| accredited | (adjective) given official approval to act | Synonyms: commissioned, licenced, licensed |
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| accretionary | (adjective) marked or produced by accretion | - |
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| accretive | (adjective) growing by accretion | - |
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| concrete | (adjective) capable of being perceived by the senses; not abstract or imaginary | - |
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| (adjective) formed by the coalescence of particles | - |
| concretistic | (adjective) of or relating to concrete representations of abstractions | - |
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| creaky | (adjective) having a rasping or grating sound | Synonyms: screaky |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to arthritis | Synonyms: arthritic, rheumatic, rheumatoid, rheumy |
| (adjective) worn and broken down by hard use | Synonyms: decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone |
| creamy | (adjective) of the color of cream | - |
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| (adjective) thick like cream | - |
| creaseless | (adjective) used especially of fabrics | Synonyms: uncreased |
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| creaseproof | (adjective) of fabric that does not wrinkle easily | Synonyms: crease-resistant, wrinkle-resistant, wrinkleproof |
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| creative | (adjective) having the ability or power to create | Synonyms: originative |
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| (adjective) promoting construction or creation | - |
| credal | (adjective) of or relating to a creed | Synonyms: creedal |
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| credentialled | (adjective) certified as professional by evidence or testimonials | - |
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| credible | (adjective) capable of being believed | Synonyms: believable |
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| (adjective) appearing to merit belief or acceptance | - |
| (adjective) (a common but incorrect usage where `credulous' would be appropriate) credulous | - |
| creditable | (adjective) worthy of often limited commendation | - |
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| credited | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') given credit for | - |
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| creditworthy | (adjective) having an acceptable credit rating | Synonyms: responsible |
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| credulous | (adjective) disposed to believe on little evidence | - |
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| (adjective) showing a lack of judgment or experience | - |
| creedal | (adjective) of or relating to a creed | Synonyms: credal |
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| creepy | (adjective) causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin | Synonyms: creepy-crawly |
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| (adjective) annoying and unpleasant | - |
| crenate | (adjective) having a margin with rounded scallops | Synonyms: crenated, scalloped |
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| crenated | (adjective) having a margin with rounded scallops | Synonyms: crenate, scalloped |
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| crenelated | (adjective) having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement | Synonyms: battlemented, castellated, castled, embattled |
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| crenulate | (adjective) having a margin with small rounded teeth | Synonyms: crenulated |
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| crenulated | (adjective) having a margin with small rounded teeth | Synonyms: crenulate |
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| crepuscular | (adjective) like twilight; dim | - |
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| crescendo | (adjective) (music) gradually increasing in volume | - |
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| crescent | (adjective) resembling the new moon in shape | Synonyms: crescent-shaped, lunate, semilunar |
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| cresson | (adjective) of a moderate yellow-green color that is greener and deeper than moss green and yellower and darker than pea green | Synonyms: cress green, watercress |
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| crested | (adjective) (of a knight's helmet) having a decorative plume | Synonyms: plumed |
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| (adjective) (of a bird or animal) having a usually ornamental tuft or process on the head; often used in combination | Synonyms: topknotted, tufted |
| (adjective) bearing an heraldic device | - |
| crestfallen | (adjective) brought low in spirit | Synonyms: chapfallen, chopfallen, deflated |
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| cretaceous | (adjective) abounding in chalk | - |
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| cretinous | (adjective) afflicted with cretinism | - |
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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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| 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 | - |
| excrescent | (adjective) forming an outgrowth (usually an excessive outgrowth) | - |
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| excretory | (adjective) of or relating to the process of excretion | - |
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| increased | (adjective) made greater in size or amount or degree | - |
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| increasing | (adjective) becoming greater or larger | - |
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| (adjective) (music) increasing in tempo and/or volume | - |
| incredible | (adjective) beyond belief or understanding | Synonyms: unbelievable |
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| incredulous | (adjective) not disposed or willing to believe; unbelieving | - |
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| incremental | (adjective) increasing gradually by regular degrees or additions | - |
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| indiscreet | (adjective) lacking discretion; injudicious | - |
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| indiscrete | (adjective) not divided or divisible into parts | - |
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| macrencephalic | (adjective) having a large brain case | Synonyms: macrencephalous |
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| macrencephalous | (adjective) having a large brain case | Synonyms: macrencephalic |
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| mediocre | (adjective) poor to middling in quality | - |
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| (adjective) moderate to inferior in quality | Synonyms: second-rate |
| (adjective) lacking exceptional quality or ability | Synonyms: average, fair, middling |
| nacreous | (adjective) consisting of or resembling mother-of-pearl | - |
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| (adjective) having a play of lustrous rainbow colors | Synonyms: iridescent, opalescent, opaline, pearlescent |
| nonrecreational | (adjective) involving gainful employment in something often done as a hobby | Synonyms: paid |
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| overcredulous | (adjective) too credulous for your own good | - |
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| pancreatic | (adjective) of or involving the pancreas | - |
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| procreative | (adjective) producing new life or offspring | Synonyms: generative, reproductive |
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| recreant | (adjective) lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful | Synonyms: craven |
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| (adjective) having deserted a cause or principle | Synonyms: renegade |
| recreational | (adjective) of or relating to recreation | - |
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| (adjective) engaged in as a pastime | Synonyms: amateur, unpaid |
| sacred | (adjective) concerned with religion or religious purposes | - |
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| (adjective) (often followed by `to') devoted exclusively to a single use or purpose or person | - |
| (adjective) made or declared or believed to be holy; devoted to a deity or some religious ceremony or use | Synonyms: consecrated, sanctified |
| (adjective) worthy of respect or dedication | - |
| (adjective) worthy of religious veneration | Synonyms: hallowed |
| screaky | (adjective) having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge | Synonyms: screechy, squeaking, squeaky, squealing |
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| (adjective) having a rasping or grating sound | Synonyms: creaky |
| screaming | (adjective) marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter | Synonyms: hilarious, uproarious |
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| (adjective) so extremely intense as to evoke screams | - |
| (adjective) resembling a scream in effect | - |
| screechy | (adjective) having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge | Synonyms: screaky, squeaking, squeaky, squealing |
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| screwball | (adjective) foolish; totally unsound | Synonyms: crazy, half-baked, softheaded |
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| screwy | (adjective) not behaving normally | Synonyms: screw-loose |
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| secret | (adjective) the next to highest level of official classification for documents | - |
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| (adjective) not open or public; kept private or not revealed | - |
| (adjective) having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding | Synonyms: mysterious, mystic, mystical, occult, orphic |
| (adjective) not expressed | Synonyms: private |
| (adjective) (of information) given in confidence or in secret | Synonyms: confidential |
| (adjective) not openly made known | Synonyms: unavowed |
| (adjective) conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods | Synonyms: clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, surreptitious, undercover, underground |
| (adjective) designed to elude detection | Synonyms: hidden |
| (adjective) indulging only covertly | - |
| (adjective) hidden from general view or use | Synonyms: privy, secluded |
| (adjective) communicated covertly | - |
| secretarial | (adjective) of or relating to a secretary or to a secretary's work | - |
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| secretive | (adjective) inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information | Synonyms: close, closelipped, closemouthed, tightlipped |
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| secretory | (adjective) of or relating to or producing a secretion | - |
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| syncretic | (adjective) of or characterized by syncretism | Synonyms: syncretical, syncretistic, syncretistical |
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| (adjective) relating to a historical tendency for a language to reduce its use of inflections | Synonyms: syncretical, syncretistic, syncretistical |
| syncretical | (adjective) of or characterized by syncretism | Synonyms: syncretic, syncretistic, syncretistical |
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| (adjective) relating to a historical tendency for a language to reduce its use of inflections | Synonyms: syncretic, syncretistic, syncretistical |
| syncretistic | (adjective) of or characterized by syncretism | Synonyms: syncretic, syncretical, syncretistical |
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| (adjective) relating to a historical tendency for a language to reduce its use of inflections | Synonyms: syncretic, syncretical, syncretistical |
| syncretistical | (adjective) of or characterized by syncretism | Synonyms: syncretic, syncretical, syncretistic |
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| (adjective) relating to a historical tendency for a language to reduce its use of inflections | Synonyms: syncretic, syncretical, syncretistic |
| unaccredited | (adjective) lacking official approval | Synonyms: unlicenced, unlicensed |
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| uncreased | (adjective) used especially of fabrics | Synonyms: creaseless |
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| uncreative | (adjective) not creative | - |
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| watercress | (adjective) of a moderate yellow-green color that is greener and deeper than moss green and yellower and darker than pea green | Synonyms: cress green, cresson |
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