adjective) mindful of the future in spending money | Synonyms: thrifty |
| (adjective) full of cares or anxiety | - |
| (adjective) unhurried and with care and dignity | Synonyms: deliberate, measured |
| careless | (adjective) marked by lack of attention or consideration or forethought or thoroughness; not careful | - |
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| (adjective) effortless and unstudied | - |
| (adjective) (usually followed by `of') without due thought or consideration | Synonyms: regardless |
| careworn | (adjective) showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering | Synonyms: drawn, haggard, raddled, worn |
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| carinal | (adjective) relating to or resembling a carina | - |
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| carinate | (adjective) having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship | Synonyms: carinated, keeled, ridged |
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| carinated | (adjective) having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship | Synonyms: carinate, keeled, ridged |
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| caring | (adjective) feeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others | - |
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| carious | (adjective) (of teeth) affected with cavities or decay | - |
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| carminative | (adjective) relieving gas in the alimentary tract (colic or flatulence or griping) | Synonyms: flatus-relieving |
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| carmine | (adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies | Synonyms: blood-red, cerise, cherry-red, cherry, crimson, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy, scarlet |
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| carnal | (adjective) of or relating to the body or flesh | - |
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| (adjective) marked by the appetites and passions of the body | Synonyms: animal, fleshly, sensual |
| carnassial | (adjective) (of a tooth) adapted for shearing flesh | - |
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| carnation | (adjective) pink or pinkish | - |
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| carnivorous | (adjective) (used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animals | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of carnivores | - |
| carotid | (adjective) of or relating to either of the two major arteries supplying blood to the head and neck | - |
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| carousing | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalian, bacchic, orgiastic |
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| carpal | (adjective) of or relating to the wrist | - |
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| carpellary | (adjective) belonging to or forming or containing carpels | - |
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| carpellate | (adjective) bearing or consisting of carpels | Synonyms: pistillate |
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| carpetbag | (adjective) following the practices or characteristic of carpetbaggers | - |
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| (adjective) presumptuously seeking success or a position in a new locality | Synonyms: carpetbagging |
| carpetbagging | (adjective) presumptuously seeking success or a position in a new locality | Synonyms: carpetbag |
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| carpeted | (adjective) covered with or as if with carpeting or with carpeting as specified; often used in combination | - |
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| carpophagous | (adjective) feeding on fruit | Synonyms: fruit-eating |
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| carposporic | (adjective) relating to or resembling a carpospore | - |
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| carposporous | (adjective) having carpospores | - |
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| carroty | (adjective) resembling the bright orange of the root of the carrot plant | - |
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| carsick | (adjective) experiencing motion sickness | Synonyms: air sick, airsick, seasick |
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| cartilaginous | (adjective) of or relating to cartilage | - |
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| (adjective) difficult to chew | Synonyms: gristly, rubbery |
| cartographic | (adjective) of or relating to the making of maps or charts | Synonyms: cartographical |
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| cartographical | (adjective) of or relating to the making of maps or charts | Synonyms: cartographic |
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| caruncular | (adjective) resembling a caruncle | Synonyms: carunculous |
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| carunculate | (adjective) having a caruncle | Synonyms: carunculated |
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| carunculated | (adjective) having a caruncle | Synonyms: carunculate |
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| carunculous | (adjective) resembling a caruncle | Synonyms: caruncular |
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| carved | (adjective) made for or formed by carving (`carven' is archaic or literary) | Synonyms: carven |
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| carven | (adjective) made for or formed by carving (`carven' is archaic or literary) | Synonyms: carved |
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| caryophyllaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to plants of the family Caryophyllaceae | - |
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| catarrhal | (adjective) of or relating to a catarrh | - |
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| catarrhine | (adjective) of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward | Synonyms: catarrhinian |
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| catarrhinian | (adjective) of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward | Synonyms: catarrhine |
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| cathartic | (adjective) emotionally purging (of e.g. art) | Synonyms: releasing |
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| (adjective) strongly laxative | Synonyms: evacuant, purgative |
| (adjective) emotionally purging | Synonyms: psychotherapeutic |
| cautionary | (adjective) serving to warn | Synonyms: admonitory, exemplary, monitory, warning |
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| (adjective) warding off | Synonyms: prophylactic |
| cedarn | (adjective) consisting of or made of cedar | - |
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| cellular | (adjective) characterized by or divided into or containing cells or compartments (the smallest organizational or structural unit of an organism or organization) | - |
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| (adjective) relating to cells | - |
| centenarian | (adjective) being at least 100 years old | - |
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| centenary | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 100 years | Synonyms: centennial |
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| cercarial | (adjective) of or relating to cercaria | - |
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| cerebellar | (adjective) relating to or associated with the cerebellum | - |
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| cerebrovascular | (adjective) of or relating to the brain and the blood vessels that supply it | - |
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| cesarean | (adjective) relating to abdominal delivery | Synonyms: caesarean, caesarian, cesarian |
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| cesarian | (adjective) relating to abdominal delivery | Synonyms: caesarean, caesarian, cesarean |
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| characteristic | (adjective) typical or distinctive | - |
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| characterless | (adjective) lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting | Synonyms: nondescript |
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| charcoal | (adjective) of a very dark grey | Synonyms: charcoal-gray, charcoal-grey |
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| chargeable | (adjective) liable to be accused, or cause for such liability | Synonyms: indictable |
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| (adjective) capable of being charged | - |
| charged | (adjective) of a particle or body or system; having a net amount of positive or negative electric charge | - |
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| (adjective) supplied with carbon dioxide | Synonyms: aerated |
| (adjective) fraught with great emotion | Synonyms: supercharged |
| (adjective) capable of producing violent emotion or arousing controversy | - |
| charismatic | (adjective) possessing an extraordinary ability to attract | Synonyms: magnetic |
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| charitable | (adjective) full of love and generosity | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characterized by charity | - |
| (adjective) showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity | Synonyms: benevolent, good-hearted, kindly, large-hearted, openhearted, sympathetic |
| charmed | (adjective) filled with wonder and delight | Synonyms: beguiled, captivated, delighted, enthralled, entranced |
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| (adjective) strongly attracted | Synonyms: captivated |
| charming | (adjective) pleasing or delighting | - |
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| (adjective) possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers | Synonyms: magic, magical, sorcerous, witching, wizard, wizardly |
| charnel | (adjective) gruesomely indicative of death or the dead | Synonyms: ghastly, sepulchral |
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| chartaceous | (adjective) of or like paper | Synonyms: paperlike, papery |
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| chartered | (adjective) hired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers | Synonyms: hired, leased |
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| chartless | (adjective) (of unknown regions) not yet surveyed or investigated | Synonyms: uncharted, unmapped |
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| chartreuse | (adjective) of something having the yellowish green color of Chartreuse liqueur | - |
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| chary | (adjective) characterized by great caution and wariness | Synonyms: cagey, cagy |
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