| cheeseparing | (adjective) giving or spending with reluctance | Synonyms: close, near, penny-pinching, skinny |
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| chickenhearted | (adjective) easily frightened | Synonyms: chicken, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow-bellied, yellow |
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| childbearing | (adjective) relating to or suitable for childbirth | - |
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| ciliary | (adjective) relating to the ciliary body and associated structures of the eye | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell | Synonyms: cilial, ciliate |
| (adjective) of or relating to the human eyelash | Synonyms: ciliate |
| cinerary | (adjective) containing or used for ashes of the cremated dead | - |
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| cinnabar | (adjective) of a vivid red to reddish-orange color | Synonyms: Chinese-red, vermilion, vermillion |
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| circular | (adjective) having the shape or form of a circle | Synonyms: round |
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| (adjective) describing a circle; moving in a circle | Synonyms: orbitual, rotary |
| circumpolar | (adjective) located or found throughout a polar region | - |
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| (adjective) (of a celestial body) continually visible above the horizon during the entire 360 degrees of daily travel | - |
| cislunar | (adjective) situated between the earth and the moon | Synonyms: sublunar, sublunary |
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| clarifying | (adjective) that makes clear | Synonyms: elucidative |
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| clarion | (adjective) loud and clear | - |
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| clear | (adjective) readily apparent to the mind | - |
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| (adjective) allowing light to pass through | - |
| (adjective) free from clouds or mist or haze | - |
| (adjective) accurately stated or described | Synonyms: well-defined |
| (adjective) free from confusion or doubt | - |
| (adjective) characterized by ease and quickness in perceiving | Synonyms: percipient |
| (adjective) clear and distinct to the senses; easily perceptible | Synonyms: clean-cut, clear-cut |
| (adjective) freed from any question of guilt | Synonyms: absolved, cleared, exculpated, exonerated, vindicated |
| (adjective) easily deciphered | Synonyms: decipherable, readable |
| (adjective) clear of charges or deductions | - |
| (adjective) free from flaw or blemish or impurity | - |
| (adjective) (especially of a title) free from any encumbrance or limitation that presents a question of fact or law | Synonyms: unmortgaged |
| (adjective) affording free passage or view | Synonyms: open |
| (adjective) free of restrictions or qualifications | Synonyms: clean |
| (adjective) characterized by freedom from troubling thoughts (especially guilt) | - |
| (adjective) (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims | Synonyms: clean, light, unclouded |
| (adjective) free from contact or proximity or connection | - |
| cleared | (adjective) rid of objects or obstructions such as e.g. trees and brush | - |
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| (adjective) freed from any question of guilt | Synonyms: absolved, clear, exculpated, exonerated, vindicated |
| clearheaded | (adjective) not mentally confused; able to think clearly and act intelligently | Synonyms: clear-thinking |
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| coarctate | (adjective) (of an insect pupa) enclosed in a rigid case | - |
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| coarse | (adjective) of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles | Synonyms: harsh |
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| (adjective) of low or inferior quality or value | Synonyms: common |
| (adjective) lacking refinement or cultivation or taste | Synonyms: common, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar |
| coarsened | (adjective) made coarse or crude by lack of skill | - |
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| cochlear | (adjective) of or relating to the cochlea of the ear | - |
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| coldhearted | (adjective) lacking in sympathy or feeling | - |
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| collarless | (adjective) without a collar | - |
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| collinear | (adjective) lying on the same line | - |
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| columnar | (adjective) characterized by columns | - |
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| (adjective) having the form of a column | Synonyms: columniform, columnlike |
| cometary | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a comet | Synonyms: cometic |
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| comparable | (adjective) able to be compared or worthy of comparison | - |
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| (adjective) conforming in every respect | Synonyms: corresponding, like |
| comparative | (adjective) estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete | Synonyms: relative |
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| (adjective) relating to or based on or involving comparison | - |
| compartmental | (adjective) divided up into compartments or categories | Synonyms: compartmentalised, compartmentalized |
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| compartmentalised | (adjective) divided up into compartments or categories | Synonyms: compartmental, compartmentalized |
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| compartmentalized | (adjective) divided up into compartments or categories | Synonyms: compartmental, compartmentalised |
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| compartmented | (adjective) divided up or separated into compartments or isolated units | - |
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| complementary | (adjective) acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole) | Synonyms: complemental, completing |
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| (adjective) of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other | - |
| complimentary | (adjective) conveying or resembling a compliment | - |
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| (adjective) costing nothing | Synonyms: costless, free, gratis, gratuitous |
| condylar | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a condyle | - |
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| consular | (adjective) having to do with a consul or his office or duties | - |
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| contemporary | (adjective) belonging to the present time | Synonyms: present-day |
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| (adjective) characteristic of the present | Synonyms: modern-day |
| (adjective) occurring in the same period of time | Synonyms: contemporaneous |
| contrarious | (adjective) characterized by self-willed opposition | Synonyms: cross-grained |
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| contrary | (adjective) of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true but both may be false | - |
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| (adjective) very opposed in nature or character or purpose | - |
| (adjective) resistant to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: obstinate, perverse, wayward |
| (adjective) in an opposing direction | Synonyms: adverse |
| coplanar | (adjective) lying in the same plane | - |
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| copular | (adjective) of or relating to a copula | - |
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| coronary | (adjective) surrounding like a crown (especially of the blood vessels surrounding the heart) | - |
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| corpuscular | (adjective) of or relating to corpuscles | - |
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| counterrevolutionary | (adjective) marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or being a counterrevolution | - |
| covariant | (adjective) changing so that interrelations with another variable quantity or set of quantities remain unchanged | - |
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| cowardly | (adjective) lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted | Synonyms: fearful |
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| crepuscular | (adjective) like twilight; dim | - |
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| culinary | (adjective) of or relating to or used in cooking | - |
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| cupular | (adjective) shaped like (or supporting) a cupule | Synonyms: cupulate |
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| curricular | (adjective) of or relating to an academic course of study | - |
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| curvilinear | (adjective) characterized by or following a curved line | Synonyms: curvilineal |
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| customary | (adjective) in accordance with convention or custom | - |
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| (adjective) commonly used or practiced; usual | Synonyms: accustomed, habitual, wonted |
| cuticular | (adjective) of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula | Synonyms: dermal, epidermal, epidermic |
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| cytoarchitectonic | (adjective) of or relating to cytoarchitecture | Synonyms: cytoarchitectural |
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| cytoarchitectural | (adjective) of or relating to cytoarchitecture | Synonyms: cytoarchitectonic |
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| czarist | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a czar | Synonyms: czaristic, tsarist, tsaristic, tzarist |
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| czaristic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a czar | Synonyms: czarist, tsarist, tsaristic, tzarist |
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| daredevil | (adjective) presumptuously daring | Synonyms: temerarious |
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| daring | (adjective) disposed to venture or take risks | Synonyms: audacious, venturesome, venturous |
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| (adjective) radically new or original | Synonyms: avant-garde |
| dark | (adjective) devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black | - |
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| (adjective) (used of color) having a dark hue | - |
| (adjective) brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes) | - |
| (adjective) secret | - |
| (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry |
| (adjective) stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable | Synonyms: black, sinister |
| (adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen |
| (adjective) not giving performances; closed | - |
| (adjective) marked by difficulty of style or expression | Synonyms: obscure |
| (adjective) lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture | Synonyms: benighted |
| darkened | (adjective) become or made dark by lack of light | - |
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| (adjective) (of fabrics and paper) grown dark in color over time | - |
| darkening | (adjective) becoming dark or darker as from waning light or clouding over | - |
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| darkish | (adjective) slightly dark | - |
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| darkling | (adjective) (poetic) occurring in the dark or night | - |
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| (adjective) uncannily or threateningly dark or obscure | - |
| darling | (adjective) dearly loved | Synonyms: beloved, dear |
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| darned | (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
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| dastard | (adjective) despicably cowardly | Synonyms: dastardly |
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| dastardly | (adjective) despicably cowardly | Synonyms: dastard |
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| dear | (adjective) with or in a close or intimate relationship | Synonyms: good, near |
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| (adjective) having a high price | Synonyms: costly, high-priced, pricey, pricy |
| (adjective) dearly loved | Synonyms: beloved, darling |
| (adjective) sincerely earnest | Synonyms: devout, earnest, heartfelt |
| declarable | (adjective) that must be declared | - |
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| declarative | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration | Synonyms: asserting, declaratory |
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| (adjective) relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements | Synonyms: indicative |
| declaratory | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration | Synonyms: asserting, declarative |
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| declared | (adjective) made known or openly avowed | - |
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| (adjective) declared as fact; explicitly stated | Synonyms: stated |
| deflationary | (adjective) associated with or tending to cause decreases in consumer prices or increases in the purchasing power of money | - |
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| denary | (adjective) containing ten or ten parts | Synonyms: ten-fold, tenfold |
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| (adjective) numbered or proceeding by tens; based on ten | Synonyms: decimal |
| departed | (adjective) dead | Synonyms: asleep, at peace, at rest, deceased, gone |
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| (adjective) well in the past; former | Synonyms: bygone, bypast, foregone, gone |
| departing | (adjective) that is going out or leaving | Synonyms: outbound, outward-bound, outward |
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| departmental | (adjective) of or relating to a department | - |
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| dextrorotary | (adjective) rotating to the right | Synonyms: dextrorotatory, right-handed |
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| diarrheal | (adjective) of or relating to diarrhea | Synonyms: diarrheic, diarrhetic, diarrhoeal, diarrhoeic, diarrhoetic |
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| diarrheic | (adjective) of or relating to diarrhea | Synonyms: diarrheal, diarrhetic, diarrhoeal, diarrhoeic, diarrhoetic |
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| diarrhetic | (adjective) of or relating to diarrhea | Synonyms: diarrheal, diarrheic, diarrhoeal, diarrhoeic, diarrhoetic |
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| diarrhoeal | (adjective) of or relating to diarrhea | Synonyms: diarrheal, diarrheic, diarrhetic, diarrhoeic, diarrhoetic |
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| diarrhoeic | (adjective) of or relating to diarrhea | Synonyms: diarrheal, diarrheic, diarrhetic, diarrhoeal, diarrhoetic |
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| diarrhoetic | (adjective) of or relating to diarrhea | Synonyms: diarrheal, diarrheic, diarrhetic, diarrhoeal, diarrhoeic |
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| dicarboxylic | (adjective) containing two carboxyls per molecule | - |
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| dietary | (adjective) of or relating to the diet | Synonyms: dietetic, dietetical |
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| dipolar | (adjective) having equal and opposite electric charges or magnetic poles having opposite signs and separated by a small distance | - |
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| disarming | (adjective) capable of allaying hostility | - |
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| disarranged | (adjective) having the arrangement disturbed; not in order | - |
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| disarrayed | (adjective) in disarray | - |
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| discarded | (adjective) thrown away | Synonyms: cast-off, throwaway, thrown-away |
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| discharged | (adjective) having lost your job | Synonyms: dismissed, fired, laid-off, pink-slipped |
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| disciplinary | (adjective) relating to a specific field of academic study | - |
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| (adjective) relating to discipline in behavior | - |
| (adjective) designed to promote discipline | Synonyms: corrective, disciplinal |
| discretionary | (adjective) having or using the ability to act or decide according to your own discretion or judgment | Synonyms: discretional |
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| (adjective) (especially of funds) not earmarked; available for use as needed | - |
| disharmonious | (adjective) lacking in harmony | Synonyms: discordant, dissonant, inharmonic |
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| disheartened | (adjective) made less hopeful or enthusiastic | Synonyms: demoralised, demoralized, discouraged |
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| disheartening | (adjective) destructive of morale and self-reliance | Synonyms: demoralising, demoralizing, dispiriting |
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| disparaging | (adjective) expressive of low opinion | Synonyms: derogative, derogatory |
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| disparate | (adjective) fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind | - |
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| (adjective) including markedly dissimilar elements | - |
| disregarded | (adjective) not noticed inadvertently | Synonyms: forgotten |
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| dissimilar | (adjective) not similar | - |
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| (adjective) not alike or similar | Synonyms: unalike |
| diversionary | (adjective) (of tactics e.g.) likely or designed to confuse or deceive | - |
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