| catchy | (adjective) likely to attract attention | Synonyms: attention-getting |
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| (adjective) having concealed difficulty | Synonyms: tricky |
| catechetic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a rigorous catechism | Synonyms: catechistic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or involving catechesis | Synonyms: catechetical |
| catechetical | (adjective) of or relating to or involving catechesis | Synonyms: catechetic |
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| catechismal | (adjective) of or relating to a catechism summarizing the principles of Christianity | - |
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| catechistic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a rigorous catechism | Synonyms: catechetic |
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| categorematic | (adjective) of a term or phrase capable of standing as the subject or (especially) the predicate of a proposition | - |
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| categorial | (adjective) of or relating to the concept of categories | - |
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| categoric | (adjective) relating to or included in a category or categories | Synonyms: categorical |
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| (adjective) not modified or restricted by reservations | Synonyms: categorical, flat, unconditional |
| categorical | (adjective) relating to or included in a category or categories | Synonyms: categoric |
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| (adjective) not modified or restricted by reservations | Synonyms: categoric, flat, unconditional |
| categorised | (adjective) arranged into categories | Synonyms: categorized |
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| categorized | (adjective) arranged into categories | Synonyms: categorised |
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| catenulate | (adjective) having a chainlike form | Synonyms: chainlike |
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| catercorner | (adjective) slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line | Synonyms: cata-cornered, catacorner, cater-cornered, catty-corner, catty-cornered, kitty-corner, kitty-cornered |
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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 |
| cathectic | (adjective) of or relating to cathexis | - |
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| cathedral | (adjective) relating to or containing or issuing from a bishop's office or throne | - |
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| cathodic | (adjective) of or at or pertaining to a cathode | - |
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| catholic | (adjective) free from provincial prejudices or attachments | - |
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| cationic | (adjective) of or relating to cations | - |
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| catkinate | (adjective) resembling a catkin | - |
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| catoptric | (adjective) of or relating to catoptrics; produced by or based on mirrors | Synonyms: catoptrical |
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| catoptrical | (adjective) of or relating to catoptrics; produced by or based on mirrors | Synonyms: catoptric |
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| cattish | (adjective) marked by or arising from malice | Synonyms: bitchy, catty |
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| catty | (adjective) marked by or arising from malice | Synonyms: bitchy, cattish |
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| caudal | (adjective) constituting or relating to a tail | - |
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| (adjective) resembling a tail | Synonyms: taillike |
| (adjective) situated in or directed toward the part of the body from which the tail arises | - |
| caudate | (adjective) having a tail or taillike appendage | Synonyms: caudated |
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| (adjective) (of a leaf shape) tapering gradually into a long taillike tip | - |
| caudated | (adjective) having a tail or taillike appendage | Synonyms: caudate |
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| caulescent | (adjective) (of plants) producing a well-developed stem above ground | Synonyms: cauline, stemmed |
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| cauline | (adjective) especially of leaves; growing on a stem especially on the upper part of a stem | - |
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| (adjective) (of plants) producing a well-developed stem above ground | Synonyms: caulescent, stemmed |
| caulked | (adjective) having cracks and crevices stopped up with a filler | - |
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| causal | (adjective) involving or constituting a cause; causing | - |
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| causative | (adjective) producing an effect | - |
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| causeless | (adjective) having no cause or apparent cause | Synonyms: fortuitous, uncaused |
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| (adjective) having no justifying cause or reason | Synonyms: reasonless |
| caustic | (adjective) of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action | Synonyms: corrosive, erosive, mordant, vitriolic |
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| (adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic |
| cautionary | (adjective) serving to warn | Synonyms: admonitory, exemplary, monitory, warning |
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| (adjective) warding off | Synonyms: prophylactic |
| cautious | (adjective) showing careful forethought | - |
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| (adjective) avoiding excess | Synonyms: conservative |
| cavalier | (adjective) given to haughty disregard of others | Synonyms: high-handed |
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| cavernous | (adjective) filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood | Synonyms: erectile |
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| (adjective) being or suggesting a cavern | - |
| cavitied | (adjective) pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb) | Synonyms: alveolate, faveolate, honeycombed, pitted |
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| cecal | (adjective) of or like a cecum | Synonyms: caecal |
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| cenobitical | (adjective) of or relating to or befitting cenobites or their practices of communal living | Synonyms: cenobitic, coenobitic, coenobitical |
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| centrical | (adjective) having or situated at or near a center | Synonyms: centric |
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| cercarial | (adjective) of or relating to cercaria | - |
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| certificated | (adjective) furnished with or authorized by a certificate: | - |
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| certificatory | (adjective) serving to certify or endorse authoritatively | - |
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| cervical | (adjective) relating to or associated with the neck | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the cervix of the uterus | - |
| chemical | (adjective) relating to or used in chemistry | Synonyms: chemic |
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| (adjective) of or made from or using substances produced by or used in reactions involving atomic or molecular changes | - |
| chemotherapeutical | (adjective) of or relating to chemotherapy | Synonyms: chemotherapeutic |
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| chimerical | (adjective) being or relating to or like a chimera | Synonyms: chimeral, chimeric |
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| (adjective) produced by a wildly fanciful imagination | - |
| chromatographical | (adjective) of or relating to chromatography | Synonyms: chromatographic |
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| chronological | (adjective) relating to or arranged according to temporal order | - |
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| circadian | (adjective) of or relating to biological processes occurring at 24-hour intervals | - |
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| classical | (adjective) of or relating to the first significant period of a civilization, culture, area of study, etc. | Synonyms: classic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to the languages used by ancient standard authors | - |
| (adjective) well-known and long-established in form or style | Synonyms: classic |
| (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially their art, literature, or culture | Synonyms: Graeco-Roman, Greco-Roman |
| (adjective) of or relating to music in the European tradition, such as symphonies and operas | - |
| (adjective) (physics) relating to or based on concepts that preceded the theories of relativity and quantum mechanics | - |
| classificatory | (adjective) relating to or involving classification | - |
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| clerical | (adjective) of or relating to the clergy | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to clerks | - |
| (adjective) appropriate for or engaged in office work | - |
| climatical | (adjective) of or relating to a climate | Synonyms: climatic |
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| clinical | (adjective) relating to a clinic or conducted in or as if in a clinic and depending on direct observation of patients | - |
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| (adjective) scientifically detached; unemotional | - |
| coccal | (adjective) of or pertaining to or resembling a coccus | - |
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| coeducational | (adjective) attended by members of both sexes | Synonyms: co-ed |
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| coenobitical | (adjective) of or relating to or befitting cenobites or their practices of communal living | Synonyms: cenobitic, cenobitical, coenobitic |
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| colorimetrical | (adjective) of or relating to colorimetry | Synonyms: colorimetric |
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| comical | (adjective) arousing or provoking laughter | Synonyms: amusing, comic, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible |
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| commonsensical | (adjective) exhibiting native good judgment | Synonyms: commonsense, commonsensible |
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| communicable | (adjective) readily communicated | - |
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| (adjective) (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection | Synonyms: catching, contagious, contractable, transmissible, transmittable |
| communicational | (adjective) used in communication | - |
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| communicative | (adjective) able or tending to communicate | Synonyms: communicatory |
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| (adjective) of or relating to communication | - |
| communicatory | (adjective) able or tending to communicate | Synonyms: communicative |
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| complicated | (adjective) difficult to analyze or understand | Synonyms: complex |
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| concave | (adjective) curving inward | - |
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| concentrical | (adjective) having a common center | Synonyms: concentric, homocentric |
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| confiscate | (adjective) surrendered as a penalty | Synonyms: forfeit, forfeited |
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| congenerical | (adjective) belonging to the same genus | Synonyms: congeneric, congenerous |
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| conical | (adjective) relating to or resembling a cone | Synonyms: cone-shaped, conelike, conic |
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| cortical | (adjective) of or relating to a cortex | - |
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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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| cosmogonical | (adjective) pertaining to the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and history and structure and dynamics of the universe | Synonyms: cosmogenic, cosmogonic, cosmologic, cosmological |
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| cosmological | (adjective) pertaining to the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and history and structure and dynamics of the universe | Synonyms: cosmogenic, cosmogonic, cosmogonical, cosmologic |
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| (adjective) pertaining to the branch of philosophy dealing with the elements and laws and especially the characteristics of the universe such as space and time and causality | Synonyms: cosmologic |
| craniometrical | (adjective) of or relating to craniometry | Synonyms: craniometric |
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| criminological | (adjective) of or relating to or involved in criminology | - |
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| critical | (adjective) marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by careful evaluation and judgment | - |
| (adjective) being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency | - |
| (adjective) at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction | - |
| (adjective) of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism | - |
| (adjective) forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis | Synonyms: decisive |
| (adjective) urgently needed; absolutely necessary | Synonyms: vital |
| cryptical | (adjective) having a secret or hidden meaning | Synonyms: cabalistic, cryptic, kabbalistic, qabalistic, sibylline |
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| (adjective) of an obscure nature | Synonyms: cryptic, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying |
| cryptographical | (adjective) of or relating to cryptanalysis | Synonyms: cryptanalytic, cryptographic, cryptologic, cryptological |
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| cryptological | (adjective) of or relating to cryptanalysis | Synonyms: cryptanalytic, cryptographic, cryptographical, cryptologic |
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| cubical | (adjective) shaped like a cube | Synonyms: cube-shaped, cubelike, cubiform, cuboid, cuboidal |
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| cyclical | (adjective) recurring in cycles | Synonyms: cyclic |
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| cyclonical | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a violent tropical storm | Synonyms: cyclonal, cyclonic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the atmosphere around a low pressure center | Synonyms: cyclonal, cyclonic |
| cylindrical | (adjective) having the form of a cylinder | Synonyms: cylindric |
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| cynical | (adjective) believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others | Synonyms: misanthropic, misanthropical |
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| cytogenetical | (adjective) of or relating to cytogenetics | Synonyms: cytogenetic |
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| cytological | (adjective) of or relating to the science of cytology | Synonyms: cytologic |
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| decadent | (adjective) marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay | Synonyms: fin-de-siecle |
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| (adjective) luxuriously self-indulgent | - |
| decalescent | (adjective) absorbing heat without increase in temperature when heated beyond a certain point | - |
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| decapitated | (adjective) having had the head cut off | Synonyms: beheaded |
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| decasyllabic | (adjective) having or characterized by or consisting of ten syllables | - |
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| decayable | (adjective) liable to decay or spoil or become putrid | Synonyms: putrefiable, putrescible, spoilable |
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| decayed | (adjective) damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless | Synonyms: rotted, rotten |
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| dedicated | (adjective) devoted to a cause or ideal or purpose | - |
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| (adjective) solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high or sacred purpose | Synonyms: consecrate, consecrated |
| delicate | (adjective) exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury | - |
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| (adjective) easily broken or damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: fragile, frail |
| (adjective) difficult to handle; requiring great tact | Synonyms: ticklish, touchy |
| (adjective) developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety | Synonyms: finespun |
| (adjective) of an instrument or device; capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely | - |
| (adjective) marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique | - |
| (adjective) easily hurt | Synonyms: soft |
| demagogical | (adjective) characteristic of or resembling a demagogue | Synonyms: demagogic |
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| demoniacal | (adjective) of, pertaining to, or like a demon or possession by a demon | Synonyms: demoniac, possessed |
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