| contralto | (adjective) of or being the lowest female voice | Synonyms: alto |
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| contrapuntal | (adjective) having two or more independent but harmonically related melodic parts sounding together | Synonyms: polyphonic |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or according to the rules of counterpoint | - |
| 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 |
| contrasting | (adjective) strikingly different; tending to contrast | Synonyms: contrastive |
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| contrastive | (adjective) of words so related that one contrasts with the other | Synonyms: incompatible |
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| (adjective) strikingly different; tending to contrast | Synonyms: contrasting |
| (adjective) syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence | - |
| contrasty | (adjective) having sharp differences between black and white | - |
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| contributing | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributive, contributory, tributary |
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| contributive | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributing, contributory, tributary |
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| contributory | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributing, contributive, tributary |
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| contrite | (adjective) feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses | Synonyms: remorseful, rueful, ruthful |
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| contrived | (adjective) artificially formal | Synonyms: artificial, hokey, stilted |
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| (adjective) showing effects of planning or manipulation | - |
| controllable | (adjective) capable of being controlled | Synonyms: governable |
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| controlled | (adjective) restrained or managed or kept within certain bounds | - |
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| controlling | (adjective) able to control or determine policy | - |
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| controversial | (adjective) marked by or capable of arousing controversy | - |
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| contumacious | (adjective) wilfully obstinate; stubbornly disobedient | - |
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| contumelious | (adjective) arrogantly insolent | - |
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| convalescent | (adjective) returning to health after illness or debility | Synonyms: recovering |
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| convenient | (adjective) suited to your comfort or purpose or needs | - |
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| (adjective) large and roomy (`convenient' is archaic in this sense) | Synonyms: commodious |
| conventional | (adjective) following accepted customs and proprieties | - |
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| (adjective) unimaginative and conformist | - |
| (adjective) (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy | - |
| (adjective) rigidly formal or bound by convention | Synonyms: ceremonious |
| (adjective) represented in simplified or symbolic form | Synonyms: formal, schematic |
| (adjective) conforming with accepted standards | Synonyms: established |
| (adjective) in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past | - |
| conventionalised | (adjective) using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous | Synonyms: conventionalized, stylised, stylized |
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| conventionalized | (adjective) using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous | Synonyms: conventionalised, stylised, stylized |
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| conventual | (adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistered, cloistral, monastic, monastical |
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| convergent | (adjective) tending to come together from different directions | - |
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| conversant | (adjective) (usually followed by `with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly | Synonyms: familiar |
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| conversational | (adjective) characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation | Synonyms: colloquial |
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| converse | (adjective) of words so related that one reverses the relation denoted by the other | - |
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| (adjective) turned about in order or relation | Synonyms: reversed, transposed |
| convertible | (adjective) capable of being exchanged for or replaced by something of equal value | Synonyms: exchangeable |
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| (adjective) designed to be changed from one use or form to another | - |
| (adjective) capable of being changed in substance as if by alchemy | Synonyms: transformable, translatable, transmutable |
| convex | (adjective) curving or bulging outward | Synonyms: bulging |
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| conveyable | (adjective) legally transferable to the ownership of another | Synonyms: assignable, negotiable, transferable, transferrable |
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| convinced | (adjective) having a strong belief or conviction | - |
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| (adjective) persuaded of; very sure | Synonyms: confident, positive |
| convincible | (adjective) being susceptible to persuasion | Synonyms: persuadable, persuasible, suasible |
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| convincing | (adjective) causing one to believe the truth of something | - |
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| convivial | (adjective) occupied with or fond of the pleasures of good company | Synonyms: good-time |
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| convolute | (adjective) rolled longitudinally upon itself | Synonyms: convoluted |
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| convoluted | (adjective) rolled longitudinally upon itself | Synonyms: convolute |
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| (adjective) highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious | Synonyms: Byzantine, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, tangled, tortuous |
| convulsive | (adjective) affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm | Synonyms: spasmodic, spastic |
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| (adjective) resembling a convulsion in being sudden and violent | - |
| deconsecrated | (adjective) divested of consecration | - |
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| deconstructionist | (adjective) of or concerned with the philosophical theory of literature known as deconstructionism | - |
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| disconcerted | (adjective) having self-possession upset; thrown into confusion | Synonyms: discombobulated |
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| disconcerting | (adjective) causing an emotional disturbance | Synonyms: upsetting |
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| disconfirming | (adjective) not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition | Synonyms: negative |
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| (adjective) establishing as invalid or untrue | Synonyms: invalidating |
| disconnected | (adjective) (music) marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds; cut short crisply | Synonyms: staccato |
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| (adjective) having been divided; having the unity destroyed | Synonyms: disunited, fragmented, split |
| (adjective) lacking orderly continuity | Synonyms: confused, disjointed, disordered, garbled, illogical, scattered, unconnected |
| (adjective) not plugged in or connected to a power source | - |
| (adjective) marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions | Synonyms: abrupt |
| disconsolate | (adjective) sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled | Synonyms: inconsolable, unconsolable |
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| (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry |
| discontent | (adjective) showing or experiencing dissatisfaction or restless longing | Synonyms: discontented |
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| discontented | (adjective) showing or experiencing dissatisfaction or restless longing | Synonyms: discontent |
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| discontinued | (adjective) stopped permanently or temporarily | - |
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| discontinuous | (adjective) not continuing without interruption in time or space | Synonyms: noncontinuous |
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| (adjective) of a function or curve; possessing one or more discontinuities | - |
| econometric | (adjective) of or relating to econometrics | - |
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| economic | (adjective) of or relating to the science of economics | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to an economy, the system of production and management of material wealth | Synonyms: economical |
| (adjective) using the minimum of time or resources necessary for effectiveness | Synonyms: economical |
| (adjective) financially rewarding | - |
| (adjective) concerned with worldly necessities of life (especially money) | - |
| economical | (adjective) of or relating to an economy, the system of production and management of material wealth | Synonyms: economic |
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| (adjective) using the minimum of time or resources necessary for effectiveness | Synonyms: economic |
| (adjective) avoiding waste | Synonyms: frugal, scotch, sparing, stinting |
| falconine | (adjective) relating to or resembling a falcon | - |
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| iconic | (adjective) relating to or having the characteristics of an icon | - |
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| iconoclastic | (adjective) destructive of images used in religious worship; said of religions, such as Islam, in which the representation of living things is prohibited | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by attack on established beliefs or institutions | - |
| inconceivable | (adjective) totally unlikely | Synonyms: impossible, out of the question, unimaginable |
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| inconclusive | (adjective) not conclusive; not putting an end to doubt or question | - |
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| incongruent | (adjective) not congruent | - |
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| incongruous | (adjective) lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness | - |
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| inconsequent | (adjective) lacking worth or importance | Synonyms: inconsequential |
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| inconsequential | (adjective) not following logically as a consequence | - |
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| (adjective) lacking worth or importance | Synonyms: inconsequent |
| inconsiderable | (adjective) too small or unimportant to merit attention | - |
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| inconsiderate | (adjective) lacking regard for the rights or feelings of others | - |
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| (adjective) without proper consideration or reflection | Synonyms: unconsidered |
| inconsistent | (adjective) displaying a lack of consistency | - |
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| (adjective) not in agreement | Synonyms: discrepant |
| (adjective) not capable of being made consistent or harmonious | - |
| inconsolable | (adjective) sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled | Synonyms: disconsolate, unconsolable |
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| inconspicuous | (adjective) not prominent or readily noticeable | Synonyms: invisible |
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| inconstant | (adjective) likely to change frequently often without apparent or cogent reason; variable | - |
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| incontestable | (adjective) incapable of being contested or disputed | Synonyms: incontestible |
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| (adjective) not open to question; obviously true | Synonyms: indisputable, undisputable |
| incontestible | (adjective) incapable of being contested or disputed | Synonyms: incontestable |
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| incontinent | (adjective) not having control over urination and defecation | - |
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| incontrovertible | (adjective) necessarily or demonstrably true | Synonyms: demonstrable |
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| (adjective) impossible to deny or disprove | Synonyms: irrefutable, positive |
| inconvenient | (adjective) not suited to your comfort, purpose or needs | - |
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| (adjective) not conveniently timed | - |
| inconvertible | (adjective) used especially of currencies; incapable of being exchanged for or replaced by another currency of equal value | Synonyms: unconvertible, unexchangeable |
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| (adjective) not capable of being changed into something else | Synonyms: untransmutable |
| interconnected | (adjective) operating as a unit | Synonyms: co-ordinated, coordinated, unified |
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| (adjective) reciprocally connected | Synonyms: interrelated |
| intercontinental | (adjective) extending or taking place between or among continents | - |
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| irreconcilable | (adjective) impossible to reconcile | Synonyms: unreconcilable |
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| laconic | (adjective) brief and to the point; effectively cut short | Synonyms: crisp, curt, terse |
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| macroeconomic | (adjective) of or relating to macroeconomics | - |
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| malcontent | (adjective) discontented as toward authority | Synonyms: disaffected, ill-affected, rebellious |
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| microeconomic | (adjective) of or relating to microeconomics | - |
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| nonconcentric | (adjective) not having a common center; not concentric | Synonyms: eccentric |
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| nonconducting | (adjective) not able to conduct heat or electricity or sound | Synonyms: non-conducting, nonconductive |
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| nonconductive | (adjective) not able to conduct heat or electricity or sound | Synonyms: non-conducting, nonconducting |
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| nonconforming | (adjective) not conforming to established customs or doctrines especially in religion | Synonyms: nonconformist |
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| nonconformist | (adjective) not conforming to some norm or socially approved pattern of behavior or thought | Synonyms: unconformist |
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| (adjective) not conforming to established customs or doctrines especially in religion | Synonyms: nonconforming |
| nonconscious | (adjective) relating to the lack of consciousness of inanimate things | - |
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| (adjective) concerning mental functioning that is not represented in consciousness | - |
| noncontagious | (adjective) (of disease) not capable of being passed on | Synonyms: noncommunicable, nontransmissible |
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| noncontentious | (adjective) of persons; not given to controversy | - |
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| noncontinuous | (adjective) not continuing without interruption in time or space | Synonyms: discontinuous |
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| noncontroversial | (adjective) not likely to arouse controversy | Synonyms: uncontroversial |
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| nonconvergent | (adjective) (of lines, planes, or surfaces) never meeting or crossing | Synonyms: nonintersecting |
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| overconfident | (adjective) marked by excessive confidence | Synonyms: cocksure, positive |
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| photoconductive | (adjective) of or relating to photoconductivity | - |
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| planoconcave | (adjective) flat on one side and concave on the other | - |
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| planoconvex | (adjective) flat on one side and convex on the other | - |
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| preconceived | (adjective) (of an idea or opinion) formed beforehand; especially without evidence or through prejudice | - |
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| preconcerted | (adjective) previously arranged or agreed on | - |
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| preconditioned | (adjective) having already been put into a suitable condition | - |
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| proconsular | (adjective) of or relating to or typical of a proconsul | - |
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| reconcilable | (adjective) capable of being reconciled | - |
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