| criminatory | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminative, incriminating, incriminatory |
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| criminological | (adjective) of or relating to or involved in criminology | - |
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| crimson | (adjective) characterized by violence or bloodshed | Synonyms: red, violent |
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| (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, carmine, cerise, cherry-red, cherry, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy, scarlet |
| (adjective) (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion | Synonyms: flushed, red-faced, red, reddened |
| cringey | (adjective) embarrassing such that it would cause cringing | - |
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| cringing | (adjective) totally submissive | Synonyms: groveling, grovelling, wormlike, wormy |
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| crinkled | (adjective) uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves | Synonyms: crinkly, rippled, wavelike, wavy |
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| crinkly | (adjective) uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves | Synonyms: crinkled, rippled, wavelike, wavy |
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| crinoid | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the class Crinoidea | - |
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| crippled | (adjective) disabled in the feet or legs | Synonyms: game, gimpy, halt, halting, lame |
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| crippling | (adjective) that cripples or disables or incapacitates | Synonyms: disabling, incapacitating |
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| crisp | (adjective) pleasantly cold and invigorating | Synonyms: frosty, nipping, nippy, snappy |
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| (adjective) brief and to the point; effectively cut short | Synonyms: curt, laconic, terse |
| (adjective) (of hair) in small tight curls | Synonyms: frizzly, frizzy, kinky, nappy |
| (adjective) (of something seen or heard) clearly defined | Synonyms: sharp |
| (adjective) pleasingly firm and fresh | - |
| (adjective) tender and brittle | Synonyms: crispy |
| crispate | (adjective) wavy or notched and curled very irregularly | - |
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| crispy | (adjective) tender and brittle | Synonyms: crisp |
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| crisscross | (adjective) marked with crossing lines | Synonyms: crisscrossed |
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| crisscrossed | (adjective) marked with crossing lines | Synonyms: crisscross |
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| criterial | (adjective) serving as a basis for evaluation | Synonyms: criterional |
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| criterional | (adjective) serving as a basis for evaluation | Synonyms: criterial |
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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 |
| croaky | (adjective) like the sounds of frogs and crows | Synonyms: guttural |
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| crocked | (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
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| crocketed | (adjective) (of a gable or spire) furnished with a crocket (an ornament in the form of curved or bent foliage) | - |
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| cromulent | (adjective) Legitimate or valid (frequently used ironically) | - |
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| crookback | (adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookbacked, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, hunchbacked, kyphotic |
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| crookbacked | (adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookback, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, hunchbacked, kyphotic |
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| crooked | (adjective) having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned | - |
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| (adjective) not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive | Synonyms: corrupt |
| (adjective) irregular in shape or outline | Synonyms: asymmetrical |
| (adjective) having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect | Synonyms: hunched, round-backed, round-shouldered, stooped, stooping |
| cropped | (adjective) (of land or soil) used for growing crops | - |
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| cross | (adjective) extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis | Synonyms: thwartwise, transversal, transverse |
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| (adjective) annoyed and irritable | Synonyms: bad-tempered, crabbed, crabby, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered |
| crossbred | (adjective) bred from parents of different varieties or species | - |
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| crossed | (adjective) placed crosswise | - |
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| (adjective) (of a check) marked for deposit only as indicated by having two lines drawn across it | - |
| crosshatched | (adjective) shaded by means of fine parallel or crossed lines | Synonyms: hatched |
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| crosstown | (adjective) going or extending across a town or city | Synonyms: cross-town |
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| crosswise | (adjective) lying or extending across the length of a thing or in a cross direction | - |
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| (adjective) in the shape of (a horizontal piece on) a cross | - |
| crotchety | (adjective) having a difficult and contrary disposition | Synonyms: cantankerous, ornery |
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| croupy | (adjective) resembling or arising from or indicating croup | - |
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| crowded | (adjective) overfilled or compacted or concentrated | - |
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| crowing | (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: big, boastful, braggart, bragging, braggy, cock-a-hoop, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
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| crowned | (adjective) provided with or as if with a crown or a crown as specified; often used in combination | - |
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| (adjective) having an (artificial) crown on a tooth | - |
| (adjective) crowned with or as if with laurel symbolizing victory | Synonyms: laureled, laurelled |
| crowning | (adjective) forming or providing a crown or summit | - |
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| (adjective) representing a level of the highest possible achievement or attainment | - |
| crownless | (adjective) not (especially not yet) provided with a crown | Synonyms: uncrowned |
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| crucial | (adjective) of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis | Synonyms: important |
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| (adjective) of the greatest importance | Synonyms: all-important, all important, essential, of the essence |
| (adjective) having crucial relevance | - |
| cruciate | (adjective) shaped like a cross | Synonyms: cruciform |
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| cruciferous | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Cruciferae | - |
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| cruciform | (adjective) shaped like a cross | Synonyms: cruciate |
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| cruddy | (adjective) characterized by obscenity | Synonyms: filthy, foul, nasty, smutty |
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| crude | (adjective) not refined or processed | Synonyms: unprocessed, unrefined |
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| (adjective) belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness | Synonyms: primitive, rude |
| (adjective) conspicuously and tastelessly indecent | Synonyms: earthy, gross, vulgar |
| (adjective) not processed or subjected to analysis | Synonyms: raw |
| (adjective) devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment | Synonyms: blunt, stark |
| (adjective) not carefully or expertly made | Synonyms: rough |
| cruel | (adjective) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering | Synonyms: barbarous, brutal, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious |
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| crumbly | (adjective) easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder | Synonyms: friable |
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| crummy | (adjective) of very poor quality; flimsy | Synonyms: bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, punk, sleazy, tinny |
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| crumpled | (adjective) of metal e.g. | Synonyms: bent, dented |
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| crural | (adjective) of or relating the leg from the knee to the foot | - |
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| crushed | (adjective) subdued or brought low in condition or status | Synonyms: broken, humbled, humiliated, low |
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| (adjective) treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance | - |
| crushing | (adjective) physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination | Synonyms: devastating |
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| crustacean | (adjective) of or belonging to the class Crustacea | Synonyms: crustaceous |
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| crustaceous | (adjective) being or having or resembling a hard crust or shell | - |
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| (adjective) of or belonging to the class Crustacea | Synonyms: crustacean |
| crustal | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the crust of the earth or moon | - |
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| crusted | (adjective) having a hardened crust as a covering | Synonyms: crustlike, crusty, encrusted |
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| crustlike | (adjective) having a hardened crust as a covering | Synonyms: crusted, crusty, encrusted |
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| crustose | (adjective) (of lichens) having a thin crusty thallus that adheres closely to the surface on which it is growing | - |
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| crusty | (adjective) having a hardened crust as a covering | Synonyms: crusted, crustlike, encrusted |
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| (adjective) brusque and surly and forbidding | Synonyms: curmudgeonly, gruff, ill-humored, ill-humoured |
| crying | (adjective) conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible | Synonyms: egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank |
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| (adjective) demanding attention | Synonyms: clamant, exigent, insistent, instant |
| cryogenic | (adjective) of or relating to very low temperatures | - |
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| cryonic | (adjective) of or relating to cryonics | - |
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| cryptanalytic | (adjective) of or relating to cryptanalysis | Synonyms: cryptographic, cryptographical, cryptologic, cryptological |
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| cryptic | (adjective) having a puzzling terseness | - |
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| (adjective) having a secret or hidden meaning | Synonyms: cabalistic, cryptical, kabbalistic, qabalistic, sibylline |
| (adjective) of an obscure nature | Synonyms: cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying |
| 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 |
| cryptobiotic | (adjective) of or related to the state of cryptobiosis | - |
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| cryptogamic | (adjective) of or relating to a cryptogam | Synonyms: cryptogamous |
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| cryptogamous | (adjective) of or relating to a cryptogam | Synonyms: cryptogamic |
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| cryptographic | (adjective) of or relating to cryptanalysis | Synonyms: cryptanalytic, cryptographical, cryptologic, cryptological |
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| cryptographical | (adjective) of or relating to cryptanalysis | Synonyms: cryptanalytic, cryptographic, cryptologic, cryptological |
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| cryptologic | (adjective) of or relating to cryptanalysis | Synonyms: cryptanalytic, cryptographic, cryptographical, cryptological |
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| cryptological | (adjective) of or relating to cryptanalysis | Synonyms: cryptanalytic, cryptographic, cryptographical, cryptologic |
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| crystalised | (adjective) having both internal structure and external form of a crystal | Synonyms: crystallized |
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| (adjective) (used especially of fruits) preserved by coating with or allowing to absorb sugar | Synonyms: candied, crystalized, glace |
| crystalized | (adjective) (used especially of fruits) preserved by coating with or allowing to absorb sugar | Synonyms: candied, crystalised, glace |
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| crystalline | (adjective) consisting of or containing or of the nature of crystals | - |
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| (adjective) transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity | Synonyms: crystal clear, limpid, lucid, pellucid, transparent |
| (adjective) distinctly or sharply outlined | - |
| crystallised | (adjective) having become fixed and definite in form | Synonyms: crystallized |
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| crystallized | (adjective) having become fixed and definite in form | Synonyms: crystallised |
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| (adjective) having both internal structure and external form of a crystal | Synonyms: crystalised |
| deconsecrated | (adjective) divested of consecration | - |
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| decreased | (adjective) made less in size or amount or degree | Synonyms: reduced |
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| decreasing | (adjective) becoming less or smaller | - |
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| (adjective) (music) decreasing in tempo and/or volume | - |
| decreed | (adjective) fixed or established especially by order or command | Synonyms: appointed, ordained, prescribed |
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| decrepit | (adjective) lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality | Synonyms: debile, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly |
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| (adjective) worn and broken down by hard use | Synonyms: creaky, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone |
| decrescendo | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in volume | Synonyms: diminuendo |
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| democratic | (adjective) characterized by or advocating or based upon the principles of democracy or social equality | - |
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| (adjective) representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large | Synonyms: popular |
| describable | (adjective) capable of being described | - |
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| described | (adjective) represented in words especially with sharpness and detail | - |
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| descriptive | (adjective) of or relating to an approach to linguistic analysis that aims at the description of a language's forms, structures and usage | - |
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| (adjective) serving to describe or inform or characterized by description | - |
| desecrated | (adjective) treated with disrespect and contempt | - |
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| diacritic | (adjective) capable of distinguishing | Synonyms: diacritical |
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| diacritical | (adjective) capable of distinguishing | Synonyms: diacritic |
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| discreditable | (adjective) tending to bring discredit or disrepute; blameworthy | - |
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| discredited | (adjective) suffering shame | Synonyms: disgraced, dishonored, shamed |
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| (adjective) being unjustly brought into disrepute | Synonyms: damaged |
| discreet | (adjective) marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint | - |
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| (adjective) heedful of potential consequences | Synonyms: circumspect |
| (adjective) unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic | Synonyms: discerning |
| 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 |
| discrete | (adjective) constituting a separate entity or part | Synonyms: distinct |
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| discretional | (adjective) having or using the ability to act or decide according to your own discretion or judgment | Synonyms: discretionary |
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| 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 | - |
| discriminable | (adjective) capable of being discriminated | - |
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| discriminate | (adjective) marked by the ability to see or make fine distinctions | - |
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| discriminating | (adjective) showing or indicating careful judgment and discernment especially in matters of taste | - |
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| (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp |